It’s a history marked by men moving up in socioeconomic status by choosing to marry up and controlling who their kids married to be able to control their family wealth.
It’s a problem of the past. There’s nobody in my societal level planning on marrying a series of generations of descendants to end up as an heir to Elon Musk. People don’t do that anymore. But what I did was to just find someone browner than me to love. It’s no different than finding someone specifically taller or smarter than you are. I’m just swinging against the flow.
You can read more about the complexity of socioeconomic constructs that women in Latin America had to overcome:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/women-of-colonial-latin-america/women-marriage-and-family/3526388D7D4D213A05371EDD6105BCE7
And the similar history of women in the Philippines: https://www.scribd.com/document/245991318/Hi185-Abot-a-Historical-and-Cultural-Survey-of-Marriage-in-the-Philippines-Law-Custom-and-Religion-libre
It’s a history marked by men moving up in socioeconomic status by choosing to marry up and controlling who their kids married to be able to control their family wealth.
It’s a problem of the past. There’s nobody in my societal level planning on marrying a series of generations of descendants to end up as an heir to Elon Musk. People don’t do that anymore. But what I did was to just find someone browner than me to love. It’s no different than finding someone specifically taller or smarter than you are. I’m just swinging against the flow.