em_poc
Official Title of this Community: Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
Why is the title different?
We like to have fun here.
What is this place? A safe space for underrepresented peoples and peoples of color to talk, chill, and vibe.
What are the basic rules of the community?
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Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
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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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Irony Racism is still racism. Racism is bad m'kay? We will treat irony racism and bad faith racist satire as racism. Will wield the ban hammer accordingly.
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No sectarianism: This is an identity channel not a channel for you all to complain about why XYZ isn't the "one true leftism". Take that to another place.
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Stupidpol is not allowed. Stupidpol is class reductionist. We are an identity community. Thinking like stupidpol ignores the struggles of the oppressed, their voices, and their need for unique support. Nothing says oppression more than someone saying that the identity you have is "not real" and that if you only thought like them you'd see what your "real" identity is. Mods reserve the right to ban users and content who promote stupidpol, stupidpol memes, and other class reductionist thinking.
FAQ
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.
What can I post?
- Anything you think is relevant to the mission of this community. Things will evolve over time.
- Topics and things relevant to EM and POC.
Suggested Posts
- [People of Spice]: Food recipes so others can taste your culture
- [Theory]: Vid/podcasts/websites discussing issues relevant to identity, anti-imperialism, etc
- [News]: Vids/podcasts/websites that talk about current events relevant to EM and POC
That takes me back to when I used to compete in athletics. Mediocre white men always challenged me because I'm short and they thought it would be an easy victory.
This also shows that an average man cannot beat a trained female athlete like they think they can. Those "biological advantages" only work if you're a trained athlete too, otherwise the trained woman will always win.
straight domapine to the brain, he brought his parents out!!
average white guy who thinks he could take a wild bear 1v1
I could absolutely take a wild bear 1v1, name literally ANY board game and I would fucking smoke that bear
Idk why but I immediately thought of the EU throwing a tantrum about China not taking them seriously
Jfc if I have to hear one more fucking person say "youre gonna alienate the white working class" Im gonna scream
My kingdom for crackers to stop playing like joking about feds in your house is funny. For some crackers, it's a saturday night live routine; for us, that shit is a hashtagging of us, our lovers, our families, and maybe even our cats and dogs if the peckerwood pig on the other end of the magnum's feeling peckish. God fucking damn.
Yeah, fuck that
white (passing) liberals who think euphemistic racism isn't racism are fucking exhausting. we were driving my wife's friend home and were talking about a neighborhood in my city and how rents were going up. so I said, well, yeah, it's gentrifying. her friend started saying not really and my wife agreed, saying something about "urban youth" - apparently she meant the perceptions of bougie white people and was using the phrase tongue in cheek but it didn't land that way to me and her friend took it as an invitation to increase the level of racism. after a bit, I pretended to have spaced out for a bit and asked them to clarify who they were talking about - you know, inviting them to drop the euphemisms and walk it back a bit - but her friend just immediately jumped in with "problem people" so I just checked out for the rest of the drive, until I could properly chide my wife for the racist bullshit.
when I did, she gave the above clarification but dove straight into the lib racism of paternalistic stereotypes (it's not their fault, they're just traumatized so they do drugs and abuse their kids - bitch, all parents abuse their kids! you're trans, you know that!) so I called her out about that too. told her to eat the racist brainworms.
anyway, that's it. just venting. she wants me to be friends with her friend but I just don't think we're going to connect - I'm going to start a fight over bullshit like this sooner rather than later. I can't keep my mouth shut unless I'm already exhausted.
Does anyone here feel like a banana or coconut? (Asian on the outside, white inside)
Cuz I do... Idk how to deal with this...
Why do you feel that way?
Well, because I don't feel much attachment to my nation of origin, the Philippines, with its culture, and language,
I guess that's in part due to the fact I was raised as a child of some skilled expats who worked in Dubai, in a more or less globalized environment...
I used to, when I was a lot younger. It took a close homie of mine chipping away at the neurotic almost-phobia that my mother gave me of my own culture, and then a run-in with the cops a few years after the homie that absolutely informed me as to what I am when the pig's radioing home, for me to really start busting those walls down and feeling out who I am and what my place is.
I have never heard of an apple before. Is this an American nickname? I do sometimes feel myself growing distant from Taiwan as I continue to live in Latin America and integrate more to the culture. There are times when I find myself thinking in Spanish before Chinese and it is a little concerning sometimes.
Are you American? Or do you still live in Dubai? I have heard America can be hard for people from other cultures because you are forced to assimilate.
First of all, I'm not American... second, I don't live in Dubai anymore (I stayed there until I was 14 years old) , just around North America....
Third, I've been mostly living in an international setting, so I don't live near, or interact much with white people, let alone Gulf Arabs in UAE...
Fourth, what is an Apple?...
I use the term banana and coconut, to refer to East-Asians (Eg. Chinese) and South-Asians (Eg. Indians), whose main commonality is that they've internalized heavily a bit of western-thinking, if not culture...
I have a very similar background to you.
I don’t have solutions per se but I realised later on that my lack of interest in my own origin and culture stems from mainly personal trauma and scarce engagement with people from my country.
Like you, since being taught abroad, it meant that there was no singular nation or country to identify with and I assume, as typical for international kids in the Arabian Peninsula, you’d grow up either in a “international” private school and your high school would end in either IAL or IB.
This means a severe disconnection and ignorance of your own history and culture. You’d be taught a Eurocentric and often “globalized” (neoliberal) image of both yourself and society at large. I myself was bombarded with notions of “global citizenship” (which was an actual subject you could study).
A step towards appreciating and recognising my own identity was reading the history of my own country. Understanding what my ancestors been through, understanding the dynamics in which have shaped people before me, and understanding how it affected my self-perception and how I ended up where I am (in this case, West Asia).
It is not easy. But fortunately for both you and I, we have our work cut out short by being from countries colonized by Anglophones. There is an extensive corpus of books written in English that you are able to engage with dealing with your own culture and country.
I myself struggle to learn a language - and I envy those who can pick up multiple relatively easily - so I say this as no easy step, but learning your native tongue and it’s nuances and specifities will undoubtedly boost your own “cultural self-confidence” but also allow you to engage with the masses of people where you are from.
I’ll have to say though that I was able to return to my home country for a few years, and that also helped slowly chipped the alienation I had felt prior.
i was raised in the suburbs for half my childhood (my parents.. its a whole thing, they were scammers) so now i have a perfectly neutraul white sounding accent. i can and do code switch but its hard when im feeling burnout.
Being fn but looking white does drive me a bit nuts. Being raised outside of rez and then moving back in makes it especially difficult. It's like the worst imposter syndrome possible.
Carlos Mencia is a huge hack. Watched one of his standup routines and he spends the first 15 minutes whining about how you can't say black jokes anymore. This was in 2008.
Tbh, there's a lot of reaction in Latino/a communities. I know for sure.
There is, especially in the US. I remember most US latinos being even more conservative than the ones in Latin America.
Also Joe Rogan cancelling Mencia was one of the few good things he did.
Yeah, I won't say it's everyone one of us, and there's a lot of radicalism, but certainly, you get really conservative communities.
White Boy Summer has been cancelled until further notice, all dissidents will be put to the torch and flogged
I like that I don't get skin cancer as easily
I've had this interesting journey of going through visible changes that changed people's perception of my ethnicity, and it's happened more than once. I wonder if anyone else had had something similar.
I'm of mixed Asian and African ancestry, and up until I was 5 years old or so, I looked distinctively Asian. People would call me a Chinese kid. As I got older my facial features changed, and my skin color became darker. I then became known as the local black kid among a sea of . When I transitioned in my 20s and went on estrogen there were major visual changes again. My skin color also became lighter due to the skin thinning on estrogen. This made me visibly go from looking like a black dude to a Latina woman. Nowadays I often get people asking me if I'm from Brazil or Argentina or something.
Looks like your gender wasn't the only one transitioning...
From
a Chinese kid
the local black kid among a sea of
from looking like a black dude to a Latina woman
I think by the end of this, someone will ask if you're Filipina...
So you're saying this isn't even my final form? Oh fuck, I better brace myself.
This seems to be a very common feature of mixed race kids. A lot of my friends are mixed Asian/white kids. If they look Asian when they were teenagers, then by the time they reach mid-20s/early-30s they would look white. And the reverse is true as well. I don’t understand the biology behind it but it’s something I have observed a lot.
Melina got banned huh. Anyways. Getting fucking cold. Christmas weather was pretty mild but now its getting deep below zero again
Seriously? Permanently? (About the ban)
That being said, the Winter finally should meet up with my expectations...
just did my brothers hair, i feel like hes learing to love his curls. now if only i can get him to stop twisting it. i pretty sure he has ocd but he wont get help for it.
My PoCness is now severely in question, the Japanese Foreign Ministry has finally revoked my citizenship!
Grrr
Crackers! Grrr!
(I'm venting right now.)
rable rable rable!!!
I'm angry at crackers 'cause I bit my tongue while eating 'em.
I don't know if I should post in this thread, because I'm not sure if I'm a POC. In Brazil, I'm white (says so on my ID card), but I'm right in the middle of the chart. When I was in New Zealand, lots of people thought I was Mexican (presumably because I had a goatee at the time, lol). Lots of "white" Brazilians who think of themselves as white are surprised when they're suddenly Latino/a when abroad.
I always find it funny that whiteness is such a fucking made up concept.
You may not be white within the "American context."
Race is a bit fluid and, by extension, whiteness.
My maternal grandfather was black/indigenous but I pass as white so I usually just kind of lurk in discussions like these so I don't drown out other voices. I'll never think of myself as white but it's obvious why people see me as white.
my car broke down so i haven't been able to make it to the latino market across town and i'm really craving majoncho and frijoles de seda smh
gonna go make some food, making some Colombian styled beans
yum, im always eating beans! my partner started a small grease fire making yuca tonight (that i herolicly put out) so im keeping it simple with instant ramen lol.
So, how are you all, fam?
Is ChatGPT (or any other AI) a good tool for summarizing articles?
I'm taking a psychology class and it's just a list of articles with no lecture, no slides and no teacher notes or even highlights. Just a pile of articles with dozens of pages each.
I really want to use ChatGPT to help summarize these articles and make the reading load potentially easier but I'm worried about the AI hallucinating and potentially leaving me worse off for studying.
I plan to do another banner in a few months.
One with maybe 4 or 5 heads again.
Representing as many races and ethnicities as I can.
I feel that while it's the current one is alright, it could be more inclusive.