#we're diverse af so pls treat us as such. thanks.

[socialistmanonyourphone]

since im half deliriously bitching about things anyways, i would like all non-latino people to stop. just stop! stop talking about latino culture. stop having weird takes about latino characters. stop acting like we're either flamboyant af or vicious. stop pretending u are an authority on our culture. leave us aloneeeeee.

#glares in the general direction of like four different people from work #im v glad you know how to pronounce tamale but pls Shut Up about your uwu fave and how Culturally Interesting he is to you #also please stop making emotionally distant or manipulative latino characters/headcanons. it's absolutely goddamn inaccurate #we have NO sense of personal space and absolutely consider Americans not touchy enough so writing us as detached is...hmm...problematique #also stop making us aggressive. just stop. like I get it American propaganda has made u think we're all doing crimes and shit but stopppppp #also stop making latino men flamboyant heartbreakers or perverts. like tbh most of us are average af so treat us as such #this has been a very long psa written by an angry little latino man who is running a Low Grade fever and is on Some Cold Meds #ALSO ACTUALLY ONE LAST THOUGHT: pan latino culture exists ONLY in immigrant circles and ONLY as a regional survival thing #we're diverse af so pls treat us as such. thanks. #ALSO ACTUALLY ONE LAST THOUGHT: no you cannot tell who is and isn't latino #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