#know your fucking place or so help me god ahfjejfjslgb

[roombagreyjoy]

About to swing a bat at a hornets nest because of an ask I just got and say this: the Spaniards living in Spain aren't the colonisers... white Americans are. Y'all are the offspring of those who went over there, we're the ones who stayed put. My family were farmers who literally lived in a cave-made-house and couldn't afford public schooling until it was compulsory and the living conditions became better, just a few generations ago (not long ago at all) and the offspring of Jews who had to convert to Christianity to avoid religious and ethnic prosecution. My family has never owned land or titles and has never had anything to do with America, nor was it ever close to a city with a port until two generations ago :P y'all can be a little illiterate sometimes

#same goes for british and french people tbh... like. #a little disclaimer we DO need to understand the harm colonisers did and the harm it continues to do by its remnants #but like... free of guilt for cause #some of y'all americans (especially americans from the us tbh) are full of white saviour complexes and love to shame others #when it was YOUR FAMILY who settled there #it also makes me mad when white (us)americans are like haha i'm 50% italian... nah you're not #unless you're a first/second/third generation immigrant you ain't shit #y'all LOVE to shame people without critical thinking. take a good look in the mirror #this goes for white people exclusively btw poc and natives don't deserve literally anything bad from this post #no no next time someone calls me a coloniser unironically i'm gonna snap for real #and like... i mean unironically #i make a lot of jokes in good faith #but without clear intent then... it's not funny. it's sad #know your fucking place or so help me god ahfjejfjslgb #personal #another disclaimer: my family is fully catholic christian save some exceptions at this poiny #there's no jewish blood left in us #this happened during the inquisition lol #but we come from a place with a strong jewish past (unfortunately no strong jewish community in spain at the moment) #and my father has always been keen on keeping the family information alive so to speak ??? #like the ancestry is there #i mean i could say the traits are too but like... i mean that's just what your average white Mediterranean person looks like #oh yeah by the way! the ''stereotypical jewish look'' is actually nazi propaganda bullshit #lots of southern europeans look like that we share common traits a lot #hhhh ok i think i'm done lmao that felt good