Jfc if I have to hear one more fucking person say "youre gonna alienate the white working class" Im gonna scream
That takes me back to when I used to compete in athletics. Mediocre white men always challenged me because I'm short and they thought it would be an easy victory.
This also shows that an average man cannot beat a trained female athlete like they think they can. Those "biological advantages" only work if you're a trained athlete too, otherwise the trained woman will always win.
I could absolutely take a wild bear 1v1, name literally ANY board game and I would fucking smoke that bear
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
My kingdom for crackers to stop playing like joking about feds in your house is funny. For some crackers, it's a saturday night live routine; for us, that shit is a hashtagging of us, our lovers, our families, and maybe even our cats and dogs if the peckerwood pig on the other end of the magnum's feeling peckish. God fucking damn.
white (passing) liberals who think euphemistic racism isn't racism are fucking exhausting. we were driving my wife's friend home and were talking about a neighborhood in my city and how rents were going up. so I said, well, yeah, it's gentrifying. her friend started saying not really and my wife agreed, saying something about "urban youth" - apparently she meant the perceptions of bougie white people and was using the phrase tongue in cheek but it didn't land that way to me and her friend took it as an invitation to increase the level of racism. after a bit, I pretended to have spaced out for a bit and asked them to clarify who they were talking about - you know, inviting them to drop the euphemisms and walk it back a bit - but her friend just immediately jumped in with "problem people" so I just checked out for the rest of the drive, until I could properly chide my wife for the racist bullshit.
when I did, she gave the above clarification but dove straight into the lib racism of paternalistic stereotypes (it's not their fault, they're just traumatized so they do drugs and abuse their kids - bitch, all parents abuse their kids! you're trans, you know that!) so I called her out about that too. told her to eat the racist brainworms.
anyway, that's it. just venting. she wants me to be friends with her friend but I just don't think we're going to connect - I'm going to start a fight over bullshit like this sooner rather than later. I can't keep my mouth shut unless I'm already exhausted.
Does anyone here feel like a banana or coconut? (Asian on the outside, white inside)
Cuz I do... Idk how to deal with this...
Well, because I don't feel much attachment to my nation of origin, the Philippines, with its culture, and language,
I guess that's in part due to the fact I was raised as a child of some skilled expats who worked in Dubai, in a more or less globalized environment...
I used to, when I was a lot younger. It took a close homie of mine chipping away at the neurotic almost-phobia that my mother gave me of my own culture, and then a run-in with the cops a few years after the homie that absolutely informed me as to what I am when the pig's radioing home, for me to really start busting those walls down and feeling out who I am and what my place is.
Hmm, if I can ask, what nation-state do you trace your ancestry and your revived culture from...?
Wish I knew. The trail for my genealogy disappears after like 1890, but I was given to understand that my family escaped slavery before the Proclamation was written. I can only really call myself Black, rather than have a direct nation to trace back to. (Cause motherfuck me if you thought I was gonna claim Amerika!)
I have never heard of an apple before. Is this an American nickname? I do sometimes feel myself growing distant from Taiwan as I continue to live in Latin America and integrate more to the culture. There are times when I find myself thinking in Spanish before Chinese and it is a little concerning sometimes.
Are you American? Or do you still live in Dubai? I have heard America can be hard for people from other cultures because you are forced to assimilate.
First of all, I'm not American... second, I don't live in Dubai anymore (I stayed there until I was 14 years old) , just around North America....
Third, I've been mostly living in an international setting, so I don't live near, or interact much with white people, let alone Gulf Arabs in UAE...
Fourth, what is an Apple?...
I use the term banana and coconut, to refer to East-Asians (Eg. Chinese) and South-Asians (Eg. Indians), whose main commonality is that they've internalized heavily a bit of western-thinking, if not culture...
My mistake. I assumed you were American because I have heard similar things from Asians who immigrated there.
I misread and thought you said apple. Maybe I am more tired than I think. These names are unfamiliar to me but I guess I feel like a banana sometimes. I am fortunate that there is a Chinese population everywhere but it is not quite the same with most I meet coming from Hong Kong or Shanghai.
I have a very similar background to you.
I don’t have solutions per se but I realised later on that my lack of interest in my own origin and culture stems from mainly personal trauma and scarce engagement with people from my country.
Like you, since being taught abroad, it meant that there was no singular nation or country to identify with and I assume, as typical for international kids in the Arabian Peninsula, you’d grow up either in a “international” private school and your high school would end in either IAL or IB.
This means a severe disconnection and ignorance of your own history and culture. You’d be taught a Eurocentric and often “globalized” (neoliberal) image of both yourself and society at large. I myself was bombarded with notions of “global citizenship” (which was an actual subject you could study).
A step towards appreciating and recognising my own identity was reading the history of my own country. Understanding what my ancestors been through, understanding the dynamics in which have shaped people before me, and understanding how it affected my self-perception and how I ended up where I am (in this case, West Asia).
It is not easy. But fortunately for both you and I, we have our work cut out short by being from countries colonized by Anglophones. There is an extensive corpus of books written in English that you are able to engage with dealing with your own culture and country.
I myself struggle to learn a language - and I envy those who can pick up multiple relatively easily - so I say this as no easy step, but learning your native tongue and it’s nuances and specifities will undoubtedly boost your own “cultural self-confidence” but also allow you to engage with the masses of people where you are from.
I’ll have to say though that I was able to return to my home country for a few years, and that also helped slowly chipped the alienation I had felt prior.
Being fn but looking white does drive me a bit nuts. Being raised outside of rez and then moving back in makes it especially difficult. It's like the worst imposter syndrome possible.
I feel that way whenever I'm with people of my ethnicity but instantly feel the opposite whenever I spend too much time around white people. tbh I really only feel at home around leftists but even then their culinary choices are... concerning... who the fuck eats unspiced boiled peas with literally nothing else in the bowl??
who the fuck eats unspiced boiled peas with literally nothing else in the bowl??
Imma take a guess you're prbly used to chana masala or something... (don't worry, I'm not dissing your tastes)
Carlos Mencia is a huge hack. Watched one of his standup routines and he spends the first 15 minutes whining about how you can't say black jokes anymore. This was in 2008.
Tbh, there's a lot of reaction in Latino/a communities. I know for sure.
There is, especially in the US. I remember most US latinos being even more conservative than the ones in Latin America.
Also Joe Rogan cancelling Mencia was one of the few good things he did.
Yeah, I won't say it's everyone one of us, and there's a lot of radicalism, but certainly, you get really conservative communities.
I remember most US latinos being even more conservative than the ones in Latin America
Brazilians who live in Florida are a particularly special type of person
Oh, you made me remember of Bolsanaro... he's prbly currently shitting himself to death as we speak...
White Boy Summer has been cancelled until further notice, all dissidents will be put to the torch and flogged
the cancellation is implicit. Much like "Jumbo shrimp" or "American freedom"
also (unrelated) every POC should learn about the different provinces of China and India. And African countries too if you don't know anything about those (but I assume some people know at least a little since they're official countries, which puts them on people's radar)
I'm not opposed to learning about india, but it doesn't feel super relevant to my life.
Will cities do fine.... pls, I know Shanghai, Beijing, Hubei, Harbin... in China
And there's uh Hyperabad, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Mumbai, in India
Pls no kil...
Must learn province. It is law. Then you will learn the famous dish from each. Then you can small talk with us.
Gansu province is known for the sheep and cow dishes which have a lot of Hui Muslim influence. Most famous is pulled noodles 兰州拉面.
I only know three US state names and I will not learn more.
Fine I will have to name, uh apparently there's 22 provinces in China...
Let's go...
Guangdong, Hubei, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Heilongjiang,
uh
Fuijan, Taiwan, Hainan Island, Sichuan,
That's all...
I've had this interesting journey of going through visible changes that changed people's perception of my ethnicity, and it's happened more than once. I wonder if anyone else had had something similar.
I'm of mixed Asian and African ancestry, and up until I was 5 years old or so, I looked distinctively Asian. People would call me a Chinese kid. As I got older my facial features changed, and my skin color became darker. I then became known as the local black kid among a sea of
. When I transitioned in my 20s and went on estrogen there were major visual changes again. My skin color also became lighter due to the skin thinning on estrogen. This made me visibly go from looking like a black dude to a Latina woman. Nowadays I often get people asking me if I'm from Brazil or Argentina or something.Looks like your gender wasn't the only one transitioning...
From
a Chinese kid
the local black kid among a sea of
from looking like a black dude to a Latina woman
I think by the end of this, someone will ask if you're Filipina...
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So you're saying this isn't even my final form?
Oh fuck, I better brace myself.
This seems to be a very common feature of mixed race kids. A lot of my friends are mixed Asian/white kids. If they look Asian when they were teenagers, then by the time they reach mid-20s/early-30s they would look white. And the reverse is true as well. I don’t understand the biology behind it but it’s something I have observed a lot.
Melina got banned huh. Anyways. Getting fucking cold. Christmas weather was pretty mild but now its getting deep below zero again
Seriously? Permanently? (About the ban)
That being said, the Winter finally should meet up with my expectations...
My PoCness is now severely in question, the Japanese Foreign Ministry has finally revoked my citizenship!
Idk, I guess only whiteness remains (tbh I'm probably excluded from any nationalist project because I'm neither white passing or Japanese passing) (I still have Australian and British citizenships tho)
Egh I mean if you're not white, you can be POC by default, right?
my car broke down so i haven't been able to make it to the latino market across town and i'm really craving majoncho and frijoles de seda smh
i got an old bike that i'm gonna try to fix up. like, i'm pretty lucky that there's a salvi restaurant and a bunch of taco stands around, but sometimes you just want a home cooked meal traditional style. i found ducal beans at a market down the street, so that's a win for sure. i can get regular platanos at the market too, but i had majoncho at my mom's a couple of weeks back and i can't stop thinking about it.
First of all, good on you with the bike...
On the other hand, idk why you're talking food and bananas in a different Esp. dialect or two
its a long story, but that's just how i talk. i have cultural influences from el salvador, texas/mexico, brasil/uruguay, and mar de plata just because of how i grew up. i have a tendency to speak spanglish and portunhol. last place i lived, folks would get super pissed when i would do that lol.
i have cultural influences from el salvador, texas/mexico, brasil/uruguay, and mar de plata just because of how i grew up. i have a tendency to speak spanglish and portunhol.
Imma take a guess and say that you'd had a van-life, during your childhood...
ish I moved a lot and had very diverse neighbors. Like I said, long story ^^
