Those sound like exactly right reasons to me-- just letting the characters be who they are. I mean, it probably IS good to have someone read over things you're not sure about in a cultural portrayal, or, yeah, just in general, for when you don't even realize you're not sure about a detail. But it shouldn't scare you away from just telling the story as it wants to be told. And sometimes it feels like The Internet is trying to scare us off so much.
Your character-who-happens-to-be-Latina reminds me of a story I kind of started that went nowhere, which was based on a dream I'd had, that was just full of these fully-formed characters-- including a couple of Latinas (one of whom was a bit of a bad guy-- uh, girl, whatever-- the other her somewhat timid daughter. Also, the former was technically a Wicked Stepmother but the latter was quite good friends with her stepsiblings, who incidentally were half-siblings of each other and the younger one was half-black half-white. HE JUST WAS, no REASON. Man, I kind of miss these characters now, I wish I'd found them something more to do than make models of imaginary fish while wondering about SNEAKY PEOPLE who didn't have a plot that I ever found out). I mean, it's amazing how REAL my imagination is when left to its own devices, without waking inhibitions wondering how CORRECT I am.
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Your character-who-happens-to-be-Latina reminds me of a story I kind of started that went nowhere, which was based on a dream I'd had, that was just full of these fully-formed characters-- including a couple of Latinas (one of whom was a bit of a bad guy-- uh, girl, whatever-- the other her somewhat timid daughter. Also, the former was technically a Wicked Stepmother but the latter was quite good friends with her stepsiblings, who incidentally were half-siblings of each other and the younger one was half-black half-white. HE JUST WAS, no REASON. Man, I kind of miss these characters now, I wish I'd found them something more to do than make models of imaginary fish while wondering about SNEAKY PEOPLE who didn't have a plot that I ever found out). I mean, it's amazing how REAL my imagination is when left to its own devices, without waking inhibitions wondering how CORRECT I am.