So if you guys didn’t know gentrification in Mexico is currently a big issue we are dealing with, from the “expats” raising prices of homes (expats my ass, call them what they are, illegal immigrants) to how now they are complaining that banda music should not be allowed in the beaches. It all came to a head when an hotel on the coast city of Mazatlan prohibited people from playing banda on “their” beach because it was ruining the experience for their gringo (Americans) residents.
Now here’s the thing, private beaches are not legal in Mexico, all coast lines are public and they can’t be blocked or regulated like that, so the hotel has legally no say.
That has not stopped them because money does make the world go round apparently, so the bandas are now demanding their right to play where they have for decades.
Now personally I do not like banda, I don’t hate it, but it is not my first choice of music, yet I fully support them because no gringo is going to come my country and try and control our culture.
happy andor trailer day remember that Cassian and Saw and probably a lot of new characters will be portrayed as inspired by latine revolutionaries (in the trailer itself Cassian says something that invoques the famous ant colony analogy). in that spirit have Lucas himself reminding you that the Empire is the usamerican empire
Okay this has bothered me for some time but I remember once seeing people (antis) on Twitter hating on Pepa because she is "a white woman." It made me sick!
😭 bruh there's nothing wrong with Pepa being white (or any of the other clearly white characters in the film that folks refuse to aknowledge as white because... idk it makes them feel more woke when the film they like has more """poc""" in it or something). White latin americans exist and they are many, and tbh I'd still feel more comfortable with a white latino than with an anglo that "looks like me" (i.e had a mexican great-grandmother or something). It's just gringos who hate when accurate despictions of latin american realities don't fit their idea of what "woke latino rep" looks like.
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That said, I do find it curious that Pepa is the only white one out of her siblings, and I can't help but wonder if the character designers and concept artists were just... a little put off by the idea of her children being "too mixed" somehow? Or idk maybe they just though she looked cool as a redhead and went with that design. Maybe they wanted to fill the white people quota so you got like... four white Madrigals in total. I'd honestly give them the benefit of the doubt because her design is honestly harmless and inoffensive, nothing worth worrying about imo.
I don't mean to say there isn't a racism problem in latin american and that white people here are more virtuous or whatever but sbsjsbdb they are OUR white people only we can talk shit abt them /hj. Gringos will just use "criticism" as an excuse to be xenophobic and racist because they don't know crap.
Today I dealt with my first racist customer, some lady whom I heard mutter under her breath some shit about me being Mexican when she heard my name, and by dealt with I mean hung up on because I'm not about putting up with that shit.
i think that you guys care too much about others. like i dont GIVE A FUCK if anyone doesnt like our players doing little dances, doesn’t like how we celebrate. like i dont fucking care
I don't agree with certain takes on how gringos Sexualized Tango because its intention really was (is) to play with the soft limits of sensuality. But a lot of y'all really do treat it like it's sex with clothes on and it's kind of irritating
Not rbing any of the very valid posts my argie mutuals are rbing right now because I just can't have this energy right now, but always remember kiddos, Malvinas Argentinas, none of that "Falklands" shit