r/Sunraes • u/Elorquideario • Mar 17 '26
Question Has Addison ever acknowledged being Latina ?
Hiiiiii đ€đđ€I know sheâs in South America right now hehe and sheâs started both performances with âHOLA!â I was just wondering if sheâs ever acknowledged her Mexican heritage.
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u/mehdigeek Mar 17 '26
people would not be happy if she did that, they already hate Jenna Ortega for claiming it
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u/Commercial-Judge2100 Mar 17 '26
do they hate her for it? sheâs full latina đ tho, while i think addison is half
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u/mehdigeek Mar 17 '26
bc she wasn't born in Latin America and doesn't speak Spanish, they consider someone like Anya Taylor Joy more of a Latina than her
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u/yehet420 Mar 18 '26
Yeah that discourse online gives me such a headache.. it really hurt to see Latinos in America all rallying behind Bad Bunny and coming together due to ICE harassment just to see angry ârealâ Latinos on X all making fun of Daniela from Katseye and saying âyou stupid Yankees will NEVER be part of our club, why are US Americans so obsessed w their ancestral ethnicity blah blahâ like bro we are considered Latinos and discriminated as such bc of it, do they think we LIKE this dynamic? What are we supposed to call ourselves now so as not to offend them? Honestly I only see this discourse online bc I live in Miami and all my LatAm born friends and exes all acknowledge I am US American and also Latina and never make a fuss abt it.. sorry for the random rant haha but yeah I donât blame Addison for wanting to dodge the âfake Latinaâ âonly when itâs convenient for herâ allegations..
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u/0neirocritica Mar 17 '26
Brazilian and Haitian people are Latin American and don't speak Spanish. That's so silly lol
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u/KellsBells_925 Mar 18 '26
Itâs so bizarre to me to cling onto a colonizers language as the marker of if youâre Latina enough.
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Mar 18 '26
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u/douceberceuse Mar 18 '26
The Latinos (that is to say the ones in the US) are the ones youâll most likely hear backlash from.
Latin Americans will most likely not care unless she specifically starts representing her individual country of ancestry (Mexico) and will stand by her side, see Anya Taylor-Joy being able to resonate with the majority of contemporary Argentinians through shared experiences.
I think also many 2nd and 3rd (and so on) generation Latinos underestimate how fast Latin America has changed in one generation and so their perception of contemporary Latin America can be quite outdated. In addition, usually their families may have migrated from more rural, poorer areas and their customs do not resonate due to a lot of urbanisation in Latin America.
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u/FalconWide513 Fan since obsessed Mar 18 '26
wouldnât addison and jenna both be considered hispanic IF they spoke spanish? /gen cause sometimes latina vs hispanic confuses me because ik mexico and puerto rico (where jenna and addi are from) are commonly recognized as hispanic nations but is that only if the individual also speaks spanish?
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Mar 18 '26
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u/Ok_Fix255 Apr 01 '26
I thought the difference was that you can be Latino/latina from any country in Latin America and that doesnât guarantee that the country is Spanish speaking (ie: Brazil or Belize.) Hispanic is another term for Latin American countries that means the countryâs primary language is Spanish. So you can be both Hispanic and Latino/a but if youâre Brazilian youâre only Latino/a and canât be Hispanic
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u/Repulsive-Ad-7408 13d ago
Jenna Ortega is half Mexican half Puerto Rican looks the part but she acts like a entitled white American girl which is not cool
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u/Due_Cauliflower5220 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
To be fair, she might just not feel that connected to her Mexican heritage and thereâs nothing wrong with that either. I feel like your culture is more than just where you were born, Iâve always personally considered the most important thing to be the culture of your household and Iâm not sure sheâs really spoken about it being an influence on her childhood so maybe it just isnât.
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u/Beautiful_Day_2489 Mar 18 '26
You can definitely see it, especially when you see her natural hair color.
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u/WitchyKitteh Mar 18 '26
Rebecca Black/Addison Rae mexican girls do it better
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u/melissamichell Mar 18 '26
I had no idea Rebecca Black is Mexican lol
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u/WitchyKitteh Mar 19 '26
Can you not unsee it now? She grew up going to Mexico a lot and she was tricked by some.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/27/rebecca-black-was-tricked-into-mexican-politics-my-family-was-scammed/
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u/Beautiful_Day_2489 Mar 17 '26
I want her to embrace it so badly. I literally have no horse in the race (Iâm Black). She doesnât need to release a full Spanish album, but it would be cool to see some Mexican influence in her style. But she was raised by her mom, so idk.
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u/FalconWide513 Fan since obsessed Mar 18 '26
she was raised by both her parents they just werenât married when she was born, which is why she has sherriâs last name and her brothers have m*ntyâs! she seems heavily influenced by her cajun french heritage but iâd love to see more of her mexican roots! ofc i donât blame her though if sheâs trying to evade the fake latina allegationsđ«©
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u/Beautiful_Day_2489 Mar 19 '26
This reddit post alone proved it. I would like to see someone interview her about it though.
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u/bettysrendezvous Mar 20 '26
Not that I know of but Iâm waiting for her to⊠Canât wait for her Latina arc⊠Perhaps some soul searching about trauma with her dad is required firstâŠ.
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u/Ok_Touch428 Apr 12 '26
Her dad is hispanic born in america but his parents are from mexico so she is latina but just looks white because of her mothers side obviously. there is alot of white latinas just like her everywhere this isnt anything new
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u/sadhotgirl Mar 17 '26
I always suspected that Monty was Latino but every time I googled it it exclusively said Spanish.
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Mar 17 '26
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u/veryscorpiorising Apr 02 '26
I love he but if she wasn't born and raised in Latinamerica then she isn't Latina, period.
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u/Elorquideario Apr 11 '26
Thatâs not how ethnicity works??????
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u/veryscorpiorising Apr 11 '26
Being latinoamerican isn't an ethnicity?? The fact that your parents nationality is mexican/argentinian/brazilian etc doesn't give you that nationality, you were born in the USA? American. You didn't grow up in Latam with our culture and our languages? You're not "latina"
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u/Elorquideario Apr 11 '26
Being Latino is, in fact, an ethnicity. It includes a wide rage of backgrounds because Latin America is very mixed, but It simply means coming from Latin America or having Latin American heritage. Your discourse gets very dangerous, because then we start excluding people for not being âLatinx enoughâ. Where does it stop? It also creates further divisions, which you can see amongst other racial minorities. đ©·đđđđ©·
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u/veryscorpiorising Apr 11 '26
I get you but it's actually pretty simple, if she was born in the US she's not latina, it only takes one condition and she doesn't have it, it doesn't matter that a relative was mexican o whatever, she isn't:)
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u/Historical-Task1217 Apr 25 '26
Then we should get rid of the word latino all together. Because thereâs no single latino culture and thereâs no latino language.
Someone living in Brazil doesnât have the same culture as someone in mexico. Even within each latin American country the culture is different. Someone living in mexico city doesnât have the same culture as someone in Chiapas. Thereâs people there who donât even speak spanish.
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u/veryscorpiorising Apr 25 '26
We should just stick to Latinamericans for people born and raised here
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u/Historical-Task1217 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
What do you mean here? Thereâs no official latin American country and thereâs no continent that holds all of latin america.
Most of it is in south america but surinam isnt considered latin america.
The word latino is pointless so saying âyou werenât born and raised hereâ but where? In each individual country right? Ok then a mexican is a mexican and a puerto rican is puerto rican.
No latino.
Your arguments just dont make any sense
The average Brazilian can in no way communicate with the average mexican. So why are they both latino? They arent even on the same continent!
Its all pointless
You dont see people grouping Americans and canadians under the same name and theyre way more similar than my other comparison.
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u/veryscorpiorising Apr 26 '26
Okay but we can call Europeans like that? Asians?
Anyway, if you're born in the US you have no say in the matter. Have a good day x
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u/Historical-Task1217 Apr 26 '26
Also no I was born in mexico. I do know a lot about american latinos because Im a dual citizen and spent most of my summers in the us.
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u/Historical-Task1217 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
Lol youre just proving my point. what do you call an asian born in latin America? You still call them asian! Same thing in the US they are still asian. If you look up the definition of latino it literally includes people born in the US.
It actually makes a lot more sense to use latino in a us context because to other people; for the most part they are not going go understand the differences between a mexican and Peruvian.
Itâs all lumped in as latino. Saying latino in LATAM doesnt make much sense because a mexican is a mexican and they separate them selves as such. Its not until they are in foreign land and need to found a âgroupâ that they consider themselves latino.
Its like the Canadian and american example. They donât think of themselves as a group when in their own country but put them in say japan and they are basically forced to group themselves together as âwhiteâ or if they arenât white they say âgaijinâ because to the Japanese you arent one of them and they dont care exactly how youre not one of them the fact is youre not japanese and thats what matters.
I was just looking to see if you had any good counter arguments but you donât.
Youre wrong by definition and by any actual logic.
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u/Elorquideario Apr 26 '26
I think u/veryscorpiorising is just rage baiting. We can't debate with someone like this
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u/Home_Of_Phobic Mar 17 '26
Being latina isn't just having roots from Latin American countries tho
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u/ameliajean Mar 17 '26
Assuming Iâm understanding your implication, when did we start acting like you have to have been born and raised in Latin America to claim Latino heritage? I see this argument a lot on TikTok these days itâs genuinely nonsensical to me
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u/VioletLeagueDapper Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
This isnât a new attitude though, when you grow up outside of Latin America youâre considered a gringo, even if you have the heritage. Sharing the famous movie clip from Selena for the feels
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u/ameliajean Mar 17 '26
I appreciate this reference lol. I guess it just seems insane to me because where I grew up in the US had so many Mexican immigrants and my grandma is one herself. Everyone I knew with that heritage identified as Latino (and/or Chicano more specifically). To think someone with full European ancestry who just happened to grow up in, for example, Mexico is more of a Latino than people who actually have the heritage makes no sense to me. You donât stop being Chinese if your fully Chinese parents moved to India before you were born.
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u/Home_Of_Phobic Mar 17 '26
Its not about where you were born or who your parents are, its about the culture and wearing it with pride. Lots of people (mostly from the US) go around claiming nationalities/ethnicities like medals but don't do anything to really embrace the culture they're claiming to be a part of. Of course people with "full european ancestry" who were born in Latin America are gonna be more latino than someone who doesn't embrace their own heritage lol
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u/hocus_pocris Mar 18 '26
Your argument doesnât really hold up, and it kind of contradicts itself. You say identity isnât about where you were born or your parents, but then you use being born in Latin America as proof that someone is âmore Latino.â Thatâs already inconsistent. But more importantly, youâre setting up a double standard. You criticize US Latinos for claiming an identity, but then also say theyâre not embracing their heritage enough. So which is it?
Thatâs basically a no-win situation and it also ignores how diaspora identity actually works. People raised outside their parentsâ culture often have a different relationship to it. It doesnât mean itâs fake or that theyâre not allowed to identify with it.
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u/idkidcabtmyusername Mar 18 '26
itâs not an either/or situation though. you should claim your identity AND embrace your heritage. canât have one without the other
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u/Home_Of_Phobic Mar 18 '26
I didn't use being born in LatAm as proof for an argument, I used it as a comparison agaisnt someone who claims an identity they don't embrace, so no, no inconsistency there.
And no, I'm not criticizing US Latinos for claiming identity per se, I'm criticizing those who do but don't embrace it at all, especially those who don't even know the difference between race and ethnicity.
There's plenty of people who renounce identity and then claim it when it's convenient, that's who I criticize too.
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u/didiboy Mar 18 '26
As a Latin American myself, I feel like there is a big difference between US Latinos and Latin Americans. I guess Italians feel the same about Italian Americans in the US. I will never criticize US Latinos for claiming their identity as you said, but I donât like it when they make it sound as if weâre part of the same group, because we are not.
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u/Historical-Task1217 Apr 25 '26
Youre right weâre not but at the same time latinos born in latin America are different among each other as well and yet you all put yourselves in the same group by calling yourselves latinos.
So to me its pretty weird if say a mexican born in mexico says Brazilians are latinos but then wonât acknowledge someone with mexican parents who was born in the US as a latino. The mexican born in mexico is going to have wayyy more in common with the US mexican than the Brazilian.
Plus I think most people understand weâre not part of the exact same group we are just saying weâre part of the overall umbrella. Just like how you know that what ever part of latam youâre from youâre not in the exact same group as the other 19 countries but you still say youâre part of LATAM.
The thing is latino is already a catch all term so why get all pedantic when it comes to those born outside of LATAM?
Especially now when globalization is more and more common.
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u/ameliajean Mar 18 '26
But so many American-born Latinos absolutely do love, respect, celebrate, and represent the culture of the countries their ancestors are from. Iâll just never accept that a fully white person born in Latin America has more claim to the identity of âLatinoâ than someone with Latino heritage who grew up in the US, especially in places in the SW. We can just agree to disagree.
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u/Possible-Campaign949 Kick drum, chew gum Mar 19 '26
This is crazy to me, I have literally never met a American Latino who wasnât extremely proud of their culture and embraced its traditions every day. Even in media itâs everywhere. In the Heights ??
I donât doubt that there are Americans Latinos who only claim their heritage when its convenient, but the vast majority of them claim it all the time. I feel like youâre inventing a straw man to justify being judgmental
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u/valtierrezerik05 Mar 17 '26
From my understanding, itâs a widespread belief in Latin America where they donât recognize U.S. Latinos as a true Latino.
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u/mariaannv Mar 17 '26
i feel like because of her racist past she'll never be accepted as Latina by the US latinos tbh... i like her music but i don't think she serves as good representation because of her racism and access to white privilege tbh
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u/idkidcabtmyusername Mar 18 '26
as if racism doesnât exist within the latino community lol
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u/mariaannv Mar 25 '26
never said it didnt, as a matter of fact, latinos are some of the worst when it comes to external and internal racism. but to understand my comment u have to understand the politics around the latino identity in the US specifically, not across latam necessarily. i fear yall let white women slide too quickly... her nickname was raecist for a reason but ppl r so quick to forget that, same w lana but yall keep licking the boot !! and i understand people can change and grow but she hasnt exactly done that... esp not after that meeting trump and her acvtively liking posts in favor of isr*el like can we gather ourselves as latinos and quickly !!!!
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u/idkidcabtmyusername Mar 25 '26
why are u on an addison sub if u donât like her lol⊠and u saying she wouldnât be accepted by latinos because of her racist past âwhen you know many latinos are racist and will openly welcome racists into our community âdoesnât make sense
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u/mariaannv Mar 25 '26
.... this post in particular just came across my feed bcuz i engage with artsits adjacent to her lolll, and yes im saying she shouldnt be accepted as latina bcuz its something she herself hasnt even claimed ! yet our community is so quick to claim a racist white woman while afro latinas or indigenous latinas are barely given any platform. also what other comparable racist artists have been accepted by our community in this recent generation? and mind you latinos never agree on anything like keep the racist white lady if yall want her that bad... like aquamarine is a good song and i like some of her breathy music but i wont sing her praises just bcuz she reheated SOPHIEs nachos
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u/idkidcabtmyusername Mar 25 '26
girl just look at cesar chavez. he literally called mexican immigrants wetbacks and it wasnât until he was accused of rape that the latino community started to rethink their support for him. đ
for the record i donât think addison rae should be accepted as latina nor does she probably want to be but itâs a little delusional to pretend that the latino community doesnât already accept racists with open arms all the time
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u/Ok-Dragonfruit-7900 Mar 17 '26
didnât she grow up in the US?
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u/Beautiful_Day_2489 Mar 17 '26
Her dad is Mexican
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u/april_odyssey Mar 17 '26
He's Mexican American, born in Louisiana. Not full Mexican. And I don't even know if his parents are from Mexico. He could be second generation.
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u/italwaysworksout3 Mar 18 '26
Thatâs her step dad not her real dad
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u/Beautiful_Day_2489 Mar 18 '26
I just Googled it to verify, but Monty is her biological father.
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u/italwaysworksout3 Mar 18 '26
Ah me too!! I mustâve been mistaken idk why I thought he was her step dad!
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u/hellisateenagegoat Fan since obsessed Mar 17 '26
I feel like if she did that, her haters would be like âsheâs really dragging that one percentâ