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PSA for my fellow white people

cursethecosmos:

castameresweaters:

Latino/Latina: originating from the Carribean, South or Central America. Gender neutral term (in English) is usually written as latinx.

  • Sentence: María was born in Ecuador, so she is Latina.

Hispanic: Spanish-speaking.

  • Sentence: José was born in Brazil, so he is NOT Hispanic, since his country’s official language is Portugese, but he IS considered Latino.

Mexican: from the Central American country named Mexico, NOT a language. NOTICE! not all Latinos in the US are from Mexico

  • Sentence: Enrique was born in Mexico, so he is Mexican. Enrique speaks Spanish, since “Mexican” is not a language. 

Chicano/Chicana/Chicanx: a person of Mexican descent (usually born in the US)

  • Sentence: Anna’s parents were born in Mexico, so she identifies as Chicana. Her friend Miguel’s parents are from Colombia, so he identifies as Latino.

Spanish: a language spoken by many countries all over the world/ originating from the country Spain. NOTICE! not the only language spoken in Spain or South/Central America.

  • Sentence: Juan was born in Madrid, so he is Spanish. He only speaks Spanish, but has friends who speak other languages.

Quechua, Catalan, Nahuatl, Gallego, Euskera: other languages spoken in countries where Spanish is the ‘official’ language. Many Hispanics are bilingual and Spanish may not be their native language.

  • Sentence: Alba was born in a region of Spain called Catalonia. Even though she is Spanish, she speaks Catalan with her family and friends. 
  • Sentence #2: Sofia was born in Mexico and does not speak “Mexican,” but her family does speak Nahuatl, a native language originating in Mexico.


That is all.

Mandatory reading for my followers. 

  • But as Latinos become an increasingly large part of a non-white majority in the United States, we must remain vigilant about anti-blackness in our families, communities and movements, or risk a future of our own making in which black lives are treated as though they do not matter. While George Zimmerman’s vile vigilantism is an aberration, we need to admit that people like him, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are not total anomalies; we need to admit that they are like some of our own family members who murmur slurs, lock car doors and cross streets to avoid black people
    Aura Bogado - “A matter of death and death”: Confronting anti-black racism among Latinos (via platanerx)

    • blackness-by-your-side:

    His name is José Alberto Aceves Salvador and he is a rare person. He will graduate from New Open World Academy in Los Angeles as the valedictorian and he is already accepted to all 18 most prestigious Universities in the US including Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA etc. His parents moved to the US in their 20s and have always worked hard to provide their 5 kids with necessary things overcoming all the obstacles so that their children could succeed. And this paid off! They can be proud of their son. José’s goal is to graduate from an Ivy League school with a degree in bio-engineering and start teaching himself.

    “The teachers I’ve had in high school and in middle school, they just influenced me throughout my life,” he said. “So I just like thought that I really want to come back to my community and be like, ‘OK, I can help you do this. I want to help you pursue this career. I want to push you into this STEM field,’ or something like that.”

    God bless this family. Wonderful and inspiring life story! 

    discos:

    this is a not so friendly reminder that you shouldn’t use the term hispanic to describe latino people specially if you aren’t latino, it groups us with our oppressors it literally means ‘from a spanish speaking country’ and not only does spain fall in the same category as us, but you’re also excluding brazil and non-spanish speaking countries

    non-latinos can reblog this