Because she’s still a bourgeois Venezuelan ex-pat who wants the US to rescue her country from the nasty socialists. Back home, she’s one of the whites but she’s about to learn the hard way: Caracas white != Connecticut white.
This happens so much in Rio de la Plata “Somos blancos y europeos , somos italianos” which basically means “We’re white and european, we’re italian” … but the thing they’re actually saying is “I’m not native or black, fuck those people, I’m better than them”.
When my in laws visited texas to see my brother in law though… in some rural parts, the advice was not to speak spanish.
Because she’s still a bourgeois Venezuelan ex-pat who wants the US to rescue her country from the nasty socialists. Back home, she’s one of the whites but she’s about to learn the hard way: Caracas white != Connecticut white.
This happens so much in Rio de la Plata “Somos blancos y europeos , somos italianos” which basically means “We’re white and european, we’re italian” … but the thing they’re actually saying is “I’m not native or black, fuck those people, I’m better than them”.
When my in laws visited texas to see my brother in law though… in some rural parts, the advice was not to speak spanish.