Mariela Rosario: 10 Ways To Tell You're Latina Mariela Rosario - Latina
go to original June 7, 2013

Three Latina contestants in the Miss USA 2013 pageant (CelebTV Latino)

With all the recent frenzy about who is Latina and who isn't (Fergie, J. Alba , etc.) we decided to create the definitive lists of characteristics that can help you determine whether or not you have what it takes to be Latina.

You know you are Latina:

• If you can't fight the urge to clap on a plane that has just landed!

• If your boyfriend plucks, waxes or in any other way grooms his eyebrows even more than you do, then you are most likely a Latina... dating a Latino!

• If even though you're fluent in English, you still refer to going grocery shopping as a compra.

• If you have ever committed the cardinal sin and fashion faux pas of wearing socks with sandals!

• If something immensely sad or something immensely adorable both elicit the exact same response of "Ay Bendito!".

• If your grandmother's chancletas seemed to have some mystical boomerang powers, you know, she threw it at you and somehow it was magically back in her hand before you could even look up from your hiding place, then you are definitely Latina!

• If Vick's VaporRub was pronounced Bibaporú and used by everyone in your family to cure anything from burns to acne to La Gripa to infertility.

• If you have ever sat down on a couch and then immediately fallen off because of the slippery smooth surface created by the plastic covering the entire living room set... Latina all the way baby!

• If you grew up with a mother and/or grandmother who made you eat a ton of their food to prove how much you loved them, and then called you gordita five minutes later while pinching your chichos!

• If you are completely fed up with being called, fiery, spicy, caliente or any other adjective that could also describe a chili pepper, you are absolutely, positively, undeniably Latina.

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