#race and ethnicity

[munchymunchkin]

#the grinch #how the grinch stole christmas #occupation #race and ethnicity #name ideas #twitter #twitter meme #twitter memes #shower thoughts #deep thoughts #serious question

[this-simplefeeling]

listen. star trek has been my special interest for literally over a decade. All of the characters are so near and dear to my heart in so many different ways, but none of them quite like Mr. Spock.

In him I have always seen myself: A mixed kid wanting to reconcile both my heritages without losing pieces of either one. An autistic kid wanting desperately to find a way to connect to the neurotypical people around me, trying to navigate my emotions and find balance. A mama's boy, a son seeking the approval of his father (but never wanting to admit it). And he made me feel proud to be Jewish; proud of my nose and my dark hair.

And I know so many people who have identified with these parts of his character and more, and I will always be grateful to Leonard Nimoy for making him what he was.

Honestly, I think any actor would be hard pressed to fill Nimoy's shoes. But there is so much more that could have been done to keep Spock... Spock. I think Peck is a fantastic actor, and I know he's at the mercy of the script he's given. But never will I be able to connect to his Spock, not the way they are articulating his character. He's still very much ND coded, still his mother's son. But G-d, they really have neglected so many other pieces.

I just think it's a shame.

TLDR: snw spock is impossible to connect to in the way I connected to tos spock.

#literally no hate to peck at all #and it's a shame bc i rly like the other snw characters #but it's hard to watch for me #sorry to sperg out on main #star trek #star trek tos #spock #star trek the original series #spirk #kirk #snw #ethan peck #leonard nimoy #jewish #judaism #race and ethnicity #autism #autistic

[official-oshun]

You all are so annoying “the Mona Lisa is fake so Helen didn’t accomplish anything!!!1!1!1”

Literally be fucking serious. Is it because perhaps, a common misconception that the Mona Lisa is on a canvas and not wood? Yes I think so!

THE WHOLE DAMN MOVIE IS ABT HOW THE BLACK WOMAN WILL ALWAYS BE THE MOST DISRESPECTED IN A GROUP.

Like why are you belittling the heroines hard work and emotions suffering like that? Why are you hell bent on making the entire movie pointless? If the Mona Lisa was a fake then nothing, AND I MEAN NOTHING, in that movie would matter. Helen won. Deal with it and stop trying to belittle the black woman.

#glass onion #knives out #movie #cinema #fine art #mona lisa #THE WHOLE MOVIE IS ABT HOW THE BLACK WOMAN IS THE LEAST RESPECTED #race and ethnicity #white art nerds get a grip #nonblacks don’t be stupid but YES YOU CAN REBLOG #benoit blanc #janelle monáe robinson

[misespinas]

When I see plastic surgery like this, I don't feel disgust for the women. I feel disgust for the society that convinced them their noses are not beautiful

#plastic surgery #i hate plastic surgery #i hate this industry #cosmetic surgeon #cosmetic surgery #plastic surgeon #cosmetic surgery is evil #plastic surgery is evil #feminism #radical feminism #radfem #libfem #liberal feminist #liberal feminism #radical feminist #gender roles #intersectionality #feminist theory #intersectional feminism #race and ethnicity #racial and ethnic discrimination #ethnicity #race #eugenics

[shadycomputerpolice]

Who is a [black] woman?

Why are Hollywood's it "black" ladies usually the daughters of white women? Casting biracial women to play black women is one thing but casting biracial women with non black mothers to play black women is another and it is starting to feel intentional. I know many black people are going to say "biracial people are black why does it matter?".

It matters because

Firstly, black women claim they are not respected but when you claim a biracial with a non black mother is black you are accepting that black women are not needed to replicate ourselves. You are accepting that a white/asian woman can birth us but we definitely cannot birth them (you would institutionalised for even suggesting that biracials are white/asian). This believe is a clear evidence of black people's especially black women's low self esteem.

Secondly, this coopting is taking opportunities from black women. Contrary to what your pastor told you, there actually isn't enough to go around. Lucrative roles in Hollywood are very limited so if biracial women are cast as black women this takes away roles from monoracial black woman. Please know that when it comes to commercial movies that aren't Black Panther, Hollywood will prefer to cast biracials over black people because they have the preferred phenotype that won't discourage the non black audience from watching. Monoracial black women have to spend years paying their dues get a lucrative jobs in Hollywood. For example: The very talented Taraji P. Henson had to cry about her low wages but Halle Berry doesn't have to.

Let me attempt to address the biracials are Black ideology.

First of all, biracials have a non black parent and I don't why black people and biracials who identify as black just want to ignore a parent's race especially the mothers'. I have always distrusted biracials with non black mothers who claim to be black. In my mind, I think "so you are just not going to acknowledge the race of the person who literally grew you in their body?" Biracial people are of negro ancestry but they are not negroes. They can acknowledge and even celebrate their negro ancestry without claiming to be black.

I don't care what anyone says but I respect Tyla, the South African singer, that stood her ground on her coloured heritage (NB: coloured is not a slur in South Africa, it is a recognised legal identity for mixed people). I applaud her for acknowledging the races of her family.

Secondly, the one drop rule is an American legal construct that isn't based on biology. There are countries that legally recognises mixed race people as different from black people for example, South Africa. Again, biracial people are the offspring of a black person and a non black person. Let a biracial person have a child with a white person and a black person (monoracial) have a child with a white person and then you will know that biracial and black are not the same.

In conclusion, I know that the discussion of biracials being black is never going to end but black people need to forget that Kumbaya bs and accept that we live in a world with very scarce resources. If you keep inviting people to your table to eat, there will be none left for you.

#black woman #black women #racial issues #race and ethnicity

[robintherobiner]

Dick and Damian bond over being different to their family.

Jason and Stephanie and Duke were born into the deepest, darkest corners of Gotham, while Tim and Bruce were thrust into galas and secrets and old-but-new money.

But they're all Gothamites at their core. They look up into the gloomy sky and feel at peace, they look down and feel calm, they walk around with the ache of Gotham in their blood, recognized or not.

Damian is half Pakistani. (Nanda Parbat (where the League of Assassins is set) is based on Nanga Parbat, the westernmost major peak of the Himalayas. While Gotham City is traditionally depicted as being located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. (Its look and atmosphere was mainly influenced by New York City, and Bill Finger said that he chose the name "Gotham", and not New York, so that all readers in any city could identify with it.) )

Dick is Romani. (In most cases, he's depicted as either a quarter or half Romani, but no matter how little, he IS Romani. I'm not entirely sure which subgroup he is (i'm not sure if subgroup is the right word, sorry), but according to Wikipedia its a Indo-Aryan ethnic group which most likely originated in India, but then they migrated into Europe so there's so many possible different places he could be from. I'm not entirely sure how this all actually works, so I don't know if theorizing which specific country/subgroup matters or not.)

Please note that I'm not talking skin colour in this post. Damian (in most cases) is depicted with tan/light brown skin, but Dick is almost always as white as the others. The only person (of my knowledge) in the batfam who is always shown as coloured is Duke. But he's not in this post because he is very much a Gothamite, regardless of his skin colour.

This is because skin colour does not entirely depend on the country you're from. I am white, and my friend is brown, but we are both fully Portuguese because all four of our parents are from Portugal.

I was raised in England, and I feel a strangeness whenever I am with my British friends because despite having the same skin colour, living in the same country, speaking the same language, i am different. But my friends difference is both inward and outward, if that makes sense.

I made this post because as someone who has recently realized this difference i feel, i want these fictional characters to feel it too.

So, sorry for the ramble, but I just want more fanfics where these characters take their difference (I don't know if race or ethnicity is the right word, but by difference I mean the fact that they are not fully Americans) and embrace it, whether they do it together or separately.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

#batman #batfamily #batfam #dick grayson #damian wayne #damian al ghul #is it al ghul or wayne? bc technically he has 2 last names but i keep seeing him as just wayne which annoys me deeply #do not deny the boy his heritage Bruce. he is not JUST your blood. #rant post #race and ethnicity #which one am i meaning in this post? I do not know. Someone tell me please!!! #gothamite #gotham #dc comics #dc universe #am i wrong here?

[risesthenight]

there are no words to describe the day my young pakistani self saw this character for the first time, and finally felt seen

#i cried #like sobbed #like BAWLED #ms marvel #kamala khan #marvel #desi tag #pakistani #race and ethnicity #representation matters #diversity

[brokenfoxproductions]

It's really weird being part white and part native American but looking like the white half of my family because I feel personally attacked and personally invested pretty much every single time someone brings up something that has to do with native politics, Like land back movements and the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis, but whenever I try to speak out about it people treat me like it's none of my business, despite the fact that I grew up being raised by my grandparents and having to hear stories of everything that they endured. It was such a big part of my culture growing up, especially since my dad's family was racist and didn't want a lot to do with me because of my mom being mostly native, and now I feel like I'm not allowed to talk about it at all without people treating me weird.

#race and ethnicity #native american #ndn #white passing #algonquin #ojibwe #melungeon #welsh #scotch Irish #mixed race #specifically my gramma is ojibwe Algonquin and scotch irish and my pop was melungeon and Algonquin with some distant German #my dad's parents are both Welsh and I look like I could speak Cymru ffs i look just like them

[young-royals-confessions]

In my understanding, "Latino" is a term specifically used in the US to categorize people who live there. There are no "Latinos" in Venezuela or Sweden or in Europe in general. We just don't use that term.

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#race and ethnicity #latin americans #europe

[notes-from-sarah]

When Magneto became Romani

These three pages were included in an X-Men anthology book titled Magneto #0, The Twisting of a Soul by Fabian Nicieza. It was published in 1993 and seems to be the first, or even only place where Magneto's Sinti background is mentioned. This issue is comprised of two short stories about Magneto's background written by Chris Claremont in the 1980's, plus these three additional pages which contradict everything previously written on Magneto's backstory. Unlike the DC universe, Marvel's mainline books are all in the same continuity since the beginning of Marvel Comics in the 60's. Every writer must follow what is established by the ones before. Of course, retcons will happen from time to time, but that's the idea in general. These three pages represent an almost whole-cloth retcon of everything written about Magneto's backstory to this point. For almost 17 years ('75-91), Chris Claremont developed a well defined backstory for Magneto, some of which is included in the very volume that these three pages come from, and Nicieza ignores all of it.

(Content warning for a word that is often considered a slur against the Romani people, I am quoting directly from the text)

Let's examine some of Nicieza's claims:

Pg 1 - "The man who would become Magneto was born Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, to a gypsy family of Sinte desent"

Fact: Magneto is Jewish, which goes completely unmentioned here, and has never before been suggested to be Sinti. I don't know why this author decided to erase his Jewish background and make him Sinti, but nowhere does Nicieza say anything about Magneto's Jewishness, instead casting him solely as Sinti, born to a Sinti family. The illustration even shows him with two pierced ears, an open shirt and a scarf around his neck to drive home the stereotypical "Romani" look.

Also, many Romani people are religiously Catholic/christian.

Pg 2 - "After Danzig was annexed to Nazi Germany in 1939, the young man then named Erik -- along with thousands of other gypsies -- was shifted to a work camp in the city of Auschwitz. We all know what happened then. It is -- or should be -- indelibly branded on our collective consciousness. Genocide. Extermination. Not only of the Jewish race. But also of the Poles, the gypsies, the homosexuals, the intellectuals. Anyone the 'Master Race' felt was disposable... Lehnsherr lost his parents and sister during his imprisonment at Auschwitz."

Fact: Magneto's sister and parents were murdered outside of their town/village by the Nazi Death Squads called the Einsatzgruppen. Magneto was the only member of his family sent to Auschwitz, the rest were murdered and buried in a mass grave.

Additionally, while many groups suffered under the Nazi regime, the genocide of the Jews was specific, deliberate, and at a scale not experienced by the other groups mentioned. For more information, read up on The Final Solution. There was also never a specific attempt to murder all Poles, that's just a lazy attempt to universalize something that was not universally experienced. People can suffer in different ways and it's a disservice to their stories if you attempt to blend them all into one homogeneity.

Also, why use the term "work camp" instead of calling it what it was? It was a Nazi death camp, no need to say it nicely.

Pg 2 - "But he gained something in the liberation of the camp in 1945, as well. He gained hope in the form of a wife, a woman named Magda. In 1946, they took up residence in the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa... where Magda, gave birth to a daughter they named Anya."

Fact: Magda gave birth to Anya in a small village in the Polish Carpathians. Magneto, Magda and Anya lived in that village for some time, most likely 3-6 years, before moving to Vinnitsa.

Additionally, Magneto was around 15ish in 1945, while nothing disputes this claim directly, I'm not sure he was married at 15 years old.

Pg 2 - "But Lehnsherr had learned something else about himself in Auschwitz, something which was becoming more apparent and more frightening to him everyday -- he learned he was a mutant"

Fact: Magneto didn't discover his powers until he was in Vinnitsa. He didn't have a name for it or consider himself a mutant till much later.

Pg 2 - "When Anya was tragically killed in an arsonist's fire, Lehnsherr lashed out at the villagers who refused to help save her"

Fact: Magneto was prevented from saving his daughter by secret police who were trying to arrest him for an earlier altercation he'd had with someone. He did not "lash out" just because nobody would help, he lashed out because his daughter burned to death in front of him while he was actively being restrained and prevented from helping her.

Also, it's never mentioned that it's an arson attack that caused the fire. I don't know where Nicieza is getting this.

Pg 2 - "In his misery, in his loneliness, he went to Israel -- to save his own soul. He chose to work with survivors of the camps, and in turn, helped them regain theirs."

Fact: Magneto went to Israel because he was Jewish and he had nothing left after Magda left and his daughter died. He helped other concentration camp survivors because he knew what they had been through and could help them.

Also, why is this author having such a hard time calling a concentration camp a concentration camp?

For further information on his time in Israel, read Uncanny X-Men #161 by Chris Claremont.

Pg 3 - "Lehnsherr had taken to calling himself Magnus... as if by choosing his middle name, he could bring some semblance of balance and simplicity to his haunted life."

Fact: Magnus was the only name Magneto was ever given. There was never any suggestion that he was hiding his "real" name when going by Magnus and he is referred to solely by Magnus or Magneto throughout the books. I don't know why he suddenly needed a new name in the 90's but Magneto name was Magnus for more than a decade.

Pg 3 - "I can separate Magnus the man from Magneto the Mutant Crusader. And please note my choice of words, for I have valid reasons to label Magneto Crusader and not Dictator."

Fact: Crusader is such a loaded Christian term, it's very strange for an Israeli Jewish woman to use it about another Jewish person.

Final thoughts: I'm not against comics taking a character in a new direction or developing them in some new way. What I don't understand is why Nicieza decided to rewrite Magneto's backstory so that he would be Sinti instead of Jewish, so that the chronicle of events in his life would happen in a completely different way, and why he literally ignored all the pages that came before the three he wrote in the same issue!

If you like Magneto as Sinti, that's awesome! It has the potential to be a really cool backstory for a reboot of the character, but also remember for nearly 20 years, Magneto was Jewish and it's not wrong for that version of the character to exist without the Sinti addition. I'll also note that the current version of the Character, the Max Eisenhardt version, is also not Romani. It's one of those things that has been done and undone a few times, much like everything about the character since the Claremont era.

Also, this post should in no way be interpreted as me downplaying the suffering of the Romani people during the Holocaust. Their stories deserve to be told and characters ought to be created to respectfully tell that part of the story. What happened to the Romani people was tragic and should not be forgotten. It also deserves to be told in a more thorough and respectful way than just taking an existing character, changing one or two bits of info about him and saying that's good enough. Nowhere does this Sinti background have any meaning for Magneto, it seems more like a random fact someone added because they were bored of him being Jewish. Magneto's Jewishness has meaning for him as written by Chris Claremont, whereas Nicieza and other writers in the 90's makes no mention of the Sinti background having any influence on the character. It has no effect on his life and seems to be a change made for the sake of it. Both Sinti and Jewish characters deserve better than that.

To read more about how Magneto has been portrayed in comics read my Magneto Biographical Timeline covering the years 1963-1991.

#X-Men #Magneto #Erik Lehnsherr #Jewish #Sinti #Romani #CW: Slurs #Holocaust #Marvel #Comics #Magda and Anya #Race and Ethnicity #Magnus #Max Eisenhardt #Hack writers of the 90s #Hack Pack #xmen

[six-costume-refs]

Was the Aragon Tour/Current Broadway Cast the first to be made up solely of POC?

The original principal cast, yes, both first and (so far) the only. When including alts and replacements things get more complicated.

On Aragon Tour the alts were Kelly Denice Taylor (Black); Erin Ramirez and Cassie Silva (both Latina); and then Kelsee Kimmel, who is white. They also had Marilyn Caserta as an alternate (also Latina).

Aragon Tour also had two replacements, Natalie May Paris and Courtney Mack, from May 2023 until the end of the Tour, both of whom are also white.

With this run so far on Broadway, the alts have been Kristina Leopold (who is mixed-race with both Black and Asian heritage); Sierra Fermin (Filipina); Ayla Ciccone-Burton (Black); and Aubrey Matalon (Jewish). The universals are Cassie (again Latina/Mexican) and Wesley Carpenter (white).

I have a post here where I try to keep track of anything the queens say about how they personally identify.

#six the musical #race and ethnicity #six stats

[elle-thinks]

The Woman King - Combatting the Masculinization of Black Women

I was a little scared to watch The Woman King. I saw from the trailers that the movie contained a bunch of badass, Black women, but I wasn't clear on the plot. The ambiguity of the film's story made me worried for what exactly the movie was trying to accomplish in its portrayal of these women. It wasn't until I'd read up on the women who created the film that I became more excited about seeing the movie. Fortunately, Gina Prince-Blythewood, Maria Bello, and Dana Stevens flooded the movie with opportunities to view womanhood in various perspectives, defining Black femininity through an ironically historical and contemporary lens.

Set in nineteenth-century Africa, the film depicts the typical local life found in history textbooks. In a general sense, most communities were patriarchal and expected piety from women. Additionally, a woman's primary role surrounded her family or tribe as a daughter, mother, or wife, etc. However, during this time period, the Dahomey Kingdom had an additional status for women as warriors, who were revered even more than their male soldier counterparts. It is this culture that the film focuses on and embellishes.

In today's context of modern feminism, the film was evidently intended to primarily show female empowerment. I believe the writers did a wonderful job in showcasing this through story. But the layers of the film can be savored in its representation of African, Black women. This was due to great directing.

Overall, I don't think this film was especially good in that it took artistic liberties, fine-tuned dialogue, or had amazing camera work. Additionally, it was a story we've seen in other forms before, and in my opinion, it failed to add a unique twist on the tale. Despite this, the film was impactful (though I'm a bit biased as a target audience member). There are several scenes that are hard to forget due to their level of intimacy and relevance to modern Black women. For example, one moment that lingers in my mind is when a mentor braids a mentee's hair. For me, that was a perfect example of Black femininity. It showcased their sisterly bond and drew upon generations of braiding in the Afrikan diaspora. It also displayed fortitude, as it was a warrior's hairstyle in this culture. This aspect made me recall warriors of the Southern United States who wore map-like braids and risked their lives to help others. There was much to unpack in that scene. Regardless of the film's execution, I think it accomplished it's goal in terms of representation and positive messaging.

The Woman King was an especially interesting film because it purposefully blurred the lines between masculinity and femininity in an appeal to progressive ideology. Additionally, it centered on brown-skinned and darker skinned women, who have consistently been considered less feminine/desirable than their lighter counterparts due to a Eurocentric standard of beauty. Seeing Viola Davis's bulging muscles and contortion of her face into a war cry is not something traditionally viewed as beautiful, and it may have even fed into some stereotypes surrounding the abrasiveness of Black women. Even so, the feminist motif of the film highlights the fact that women have many facets. As any dynamic character, Viola Davis performs in moments of vulnerability and delves into feminine energy in more usual ways later on. Her beauty is then displayed in her multidimensional character rather than relying solely on either her masculine or feminine behaviors.

All in all, the film was a pleasant watch. I appreciated it more for its purpose than its quality.

Additional comments:

Personally, I could have done without the rushed, lightskin subplot. I get, that it was used to show another key definition of femininity (I hope so anyways). Manz was giving body though.

#woman #king #movie #film #commentary #Black #African #viola #davis #viola davis #race #race and ethnicity #masculinization #women #empowerment #feminism #beauty #standards #woman king #historical #true story

[cheesebongdynasty]

Israelis or Palestinians?

The Kotz family, and Israeli family recently killed by Hamas.

They deserved it though, because they were "white colonizers."

Note: I have never heard any actual Palestinians use the words "white" or "colonizer" to describe Israelis; that ses to be almost exclusively a Tumblr trend.

#kotz #kotz family #Israeli or Palestinian #israel #israel palestine conflict #israeli #jewish #jew #mizrahi jews #middle eastern #race and ethnicity #hamas #palestine #family #judaism #poc #white #imperialism #racism

[official-oshun]

a lot of people both in real life and in fandom spaces don’t seem to understand what transracial adoption is, let alone normal adoption, and how it absolutely is a family formation. It’s not a vague “found family” without labels, but instead it is a family akin to blood.

and please, if you would:

stop calling canon adoption in media “found family” 

stop assuming adoption can’t be done by ppl bio related to the adoptee

stop assuming family needs to look alike, in real life and in fiction

stop using the “they are adopted” to explain why your ships is “normal”

stop assuming people who look “different” that are participating in culture festivals aren’t related to the cultural. ex: that black person you see participating in the krakowiak could be mixed or transracially adopted by a polish couple and connected to polish traditions. it’s not cultural appropriation if it is your culture.

#culture #race #race and ethnicity #adoptive family #adoption #adoptee #adoptable #cultural appreciation #parenting #I am black #fandom #gonna tag some fandoms to gain traction bc u guys need to see this some of u #marvel mcu #chainsaw man #persona 5 #star wars #rottmnt #shameless #trigun #bnha #honkai star rail #honkai impact #ok i think ive tagged all relavent fandoms idk

[luminaaria]

to clarify i'm not one of those transracial people or whatever even tho i do have like my own personal issues with my identity regarding race ethnicity nationality whatever

but i love and adore asian cultures, not even in a fetish way in the most geniune and pure way you can imagine ok i love the languages i love the food i love the media and goodness me do i love the people 😇😇 (south asia is my current hyperfixation)

this also goes with my fascination with religions (islam especially) idk but because of my extensive knowledge about the basics and more i've been asked if i'm a muslim 😲

until further notice i am agnostic [i don't know whether or not to believe in a god] but i was raised christian and i am culturally christian too.. but i don't personally associate myself with a certain religion but i love how it can positively impact people's lives and just in general how it impacts cultures and interpretations and just ugh philosophy ...

to summarise:

my parents are 1st generation immigrants from west africa who came to england and now i exist which is why i'm british but i'm also black

i don't speak any other languages, but i've learnt japanese for 3 years, and i'm progressing slowly, yet i have a good amount of core knowlege (omds i love languages and linguistics)

i'm a gcse french student so i do know a chunk but i still don't know how to conjugate for the life of me but my french accent kicks ass

i know a couple of arabic words (kos omak) and i would like to learn it in the future

i'm looking at learning hindi potentially idk 😲

oh and i also know west african pidgin (which also means i know creole too) but i'm super embarrassed to speak it

all of my languages are self-taught with the aid of language learning apps but one day i hope to get a japanese teacher since i can find a french teacher within my parents' community (rare colonisaton w)

EDIT: OH MY GOSH I FORGOT TO MENTION ARABS BROO when i see an arab its on site bro my eyes are not blinking once omds i love their furniture and their girls and guys when they aren't sexist n racist (maskedarab ur bbg but cmon now)

enta mozza

#black british #race and ethnicity #british #religion #ethics #linguistics #hyper fixated #language #asia

[missstarr]

Nia & Rebecca Designs so far (The flags show their ethnicity)

#ttte #thomas and friends #ttte humanized #ttte au #ttte nia #ttte rebecca #race and ethnicity