Araci Matos
1 min readMar 22, 2022

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So, are you Portuguese? I didn't said that it was strange that you feel that you. I wanted to convey a different message, how society treats people because of their skin color. As Portuguese I bet if I were in the USA or in England as I was once, I would be what they consider to be a white person. I know very well the obsession Asian culture have about having a lighter skin and how they have tons of products to make your skin to be "lighter". Anyway, I didn't want to offend, I was just curious to find out where you were from. If you are from Portugal and living in Portugal, unfortunately racism and beauty standards are pretty much the same, and we also have plenty of racism and racists here, unfortunately. However, we all know the awful history of racism in the USA, that's only the reason why I pointed that out. No offense.

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Araci Matos
Araci Matos

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Trying to be the Portuguese Annie Ernaux or Elena Ferrante

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