There's almost 0 state efforts to preserve the cultural identities of immigrants of any kind

When people celebrate "diversity" in the West, it's just eating shawarma, drinking boba, watching Anime, listening to kpop, and eating at an Ethiopian restaurant. Pure commodification and consumerism masquerading as celebration and promotion of foreign cultures

Or you'll have people fetishizing about spicy latinas, lightskins, and Asians like they're fucking Pokemon cards

  • mar_k [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    My mom says she didn't teach us her parents' language because some pediatrician told her it's too "complicated and overwhelming" for small kids to learn two languages at once, and with my brother having autism, he literally told her "you'd be confusing him especially"

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Goddamn that has to be some racism or inferiority complex from that pediatrician cause I'm pretty sure it's somewhat well known even amongst non-doctors that learning more than one language is really good for the development of childrens' brain