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badgyalzdem · 1 year

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#latina #brasil #brazil #samba #salvador do bahia #black latina

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ursulawhosoever · 1 year

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Braids retrospective 2013-2022?💆🏽‍♀️

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sbrown82 · 2 months

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Did you have any difficulty growing up as a mixed Afrolatina and relating to your African American side? I know most of my friends had a hard time but was it different then than it is now?

Hol' up, hol' up, anon! I'm not sure of how you came to this, but I am not mixed, I am not biracial, I am not ethnically ambiguous, I am not a "5 percenter"....I AM BLACK! I may be a little light-skinnedededed 🥴🤣, but, like many light-skinned Blacks, I don't know, nor do I care where my fair complexion comes from. I am a mono-racial Black woman. I was born in New York City to two Black Nicaraguan parents, both of whom speak Spanish as a first language, they both have Caribbean accents and Jewish last names. And even though I was born in this country, I don't actually identify as "African-American" mainly because I don't feel like the term fully describes who I am (to me, it erases my Latinaness and my Caribbeaness). It also represents a culture, heritage, history, and understanding that I don't have. I mean, it ain't like I can say I got family and roots in Mississippi and grew up on collard greens and cornbread. I also feel like a lot of people use this term to put ALL people of the African descent under the same umbrella: for instance, I once heard someone refer to Naomi Campbell as an "African-American" model, and I thought "No she ain't!" She is a Black British woman of Jamaican heritage. So, me personally, I just say I am Black, if people want to know more about me, they can just ask. But to answer your question, HELL NAH...I've never had a problem with my Blackness...ever. I loooove being Black. I bask in it. I know a lot negroes that live past the Rio Grande do, and it's a damn shame, but that was not my experience. I'm very aware and proud of my Blackness. In fact, it was much easier, and honestly, more comfortable for me to gravitate toward people who look like me growing up (i.e. Black Americans). Mind you, even though my parents are Hispanics, I did not grow up speaking the language myself, I'd never been to the country until my teens, and of course I'm Black, so I didn't look like most of the Latinos I saw on TV (who all looked Italian to me). To be honest, it was harder to accept that I was Latina because I just didn't fit into what most people think of Latinos. Sometimes I even felt embarrassed of my Hispanic heritage. I mean, I felt Hispanic around my family and inside my own home, but once I left those 4 walls, I did at times feel like an outsider because people didn't understand that Black folks like me existed.

#black identity #black people #black culture #afro latina #black latina #black nicaraguan #latina #hispanic #nicarguan #anon #ask #sbrown82

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symphoniclove · 2 years

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#cardi b #belcalis almanzar #black women #black beauty #black woman appreciation #black tumblr #latinas #latin women #black latina #afro latina #afrolatina #brown skin girl #hot babygirl #hot black girls #red hair #rappers icons #female rap artist #female rappers #rappers

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kirbyskisses · 10 months

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dear non-spanish speakers writing spiderverse fanfiction (or anything with spanglish),

in spanglish you don’t switch by word, you switch by phrase.

it’s not:

“[first part of the sentence in english], [second part of the sentence in english], mi amor.”

“[full english sentence], querida.”

it’s:

“[first part of the sentence in english], [segunda parte de la frase en español], mi amor.”

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also miles is boricua, miguel is mexican. they have two different accents and use different vocabulary for certain words.

also miles is “nyourican” - a puerto rican native to new york - while his mom is directly from the island, so there are differences there, too, because his spanish is more influence by new york english.

here’s some good references that aren’t google translate (which usually pulls from spain, a country that speaks vastly differently from latin america)

SpanishDict

WordReference

here have some random videos on different slang/spanish accents:

Puerto Rico

Mexico (1) (2)

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in spanish most words are gendered, so most feminine words end in a and masculine/gender neutral words end in o. adding ito/ita makes something cuter, smaller and more affectionate.

spanish nicknames that aren’t “mi amor”

“querido/a” - darling

“cariño” - dear (always masculine regardless, of who its being said to)

“mi princesa/príncipe” - my prince/princess

“mi rey/reina” - my king/queen

“papí/mamí” - can be used in any way; romantic, sexual, familial for one’s parent or child, or just platonically

“tesoro” - treasure

also spanish is a language that uses adjectives as terms of affection both cute ones and ones that might sound insensitive in english

gordo (fat), flaco (skinny), negro (black), blanco (white), linda (pretty), bella (beautiful), morena (brown skin), etc.

and like most languages that are not english, spanish has multiple ways of saying i love you.

“te amo” - romantic

“te quiero” - familial, platonic (although there’s nothing wrong with using it romantically)

see also:

te adoro - i adore you

te deseo - i want you

te necesito - i need you

and, of course, they can vary regionally too.

please use this because i have read a lot of really well written things that take me out of it because the use of spanglish is terrible. don’t just go on your presumptions that spanish/spanglish works in the same way that english does.

buena suerte, gringos.

- signed your friendly neighborhood afro-latina