{"id":2515,"date":"2011-04-05T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T23:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/im-half-ecuadorian-mostly-spanish-some-possible\/"},"modified":"2011-04-05T23:02:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T23:02:35","slug":"im-half-ecuadorian-mostly-spanish-some-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/im-half-ecuadorian-mostly-spanish-some-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m half Ecuadorian (mostly Spanish, some possible Indian blood that&#8217;s dismissed and&#8211;if it is present&#8211;hasn&#8217;t shown up in the 500 years my family&#8217;s lived there) and half German-Irish-English. People think I&#8217;m either Black Irish or Greek or white. It&#8217;s weird how they just assign a random culture to you, isn&#8217;t it? 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Instant racial profiling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correct on the Turkish ancestry! The reality is that there aren&rsquo;t many Latin American people of Hispanic origin around these parts (there are many Latin American people from Surinam and The Antilles but their outer appearance is different from Hispanics for the most part). We are more or less a minority. 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