16 Things You'll Only Understand If You're a Latina Millennial
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Latina millennials are bound to live in two worlds. You grew up in a culture that was new to your family and that at times challenged the traditions you learned at home. The reality of how those two worlds came together, though . . . that's who you are.
You know all about the drama of Laguna Beach and The OC to the same degree as you know about Rebelde. You remember when both The Jonas Brothers and Aventura broke up. You knew Sofia Vergara before she was on Modern Family. That blend is what makes you special!
Here are 16 other things you'll only understand if you're a Latina millennial.
— Additional reporting by Alessandra Foresto
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How you felt the day you learned Aventura was splitting up.
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How much of a Latinx inspiration Sonia Sotomayor is to you.
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How your traditional, loved-ones-first upbringing makes you one hell of a friend.
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You grew up watching Selena Gomez on Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place — because she looked like you.
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How you're more than OK knowing that your Gossip Girl was Rebelde.
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You grew up listening to Daddy Yankee's "Gasolina" on repeat.
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You used the phrase "Anything for Selenas" A LOT.
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How you have your way to cope and we have ours.
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That you're your own worst critic until you're up against a wall and you realize just how much strength you have.
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Shakira's "Whenever, Wherever" was (still is) your jam.
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That your Latinx roots are enough of an explanation for some of your habits.
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That you may not know every word in Spanish, but you know the curse words and sometimes that's enough.
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How you get it all from your grandma and you'd like the world to know that.
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That Disney didn't teach you about villains — novelas did.
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How you need to sing and dance along anytime a Celia Cruz song comes on — and that's just your lived truth.
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