{"id":590638,"date":"2021-07-14T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=590638"},"modified":"2021-07-14T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:06:00","slug":"hilaria-baldwin-identifies-as-culturally-fluid-following-heritage-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hilaria-baldwin-identifies-as-culturally-fluid-following-heritage-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilaria Baldwin Identifies As Culturally \u2018Fluid\u2019 Following Heritage Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhilaria-baldwin-identifies-as-culturally-fluid-following-heritage-controversy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=590638&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1207630321.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After being called out for her inconsistent Spanish accent and apparently misleading the public about her Spanish heritage, Hilaria \u2014 or Hillary, more accurately \u2014 Baldwin now says she identifies as culturally \u201cfluid,\u201d seemingly arguing that she can be culturally fluid if others can be sexually, religious, and politically \u201cfluid,\u201d too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are multi, it can feel hard to belong,\u201d Hilaria&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/hilaria-baldwin-fluid-cultural-background-post_n_60e846dae4b0639661be1a26\">posted<\/a> to Instagram last week. \u201cYou are constantly going back and forth, trying to be more this or more that. You feel you have to explain why you are the way you are, trying to fit into a world of labels when there might not be one that perfectly defines you. You will never quite fit in because the other parts of you shape and influence all your parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to normalize the fact that we are all unique \u2015 our culture, languages, sexual orientations, religions, political beliefs are ALLOWED TO BE FLUID,\u201d she added. \u201cNo two of us are completely alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Hilaria, wife to staunchly leftist actor Alec Baldwin, was hit with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/impersonates-a-spanish-person-alec-baldwin-wife-hilaria-addresses-controversy-over-accent-spanish-culture\">a wave a criticism<\/a> over her Spanish roots, or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen chatter online questioning my identity and culture,\u201d she&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJTiwHiDX7X\/\">posted<\/a> to Instagram at the time. \u201cThis is something I take very seriously, and for those who are asking\u2014 I\u2019ll reiterate my story, as I\u2019ve done many times before.&nbsp; I was born in Boston and grew up spending time with my family between Massachusetts and Spain. My parents and sibling live in Spain and I chose to live here, in the USA. We celebrate both cultures in our home\u2014Alec and I are raising our children bilingual, just as I was raised. This is very important to me. I understand that my story is a little different, but it is mine, and I\u2019m very proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hilaria was responding to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lenibriscoe\/status\/1341103989878902787\">viral Twitter thread<\/a>&nbsp;that accused the mother of impersonating \u201ca Spanish person,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/alec-baldwin-defends-wife-hilaria-heritage-cultural-appropriation\">according<\/a> to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to admire Hilaria Baldwin\u2019s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person,\u201d the first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lenibriscoe\/status\/1341095257233125379\">tweet<\/a> said. A string of tweets from the user, @lenibriscoe, then showed videos of Hilaria with a more pronounced Spanish accent in two videos, and a video where the accent is not detectable. For example, in one video, Hilaria asks how to say the word \u201ccucumber\u201d in English. In another post, @lenibriscoe published a screenshot of an apparent review of Hilaria\u2019s podcast, reading, \u201cI know Hilary Hayward-Thomas from the Cambridge School of Weston in MA. She didn\u2019t have an accent then and didn\u2019t change her name to Hilaria. Because she\u2019s not Spanish! So please stop using an accent in this podcast and interrupting your guests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Twitter user\u2019s account, @lenibriscoe, is now locked, thus barring anyone not following the account from seeing the content.<\/p>\n<p>In another Instagram video defending herself last year, Hilaria, whose birth name is Hillary, reiterated that she was born in Boston but spent a lot time in Spain during her childhood, noting that her immediate family lives in Spain currently. She also emphasized that she\u2019s never claimed that her mother was Spanish, noting that she\u2019s \u201ca big mix of so many different things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old also said that it was \u201cfrustrating\u201d trying to understand why \u201cit [can\u2019t] be\u201d that she \u201chas two cultures,\u201d American and Spanish. \u201cBecause that is my story,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s like a really great thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not gonna apologize for the fact of having two versions of my name, which is the same name,\u201d the yoga\/wellness expert said, \u201d \u2026 it\u2019s&nbsp;the same name just some letters different. This is not somebody trying to pretend to be something else; it\u2019s literally just, you have two cultures. \u2026 That\u2019s my life experience, and I don\u2019t have to apologize for my life experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing her accent, Hilaria said, \u201cI am that person, if I\u2019ve been speaking a lot of Spanish, I tend to mix them or if I\u2019m speaking a lot of English I mix that, it\u2019s one of those things I\u2019ve always been a bit insecure about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHilaria Baldwin has claimed she was born in&nbsp;Mallorca, Spain, and raised in Boston,\u201d Fox News reported at the time. \u201cShe explained&nbsp;on a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rachel\/status\/1343063509941235712\">podcast<\/a>&nbsp;in April 2020, \u2018I moved here [to America] when I was 19 to go to NYU from\u2026 my family lives in Spain, they live in Mallorca.\u2019 The bilingual mother of five\u2019s accent has also noticeably&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mu5-OqiNO7k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fluctuated<\/a> over the years when she&nbsp;made appearances&nbsp;on TV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caa.com\/caaspeakers\/hilaria-baldwin#biography\">CAA speaker page<\/a>, Wikipedia&nbsp;and IMDb page, Fox News added, \u201call list&nbsp;her birth country as Spain. But Twitter users soon pointed out that her real name is&nbsp;Hillary Hayword-Thomas and she grew up in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/impersonates-a-spanish-person-alec-baldwin-wife-hilaria-addresses-controversy-over-accent-spanish-culture\">\u2018Impersonates A Spanish Person\u2019: Alec Baldwin Wife Hilaria Addresses Controversy Over Accent, Spanish&nbsp;Culture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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