10 things that you did not know about immigrants.

[Jehanne]

You're a good-looking white chick, though!

I'm assuming location and the type of people we were around played a huge role. We moved to a medium sized city in Ohio, not a border town where there may be tension of that type. Also, we lived in middle class suburbia, surrounded by decent, normal people - not uneducated shady people. 

Yes, we are Caucasian, perhaps that played a big role as well. Though my parents had and still do have very heavy accents, and everyone who knows us knows we are South American.

Of course, a lot of right-wing fundies in "O-High-o".   I find your acceptance by "the establishment" to be unremarkable.