I’m American and I met this guy from Mexico City in New York City. I was born and raised in New York City. He speaks perfect English because he went to an American school in Mexico. The reason I met him in NYC is because he was there for work. He’s traveled to Spain, Turkey, and a couple places in South America. I told my friend about him and she said that he’s a “fresa.” He really isn’t White looking though, more so on the racially ambiguous side. His job obviously pays him well but I don’t think he’s loaded. Are “fresa’s” loaded typically? Anyways, since telling me this I decided to do my own research. What’s a “fresa” to you guys?
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Fresa means preppy (posh) and rich it’s not based off skin color ..if he’s Mexican and studied in USA yea he comes from money.
Fresas are preppy kids..
There is poor fresas that everyone makes fun of for obvious reasons lol
Also, Mexico City “fresas” are different than other fresas from other states. He could not be a fresa just a higher class chilango, higher class chilangos come across ass fresas to Northern Mexicans.
He’s absolutely fresa. If he studied English at an American school in DF, he grew up with more money than the average Mexican. Typically fresas are white but it’s more of a social status. There are Asian fresas too.
Money is relative. Even people who are well off will say that they are not rich but he was not poor, even for Latin American standards.
High class isn’t just purely economic (big component tho), its socio-cultural as well. Some countries have a class system ingrained more or less than others, like the UK. You could have a much richer country fully white bumpkin but he wouldn’t be “fresa”.
Of course having the ability to travel intercontinentally often puts him at american upper middle class and definitely top 1% of Mexico so he isn’t poor, but he obviously lives in a much higher socio-cultural circle than your average mexican.
>He really isn’t White looking though
Y’all really can’t help yourselves huh
“Fresa” is a Term used by jealous people to describe people who have privilege. Usually this privilege comes because the person has money or means to travel, own a home, own a car… All of this together and not just one of them.
Do not care about frivolous tags such as “fresa.” These are meant as pejoratives used to describe a subtract of people that others don’t really like. In the end, what should matter is what you think of this person. I’ve met people who were “fresas” who were really unbearable but also one of the best people I’ve met in my life, a person who literally saved me at one of my lowest points was considered a fresa. Clumping people into umbrella groups is just dumb. At the end of the day, choosing your reactions over such frivolous tags in just dumb overall. IMO.
>Americanized School
>Good english
>Traveled the world multiple times
As someone who has done all those, yeah, he’s a “fresa”. As others have said, in general terms fresa is pretty much something similar to a “preppy kid”, it is pretty much the lowest scale in the “mexican priviledged kid” group, one step above would be “Whitexican” and then the max level would be “Fifí”
Fresa is not about skin color, it is about being wealthy, educated, and upper class. Perfect english, educated, traveling the world, he seems to meet that definition.
Fresa does not mean white, fresa is a valley girl, posh, by what you’ve mentioned most likely he is.
Fresa means rich kid, posh. Specially the vain and superficial ones.
It’s not strictly related to skin colour. There are fresas with dark skin and with white skin.
He does sound fresa btw. The great majority of Mexicans cannot afford to visit so many countries, specially at a young age.
I guess there’s a small possibility that he doesn’t come from a wealthy family and that he’s just very intelligent and good at his job.
Nothing wrong with being fresa. That being said if he attended THE amercan school of cdmx (ASF) he def grew up loaded. Tuition there is like 1500 USD a month.
What’s Americans obsession with race?
I “like” OP’s notion of skin color attached to wealth. You know that countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar have some of the wealthiest people in the world, ¿right? And they’re not white.
Regarding fresa, people already gave the definition. They also have a reputation of being arrogant.
To be a Fresa, skin color is not decisive. But I guess the confusion comes from most whitexicans being fresas.
There are poor fresas, they just dress a certain ways and tend to be more picky . Is more about life circumstances and vibes. He went to private school and not many Mexicans are able to travel internationally, especially young. He might be.
The thing is… it doesn’t really matter, being fresa is not an impediment to date someone. Only if you find their fresa behaviors insufferable. After all the most known song about Fresa girl… the singer is still trying to get close to her, even if she is mocking some of her attitudes.
So honestly, don’t take it as minus against dating your guy. 🤷🏾♀️
Fresa people are not necessarily wealthy nor white-passing. Though of course, any kid that doesn’t look the part is not gonna be treated very well by other Fresa people, unless they are the child of a high ranking politician or a Cartel leader. The typical looks are anywhere between Mediterranean, Sephardic and Middle Eastern looking to, very rarely, German-Austrian, Eastern European, Ashkenazi, and Nordic looking. There are people who went to those schools and look like an average Mexican or even Indigenous but they often went on a schollarship for only a few years instead of since preschool.
It’s very much based in the circles in which people were brought up. Mainly due to going to expensive private schools that have been open for many decades, and due to having ancestors who were in the same circles. New rich people, some of which might be Indignous looking, and who are massively wealthy are of course very welcome, otherwise Fresas would lose financial and political power. But not every new rich cares about joining those social and political circles.
The schools are typically ran by Jesuites, the Opus Dei, and a few other congregations. Salesian nuns and priests tend to be the exception. Others were founded by immigrants from the US, Germans, Jewish people who escaped the Holocaust, Spaniards, etc.
He sounds like a trust fund baby. A nepo baby. A yuppie.
I bet when you say “racially ambiguous”, he just looks like some random rich Mexican with wavy hair.
Regardless, it is more about the attitude. They tend to be shallow, superficial, only think and talk about things that are not very important nor profound. Usually because money isn’t the biggest obstacle for them. First world problem type stuff.
They also can have a certain way of talking and can act catty.
Many of them also tend to be out of touch with what the average person goes through, much less what the low class struggles with.
It’s the whole “if you’re homeless, just buy a house” meme personified.
Fresa means posh. Mexican fresas tend to be either of fully European descent or mostly European descent but there are exceptions. Some of them will dress posh trying to show they have money but many of them will also dress down to not show it.