Many of our perspectives are Eurocentric, but not many of us are aware of it, especially ifour families are rst-generation immigrants.

As part of the region's colonial legacy, light-skinned or white-passing Latinos and Latin Americans have earned a social privilege often denied to dark-skinned Afro-Latinos or indigenous people. It's why Latin American media so often only featured blond hair-blue-eyed crooners, telenovela stars or news anchors.

But we gain virtually none of the benefits of that fame, none of the glamor or the institutional support to help deal with the invasiveness of celebrity and how it can eat away at every boundary you ever took for granted.

Instead, all you have is that same vulnerability before a vast crowd that feels entitled to the most intimate parts of your life. How difficult would it be to conduct that relationship on your own terms?

In First World Problems: A Fair Use Analysis of Internet Memes (2013), Ronak Patel says the amount of the work used in the meme probably supports the meme creators if the image was a still of another work, usually making up a small percentage of the original, but not if the original work was a photograph in which the whole of the work was being used.

Merriam-Webster defines “meme” (pronounced “meem”) as “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture,” originating in the same root as “imitation.”

In one of the earliest studies, darker and more indigenous phenotypical Latino/as reported less educational attainment (9.5 and 7.8 years, respectively), lower income ($12,721 and $10,450, respectively), and higher levels of perceived discrimination than their lighter skinned and more European looking Latino/a counterparts

Although this term was initially used to connote that all individuals of Latino/a descent were racially mixed, the term was also constructed as a way to deny that a racial/color hierarchy had been established within which lighter skinned and more European-looking phenotypes had higher power and status than individuals with darker skin and more indigenous and/or African phenotypes

Afro-Latinas (Latinas of African descent) report the highest levels of depressive symptoms when compared with European Americans and African Americans

Middle school is where colorism insults began. I would occasionally hear “platano podrido” which was aimed toward Dominicans’ dark skin, others included “tu piel está sucia” or “eres una prieta,” shouted to any dark-skinned Latinx.

@intheheights is receiving stark criticism and allegations of #colorism for the lack of Afro-Latino community in the film and musical's setting of Washington Heights.

And in spite of the ADL’s report that white supremacists were responsible for 78 percent of extremist murders in 2018, the FBI still dedicates most of its time, money and manpower to investigating and stopping international terrorism.

But for the average user, a lot of what goes wrong comes down to failure to follow simple and quick processes of verification and contextualization.

Stephanie Bennett, a Latina of Honduran descent told Hiplatina that her mother grew up in a household where she was told that having a lighter skin tone was favored over being dark.

Whenever we hung out, there was a definite difference in the way my friends treated someone who was darker, even if they were from the same community. They were more wary, a lot less engaged, and sometimes, I’d hear them whisper to each other in Spanish, the word negra standing out like a sore thumb.