What does it mean when someone says you look like the everyone from cancun?

Question

My mom and i went to a meeting and the lady asked her were she was from, and she said Mexico City, but her grandparents were from the usa. And then she says, "Yeah, you look like everyone in cancun!" real loud laughing lol. She's not mexican though and doesn't look like she is one. She's part spain.

Was she bieng sarcastic or what? What kind of people are at cancun??

Answer 1

a lot of people in Cancun are tourists and then there are the locals. i don't know what she meant.....

Answer 2

Cancun is a high tourism area in Mexico. I'm assuming that this lady went there or has seen pictures and is making a very general comparison of your mom to people who live there just because your mom said that she's from Mexico City. Not good because even in one city, everyone looks and is different. You should have quized her on how she see's your mom's resemblance to people from Cancun. That would have put her on the spot. I wonder how she would have explained herself.

Additional comment (see below): What makes someone "look American"?

Answer 3

When I went there, there was a lot of Americans, and come to think of it...very few Mexicans. She probably meant, "You don't look Mexican, you look American"

Answer 4

Well, when I went, there weren't many Mexicans, apart from in the older central parts!