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poxar · 3 years

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Just read some manifesto about how to write Latino characters.

The idiot kept talking about how they don’t speak Spanish (often) so because of that Latinos must also not speak Spanish that often…

The leap of logic and self-indulgence. Like admit it bro you just don’t speak Spanish lmao 😂. That’s perfectly fine. Not every Latino has to be Hispanic as in Spanish speaking some of us speak French or Chinese or Arabic or Portuguese but are still Latino it’s okay.

But living within a Hispanic community means that people within that community only speak Spanish or speak it idk 85% of the time?

It’s how immigration works. Go to any Korea town, Chinatown, Russian town, the people in those ethnic groups tend to speak in their native tongues and have businesses that cater to their people within their respective communities in their languages. It’s not even that hard to find in the real world.

Also code switching is a thing all immigrants do. African Americans do it when they slip into AAVE. Immigrants do it when they slip into their native tongues and they still switch into other versions when they speak with their relatives vs other members of their communities. Like the way I speak to my brothers and sisters for example is not the same way I would address my elders or church members or something like that just like co-workers. We have a lot of things in common. And I think that’s wonderful tbh 🥰

Like the case for most immigrant kids is like they go to school and try their best to assimilate because that’s what their parents tell them to do and fuck were bullied OD so society tells us to assimilate or perish tbh. So we do we just abandon our culture when we leave the house. But the minute we enter the house we switch back to the old ways and we HAVE TO speak in our native languages because that’s what our parents/grandparents speak in and understand. That’s literally it. You just learned immigration assimilation and integration 101 congrats 🍾🎉🎊.

OP didn’t even mention immigration at all… but somehow their Latinx???? 😭like okay imma have to take your card away sis. I’m not saying everyone is fresh off the boat like my green card ass having parents. I know some people who aren’t… and honestly fuck them they straight up turn into Republicans which is like the most fucked up shit. Not saying all but I don’t like it! The assimilation and integration went too fucking hard.

It’s crazy to me how some people who really live in a god damn bubble are given a fucking platform to be talking about shit they’re clearly not even apart of. I saw the post and I’m not linking to it because honestly it doesn’t need anymore notes. It has like 10k from both white and black people who don’t know wtf they’re talking about. It’s annoying as fuck. -_-

Like for the love of god, just ask a fucking Hispanic person what it was like to live. Like if you want to create an authentic story or character. Just ask someone from the community and ask them about their life. People love sharing stories, and now you have something that connects you to someone and to a whole community.

Instead of reading bullet points from some antisocial loser who probably doesn’t even leave their fucking room and their social interactions with other people within their community stops at the drive-thru window at their local Wendy’s. I can smell their dumbass little privilege.

Being the daughter of immigrants and being from the Bronx and also living in NYC forces me to be diverse. I can’t be ignorant about socializing unless I want to be a complete jackass. Like for real. If you’re closed off and xenophobic in New York it’s by choice… it’s definitely a reality for some people but not for me and I’m glad and blessed for that. 😩

And tbh OPs takes were too generalized and basic. Every Hispanic/latino whatever you wanna call us idc at this point is attached to our specific culture.

This mf didn’t seem to have one ☝️ it was just…

We don’t all speak Spanish and we don’t all eat tacos and burritos…. And I’m like…… okay first of all burritos are Tex-mex like technically they’re AMERICAN you ask any Mexican that and that’s what they will tell you. It’s not a Mexican dish but something created here like pizza or whatever.

Tejanos and Mexicans who lived in Texas and Arizona and what not, before the whiteys came and just manifest destinied that shit, (chicanos) had their own way of cooking that has changed over the years due to war, colonialism, and just good ol’ evolution. A lot of people forget that Mexico owned that area and people been living there and had been for generations. There’s a lot of history that’s been kind of stomped out, appropriated, and then white washed and then abandoned. It’s not really given the respect it truly deserves and it’s sad. I’m sorry guys that I don’t have any sources on this matter but I do know of a lovely book.

La Frontera/Borderlands: The New Mestiza

I think it’s a fantastic read and a great way to dust off your Spanish speaking skills and learn what being American means to some people. Chicanos are what I’m referring to when I’m talking about the Mexicans who were annexed after the Alamo and the Spanish war America had with Mexico. It’s not a perfect term tbh but it’s the best I can do lol.

God I’m so fucking hungry

I SMELL A RAT 🐀

Lmao 😂

It’s pathetic lmao. I hate you and you’re dumb lol. Not you reading this, the person who made that awful post about how to write a Latino that just boiled down to just slap a Latino title and don’t bother making them Hispanic (which means Spanish speaking) because why would that add anything to their culture or sense of identity lmao 🤣 musty ass bitch.

I’m not even Mexican bro and I felt the need the need to step in because you’re not just going to disrespect my friends like that.

I get mad because I had a lot of friends who were illegal, who were scared of being deported, of fucking graduating high school or even applying for college and outing their family.

Like these are real fucking people. They pay taxes, they laugh and create and dance and live along side us. I wish them health, wealth and safety tbh because a lot of people don’t. And it’s so heartbreaking to me because they’re culture is so gorgeous and worth paying attention to. It is literally right there. They have the connections to their ancestors. Like cmon now, everyone is always looking for something new. 😞

Oh and here’s a cooking channel! Fuck it why not!

Aquí estas doñita Ángela con sus dos hijas Brenda y Mary. Buen Provecho!

This lady OD cute and she make good ass food 🥰 she’s Mexican Mexican though not Chicano

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mysecretforests · 6 years

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Sephora “Witch Kits” Rant

TL;DR: It aches my heart to see a corporation selling this kit, but it’s also much more than that. They don’t see us as valid, and this “witch kit” proves it. Some of you all just don’t get it. I know I only recently started posting on this account again, but I just want to talk about the Sephora “starter witch kits.”

In addition to the blatant appropriation of culture in this kit, (that’s a whole essay in itself, and I’ll briefly touch on it later), I’m just really upset that I know these kits are likely being sold by people who don’t actually believe in witchcraft or paganism at all.

Like, I just know these CEO’s would look at a witch and/or a pagan and laugh in their face. They would call our religions fantasy and our gods false, just like Christianity did when they were wiping out and appropriating our practices (I say plural because they wiped out and appropriated many different cultures and religious practices) in favor of their god.

I just have this ache in my heart seeing this kit being sold. On one hand, I like that witchcraft may becoming more accepted and more mainstream, but on the other hand I feel like it’s not true. I feel like it’s coming back as an aesthetic, something to place on a shelf so you can show your friends how “cool and witchy” you are.

This is what this kit feels like to me. A “gimmick for the youth” to profit off of “witchy vibes.” You can’t just throw a bunch of stuff in a box that originates from several different cultures and expect me to believe you actually care about baby witches. The only thing you’ll get me to believe is that you think all these practices are a gimmick and something you can sell for your amusement or aesthetics.

“Oh but this happens all the time! It’s been happening for years!”

Yeah, well, that doesn’t make it right. I’ve also seen a lot of “It’s your practice, don’t let anyone shame you!” and I feel like most of the people who say this are the ones who don’t understand what it’s like to know that the religion and practices of your ancestors were mocked and their gods cast out. That your ancestors were burned, hanged, tortured, exiled, etc. That their practices and traditions were either wiped out completely or stolen and turned into “Christian traditions” to help more people convert to Christianity. Yeah, I hate gatekeeping, I’m all for people practicing and people reclaiming traditions they were either robbed of when their families came to America or when their ancestors converted (Newsflash, it wasn’t always voluntary), but some of you all just don’t get it.

Also, before someone misunderstands, when I say “reclaim traditions you were robbed of” I’m not talking about appropriating another cultures’ traditions so that you can have some. I’m talking about those of us who knew where we came from (or those who have a slight idea, I know a lot of Americans don’t know exactly where they came from as a lot of traditions tended to get beaten out if they weren’t culturally American or Christian [*cough* or white] enough) and are trying to reclaim the traditions of their ancestors the best they can. This doesn’t mean that you should be taking that 1/32nd of Cherokee your family claims to have and take the parts of those Native traditions you like and run with them. I’ll use myself as an example. Yes, my father’s family claims to have Native American blood too, but I wasn’t raised in it. I know no one of Native decent. I wasn’t raised in their traditions, I did not come from that life. It wouldn’t be right for me to just go and cherry pick what I thought looked cool and say I believed in it while I ignore major parts of the traditions and practices and history. Would it be different if I sought out possible relatives and requested to learn more about the culture and traditions? Perhaps, but I can’t just take from that of which I don’t understand.

Where I do pull my practices from, however, comes from my European ancestry. My practice is made up of mainly Celtic and Norse mythology (yes, they are different) because I was raised with more of an understanding of those traditions, even though my family was soft-practicing Christian.

Now, growing up I knew I had never believed what my family believed, but it wasn’t until I got older that I realized that my beliefs had always aligned more with Pagan beliefs and practices. It also wasn’t until I started to study more about these practices and beliefs that I started to get angry. As I studied I found that the traditions of my ancestors were either appropriated and transformed into Christian traditions or cast out completely, and their gods were literally demonized. They were forced to convert and give up their beliefs, or they died. Literally almost everything my family had practiced as “Christian” was a bastardized form of various traditions from the religions I was now practicing and becoming closer to, stolen and warped to fit a Christian god. Much of their imagery and practices are now synonymous with fantasy and regarded as nothing more than fairy tale or superstition.

I live in an area where Paganism is seen as a joke or evil. Often both. If you claim to be Pagan, you will either be laughed at straight in your face, seen as crazy, or treated horribly out of fear. Usually a combination of the three. So obviously I’m closeted. I know that when I have children, I will want to teach them my beliefs and practice traditions, to give them a culture. But I also fear what will happen to them if I do, as society is going to tell them they are wrong, and that their “Pagan Mother” is going to hell. And honestly it breaks my heart knowing I might have to choose between not teaching them to keep them safe, or teaching them and knowing that it might result in their harm if the wrong person catches wind. (You might say “Just move!” but I fear it won’t be an option.) I guess what I’m trying to say is that if you take anything away from this, let it be this: If I, a white person who has grown up with my white-privilege stapled to my forehead, can be angry about their ancestor’s traditions and beliefs being cast out and feel robbed of their culture, and can be afraid of the repercussions of being open about being Pagan, imagine what it’s like for a POC. Imagine what it’s like for a Native American, who’s ancestors were murdered in mass genocide when European settlers came, having to watch as symbols of their traditions are sold for aesthetics or “witchy vibes.”

Or someone of Mexican decent who constantly get’s told they don’t belong here (i.e: “Build the wall!”, “Go back to Mexico!”) even though it was actually USA’s border that crossed them, and not the other way around. Every Halloween they have to see white witches (and who are we kidding, it’s not just the witches) setting up sugar skulls on their altars and painting their face for Day of the Dead without any knowledge of what an ofrenda is or that the holiday is actually on Nov 1 & 2. But hey, it looks cool, right?

Or a black person who’s ancestors were literally ripped from their home and cultures and forced into slavery. Now several generations down the line they don’t know where their ancestors actually came from other than “Africa” and that many if not all of their traditions were beaten out generations ago, only to now see that African voodoo and hoodoo practices are now suddenly “cool” and being sold as home decor or practiced by white witches who think it’s neat. It’s more than just the fact that a corporation will be profiting off our cultures, it’s the fact that they’re doing it because they don’t see us as valid. We’re nothing more than a fairytale, people living out a fantasy even though our gods came before, and these kits prove they see our practices as nothing more than a cheap trick or a gimmick, something to be massed produced and profited from.

It’s insulting.

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