#there are white latinos and indigenous latinos and black latinos and asian latinos and mixed latinos so no. you dont know what we look like

[sheisbeautyweareworldass]

in the year of the lord of 2022 and gringos still think latino is an ethnicity, i cannot 😭😭😭

#asian latinos black latinos indigenous latinos white latinos mixed latinos being thrown under the same box bc gringod think we all look the #same #💀💀💀💀 #*gringos

[imhidingonceagain]

QSMP English speaking fans:

I wanted to clarify some things because it seems like some of you are confused about the nationalities/ ethnic groups of the content creators on the server. So... If you want to educate yourself keep reading.

Spanish creators: A Spanish person is a person born in Spain. You may only call Spanish to the creators that were born in Spain.

Hispanic creators: A Hispanic person is a person whose mother language is Spanish but that person might not necessarily be from Spain (you may call them Spanish speaking creators as well but please don't call someone from Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, etc. just "Spanish". If you're gonna use it make sure to put the "speaking" in front of it).

For example: Vegetta and Quackity are both Hispanic because both of them come from countries that speak Spanish (Spain and Mexico). Quackity, however is not Spanish while Vegetta is.

Latin American creators: A Latin American (most of the time people just use the word Latin) person is someone who was born in the Latin American region (a series of countries with historical, political and social similarities). Most countries in Latin American speak Spanish. However, not every country in Latín America speak Spanish.

Brazil, for example, speaks Portuguese.

Therefore: A Brazilian content creator is Latin American but not Hispanic (because they don't speak Spanish).

EDIT: (This is very important).

Please refrain from calling people from Brazil "Portuguese" they speak Portuguese because they were colonized by Portugal but Brazil is an independent country)

Another tip: Latin American people are vastly diverse.

So, Latinos can be Indigenous, black, white, mixed. Asian, etc.

EXAMPLES:

Roier (from Mexico) and Spreen (from Argentina) are both Hispanic and Latino.

Roier and Spreen, on the other hand, are not Spanish content creators because they do not come from Spain.

Rubius and Vegetta (from Spain): Can be called both Spanish (born in Spain) and Hispanic (born in a country that speaks Spanish).

Rubius and Vegetta however, cannot be called Latin American (Because they were born in a European country)

Cellbit and Forever (from Brazil) are Latin American.

Cellbit and Forever, however, are not Spanish (they weren't born in Spain) or Hispanic (they don't belong to a Spanish speaking country)

Spanish creators:

Vegetta

Rubius

Maximus

Luzu

Hispanic creators:

Vegetta

Rubius

Maximus

Luzu

Quackity

Mariana

Roier

Missa

Spreen

Latin American creators:

Quackity

Mariana

Roier

Missa

Spreen

Cellbit

Forever

Pac

Mike

Felps

Lastly. I'm sorry if it seems like I'm over explaining.

I've seen some confusion and I wanted to clarify.

If you have any questions on any creator let me know.

(I'll leave a map I stole from the internet lol)

Again, I don't want to offend anyone, just educate

EDIT 2: There are countries missing on the map. I'm sorry, it is a very simple map I tried my best. If any of you find a better one let me know.

Or do your own post :)

There are more terms missing but if I add them this post will be too long. I apologize for that as well.

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#QSMP #Quackity #philza #missasinfonia #luzuvlogs #wilbur soot #fitmc #Spreen #roier #Cellbit #elmariana #Slimecicle #jaiden #maximusqsmp #mcyt #felps #pac #mikeqsmp #forever qsmp

[fortheloveofpiggy]

I want more system friends

Let’s be friends if:

You’re a traumagenic system

You’re a endogenic system

You’re a mixed origin system

You’re a fictive heavy system

You’re not a fictive heavy system

You’re a small system

You’re a large system

You’re a poly-fragmented system

You’re a system who has no idea how many members you have

If your fictives identity with their source

If your fictives don’t identify with their source

If your system has very distinct and formed alters

If your systems alters aren’t as formed or distinct

If you have lots of amnesia

If you have none to little amnesia

If you’re a neurodivergent system

If you aren’t a neurodivergent system

If you are a white system

If you are a black system

If you are a Hispanic/Latino system

If you are a Asian system

If you are a mixed system

If you are an indigenous system

If you are a poc system in general

If you have high support for your system

If you have low support for your system

If you have lots of communication in your system

If your system as low communication

If you are any form of system no matter how your system works copes and functions

Let’s be friends

#traumagenic system #system #traumagenic for endos #endogenic #syscourse #system community #system culture is this. #system culture is #system communication #plural positivity #plurality #plural culture #we all are different so let’s just love all systems equally #i love my community #well my tumblr community #ily

[nitearmorweek]

As everyone gets to work preparing for NiteArmor Week, the mods wanted to encourage people to bring their own lived experiences into their creations. You are welcome to write and draw mandalorians in a way that reflects your own life and culture; Bo-Katan and the Armorer do not have to physically resemble their live action counterparts.

What does this mean? Do you want to share your Mexican heritage and weave it into the story of your NiteArmor fic? Hell yeah! Do you see the Armorer has having dreadlocks? Include them! Do you have an insulin pump and think Bo-Katan has one under her flightsuit too? We want to heart about it!

For those who may need a little help or are looking for new resources, we have gathered a small list of guides. Some of the below sources came from @lavenderursa's collection of inclusive writing tips. The mods recommend reading through the original post they worked hard to put together! The hope of this new post is to build out their post to include a few more elements specific to Star Wars.

Writing Resources Collectives and authors who have published tips and guides on writing stories that center diverse experiences:

Writing With Color

The History of Black Hair [Words to Describe Hair]

A Guide to Natural Black Hair

How To Write About Trans People

A Primer on Writing Trans Characters

The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing Transgender Characters

Important Tips on Making/Writing Asian OCs

Dear Non-Asian Writer

How to Avoid Asian Stereotypes, Appropriation, and White Washing

​Tips for Inclusivity with Reader Inserts

A Guide to Writing Disabled Characters

A general cane guide for writers and artists (from a cane user, writer, and artist!)

Creating authentic deaf and hard of hearing characters

Art Tips Helpful information on how to draw different body types, skin tones, and hair:

Basic Skin Tone Coloring [part 2]

Kupa's Guide to Skintones

A Guide to Drawing South Asian Skin Tones [part 2]

Protocols When Drawing Native American Hair

A guide to designing wheelchair using characters! [part 2]

Whitewashing in Art and How Colors Work

​How to Draw Disabled People

Drawing East Asian Faces

Plus Size Body Types

POC Blush tones

Afro, 4C hair

Image References Websites that offer images that can be licensed for use and/or inspiration. The below three are highly recommended resources, but some do have a cost:

createHERstock - Your destination for authentic stock images featuring melanated women

Nappy co - Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free

Eye for Ebony - Beautiful lifestyle stock photos featuring people of color

Affect The Verb - This is a disability-led effort to provide free & inclusive stock images from our own perspective, with photos and illustrations celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC).

Pixerf - Asia's fastest-growing Asian stock photo market place

Disability: In - Disability Inclusive Stock Photography

Disability is Beautiful - The best free stock images provided by the disability community.

Cosplayers Artists and content creators that have posted amazing Star Wars cosplay! Their hard work and attention to detail in costuming is a wonderful source of inspiration and reference. If you are inspired by any of their photos, please make sure to credit them and send your love. Here are just three examples of cosplayers within the fandom:

Jahara Jayde | twitter | ko-fi

arseniccupcakes | twitter | patreon

cutiepiesensei | twitter | instagram

Further Reading Additional articles, studies, and analyses that discuss racism and ableism within the Star Wars fandom specifically:

Racism In Star Wars: A List of Resources

Star Wars Franchise: Stitch's Media Mix Analyst

Star Wars: A Tale of Racism

Disability In Star Wars

Blind Warriors, Supercrips, and Techno-Marvels: Challenging Depictions of Disability in Star Wars

What's the Problem, Papi?: Internet Daddy-ism and Coddling, Fetishization, and what "Latino-looking" actually means.

Sinophobia in SW Animation

Thank you for making it to the end of this post! Please do not consider this a definitive list or a replacement for anti-racist work in the real world. Keep reading, stay curious, and seek out new perspectives from voices you may not have been listening for.

Do you have any additional recommendations, sources, or guides to share? Feel free to drop them in the comments of this post ❤️

#nitearmorweek #references #resources #bo-katan kryze #satine kryze #bo katan kryze #the armorer #mandalorian #nitearmor #armorkatan #admin post

[queerryan]

Begging gringos (and some latin-americans descendants who were born and grew up outside America Latina) to learn somethings.

There's no such thing as "white passing Latino" unless that person is indigenous.

Stop saying that you're not white because you're Latino, you are white. You're not a victim of racism for being Latino, you're affected by xenophobia.

Latino it's not a race.

If one of your parents is Latino and the other is not you're not "half Latino and half white/black/asian/brown etc" you're whatever race you are AND LATINO, you're both, the entire thing, no half.

Latinos aren't mixed or biracial for being Latino and white/black etc.

Latino it's A CULTURAL IDENTITY, an attachment we have to the country we came from. And that country HAVE TO BE PART OF AMERICA LATINA.

French, Italians, Spain people, THEY'RE NOT LATINO. (I can not believe I have to say this) yes, Latino have this linguistic meaning of people who speak a latin language and that includes french and Italian, but no one use the word in that sense most of the time. Latino it's a cultural identity related to only America latina.

PEOPLE FROM SPAIN AREN'T LATINOS, they're Hispanic, Wich is also not a race and does not make white Hispanics less white. Hispanic are people who are born in spanish-speaking countries, that's it.

For the mother of god STOP SAYING LATINX. Not only is completely useless when you're speaking in English since the English language ALREADY HAVE A NEUTRAL FORM OF SAYING LATINO (literally "Latin"), but also not even inside America Latina with our languages we say "Latinx" since people with Dislexia here often have a problem pronouncing and reading that. Insisting In the use of that is ableist and stupid. Either say "Latin" or "Latine"

NOBODY LOOKS LATINO, we don't have "Latin phenotypes", you could show me a picture of a Chinese family, tell me they're Brazilians and I would believe in you because that's how diverse america latina is, no one look Latino.

Doing this list because I was reading ultimate Spider-Man and miles called himself "Half Hispanic" and that pissed me off because he said that as a response of someone saying that he's black. As if this would make him less black or half black and he's both black and Latino, no halfs.

#latino #latin america #gingo #gringos #latinos #latine #latinx #america latina #hispanics #tired #I'm brazilian

[kemetic-dreams]

Colored (or coloured) is a racial descriptor historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow Era to refer to an African American. In many places, it may be considered a slur, though it has taken on a special meaning in Southern Africa.

In the United States, colored was the predominant and preferred term for African Americans in the mid- to late nineteenth century in part because it was accepted by both white and black Americans as more inclusive, covering those of mixed-race ancestry (and, less commonly, Asian Americans and other racial minorities), as well as those who were considered to have "complete Black ancestry".

 They did not think of themselves as or accept the label African, did not want whites pressuring them to relocate to a colony in Africa, and said they were no more African than white Americans were European. In place of "African" they preferred the term colored, or the more learned and precise Negro.

However, the term Negro later fell from favor following the Civil Rights Movement as it was seen as imposed upon the community it described by white people during slavery, and carried connotations of subservience. The term black was preferred during the 1960s by the Black Power movement, as well as radical black nationalists (the Black Muslims and the Black Panthers), pan-Africanists (Stokely Carmichael, leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and political progressives. "Negro" was still favored as self-descriptive racial term over "black" by a plurality in the late 1960s; however, by the late 1970s and early 1980s, "black" was strongly favored

Indigenous African societies do not use the term black as a racial identity outside of influences brought by Western cultures.

Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological variation between different human populations, regard the concept of a unified, distinguishable "Black race" as socially constructed. 

Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified "black", and these social constructs have changed over time. In a number of countries, societal variables affect classification as much as skin color, and the social criteria for "blackness" vary.

When Europeans conquered new lands they created new identities and which the own and control. Africans never knew niggers, blacks or colored people.

 First Nation people never new Indians or Hispanics or Latinos or mulattos.

Columbus and other Europeans had their own misconceptions. They mistakenly believed that the Arawak were “Indians.” Carroll and Noble write:This misconception originated in Columbus’s basic error (which he himself never realized) in thinking that in sailing westward from Europe he had reached the Indies [in Asia], which were the true object of his voyage. 

To Columbus, it was literally inconceivable that he had found previously unknown lands. Like other Europeans of his time, he believed firmly in the completeness of human knowledge.

What he saw, therefore, he incorporated into his existing worldview, and the Native Americans thereby became, to the satisfaction of most Europeans, simply Indians.In describing the “Indians,” Europeans focused not on who they were but on who they were no

Black, Negro, Nigger, Nigga, Colored, People of Color, etc are all offensive statements

#indians #kemetic dreams #europeans #exonyms #colored people #black people #blackness #black women #black woman #black queen #hispanics #latinos #arawak #columbus

[elbiotipo]

"white latinos are still settlers" what's your take on this? i'm not latino so i wanted to know

Define "settler". I've seen it as a perojative, but what does a "settler" means in this context?

Most white latinos have families, communities and such made of people of all racial backgrounds. In a single family, you might find people of european, indigenous and african descent. Trying to separate white latinos from the rest of Latin America is like trying to separate any other identity from the rest of Latin America; it is pointless. You end up breaking up communities and even families who all consider themselves to be part of the same nation and thus, Latin American. This is why like I said in another post, Latin American identity does not mesh well with discrete, separate racial indentity like in the Usamerican conception of ethnicity.

This does not mean I'm saying "we are all mixed" because that is untrue, or "we are all the same", because, as we all know, eurocentrism and the legacies of "limpieza de sangre" and the caste system do still exist, and racism exists in Latin America. I am saying though, that white latinos, are latinos, like indigenous latinos, black latinos, asian latinos, arab latinos, or people from any other background you might think of.

[sanyu-thewitch05]

At some point I wonder if Black people get tired of consistently having egg on their face. Y’all love to defend other groups, but they rarely ever do the same for us as Black people.

Black people like to defend Latinos and they get a bunch of lightskinned and mixed Latinos saying the Ni**er to their faces because of their general ignorance of race vs ethnicity.

Black people like to defend indigenous people and they those same indigenous peoples(this really only applies to the ones in the south like the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, and Chickasaw, and Choctaw) rarely ever acknowledge the fact they were oppressors to Black people. Or when’s someone brings it up, it’s “but they were kinder than the white people!” Like please-

Black people defend Asians, especially South East Asians, and we get them calling us slurs in their own language, extreme colorism, extreme texturism, and generational prejudice and biases about black people.

Black people defend biracials and their “blackness” and instead we get them replacing and erasing us in our own shows, other media, and praising the white features that they inherited from their white parent. Meanwhile, darkskinned women from Africa are called Eurocentric because they’re beautiful and have different features(despite black people saying we come in all shades and colors and features. Black people don’t like it when those different features aren’t on a mixed or biracial girl)

Black people defend the lgbt community and we get their community members saying we as black women aren’t women because of white supremacy.

Like are we not tired! Are you not tired of constantly being laughed at and being made the joke of the world?! Are you not tired your people are considered the front line warriors who will defend everyone if they don’t deserve it?! Would it kill the black community, especially the black girls and women, to focus on ourselves and our image that’s slowly disappearing. When will we learn to say it’s not our fight.

#blackblr #black girls of tumblr #literally it’s exhausting seeing the black community and black girls and women being everyone’s attack dogs #do y’all seriously not notice that the groups you defend don’t even respect you #they’re using you boo! #and don’t get me started on the black community protecting criminals because they’re men and that’s their ThAWn! #it’s exhausting #it really is #like I have compassion for other people but that doesn’t mean I’m going to go fight for them #especially when they do little to nothing to help me as a black girl #especially with this femicide crisis going on #it’s not our fight! it’s really not #we as black women and girls need to be focusing on us and our image and our issues instead of worrying about other peoples #especially when those people don’t do the same for us or rarely talk about our issues #and the latinos thing doesn’t apply to Afro Latinos #the afro latinos generally care a tad bit more about black issues because they are of course black

[bodyalive]

On the Texas Border, Folk Healers Bring Modern Touches to Their Ancient Practice

Known as curanderas, they carry on a tradition long revered in local Hispanic culture.

By Edgar Sandoval

Photographs by Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas

Edgar Sandoval grew up in Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley, where Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas lives and where both covered this story.

Dec. 16, 2023

On a recent day, Chriselda Hernandez heard a knock at her door in the Texas border town of Edinburg. It was a college student who said she was suffering from a string of bad luck. A drunken driver had crashed into her car. Then someone broke into the new car she was driving and stole her laptop. “I need a limpia,” she pleaded — a spiritual cleanse.

Ms. Hernandez moved to an altar in her living room that bore an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Slowly, she mixed a concoction of sage and palo santo, a wood native to South America, and lit it with a match. Then she turned back to the young woman and waved the healing smoke over her body.

“You are holding on to something,” Ms. Hernandez whispered to her. “Let it go. There is no shame.”

For generations, Hispanic communities along the Southern border have turned to curanderas, or folk healers, like Ms. Hernandez, often seen in the popular imagination as old women with candles and religious icons operating in the shadows of society out of rusty shacks.

But the ancient healing art has entered the age of Instagram. More and more younger people are taking on rituals they learned from their grandmothers and deploying them against 21st century problems. They conduct limpias on public beaches, trade recipes online for blocking “envy energies” and sell artisan candles bearing the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in shops. Their clients are often college-educated, like Clarissa Ochoa, the young woman who went to Ms. Hernandez for help.

“I think it’s an honor to be a curandera; it is something very beautiful, but also very limiting,” said Ms. Hernandez, 42. “I feel like we are breaking those boundaries, that curanderas are just herbs and little old ladies. My calling is just to heal whoever I can.”

A culture of folk healing preceded the arrival of Spaniard conquistadors to Latin America and Mexico. Over time, curanderos, a term used for healers of both genders, began mixing Indigenous rituals with elements of Catholicism and influences from Asian and African folk traditions along the way.

The practice has taken hold in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, located a stone’s throw from the Mexican border, in large part out of necessity. Hidalgo County, home to McAllen and a majority Hispanic population, has one of the highest rates in the nation of people without health insurance, and many people rely on curanderas for lack of other affordable options, said Servando Z. Hinojosa, a professor of anthropology who teaches a class on Mexican-American folk medicine at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Mr. Hinojosa said many Hispanic residents also tend to be mistrustful of the medical establishment. This is especially true when it comes to mental health. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that while the number of Black, Asian and white people who have sought mental health care treatments has climbed in recent years, there has been very little movement among Latinos.

“There’s an element of distrust, but there is also structural alienation,” Mr. Hinojosa said. “They are a population that will seek affordable resources, and they will go to where the products are and where the advice is to be found.”

In the past, the medical establishment has warned people not to rely on folk remedies for physical ailments, some of which can be harmful. Many Latino children have fallen ill and even died after consuming such remedies known as albayalde, azarcon and rueda, powders often used for stomach-related illnesses that have been found to contain lead.

Curanderismo has become so accepted in the Rio Grande Valley that it is not unusual to see street signs and TV ads advertising folk healing services.

Ms. Hernandez said her great-grandmothers had both been parteras, or midwives. When she was a little girl, she said, she discovered that she possessed her own set of gifts; as she grew older, she said, she began interacting with an entity she believes to be the Angel of Death, Azrael. She works at a cellphone call center and lives with a girlfriend in a modern house in the suburbs of Edinburg, a city close to the border.

“You make it your own. There is no right or wrong. You do what’s right for you,” Ms. Hernandez said.

Another modern folk healer, Danielle López, 39, a former student of Mr. Hinojosa who said she also learned she had a don, a gift, as a young girl, has embraced the moniker of millennial curandera. She has combined the old traditions she learned from the grandmother who raised her, Consuelo López, and an aunt, Esperanza Rodriguez, with new skills learned at institutions of higher education.

Her academic record includes a master of arts in interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in Mexican-American literature, medical anthropology and Latin art history at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is completing a doctorate in English with a focus on borderlands literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she is also a lecturer.

“For me it’s a continuity,” she said of her spiritual work. “I feel like we need it more now.”

It is not unusual for people to ask her for trabajitos, little jobs, including blessings, limpias and home remedies, when she is not buried in books. Not long ago, Ms. López got a request to bless a new business for a friend. When Ms. López cleansed the establishment with a bouquet of roses, six petals fell, prompting her to warn her friend that six people “did not have good intent.”

“They may say they are happy about her new business, but they are not.”

She also sometimes offers more science-based advice. When people tell her that they are feeling anxious or cannot sleep, she recommends that they cut their intake of sugar or caffeine. Because the advice comes from a curandera, she said, people tend to trust that she has their best interests at heart.

The concept of a curandera is so pervasive in Latino enclaves that in September the Texas Diabetes Institute, a state-of-the-art facility operated by University Health on San Antonio’s west side, a historical Mexican-American neighborhood, brought back to its lobby a sprawling wall-size painting, “La Curandera,” by the Chicano painter Jesus Treviño, who died early this year. The painting had been removed for restoration.

Still, when it comes to luck and matters of the heart, many people avoid professional help and turn to curanderas, because there is no substitute, said Sasha García, 39, a curandera who is known for her fire-red hair.

In northern Mexico, where Indigenous culture is not as widespread and the Catholic Church’s hold is stronger, Ms. García said, her ancestors often operated in the shadows to avoid the stigma associated with folk healers. By contrast, on the American side of the border, she not only feels freer to practice openly, but some Catholic priests stop by for her counsel, she said.

Ms. García welcomes clients at La Casa de la Santísima Yerberia in the city of Pharr, near McAllen, next to two imposing statues of La Santísima Muerte, skeletons each wearing red and black robes. Ms. García reminds people that while the image of La Santísima, a Latina version of the Grim Reaper, may evoke frightening emotions, death is to be revered.

“If you pray to her properly, she can heal and deliver love, freedom and wealth,” she said. “I only ask her for positive things.” (She laments that criminal elements along the border and in Mexico have appropriated the image.)

On a recent afternoon, Jocelyn Acevedo, 27, a frequent client of hers who runs a credit repair service, arrived for her monthly limpia. She had heard about Ms. García four years ago and after the first limpia, she said, she saw her business begin to boom. She was so convinced by the session that she since has regularly driven 60 miles from nearby Starr County, near the Rio Grande, for her sessions. She now has a tattoo of La Santísima.

Ms. García instructed Ms. Acevedo to rub three coconuts all over her body. Ms. García then broke them on the ground to release what she said was the negative energy her client had been carrying.

“Did it work? Of course,” Ms. Acevedo said.

Ms. García has embraced touches of modernity along with the old customs, including consultations now offered over FaceTime. Her clients have responded with their own offerings from popular culture, including a sign one brought in that now hangs on the front door: “Witch Parking Only.”

“No one listens,” Ms. García said with a smile. “The word may be becoming more modern, but we curanderas are still here. Just don’t park in my spot.”

Edgar Sandoval covers Texas for The Times, with a focus on the Latino community and the border with Mexico. He is based in San Antonio. More about Edgar Sandoval

#healing #folk healers #NYT #Body Alive #Edgar Sandoval

[usaigi]

So I saw a post where you said Jake has a right to the Mayan symbols on his coat collar, but I've also seen people say Oscar Isaac is a white latino and also that he's "obviously a white man", and yet Oscar himself has also claimed being a poc/not white a couple of times, so I'm confused???

Assuming Jake/MK sys is Guatemalan like Oscar Isaac, personally I’d argue that he has the right to wear Mayan clothing. Mayan history is part of Guatemalan history, so even if Jake isn’t racially Mayan and as long as he’s respecting the culture, it’s still his culture. 

Disclaimers: This is my opinion as a Mexican person of Yaqui/Seri/Spanish ancestry, some other natives/latines may disagree.  

As far as I know, Oscar Isaac has never explicitly said what his race is. But considering that his mother is Guatemalan and 82 percent of the population is indigenous or has indigenous ancestry, and looking at his general appearance, it’s safe to assume that he’s Ladino/Mestizo(mix indigenious/European ancestry) and would therefore be POC. However, if Oscar claims to be POC/not white, just take his word. We don’t know his family ancestry, we don’t have his 23andme, and it’s not our place to speculate. 

Because of colonization, most Latines are multiracial. A majority of the population is of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry. Slavery and immigration also play a factor a significant percentage are mixed with other European, African, MENA, and Asian ancestry. It depends on the region and its specific history in terms of slavery/immigration/colonization. For example, in the Caribbean they brought more African slaves than in Mexico so now, Cuba, PR, DR, and Haitian have a higher population of people with African ancestry than Mexico. 

Latine is an ethnicity and not a race. There are white Latines like Anya Taylor-Joy, Cameron Diaz, Bella Thorne. etc. Oscar is almost certainly not one of them. The people who call Oscar Isaac white/white-passing are the same people who call Alexa Demi, Aubrey Plaza, Selena, etc. white/white-passing. Yes, all these people have European ancestry(based on appearance) but not exclusively. Calling them white erases their indigenous/African/other heritage. Not to be controversial but I honestly only think that people call celebrities like Oscar Isaac, Alexa Demi, etc. white is because they’re conventionally attractive and meet the European standard of beauty. That and the appropriation of black/indigenous physical features and fashion/culture by white celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Ariana Grande. Latines with their normal natural features don’t look like Jenner or Grande, they look like us because they paid to look like us.

#asks #latino america #latine tag #oscar isaac #oscar issac hernandez estrada #usaigi speaks #jake lockley #moon knight #marc spector #steven grant #usaigi meta

[mr-laveau]

Mr. Laveau's Masterlist of Design Ethnicities (headcanons)

I recently had a chat with my friends about the inclusivity of my designs and that reminded me that I have not properly shared what my HC for each design is, so I'm doin that! As well as small headcanons!

*forewarning, I also have alt designs which are different ethnicities but that doesn't overtake from each one as I do switch between their uses. Also this will update as time goes on.

•Sam is Latino in his first design, he's Afro-latino in one of his alternate designs and his newer alternate design is Navajo because I was sent something by @autisticempathydaemon where Sam and Lovely are siblings and I'm committing to it.

•Darlin'/Darren (he/they) is Japanese-American while his first alt design, Daryl, is African-american (of caribbean descent) while a newer design will be Chinese-latino.

•Lasko is a mixed Asian-American (He's Japanese & Desi)

•Gavin is a incubus, yes, but he does present as a dark-skinned desi man in my head

•Avior is Vietnamese

•Milo is afro-italian

•FL/Fern (they/them) is Caribbean afro-hispanic (their dad is black, their mom is from Cuba but immigrated from Venezuela)

•Asher is Latino (C last name is Castillo)

•David is Bedouin Arab (both of his parents are immigrants from Egypt) - Additionally I fucked around in my headcanons and he shifts into a giant jackal instead of a wolf

•Vincent is of Sri-Lankan descent, I die on this hill

•William is a black man - He is from France but immigrated to New Orleans before moving to Dahlia

•Damien is Rroma/Rromani

• Caelum is black

•Sweetheart/Sadhil is desi-american (he/they) - Their parents are immigrants - they're very disconnected from their cultural roots outside of knowing how to cook dishes they picked up from his mom

•Lovely/Logan (they/them) is Navajo/Native American - they're an ex-foster kid who never got adopted fully and they don't know their parents cuz they were put in the system at an early age. Their alt design, Landon Vale (he/they) is mixed (afro-polynesian)

•Huxley is chinese-american

•Angel/Alex (he/she/they) is mixed African-American - I've also headcanoned them as Guy's older sibling!

•Baaabe/Avery(she/he) is Vietnamese-American - She's half-siblings w Ollie and rocks romantic goth fashion.

•Quinn is white - also had a weird situationship with Darren that in their mutually destructive relationship before they cut him off.

•Christian is white

•Bright Eyes/Bea Bright (she/they) is dark-skinned and African-American

•Fred is desi-latino because I say so, that's all I need to say

•Alexis is Persian - oddly enough and I've explained it to my peeps and I'm explaining it now because her being Persian is an active decision to make commentary in the way that I've written her versus how she's generally percieved and how quickly people are willing to throw WOC with flaws into the role of a villain

•Starlight/Sama Latif (they/them) is mixed Assyrian/Iraqi

• Geordi is mixed African-Caribbean and is of Garifuna descent

• Cutie/Cara Teller (she/they) is Afro-korean and that's for a good ass reason, because simply put, Asian dad trauma especially while being raised female

•Morgan is Afro-latino because I simply wanna make a "we don't talk about Bruno reference", I think it could be funny–I think

•Seer/Apollo Sanders (he/him) is mixed (mayan-indigenous/African-american) - Apollo's namesake also has the gift of prophecy and his last name, Sanders, is derivative from Seers's cat, Sandy from @castleaudios which is based on the oracle Cassandra that was cursed not to be believed...by Apollo.

Anyways, that's all for now, byeeeeee

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[g1rlb4it]

i like that in gen 3 both lagoona and clawdeen are latinas, bc usually the only latino phenotype seen in media IS the "indigenous+european mixed" phenotype, which is the most common for some countries like mexico, but not really for other countries. And in mh we got a clearly black latina with curly hair(clawdeen) and a blonde, white-coded latina(lagoona), imo is important to show How diverse latino people can be.

im gonna be honest, i totally forgot all that about phenotypes lol, i have no idea about that. but yeah, i totally agree that it's great seeing different latinos being represented! i would love to see an asian latino personally (since i am that aswell). latina clawdeen and lagoona are awesome and i hope we get to see more of their backgrounds in the future!!

#charr text

[socialjusticefail]

The act of putting Jews in with white people is honestly such a huge reason why the upkeep of race in these statistics makes no sense. Race talk is already charged, but obviously not something we'll get rid of any time soon, but I think anyone in good faith has to agree that making very basic categories like "white/black/indigenous/asian/latino" fucks over so many ethnically distinct people. "Jews" don't have to be white, just like mixed race aren't. So where are they most accurately put? BS.

See Whoopi Goldberg when she shoved her foot in her mouth with her Holocaust comments about it being between white people.

#answers #anonymous

[hermithomebase]

you should run an ethnicity poll

this is a horrible idea let’s run it

#prompt.input #if i forgot something i’m sorry #also mixed is for Any mixed race person not just black/white

[autizzysonikko]

Human Sonic Headcanons

Okay so clarifying first, ethnically Sonic Amy and Tails I headcanon with Japanese background as well, racially mixed.

Sonic- afro latine specifically WAfrican and Puerto Rican projecting? Yes.

Amy- okay this is hard because she racially ambiguous as hell bro but she do be giving white gyal energy. She's white/Japanese mixed. SHED WEAR GYARU NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT

Tails- LATINO/ASIAN MIXED SPECIFICALLY MEXICAN DESCENT‼️‼️‼️‼️

Knuckles- he canonically Jamaican HE IS INDIGENOUS AFROLATINO/CARRIBEAN AND I LOVE HIM FR

Rouge- Afro-Latina specifically Puerto Rican and West African

Vector- He is Mexican thru and thru SHUT UP

Espio- HE IS JAPANESE THRU AND THRU SHUT UP

Charmy- Black, West African SHUT UP

Shadow- Domincan-PR cause he's AfroLatine.

Cream- Black AS WELL

Vanilla- BLACK QUEENS FOREVER SNOW BUNNIES NEVER

Blaze- CANONICALLY INDIAN/SWANA DO NOT ARGUE WIT ME

Silver- Albino Aboriginal Descent

If I forgot yo fave put it in the ask box or something

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[monzaaasharl]

“sorry but what last anon said about race isn't entirely correct. latino is decribed to use someone from latin america and is a race just like white, black, asian.”

This ask demonstrates how people mix up race and ethnicity all the time. Latino is technically considered a race category for things like the US Census, but it’s a very outdated way to look at people who are from south and Central America. Additionally, the US census also differentiates between white latinos and non-white latinos which should indicate to you that perhaps using a blanket category for a group of very diverse people isn’t great. Again this relates back to American centrism and the constant othering of people who aren’t White Americans.

This person uses ethnicity and racial identities (white Indians) as a blanket example (tho tbh I wasn’t sure what point they were trying to make because it again demonstrates that race, ethnicity, and nationality are different things). If we apply this example to Americans for example: African Americans, Asian Americans, etc. it’s clear that American isn’t a race (unless you are Indigenous). These people would still be considered black and Asian, irregardless of their nationality. Same goes for other subgroups amongst latinos like Afro-Latinos, Asian Latinos, and the Indigenous Peoples. Latino is used as a term to describe people from Latin America, which is technically an ethnic group specific to geography.

South and Central America has the same colonial history as the US and Canada. Hence why I mentioned the varying race groups who live in these countries. Afro-latinos also have a similar history to African Americans due to the slave trade spanning across both continents. Some people in the Caribbean and Guyana have Indian last names and heritage due to the wave of indentured servants from India who worked for the White people in power. The same goes for White people in Latin America.

Argentina is a particular interesting case as the White people of Argentina for the most part did not intermix with people outside of their race group, hence why a lot of White people in Argentina have 100% European ancestry. For example: Anya Taylor Joy’s family is originally from the UK (I think Scotland) but have been living in Argentina for a couple of generations. Hence why Anya looks European but is very much a Latina who grew up with Argentinian culture. She’s just a white Latina.

Mexico on the other hand as I mentioned has a lot more diversity. Mestizo (as mentioned previously) is used to describe people with mixed ancestry specifically for people with mixed White and Indigenous ancestry which was the result of colonization from the Spanish conquistadors (again addressing the previous ask on mixed heritage). So most people in the US have a stereotype in their head that Latinos are all Mestizo or have Mestizo/Indigenous features since their closest neighbours and the Latinos they mostly interact with are Mexicans, when Mexicans themselves are much more diverse than that. Example: Lupita N’yongo is Mexican (I believe she was born and grew up their as a child after her parents immigrated from Kenya) and so is Eiza Gonzalez. But most people would only think Eiza is Latino despite the fact that she has mostly European ancestry and is considered White in Mexico.

Also from a common sense POV how do you think these countries carry out their own census/demographics data analysis? Do you think these people in these countries are all just labeled Latino and that’s that? If any of you are interested I would highly recommend looking up the demographics data of these countries to see how race is categorized and collected. Brazil is particularly interesting because of how diverse the population is.

Also want to reiterate that this stuff is confusing because race is a social construct. It was created to uphold white supremacy and for White colonial powers to label outsiders to perpetuate atrocities in the name of racism.

I completely understand what you're saying, and im sorry I don't have a good way to respond, but I did find this quite informing 🫶🫶

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