#ethnicity: german

[olderfcs]

bobby cannavale gif pack

CLICK THE SOURCE LINK BELOW and you will find #48 145x150px gifs of Bobby Cannavale as Sergio De Luca in Spy (2015). These were created from scratch by Sveja. Do what you want with these, just don't repost/claim as your own, don't use them to play Bobby or in any smut/smut-based blogs, and like/reblog if using. Bobby was about 43-44 during filming and is Cuban and white (German).

tw: blood, fighting, flashing lights, guns, injury, shaky camera, violence

#**Sveja #fc: bobby cannavale #age group: 40s #age: 1970 #gender: cis man #ethnicity: latinx #ethnicity: cuban #ethnicity: white #ethnicity: german #type: gif pack #made by sveja #blood tw #fighting tw #flashing lights tw #guns tw #injury tw #shaky camera tw #violence tw #*

[writingwithcolor]

Characters reconnecting with their ancestral cultures in an interplanetary setting

@pixiedustandpetrichor asked:

Hi! I am writing a novel with three main female characters in an interplanetary setting. They grow up as orphans in an Irish-coded country and as children are mostly exposed to solely that culture, but they leave after becoming adults. Character A is Tuareg-coded, B Mongolian-coded, and C is Germanic-coded. It isn’t central to the story, but I would like them to get in touch with/learn more about their ancestral cultures, especially in terms of religion. A does this by actually visiting the planet her parents came from, but B and C do not. What can I do to depict their relationships with said cultures and their journey to reconnect with them? Would it be realistic for each of them to have different mixed feelings about participating in these cultures and for them to retain some sense of belonging to the culture they grew up in as well? Thank you for your time.

Hello, asker! WWC doesn’t have Tuareg or Mongol mods at the moment, so we're not able to speak to the specifics of cultural and religious reconnection for these particular groups. Still, I want to take this opportunity to provide some general context and elements to consider when writing Tuareg-coded characters, or other characters from groups that have experienced colonization in the real world. My fellow mods will then share thoughts about cultural reconnection in general and with respect to Germanic heritage in particular.

Drawing inspiration from groups that have experienced colonization

As you’re probably aware, the Tuareg are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa. As with many indigenous groups, they have experienced colonization multiple times over the course of their history. Colonization often leads to the loss or erasure of certain aspects of culture as the colonized people are pressured to conform to the culture of the dominant group. In many cases, it’s near impossible to say what the ancestral culture of a colonized group was prior to colonization.

When coding a fictional culture based on a group that was colonized in the real world, it's important to ask questions about:

Which aspects of culture you're portraying

Where these aspects come from

Whether you're ready to tackle their implications for the world you're building

It’s not necessarily wrong to use elements of coding that draw from cultural aspects influenced by colonization. As I said, it can be very difficult, even impossible, to portray a “pure” culture as it would have been had colonization not occurred–because we simply can’t know what that alternate history would look like, and because so much has been lost or intentionally suppressed that the gaps in our knowledge are too wide to breach. But it’s important to be aware of where these cultural elements are coming from.

Where is your coding coming from and what are the implications?

For example, while the Tuareg today are majoritarily Muslim, this was not the case prior to the Arab conquest of North Africa. Some elements of Tuareg culture today, such as tea ceremonies, are derived from the influence of Arab and Muslim culture and likely did not exist prior to the 20th century. As you’re developing the culture of the Tuareg-coded group in your fictional setting, you have to decide whether to include these elements. There is no right answer–it will depend on what you’re trying to do and why.

Is your setting in our far future, in which case we can assume your Tuareg-coded group is distantly related to today’s Tuareg?

In that case, they will probably have kept many cultural aspects their ancestors acquired through their interactions with other cultures around them–including cultural groups that colonized them. They may–let’s build hopeful worlds!–have reclaimed aspects of their ancestral culture they’d been forced to abandon due to colonization. They may also have acquired new aspects of culture over time. This can be very fun to explore if you have the time and space to do so.

I would recommend speaking with Tuareg people to get a better grasp of how they see their culture evolving over the next however many centuries or millennia, what they wish to see and what seems realistic to them.

Alternatively, maybe your setting is a secondary world unrelated to ours and you only want to draw inspiration from the real-world Tuareg, not represent them exactly. In that case, you need to decide which period of history you’re drawing from, as Tuareg culture is different today from what it was 50 years ago, and different still from 200 years ago or 1000 years ago. You’ll need to research the historical period you’re choosing in order to figure out what was happening at that time and what the cultural influences were. If it’s pre-colonial, you’ll probably want to avoid including cultural elements influenced by colonization from groups that arrived later on.

Finally, if the time period you’re drawing from is post-colonial:

Are you planning to account for the effects of colonization on Tuareg culture?

Will you have an in-world equivalent for the colonization that occurred in real life?

For example, will the Tuareg-coded characters in your world be from a nomadic culture that was forced to become sedentary over the years and lost much of their traditions due to colonial pressure to conform?

Where did this pressure come from in your world–is it different from what happened in ours? If so, how different? And what are the consequences?

Writing about colonization can be quite the baggage to bring into a fictional setting. I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it will certainly require sensitivity and care in portraying it.

In summary: think it through

I’m not saying all this to discourage you, but to point out some of the considerations at play when drawing inspiration from a real-life culture that has experienced colonization. Similar challenges arise for coding based on any other indigenous group in the world.

My advice to you, then, is to first sit down and decide where and when in history your coding is coming from, and what you’re trying to achieve with it. This will help you figure out:

which elements of contemporary Tuareg culture are pertinent to include

How much your coding will be influenced by the Tuareg’s real-life history

To what extent that will inform the rest of the world you’re creating

This, in turn, may help in deciding how to portray your character’s reconnection journey.

Again, I am not Tuareg and this is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list of considerations for writing Tuareg-coded characters, only a few places to start.

If any Tuareg or Amazigh readers would like to chime in with suggestions of their own, please do. As always, please make sure your comments adhere to the WWC code of conduct.

- Niki

Pulling from diaspora and TRA narratives of cultural reconnection

Marika here: This ask plotline could also pull directly from diaspora and TRA narratives of cultural reconnection. Many diaspora and TRA cultural reconnection stories are, in effect, about navigating the difficult process of resuscitating, or renewing ties to culture using limited resources in environments that often lack necessary cultural infrastructure or scaffolding.

See this question here to the Japanese team for suggestions of how to handle such a storyline in a similar sci-fi setting.

More reading: Japanese-coded girl from future

-Marika

Reconnecting with German heritage

Hi, it’s Shira. I’m not sure whether German-Jewish counts as Germanic for the purposes of your post but since German Jews were more assimilated than other Ashkies, Germanness does feel real and relevant to my life (especially because my father worked there for approximately the last decade of his life.) NOTE: when I see “Germanic” vs German I think of cultures from 1500 years ago, not 100-200 years ago, so I can’t help you there, but I’d be surprised as a reader if a character focused on that for reconnection to the exclusion of the 19th century etc.

People in the United States specifically, reconnecting with German heritage, often lean into Bayerischer/Bavarian kitsch, I’ve noticed. Personally, though, what I find most relevant is:

1. The food (although I’ve come to learn that what I grew up eating was closer to veal/chicken scallopini than actual schnitzel because it was drenched in lemon, but I do like the other foods like the potato salad and sweet and sour red cabbage etc.) Your character could try making one of these “ancestral” foods as a way to reconnect?

2. The classical music, because I’m a second generation professional musician – if character C plays an instrument, leaning into that might be meaningful (Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and her husband Robert, etc.)

3. The nature, especially specifics that I enjoyed during my time there – personally, I loved the bright pink flowers all over the chestnut trees, but there are a lot of choices especially because of the Alps. If C is an artist maybe they can sketch something Germany-related from old photographs they found on the Space Internet?

I think it is VERY realistic for the characters to remain connected to the culture in which they were raised, by the way, whether or not they have positive feelings about it. Culture isn’t an inherited trait. Sure, if they want to completely walk away, they can, but I bet there are still ways it will creep back in without them realizing it simply because it’s really hard to have universal knowledge of the origins of all our quirks. Plus, not everyone feels alienated from their raised-culture just because they’re genetically something else.

P.S. There is also Oktoberfest, which I don’t really get into but is a thing, and beer, which is another point of German cultural pride.

German gentiles, weigh in – y’all have your own stuff, I know! OH YEAH so for German Christians, Christmas “markets” are a whole thing. That’s worth looking up. 

–S

What do you mean by Germanic?

Hello it’s Sci! I had to study German history for my historical fantasy novel set in the late 18th century Holy Roman Empire. I am not sure what is meant by Germanic as that can encompass a variety of things.

Germanic people: from the Classical Period of Roman Empire and early Middle Ages. Similar to Mod Shira, I unfortunately can’t help very much here.

The Germanosphere: regions that spoke German, which includes modern day Germany, Austria/Hungary, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Belgium, and Luxembourg. I generally define this as the regions captured in the Hapsburg Empire along with Switzerland usually encompassing “Central Europe.”

Modern German national identity (i.e. German): post Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (> 1815) only including the territory of modern day Germany.*

I ask this because modern German national identity is surprisingly recent since Germany only popped up in 1871 under Otto von Bismarck. Previously, Germany was divided into smaller states and city states as a very decentralized region under the German Confederation and before that, the Holy Roman Empire. Depending on the era, you can see different conflicts and divides. During the early days of the Protestant Reformation started by Martin Luther, the northern and southern German territories generally split along Protestant-Catholic lines. The 18th century saw Austria and Prussia as the foci of global power who warred against each other even though both were part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Other states and city-states like Baden-Wurttemberg or Saxony sometimes had power but it was typically more localized compared to Austria. Post-WW2, you saw the split of Germany into West Germany run under capitalism and East Germany run under communism as a satellite Soviet state leading to more modern cultural divides. Due to heavy decentralization historically, each region had its own character with religious and cultural divides. 

Assuming that the Germanic character is not from the classical period or early Middle Ages but not from the 19th century either, you can include your character reconnecting to classical folklore like that of Krampus (if they’re Christian), German literature and music like the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Mozart, or German philosophy like Immanuel Kant.

*A major wrinkle: German royals and nobility married into other states and nations frequently with Britain and Russia being notable examples. In Britain, the House of Hanover took over after the Stuart House died without clear direct heirs. When Queen Victoria married the German prince Albert, they celebrated Christmas with a tree and brought the German tradition of a Christmas tree to Britain and the British Empire. Only during World War I did the royal family’s house of Hanover name change from House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the more “English-sounding” Windsor. As a result, the German cultural influence may be even more widespread than we think.

However, without more specific descriptors of what Germanic means in the context of your story, it can be difficult to determine which aspects of German culture your character could reconnect to.

-Mod Sci

#culture #cultural disconnect #cultural reconnect #race coding #ethnic coding #German #Mongol #Tuareg #setting #science fiction #Jewish #Colonialism #History #North Africa #Arab #Muslim #history

[lanotteviene]

anyway it's funny in an interesting way how the internet turned Kafka into the sad boy with an existentialist + romantic flavour instead of the author of seminal works about alienation & the confusing, painful contrast between what society deems normal and what Isn't. how the rules that establish that divide aren't made clear, how to the marginalized they seem ever-changing, impossible to grasp, surreal to the point of despair.

if you've ever felt overwhelmed by the absurdity of a system that seems legitimately against you instead of for you, if you've had days or months or years where language or cultural barriers have made you feel wrong to your core, if you've dealt with so much stress or mental illness or abuse that you've struggled to recognize yourself in the mirror his work talks about your struggles and would probably speak to you

#this is a very resonant theme for queer and/or young people #and for good reason -- the latter group he was downright referring to in the metamorphosis (a work ostensibly about the clash between older #generations and the younger #wounded and lost #one he was part of). Kafka wasn't merely sad per se #he was a marginalized person - both ethnically/religiously and linguistically #as a German-speaking jewish man in Czechoslovakia #he was doubly alienated; #stuck in the ghetto and forbidden from interacting with the German minority in Prague while also not part of the cultural Czech majority #and that alienation followed him in his domestic life in the form of a wounding distance from his own parents and their generation #literature #franz kafka

[prussianmemes]

the glassy eyed 1000 yard western euro stare you get when you tell the people sitting in you and your visibly ill girlfriend's seats that they're in your reserved seats and they go "ach... ja but your reservation is not written here there is no r-"

excuse me you germano-frankish beady eyed cocksucker, we're on a čd train and my čd ticket shows us as having these seats, and your rootless ugly white and black deutschebahn fart app doesn't even have seat reservations because despite your national stereotype you have the same organization and respect for order a gypsy does.

don't give me your "mon dieu et iz not written here" - the train is chronically overcrowded because your third world national rail company can't book properly, you've been sitting for 3 hours from shitggart and have only been looking at your insta stories while pretending to study pierre von shittenlips. i have a visibly ill and weak passenger with me but beyond the former iron curtain, despite your supposed cosmopolitan love for all, you're like the rats in the paradise experiment who actually just viciously serve themselves first above all.

and the nerve to snicker and chat amongst yourselves once we get off... after very clearly sitting in our seats...: TOTAL WEST EURO CONTINENTAL DEATH.....

i believe now in celto-slavic racial superiority

#i fully understand edvard beneš now #i know why we killed 3000 of them with trucks in postoloprty #and it's a mindset not an ethnicity #the complete arrogant rootless cosmopolitan faggotry and proclaimed internationalism but being so rude and immediately self serving #i fully believe in a race war against everyone beyond the former iron curtain #ossies are fine because they have the eastern mentality and were protected #but seriously behead all le international cosmopolitan franco-germanic-spaniard expats going on tourism or living as le expats #complete shitbags #btw people always complain about anglos #but the anglosphere is so concerned with behaving polite i've never ever ever had a problem with them #they would have given up the seats #txt

[leroibobo]

al-jazzar mosque in acre, palestine. completed in 1781, it was named for the ottoman governor ahmad pasha al-jazzar - also known as "the butcher" for his defeat of napoleon bonaparte at the siege of acre in 1799.

#palestine #architecture #interior #worship #muslim #my posts #he was also the 'local ruler' mentioned in my post on the greek orthodox church of the annunciation in nazareth #also he was bosnian. balkanites in the middle east go way back #some me-an arab muslims may have bosnian/albanian surnames or surnames indicating a bosnian/albanian ancestor #it was an ottoman thing #which surnames stick is generally pretty disparate in ethnically mixed populations #white americans r the same. could have a german surname but the german ancestor came in the 1700s

[sarroora]

#free palestine #end zionism #palestinian genocide #ethnic cleansing #settler colonialism #save Gaza #Feed North Gaza #German Holocaust #Israeli Holocaust

[kidrunaway]

Hey I don't usually post serious stuff but I want to use my platform to speak up about the scandal happening in Germany right now.

If you're able to take your time to read this article then please do. Here's a short summary of what's going on however;

Correktiv a group of independent researchers and journalists went undercover into the right wing scene in Germany and they discovered something big. If you're German I'd definitely recommend reading this article. If you're able to translate it I'd also recommend reading it because this is insane.

On November 25th people from Correktiv went into a secret meeting from right wing people in Germany. Some of the people who were at the meeting, were people who are from the right wing party. One of them was even the right hand man of the leader of the party Alice Weidel. They had people who work finance, had lawyers, had doctors, had all types of people.

All of them were making sinister plans on how to get rid of non ethnically German people in Germany, no matter if you have German citizenship, no matter if you were born in Germany, if you are not ethnically German they want you out. That is their plan.

They talked about possible methods as well on how to get rid of us so that this goal could be accomplished. A lot of these people are millionaires, seriously influential people, that are coming together in a secret meeting to discuss how to get rid of every single immigrant and send them to Africa.

They Firstly want to start with everybody that lives in Germany but doesn't have a German citizenship yet, as they're quote on quote the easiest to get rid of. Then they want to get rid of those immigrants that were born and raised in Germany and also have a German citizenship, but happen to not be ethnically German. This is one of the secret meeting and it just leaves me wondering how many there are.

The right wing extremism has been on a rise in Germany once again. They're one of the most powerful parties right now. History repeats itself again.

The only thing I ask of you to do is spread the news and sign this petition.

#The german constitution is most likely not going to let this slide as you cant just deport people that have a german citizenship. #there used to be another political group called NPD and that got banned as well. #however i still want to make others aware of this and make sure we can do something to stop this. #please note that i live in germany and im not ethnically german whatsoever so id really appreciate some help #theres way too many people that are voting for the AFD and its scary.

[you-didnt]

Anyone else in Germany currently uuuuh. Kinda alarmed.

#started the new year with floods #one week later farmer protests that get hijacked by the right #same week some secret ethnic cleansing plans get leaked #in 4 days we could be seeing a fascist decline every 8 hours in 7 days were gonna witness a double event #german stuff #me watching historians who specialise on rise and spread of facism analyse this: hm. bad.

[femmesandhoney]

god some many of you have the dumbest takes on american culture and its obvious you have zero clue what you're actually talking about

#a person saying they're italian american or german american is a specific cultural thing in american no one is saying they think they #deserve italian citizenship or are nationally any of those things #also stop confusing nationality and ethnicity its embarrassing #like german american culture is a specific culture here its different than german culture but its roots are from german immigrants #no one is trying to claim theyre 100% german or whatever stfu #why do yall freak out so much about americans recognizing their roots are from immigrants of ur countries

[agentfascinateur]

London today.

#support for palestine #palestine #palestinians #gaza #genocide #childrens holocaust #humanitarian crisis #israeli apartheid #israeli occupation #right wing extremism #idf terrorists #iof terrorism #free palestine #free gaza #war crimes #justice #world central kitchen #flour massacre #ethnic cleansing #arms embargo #ceasefire #unsc #unrwa #al shifa hospital #torture #civilian deaths #us weapons #german weapons #protests #london

[the-light-of-stars]

From germany's biggest, publicly funded news channel, Tagesschau:

The mediator-country Quatar has confirmed the release of 13 israeli, ten thai and one philippine hostages as well as 39 palestinian convicts. Among the 13 released hostages are also multiple double-citizens. In exchange 39 palestinian "women and children" have been released from israeli prisons"

They really are dehumanising palestinians so much that they're putting quotation marks around 'women and children' now. Israeli women and children vs palestinian "women and children". That's barely even removed from differentiating between " israeli people and palestinian "people" ".

#german stuff #current events #free palestine #palestine #also if this had been meant as a quote then they would have quoted other bits too like the hostages ethnicities #even if it was a quote they should have thought about how this looks

[olderfcs]

carrie coon gif pack

CLICK THE SOURCE LINK BELOW and you will find #178 245x150px gifs of Carrie Coon as Nora Durst in The Leftovers Season 3 (first half)! These were created from scratch by Sveja. Do what you want with these, just don’t repost/claim as your own, don’t use them to play Carrie, and like/reblog if using.

Carrie was 36 during filming and is white (German, Slovakian, Hungarian, French, English). Please note that The Leftovers is a supernatural tv show along the lines of a post-apocalyptic timeline.

tw: alcohol, babies, body image, children, drinking, eating, flashing lights, food, hospital, hugging, injury (cast from a broken arm), nsfw, pda, police, shaky camera, smoking, water, waves

#fc: carrie coon #gender: cis woman #age: 1981 #age group: 30s #ethnicity: white #ethnicity: german #ethnicity: slovak #ethnicity: hungarian #ethnicity: french #ethnicity: english #type: gif pack #made by sveja

[freedomforpalestine]

This is German news.

In red marked

"In Jabalia, Israeli forces say 50 terrorists were killed. There are also civilian casualties."-FAZ.NET

WHY does the Western world focus on "terrorists" ?

How can anyone focus on terrorists in this unconscionable disaster that happened in Jabalia? An entire neighborhood was destroyed, everything and everyone turned into a speck of dust. Hundreds of innocent people, young or old, disabled or healthy are dead. The number of these innocent dead people should not be labeled as " there were dead civilians too"! There were ONLY dead civilians and the world is focused on possible killed terrorists?

The news in Germany are shameful, thats a scandal!

Why don't you report the numbers of dead Palestinians, the frightening number of injured people? Publish pictures.

Show the truth!

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza #palestine #genocide #stop the genocide #we are not numbers #israel is committing genocide #israel #fuck israel #israel is a terrorist state #ethnic cleansing #israel is an apartheid state #germany #German News #gaza strip #gaza under attack #israël #gaza genocide #gazaunderattack #save gaza #news on gaza #gazaunderfire #stand with gaza #pray for gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #israil

[thegreatyin]

on the subject of fallen london posting i feel like if you tried to ask the bandaged scoundrel for their Real Actual Legal Name they'd reply "mr cards" and refuse to specify or respond to any other term of address

#what was their name before bat hrt? that's for them to no longer bother with. non-bat names are sooooooooooooo last season #yin-thoughts #fallen london #their name is That Fucker. their gender is something greater than human. their ethnicity is chiroptera #but i could see french or german

[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

[xbuster]

I’m seeing “lefties” on Twitter engage in Holocaust denial because they think that makes them on the side of the Palestinians. I’m killing myself so I never have to see terminally online 21-year-olds ever again.

#it’s really not hard to say israel is carrying out a genocide while acknowledging they are jews #and we’re affected by the ethnic cleansing of german jews by the nazi party #genocide victims can still do genocide #if you downplay the effects of the holocause OR israel’s actions in the west bank and the gaza strip you’re a genocide denier #no two ways about it