I am constantly asked just how Latina I am. I would say this question has come up more and more since coming to college. So, wait you arent black? Well, I am I am an Afro-Latina. But what does that even mean to someone who is unfamiliar with this demographic? A demographic that has only become comfortable labeling itself fairly recently? As a Dominican American born and raised in Queens, New York, I am not used to being questioned about my identity people kind of just know. What are you, Dominican? I guess I took for granted what Queens is, the most diverse borough in New York City, and arguably one of the most diverse places in the entire world. Its hard to ignore race when there are cultural hubs for everyone that makes Queens the special place that it is Greeks in Astoria, Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese folks in Flushing, Italian-Americans in Bayside (where I am local to), Dominicans, Colombians, Mexicans, Ecuadorians running Jackson Heights and Corona, African American and Afro-Caribbean people holding down Jamaica, heavy Jewish community in Forest Hills We have everything within one place (which, yes, means the food is bomb). When I came to college, I stopped assuming that people were on the same page as me when it comes to race, and more importantly, different identities. I have noticed that many people at Middlebury are born and raised in monocultures places that lack diversity or multiple identities, often suburban prep cultures that arent tricky to dissect. I know New York cant be everywhere, and it isnt a comfortable place for everyone, but what it stands for is important and could shine through in more spaces. Why would my peers here be used to questioning identity, or taking it into consideration when they havent been exposed to many? I suppose they are from places where other is simply other.
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