Do not forget that Florida isn’t the only one getting hit by Irma. Puerto Rico and the other islands are going to be hit. This hurricane is huge. It is going to practically cover Puerto Rico. It’s bigger than Ohio.
Don’t be quiet about Puerto Rico and the other islands. These people will need help as well. Not a single part of Puerto Rico will be untouched from the hurricane.
This post is literally about her complaining about tumblr calling her out for calling Mexicans beaners and wetbacks so let’s stop fucking re blogging it please lmfao thank you
Here’s a fun lil’ comic I’ve been working on recently about my experiences growing up with Latinx superstitions & how it affected me living in America (part 1 of a longer series!).
This isn’t a depiction of all superstitions in Latin America since they vary depending on the country & region. However, these are what the kids from my barrio & I grew up with. Hope you enjoy!
(P.S I would love to hear your own family’s superstitions, especially from non-Latinx peeps!)
Man I need me a Mexican or Puerto Rican or Dominican girl who has that J Lo accent who can make me tacos, burritos and salsa when I’m hungry love me and threat like a king I’m sure I’d make you the luckiest girl on earth she wouldn’t have to ask for anything 😉
This is dumb as hell Puerto Rican and Dominicans don’t even eat burritos tacos n salsa like that
In Mexico we kiss on the cheek greet each other all the time and I think it’s great and you guys should know about it a little more.
Like, there are rules. When you don’t really know someone you don’t kiss them. When you are first introduced to someone, you do. Girls and girls and girls and boys kiss-greet each other but boys like to act “macho” and just hug and low high five.
There is people you don’t like/know so much, or maybe you’re both in a hurry, so you just make a kiss sound with your lips wills you press your cheeks together. Then, there are friends who hug you through it, shortly and tightly, to show they missed you and they are happy to see you. Some people, usually if someone is interested in you romantically or just affectionately, make a point of actually pressing the kiss to your cheek but that is not really a regular thing. You notice.
When you arrive at a family or friend meeting, you are expected to go around the place kissing everyone on the cheek. Skipping or missing someone is considered very rude (like your aunt may stop taking to you rude). This happens even with less conservative people or millenials.
When people are sitting and a woman arrives, men are expected to stand up to greet her. Women bend for other women who are sitting. When a man arrives, he bends to kiss women and just shakes hands with the other men. Women are only expected to stand up to kiss a new comer if it is their elder, man or woman, or if they need to show respect to them.
Kiss greeting can have some rather awkward moments. Like glasses hitting glasses. Or someone being over enthusiastic and practically smashing their cheekbone against yours. Or (sometimes purposely) misplaced kisses that linger just at the corner of your mouth. Or that uncle’s scratchy beard. Or running into someone at the gym and one of you apologizing for not kissing the other because you are all sweaty and gross. Or pulling back from a kiss and explaining you are sick and don’t want to pass the virus to them.
Basically, this is a whole thing for people in Latinamerica, Spain, France, Germany (though Europeans make more than 1 kiss which can ensue some hilariously awkward situations when meeting Latinxs) and everyone in North America is missing it so I think you should know. For educational reasons or real life reasons or writing reasons.
Also, this whole thing happens all over again when kissing each other goodbye every time you leave a place, group of people.
I’m in fucking danger guys. He wants to take out the amendment that makes immigrants’ children a U.S. citizen and deport those families where the parents are illegal. Please stop supporting him as a joke. Please stop thinking that his racism and sexism is funny. Take this upcoming presidential election serious because now many families are in danger. Please I’m not kidding, I’m scared now of this excuse of a human.
it’s a trash word with no real meaning besides a white american way of generalizing spanish speaking people but actually means SPANISH people
throw it out of your mental dictionary. immediately. it is naming us after our colonizers.
and especially if you KNOW a latinx person’s nationality you should probably always refer to them as that. for example, i am latina but i am colombian and salvadorian above all else.
i wish this post had as much traction as that inaccurate post of definitions written by a non latinx that i keep seeing on my dash
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