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Jul 7, 2021 10:20 PM
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WhoaaBlackBetty
Racism goes both ways
drunkhistorian
Funny. People don't be knowing shit about race but stay making grand proclamations. Been studying this shit for years and I'm still confused
dogfavoriter
Not everyone who is Hispanic is non-white... That is why all those stupid demographic questions make the distinction.
EchoOfSnac
I've heard Argentina also has a white majority population.
along101802365
Anyone can speak Spanish, some of us just don't know what we are saying
cubanito0
Clearly they don't know any Argentinians.....
mity0k23
Eso es racista
ScienceIsNotALiberalConspiracy
No references to that cult classic movie "Blood in, Blood out" yet?
sjmanzur
Clearly hes never been to Argentina
zippyuk2001
Si
AFistfulOfDollHairs
Gatekeeping is wrong… unless you’re Sigourney Weaver.
misterCT
There is no Dana
AFistfulOfDollHairs
ONLY ZUUL.
prepbatman
Do you know how many blonde hair blue eyed Mexicans I know? Or red head / freckled cubans?
6313326
Louis C.K. is a Mexican citizen (or at least still was in 2009)
prepbatman
Reading up on the wiki, his parents were of of Hungarian/Mexican and American/Irish descent. But yeah, we are all beautiful muts :-)
Melanonymous
I am a native spanish speaker from latin america. I am whiter than a sheet of paper
BobaFettApproves
Estoy poopin!!
teapartyyy
My bf is from Puerto Rico, I’m a readhead from Sweden. He’s more pale than me
EchoOfSnac
My Spanish teacher was Mexican and looked like elderly Charles Darwin.
Canofminus
My French teacher also taught Spanish b/c she immigrated from Cuba as a child. Natural blonde.
marchingFishes
My Puerto Rican boss is so white his Native American ex used to call him honkey as a term of endearment
Kabe59
I am convinced my best friend, a fellow mexican, is the inspiration for the "the beacons are lit" cartoon
bloxxing
try to get out in the sun more.
kevinallover
Argentina and Chile don't count pshhh
venomlash
To be fair, what Argentineans speak is barely Spanish...
TheHolyFatman
My mom was from Puerto Rico, light skinned. I'm her very white mixed daughter.
NoobsStfu
https://youtu.be/hmNOe94Kz3Q?t=153 - el habla sobre los cubanos, pero es cierto en muchos partes chico
Neorago
Same here. Pretty much everybody on both sides of my family are white. Latin America is so mixed that anybody that assumes we're all dark-
Neorago
-is both pretty racist and probably quite a big ignorant.
Mashknight
Uff total.
umbrellamaker
I literally had a Mean Girls style "why are you white?" moment on a school bus in Jr high
Marukina
Oh my god! You can’t just ask people why they’re white!!
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EdwardLongshanks
Neither of them can use proper punctuation.
IEBFil
Gracias sjw. Ahora no tengo que hablar con la familia de mi esposa.
dmwswgu
No manches, yo también
SubiBryant
?
semperfi891
As long as you're trying, and not being a douche nozzle about someone else's language, go for it. Might not be the target of this post tho
ApplesdaKitty
hasta la bye-bye
thisiscatman
Alright, that counts me out. Have fun everyone else.
Perkunas687
I have to say, Spanish is one of the languages I love listening to the most. But I forgot all my grade school Spanish. :(
derpderpderp182
To my native Spanish speaking amigos at restaurants… is it offensive, lame, stupid, fine, or etc to say hola, adios, como esta, etc? I’m …
derpderpderp182
Very white but I like the Spanish language… but nowadays I just feel like an idiot.
ApplesdaKitty
any language that you get to roll your rrrrrrrrrrrrr is legit.
confanity
The target of this post is likely racists who are all too willing to fixate on a strawman instead of paying attention to real issues.
Valavuo
I find it cool how you assume not only intentions of someone who said 8 words but also make moral and political assumptions of people 1/2
Valavuo
2/2 that nobody can see or know based on those 8 words.
confanity
Maybe some day, probably after you've graduated from junior high, you'll start to notice some patterns out there in the world. :p
confanity
One of those patterns is bad-faith actors using posts like this as strawmen and spreading them widely to create false perceptions.
Valavuo
Patterns of the world say nothing of individuals. Only of masses.
sirmixanaverageamount
Wait, so can only English people speak English?
SandmanSlim89
No because other cultures speaking English is a power move against the globalist oppressors /s
EleLaWhite
There are some that have never left their block, let alone their neighborhood…
LincLoud
So now it's cultural appropriation to speak another language? How are you supposed to understand other cultures or grow as a person or ->
LincLoud
Watch episodes of Spanish soap operas?
goodisunpopular
For real though, I've met people who actually think Spaniards are "brown" not "white" because of the Moorish ancestry.
AdobewanKenobe
Latino is not a race...
Toxicempanada
Think Chile & Argentina would have a problem with this
DapperDeal
Argentina as well.
Pokegeologist
I'm mixed race. I got this shit a lot in college.
Gothish
Imagine gatekeeping the second most spoken language in the world...
Gothish
Wait maybe not second but top 5
HamSlamwich
Hello allow me to introduce you to my friend, Southern California. Spanish class was after math and before science, grades K-6.
nonCanadianGoose
Texans and Californians will often speak neither language with an accent
SerenePrincess013
In a lot of ways, I love that my first language was French-based. But in others, I really wish I had learned Spanish, too, bc>>
SerenePrincess013
No one in the US speaks French, outside Louisiana. & Canada is the nearest place where sorta-French is spoken, but it's a different dialect.
HamSlamwich
Spanish is pretty easy to learn. Trust me, I speak 1.4 languages.
SerenePrincess013
I'm trying to re-learn French, & springboard that into Spanish, & maybe Italian. We'll see about adding something Nordic in there.
TheSaddestSeaHorse
I was born in LA and the lady who ran daycare there loved to teach me Spanish because none of the other kid's parents wanted their kids to--
TheSaddestSeaHorse
--learn Spanish. At the age of 3 I spoke more Spanish than I did English and half the time my parents could not understand me. They of--
TheSaddestSeaHorse
--course found it hilarious. But the real question is...Does that make Spanish my first language since I learned it at birth like English??
HamSlamwich
No I think your first language is the one you're around as an infant. It's impressed upon you well before you actually start speaking it.
TheSaddestSeaHorse
But I was an infant when I went into daycare. My mom didn't really do Maternity leave.
RevTang
Lol this person would take so much offense to some white guy saying south Americans can't speak English, and wouldn't see the irony. 1/2
VolcanoHerder
A lot of South Americans can't even speak Spanish tbh. I agree, it's all relative.
RevTang
We are all humans we can speak any language with enough time 2/2
Dragonfury5
I tried like hell to learn Spanish when I was twelve, it just did not stick lol. I think maybe my head is too full of other stuff
ropetopus
Exactly. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Ttorr
Maybe not that language.
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
Yog's Sausage
Felderburg
Actually, some sounds you can't learn if you don't hear them when you're young enough (link in reply)
Felderburg
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11007/ and http://roundedminds.com/di">7/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11007/ and http://roundedminds.com/did-you-know-humans-dont-learn-new-sounds-after-the-age-of-7/
Menzobarrenza
I'm pretty sure I've been learning new sounds here in my early twenties. Russian and Arabic have some unique sounds.
Felderburg
It's possible, but I recall watching a video in a college class that had people speaking a language that has some sounds that supposedly 1/
ProbablyHolly
Anyone who wines about cultural appropriation is a racist. Can't tell someone not to do something because of their race.
spookyactionatadistance
Wellll. I'm not sure wearing a native headdress would be super appropriate for me
degenerateloser
I don't know why you'd want to, but if you're not doing anything with it in a negative context, I don't know if there's a big issue there(?)
spookyactionatadistance
I'm a white Canadian. I feel it would be very insulting to a minority my ancestors, my government and peers have denigrated, murdered,
spookyactionatadistance
2) abused, raped, dehumanized, stole from and generally treated them like shit for centuries and all the way up to now.
degenerateloser
fair enough. My family is primarily Native American, though we're not very culturally indulged.
IhaveAgunNotHereButIhaveOne
A European fashion designer making money off of the native designs of indigenous Mexicans without giving them credit or any portions, for (1
IhaveAgunNotHereButIhaveOne
example, is absolutely cultural appropriation and despicable. As a Mexican myself, a white person wearing a sombrero, is not cultural (2)
IhaveAgunNotHereButIhaveOne
appropriation. However, to say it doesn't exist is disregarding how people, often the wealthy, use the intellectual property of a culture (3
Valavuo
There is literally no such thing as intellectual property of a culture. Culture cant own anything lmao.
IhaveAgunNotHereButIhaveOne
to make money for themselves while completely disregarding and often abusing those people. This reality is merely watered down, however, (4)
IhaveAgunNotHereButIhaveOne
by accusations of racism and appropriation towards people wearing Halloween costumes or genuinely appreciating other cultures. (5)
thegringointhenorth
Cultures do not have intellectual property in the way that individuals do.
IhaveAgunNotHereButIhaveOne
Not legally, but ethically - yes, they do.
ropetopus
Most*; appropriation is a thing, but it's when a group oppress a cultural feature for its natives but practice it themselves 1/…
ropetopus
Participation is not appropriation. 2/2
doobiedoobop
Yeah i'm not wearing blackface.
doobiedoobop
I'm also not going to dog whistle people into feeling inferior about their ethnicity and then wear symbols of that ethnicity for funsies.
Justalobstercowboy
Or whines
glenngriffon
the CA people dont really care that cultures evolve and grow by mixing and blending and adapting others to themselves. They're horrible /
spookyactionatadistance
That is not what cultural appropriation means. Nobody is mad at Banh Mi because it is asian meats in a french baguette. Cultural
spookyactionatadistance
2) appripriation is a white guy getting a polynisian tattoo to look cool cuz The Rock got one. It doesn't add to the culture. It dilutes it
glenngriffon
because they dont want preservation of culture they want stagnation of culture. They want everything in individual boxes and never /
glenngriffon
shall any two touch.
AlexisActually
Yeah that's.. not what cultural appropriation is. Cultural appropriation is taking without understanding or respecting the origin.
AlexisActually
IE going to a tribal dance display is fine, taking those dances because they look "Indian" without context and using them in a movie is shit
mksu
This tells me you learned everything you "know" about cultural appropriation from reactionaries rather than anyone serious.
QuickGoogleSearch
Using other's culture without proper attribution and respect is the issue. Ex: Using day of the dead symbols for Halloween funzies = rude.
mksu
What a brilliant and nuanced take. It's a very high quality opinion that meaningfully adds to discourse on the subject.
mksu
Oh and it shows you really know what you're talking about and definitely aren't talking out of your ass based on a knee jerk reaction.
VinchVolt
The way I understand it, it’s the difference between the main body of The Nightmare Before Christmas and its ending.
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ProbablyHolly
At no point did I fucking say that. I'm taking about people who say you can't celebrate Chinese new year unless you are Chinese
ProbablyHolly
Because they believe that we can't mix cultures which is racist.
SavagePatchKids
Cultural appreciation exists,but not with learning another language. It's like when the nazis stole a Buddhist symbol and ruined its meaning
LurkerOfDarkness
They didn't take it from the buddhists though. It was from the old germannic pagan religion, still tainted it though.
Lewynsa
Did you mean appropriation?
SavagePatchKids
Yes. I'm a dumb.
Lewynsa
Not dumb, they are similar. Still got your point across.
TimeLostHereIsGoneForever
I wouldn't even call that appropriation, this one still has its meaning, the west just doesn't want to let the nazi's die properly
PowwerOrb13
It's more like a refusal to forget. If we let them die and go forgotten then while we may have beaten one foe, another will rise in time.
shakedownblues
It's also hard to let them die when there are still Nazis around today.
GravyHavok
Man, what a good point. Thanks
ExoCyberBit
People should really start using the term cultural misappropriation, as opposed to implying that any cultural mixing is terrible.
Rhythmaster
Get outta here with your nuance and logic! We need black and white extremist thinking!! /s
mksu
People who think the backlash to these concepts is caused by less than perfect terminology and not reactionary propaganda are really dumb.
mksu
It literally doesn't matter what you call it. The propaganda machine of white supremacy will activate to make people hate it.
ExoCyberBit
I see 'leftists' finding cultural appropriation an issue more than white supremacists against race mixing.
ExoCyberBit
By using the term misappropriation, it encourages the user to actually think 'what's bad about this?'
mksu
Spoiler alert: A lot of self-identified "liberals" are white supremacists who think not actively hating gay people makes them special.
Hexrowe
Yo soy muy blanco y hablo español. Gracias, Duolingo.
Bariumcobalteinsteinkoolaid
Y yo tambo.
Ogri
Yo tambien! doscientos y siete dias sin descanso
PugDogMan
Legato grande en my pantelones.
Dusty0Hara
Estoy una gringa y hablo español.
ragincanadian
Grassy ass friendo.
kittykaroshi
Estoy poopin
thisiscatman
Top notch comment here folks, I mean, amigo gatos.
EmailFail
I...am...very...white, and I speak Spanish. Thanks, AngryBird. Wooooooo!!!
ScienceIsNotALiberalConspiracy
Tu comes manzanas? Yo bebo, tu bebes, el bebe. And those fucking verbal ones with "Ana" as the name which marks wrong for "Anna".
DemSumBigAssRidges
Sí. Mi amigo tiene una esposa Mexicana y dos niños y él es un muchacho blancisimo. My Spanish sucks, but I enjoy tryin to speak when I can.
shootyourgooCthulhu
Donde está la biblioteca.
SpunkyMcFunPants
Me llamo T-Bone. La araña discoteca.
BlairT1
¡De nalgas!
saintofchaoticgood
Mis pantalones es un fuego.
bocksamson
Si, yo también
InfOracle
Yo soy muy blanco y hablo español muy bien. Gracias mamá y papá y una educación superior en Latinoamerica?
UncageTheSage
Bueno. En esta vida, es imperativo que aprendamos los idiomas de nuestros hermanos del mundo, que acerquemos los corazones.
brassknucklenerd
Je suis blanc et je parle Français. Merci Canada.
theAught
Gracias Dishwashing
KawaNyx
Je suis Marron et je parle français
Meletique
Bueno! Mas idiomas. No hablo frances, pero unas palabras al mismo.
Isi151e
Meirda en mi pantalones es un bueno meircoles
kevinallover
Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca. Es en bigote grande, perro, manteca.
BigPPMothBF
No habla espanol, senor burro!
Z3r0fux0r
Yo hablo poquito español
NDobz
I read this perfectly thanks to that angry little bastard owl, thanks duo. Please don’t murder my family…
Biotom
Y yo soy asiática pero entiende más que hablando
Meletique
Si, yo tambien. Yo hablando con voz es muy mal.
Meletique
Soy blanca y vivo en Tejas. Necesito hablar español. La comida buena no esta en ingles.
UncageTheSage
"El Martillo Tejano!"
saintofchaoticgood
Is Tejas Texas?
Meletique
Yep
Cantstopdontstopwontstop
Only in recent history. Ouch.
NullNameAvailable
Took a bit to parse, but I think I understood this! You love in Texas, so you need Spanish. Last sentence threw me a bit, though (1/2)
Meletique
The good food isn't in English
NullNameAvailable
Live* in Texas; (continued actual comment) Last sentence is maybe something like "the food's better if you don't use English"? (2/2)
Meletique
Yeah close enough :)
NullNameAvailable
NullNameAvailable
Yay! Been a hot moment since I've done Duolingo or anything, and that last sentence was less word-for-word and more 'kinda the gist' lol
moinonplus
Can you say 'puedes hacerme un sandwich?'
binkylives
‘Hazme un sandwich’ seria mejor.
moinonplus
Desculpame, es una referencia https://youtu.be/fE2RZdYyL90
ProbablyNotCIA
Yo Tambien amigo.
remaog42
Armed owl behind you: "thats it, very nice. An now a nice smile."
Hexrowe
AAH! Sì, maestro! Mi padre es elegante!
texasredheadguy
¿Que?
Lostarchitorture
Dos cervezas, por favor. Gracias anuncio publicitario de Babbel.
bobloblawloblawbomb
tu osso bebe cerveza
TitillatingPterodactyl
No pero tengo ima tortuga. Un gato en los pantelones.
myr14d
Okay, was the Blue Streak reference intentional?
TitillatingPterodactyl
100% haha.
SquintsPaladorez
Tango el gato in me pantaloons
maskedrabbit
Tango un gato en mis pantelones
Isi151e
Yeah so I can give basic directions and curse like a sailor in Spanish
Jarjarthejedi
Yo hablo espanol muy mal. Gracias 'Arizona Education System'. :P
DeSupotsu
Joe Tom bein
pfunk81
Por que es su madre en mi pantalones?
cozynester
Donde esta los bibliotheca?
Sponger004
Yo tengo el gato en mis pantalones
filthymansock
La biblioteca, amorcito
badgerthewitness
La Sistema Educacional del Gran Estado de Arizona?
twocowgarage
Yo hablo solomente palabras males.
UnitConversionBotButTerrible
Mas tequila por favor
Uberdoomer
Yo tambien. Yo tambien.
IamGelatinSkelly
Mi gato es en gordo pantalones
GringoPieAsshole
Donde esta la biblioteca?
aSuspiciousPanda
https://youtu.be/j25tkxg5Vws
bighuntowski
CaptnMurica88
Omae wa no shindeiru
Snuggelapolous
El queso es verde
nikkinikorasu
That's Spanish for, "I don't bargain, pumpkin-fucker"
IAmACyberneticOrganismLivingTissueOverEndoskeleton
¿Donde esta la zapateria?
WanderSoul
QUE HORA ES?
UnitConversionBotButTerrible
Donde esta la bano
nutmegwolf
el*
MeepZerg
Sí, señor, yo soy el baño
Haidere1988
Donde es la grande senora?
IamGelatinSkelly
Korae wa manko daisuke
Rayj420
Bless you
FweejTheOverseer
Me llamo T-Bone la araña discoteca
TheSomethingSomethingGenericReplyGuy
some1username
My cat is in fat pants?
IamGelatinSkelly
Si!
elevengoldfish
I want to say this is a reference to a Martin Lawrence/Luke Wilson flick from early 2000s.... Blue Streak?
elevengoldfish
1999*