Stupid people...

I'm pissed off at this girl from my floor. See, we roomed together for one night at orientation this summer. She's from Puerto Rico and the entire two days all she talked about was how great Puerto Rico is and how gross and distgusting Americans are in their habits. Now, I'm hispanic, but I've lived in the US all my life and I rarely speak Spanish outside the classroom setting even though I'm fluent. So, now she's on my floor and I've been nice to her knowing that she's so far from home and stuff. Well, she joined the Puerto Rican/ Latin American Center and has apparently met lots of new people. The thing is, I'm apparently not Hispanic enough to be acknowledged by her. She's all like, "Oh. PR/LAC (the center) is hosting a trip to New York for the Hispanic people. You should come. It'll be fun. And don't worry, there are lots of people like you who don't speak Spanish." I was like WTF!!! That's so rude. Well, that was a week ago. Then the other day I see her in the hall with a few clearly Puerto Rican people and she just walks right by me without a response. I was like starting to smile to say hi and she brushes right past me. I don't know why this bothers me so much. I know I don't look particularly hispanic and I don't like to speak the language, but it still hurt a bit, especially since I've been accused so many times by my own family and good friends that I'm ashamed of my heritage or something. It's really not that at all, it's just I don't make it a huge part of my life. Sigh... Sorry to inflict this on you. I'm done.

PS-Please don't take this as me seeing that I don't like Puerto Rican people or something. I'm just a bit hurt, that's all.