first, you’re in a country where this once happened 😬

I am a white European Spanish woman

Race is a social construct, and in the eyes and ears of your friend’s racist dad you are apparently not white (even if he might have classified you as white if he had only your appearance to go by and hadn’t seen your name).

Here are a few somewhat relevant wikipedia articles:

* en.wikipedia.org/…/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_th… * en.wikipedia.org/…/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit… * en.wikipedia.org/…/Race_and_ethnicity_in_Latin_Am… * en.wikipedia.org/…/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Amer… * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Latin_Americans#Being…