We’ve been starved of news this week – there’s only been the small matter of the country shutting down again to stave off a mutant strain of coronavirus and Britain finally Brexiting – so people are desperate for an interesting story. Enter the Hilaria Baldwin debacle and a sudden interest in whether or not she has overstated her Spanish accent and connection to Spain, which has raised questions of cultural appropriation and identity politics.
Others pointed out that her management agency's online biography said she was born on the Spanish island of Mallorca, she has said she moved to the US at age 19 to go to university and her Instagram bio reads as ‘mama to five Baldwinitos’ . As more clips of her resurfaced and accusations that she had previously faked her accent grew, a clip of her apparently not knowing the word for cucumber in English went viral.
Hilaria fought back, saying critics who have accused her of faking her Spanish roots have been ‘misrepresenting me’. She‘There is not something I’m doing wrong, and I think there is a difference between hiding and creating a boundary.’
Source: Tech Daily Report (techdailyreport.net)