The nerve on some individuals man
. That "build a wall" nonsense...some of these Latino families have been on this "American" soil longer than some of their families ever will. It makes me laugh when I see patriotic/RACIST white people go on about "God Bless America" "This is our land" "Go back to where you came from", nothing wrong with being patriotic(I myself am) but to blatantly deny or ignore how America was founded? C'mon!!! This entire land was filled with Indigenous & Native people(s) no whites to be seen as far as the eyes can see before colonizers decided to take over. To show support for your country is one thing but to disregard the bloodshed, violence & downright atrocities that needed to be & were committed in order for there to be a country for them to be patriotic for is another. I see a lot of this in my area where a lot of Italian/Irish/European families are quick to say "I am an American" & than I'll be like ok, that's cool but what's your family background? And then they get stuck on stupid or just act like they don't understand what I'm asking. And I tell em like somewhere in your lineage someone got on a boat/vessel/plane & came to this land just like any other immigrant so don't act like ya'll were all born on this land, you're European with American in you. My people do that too, come to this land and totally forget where they came from. My cousins too were born in Pakistan but act like they're full American. I tell em be proud of where you live & are raised but don't forget where you came from, your Motherland, your language & your people because the only one you're lieing to is yourselves. My brothers & I are soo appreciative to our parents for speaking our native language to us growing up. They always told us it's Urdu at home & naturally growing up in America, going to American schools having American friends we'd pick up on English regardless. Now, my younger brother is married to his Dominican wife & they're going to speak Spanish/Urdu to their kids & the world around them will teach em English. People & their *** backwards mentality just makes me laugh sometimes, the ignorance
It makes me think about two things :
- Some people who don't want to understand why blackface is racist and act like it's not a problem, we're in 2021 and we still had cases past years with Griezmann or a french actor, Gérard Darmon.
In the same time when Tahar Rahim is disguised in an Asian for a role that's not a problem, so it's kind of weird. As if it was only racist when it was a White playing a Black, but when color skins are not very different, no problem ? Meanwhile I was never shocked by Al Pacino playing a Cuban, and I'm not very shocked too by Tahar Rahim playing an Asian.
- In France we have something quite opposite with people who were born in France but with origins, and some of them don't feel like they're French, always referring to a country they only go on vacations, and having a culture similar as mainly French, which means both influenced by France and USA...
But about what you said about Italian/Irish/European families, there is something similar here, as long people are Whites it is more easy for them and for others to accept them as French. It's all about colors. So if you're White you could easily been accepted as a French. And if you're Black or Arab you might suffer from racism, or don't feel comfortable as people always treat you differently, so you could feel like you were paranoid when you're not, which can leads you to lie to yourself and deny this problem...
Because in a more general way when you're not happy with something and complain about it people are prompt to tell you you're imaginating things, just because this is not their quotidian doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Some mixed couples could understand some stories I would tell, but if I'm telling this to couple of Whites, no way. Experimented this when I told people if you go to Belgium and have a black girlfriend go to Bruxelles, don't go to Bruges...
EDIT : There was a guy of my classroom back in the days who thought real French were blonde hair with blue eyes (he got origins from Tunisia), I was telling him no way I am French and as you could see I'm quite the opposite
