Cristela Alonso
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Podcast Appearances
A lot of times, if you're not familiar with the Latino community, or namely like Mexican Americans or anything, when I moved to college, I went to college in St.
And it was the first time that I realized I was a minority.
And it wasn't until I moved away from my Mexican little border town that I realized that
People were going to treat me the way that they thought I should be treated based on their assumptions on who I am.
Meaning that if they were unfamiliar with me, they would ask me a lot of tropey, stereotypical, offensive questions that I would have to answer because they wanted to get to know me.
People thought I was lying about how poor I grew up because I spoke so well.
My mom was a Spanish speaker, never spoke English.
We had to speak Spanish so that she knew she could understand everything that was being said in the house.
Having said that, when I was a kid, I loved TV so much, I started imitating what I heard on TV.
But when I was a kid, I loved shows like Murphy Brown.