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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
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Official Title of this Community: Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
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Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
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This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
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I don't look XYZ and/or sometimes I can pass as white so I don't know if I can post here. Can I?
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This place is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This includes those of mixed heritage and those who may be "white" but are of an ethnicity that is a minority in their area (i.e. Kurds, etc) If you've experienced oppression due to your identity that is not based on sexual / gender identification, you are welcome here.
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Moreover, for our American audience, we have people from around the world who are "white" but are oppressed due to being a minority in their country. They are and should be welcomed here.
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Suggested Posts
- [People of Spice]: Food recipes so others can taste your culture
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Started a job in a plant nursery today and everyone speaks and only speaks spanish, my own spanish pretty good I think but it's only gonna get better by leaps and bounds as I talk en espanol to people other than my parents. On the real tho the job is pretty good, mostly working with older women and they are kind to me. Whenever I get the chance to do some heavy lifting for them I will, they been teaching me how to work as effectively as possible so I don't get too tired.
Suerte to both your job and language abilities
Both are good it's just I've grown complacent speaking spanish to only parents, they get me but in a job you gotta learn good in order to work properly with others, also I gotta learn to work good with other and I like to think I am. If I ever advance it'll be 100% be because all of the women who took the time time help me there and I'll never forget
That's awesome . I would love an opportunity to practice Spanish. All of the classroom learning I did actually helped a lot after I went to Mexico and got immersed but it sure is easy to lose all that progress very quickly
Sort of a prerequisite at the job I'm at, never realized how much I don't know until now but I'm getting there. Communicating directly with people is the best way to polish and master I feel