#muticultural

[wizardpig]

y'know what? its super weird cyberkids has a muticultural cast of youngsters in a star trek-esque coalition of humanity, but then right at the end they kind of shit all over the girl one when they do that weird democracy has fallen communism and tyranny have won bit...

[imjustsoscaredallthetime]

Yuh know seh wicked cyah done?

Thank you for informing me that I am dating a white person. I wasn't aware that was going on in my life so I'm happy you figured it out and let me know! Last time I checked I was single but apparently not, my mistake, thanks again.

Furthermore, the search function on here isn't half bad and I found everything you're saying you didn't see pretty easily. One search of jamaica and I found it all, and as an aside, I was reblogging stuff about dancehall music up to yesterday morning so like... what?? Also you don't have to pretend, mi know seh yuh nuh like battyman, it's fine. Your interpretation of my "Jamaicanness" is fine by me cause there's a lot in our culture than needs fixing so if I fall short of being the "perfect" Jamaican to you I'm cool with that.

Also funny you should say all of that when I've had a Ukrainian in my notifications saying that I'm racist because I called them out for their treatment of POC. I'm not begging friends with any white people either so we can agree on that point.

I haven't scrolled through your page so see you advocating to black Palestinians so I didn't know you were referring solely to their cultural paradigm in the context of this video. Reiterating, I was simply trying to clarify as I do when I think people are confused and I want to do some reading.

I'll admit that my activism & education hasn't been equal on all issues. Yeah I'm aware that antiblackness exists in every culture on Earth, and upon further introspection I can certainly speak more about the things going on in Africa and about issues black ppl elsewhere are facing.

I don't know everything about everything, but jeez your outlook on the world seems bleak. I don't think "not being a monolith" is inherently a bad thing. After a nuh we one, and I'm not saying just because other cultures do something we should follow them. However, I like muticulturalism, and it isn't necessarily a symptom of our disunity/disaggregation. And it's so dark not to have hopes for the future generation cause how are you gonna look at children and automatically assume they're gonna be demons? Sorry but that's just too dark for me, call me naïve but if I was to think like that then may as well mi drop dung and dead cause by that logic there's no hope for future generations of black kids to rise above the shit we face. We're always gonna be oppressed and they'll always be oppressors, no use to even fight it.

At the end of the day, I was never trying to beg you to support a cause, just trying to make you see why I do what I do and why I'm speaking up the way I am. I don't believe in telling people to side with their oppressors and my bad if it ever came across like I was doing that. The way I see it, this is a part of the fight against white supremacy and that's what I'm prioritizing right now. That isnt your priority and that's fine, but lowe me mek mi do my thing.

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[rockislandadultreads]

Poetry Recommendations (2019/2020 releases) 

Little Envelope of Earth Conditions by Cori A. Winrock

3.65/5 stars on goodreads

Poems dive straight into the depths of mental illness and depression, evoking intense grief and pain. Heavy space imagery is paired with streams of consciousness, trying to come to terms with loss but feeling like you’re floating through a surreal world like an astronaut on a different planet.

The Truth About Magic by Atticus Poetry

3.99/5 stars on goodreads

From the internationally bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars and Love Her Wild, Instagram sensation Atticus returns with another romantic and deeply moving collection.

The Truth About Magic builds on the pains and joys of romance explored in Love Her Wild and the New York Times bestseller, The Dark Between Stars—heartbreaks and falling in love, looking back and looking inwards—by taking a fresh, awakened journey outward. An adventure into the great unknown. It’s about finding ourselves, our purpose, and the simple joys of life. It’s about lavender fields, drinking white wine out of oak barrels on vineyards, laughing until you cry, dancing in old barns until the sun comes up, and making love on sandy beaches.

The Truth About Magic is a vibrant, transcendent journey into growth, which will leave you energized and eager to explore the wider world.

Witch by Philip Matthews

4.14/5 stars on goodreads

Poems merge queer ecopoetics with religious disposition, speaking through a pantheon of mythic figures―from Jesus to Aphrodite―to commune or contend with reality. What emerges is a cumulative awareness of being a physical, energetic body in a fractured world, attempting to heal some part of it while exploring and embracing the gray areas of identity and ambiguity.

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

4.48/5 stars on goodreads

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya's girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky's long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

Homie by Danez Smith

4.5/5 stars on goodreads

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family—blood and chosen—arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez’s friends and for you and for yours.

To Drink Coffee with a Ghost by Amanda Lovelace

4.08/5 stars on goodreads

"You cannot have a funeral for your mother without also having a funeral for yourself." This book poses the ever-lingering question: What happens when someone dies before they're able to redeem themselves?

From the bestselling & award-winning poetess, amanda lovelace, comes the finale of her illustrated duology, "things that h(a)unt." In the first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explored the memory of being in a toxic romantic relationship. In to drink coffee with a ghost, lovelace unravels the memory of the complicated relationship she had with her now-deceased mother.

[sometimesrosy]

I think in general diverse or progressive media is under more scrutiny than regular media. Like you can have the billionth superhero film that only casts white men, and one white woman to be a sex object, and no one cares. The fanboys will rush to see it and if you don't think you'll like it you won't bother. But things like the 100 and the handmaid's tale get flak for not addressing EVERY. SINGLE. ISSUE. at once. Which is stupid because not every show needs to address everything, or be perfect

I have noticed that happening too. Like a black sidekick is JUST FINE. Especially if he is SUPER AWESOME and perfect. I’m sorry I love Diggle, but that’s what he is. But it’s still a white man lead super hero show and the various casts of multicultural sidekicks don’t change that.  But it doesn’t rock the boat.

This one? This rocks the boat. 

Lead Bisexual female? She acts as an actual bisexual, and it rocks the boat, because it comes so close to what people want for their WLW representation, but it’s, well, it’s bisexual, not lesbian. And so they feel betrayed. 

Having a mixed race Filipino lead male? It’s amazing. He’s complex and morally gray and always learning, but it disturbs people greatly that he has to suffer and is placed in a not always perfect light. On a show that is literally about delinquents surviving the apocalypse, they want their representation to be perfect and always win and always a good guy. So they feel betrayed.

We have the WHOLE Arkadia storyline, and there is precisely ONE straight white male in it, and he’s suffering from mental illness, and rather than recognizing that the whole story, especially the political one, is lead by POC characters, we say it’s “demonizing” the black man. I mean. Okay. Pike was the bad guy. And he was fighting with Kane, (a half Chilean man, not a white man) over the soul of our POC male hero. But what they see is a dark story line for their fav POC characters. So they feel betrayed.

I don’t know. I think we’ve got some dark, edgy shows, like The 100 and TWD, about apocalypse and survival, and they have a lot more diversity in them, because of the genre. And people who are looking for diversity… well they don’t always want to see the darkness. But the darkness allows the shows to present a world that is NOT like this one. 

We really do need more diversity in our representation, more shows where we get to see conventional stories with people of many races and cultures… but the more conventional a story is, the less likely they are going to represent diverse people? So we’ve got a catch 22 right? 

We need the lesbian fairy tales, and the multicultural Friends, and the rom com with immigrants, and the fat girls kicking ass. And we’re not getting them yet. It’s better than it used to be, but we’re not there yet. 

[johnbarleycorn12]

I’m Not Breaking Up with America - LewRockwell

I’m Not Breaking Up with America – LewRockwell

I’m Not Breaking Up with America – LewRockwell — Read on www.lewrockwell.com/2019/02/john-w-whitehead/im-not-breaking-up-with-america-this-valentines-day-and-neither-should-you/

Well said. Where is your line in the sand? JohnBarleycorn

[sissihao]

MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE  I

这一次的马来西亚太平之旅是一次对我来说从未有过的体验。这么说是因为它不同于以往的单单以观光和玩乐为目的，而是以一种特殊的方式参与到当地人的生活中。上午工作下午闲逛，周末还能到临城溜达一圈。这真的是我经历过的最惬意也最深度的旅行。

刚到天平，下了飞机我便一路小跑寻找车站搭了最快的一班轻轨到达KL central，生怕迟到了让接机和其他被接机的小伙伴等。到了才发现原来这一期只有我一个人。接机人Jordan很gentle做了我一个人的专属司机，开车开了3个多小时把我从Kuala Lumper接到了Taiping。路上从晴空万里到乌云大雨，细密的雨滴噼里啪啦的打在车窗上，什么也看不清。从大连到广州到吉隆坡又到太平长达近11个小时的旅程让人腰酸背痛，但雨后被洗刷的干干净净的老房子和街道有一种别样的景致，眼前经历的一幕一幕又让我觉得一切都新鲜又美好。

我住的地方是Sojourn beds & Cafe，没错，它是一个青旅。前两晚我便是以一位背包客的身份入住sojourn了。老板Ken是一位很友好的澳大利亚爷爷，和他一起工作的是一位马来西亚华人—盈而。其实换做以前我应该一定会拒绝这种与��生人拼住的旅居方式。但不得不说，青旅的两晚给了我很难忘的回忆。

第一次体验男女混住，第一次在一个有多肉有卡带，有可爱的小阳台也有温馨的阅读角的地方呆着。习惯了一个人生活的我，原本熟悉了寂寞就好的安宁，现在却和陌生的人们享用同一个空间。在青旅，‘say hi’是再平常不过的问候。哪怕遇见脸生的新住客，亦或是不同房间的老住客，在狭小的共用起居屋内，大家总是热热闹闹地分享自己的行程和旅行体验，眼睛里闪着亮晶晶的光。房东姐妹动手自己烹饪全是菜的绿色植物；旁边坐着的法国男人喝着咖啡，缓慢向我讲述他在马来西亚生活7个月的点滴心情。他们的乐观感染着我，他们的微笑感动着我。或许吧，青旅就是有这样神奇的魔力，陌生的伙伴一期一会，但短暂的相聚却让这段时光熠熠生辉。第一晚我就品尝了我从未经历过的另一种生活。作为盈而口中第为数极少的到霹雳州做志愿者的中国人，我对未知的奇妙旅程充满了期待。

我眼中的太平 

在我第一日的coordinator —Jordan的介绍下，我今天算是把太平快走了一遍。雨城太平给人一种奇妙的感觉，它像是文化融合的大驿站：包着纱巾缠着长衣长裤走在炎热街头的马来西亚本地人，眉心一颗朱痣的着装传统的印度人，还有和我们并没有任何外观不同但是精通三国语言的马来西亚华人。形形色色的人种来了又去，添加了奇妙的现代化感觉。可这里同时又充满了过去的味道，这种味道不好说，不像中国的传统大气之风，也不像日本庙宇精致到变态的偏执，它好像是有故事的人，你问它它的故事，它却又淘气着笑着不愿意告诉你。

我去了叫作Pasar的鱼市场，据说以前是赌雨的场所。因为太平是雨城，而大家的乐趣之一是等雨来。连我的“导游”Jordan这个年轻人也是一个会看雨的“钦天监”。下午我们走着走着他忽然看看手表指着天边的一片乌云，了然一切似的和我说”一个小时后就要下雨了，你看这个黑云很大块移动着”。我和信神一样相信他，也开心终于能在酷热的下午盼来一场凉爽痛快。可是…整整一晚都没有下雨。故事就是这么不安剧情走。我心里想着“Jordan你放在过去怕是赌场里的输家吧哈哈哈”。

马来的宗教氛围十分浓厚，街道两边随处可见各个宗教的庙宇，香烟气浓重，却互不干涉和打扰。

太平也有太多历史遗迹，随随便便一个建筑就是1880 1900年的老古董。很多路边的建筑颤颤巍巍，可住在这里的人们宁愿用木头支住中点以防倒塌一补再补，也不愿意拆了重建高楼大厦。这里的居民都重感情，这里的每一寸瓦木都有感情。

可商贩木讷的表情也许是作为外乡人的我刚到时心里小小的落差，很多时候我凑过去他们也一��爱买不买的样子。那不是鄙夷的目光，可也绝不是讨好的嘴脸。你说他不会微笑服务也好，说他不做作也罢，可在我看来，不强加是雨城的品质。我想分享个温馨的小插曲。今天傍晚我在rojak小摊看了半天，充满好奇端详着每一种水果（好多热带水果大陆并没有吃过），rojak小哥呆呆看我望着一句话也没和我说，更别提推荐和介绍了。后来我和他说我想尝尝，他还是呆呆的，“好啊”。说罢娴熟地切起水果开始拌酱。因为太新奇了，我开始拍摄，他忽然调皮起来，小孩子一样抱着手里的盆转过身去背对着我试图阻止我的镜头。后来我们就在你追我逃的小把戏里都笑起来。他卖给我rojak的时候，又送了我半个梨子那么大的水果，上面沾满shrimp sauce和芝麻。够咸的。回的路上我一边吃一边回忆小哥咸咸的表情。

我奇怪为什么才是第二天，雨城就已经给了我已经呆了一年的亲切感。这不是家的感觉，只是一种好像熟悉的不能再熟悉的奇妙的错觉。可能是太平真的太小了，而建筑的样子又太和谐了。在这个根本不需要Google map的地方，走着走着会迷路，可转来转去，总会找到在哪里出发。 

关于太平湖公园（Taiping Lake Garden） 

太平湖公园真的是太平之肺一般的存在。依山傍水，景色美到窒息。我最喜欢在忙碌一上午志愿工作后漫步公园，缓慢度过一下午的悠闲时光。有时运气好，你还会在傍晚遇见调皮的小猴子。也许你会说，公园没什么稀奇，绿色没什么稀奇。但置身太平这样做一个慢生活的小城，太平湖公园就像是放慢了几十倍时间的神奇之境，让你想躺下，任穿���树隙的阳光直直照映在裸露的皮肤，又痒又舒服。

我最喜欢的，是太平公园给我的平和温柔的态度。连这里的树木也缓缓弯着腰和你say hi。“你看，这些是我见过最聪明的树了。”没错又是Jordan和我说的。为什么聪明呢？因为他们很懒，不愿意直直的像松柏一样；又很会弯腰，弯曲的高度刚好够汽车经过不会刮到车顶，免去了挨修剪截肢的皮肉之痛。这种轻松愉快又安全的游戏人生和我的世界观太像了。

“哇噻！这树什么名字！我要记住这个树！”

“呃…”（一副不靠谱的样子）“好像就是叫雨树吧”

好吧，后来在我的再三查证下，知道了它真的就是叫雨树。可我宁愿相信它叫懒树。傍晚时分的太平湖边，年轻的人们躲过了暴晒在湖边散步跑步；野餐一天的马来家庭开着四座小汽车突突突回家；马来老华裔们集合练操。这个融合了西方水边跑步（却不携带宠物）和东方传统广场舞的有着梦幻般仙境美景的人工太平湖——似乎也没有social media里宣传的那么清新脱俗了。

以后如果有人问我下辈子要做什么，我一定会说，我要做一棵树，一棵躲在太平湖参天大树下看车水人流的最聪明的懒树。：）

关于吃食

早就听说了马来西亚是美食爱好者的天堂。就连我这个不喜吃辣的人也下定决心尝遍马来美味，不能因怕辣绊住自己的脚。

如果来了马来又没吃过小吃街那就太遗憾了。马来的实物主要以三大部分组成：马来本地食物，印度食物和中国广东福建的特色美食。大排档似的各色小吃街在傍晚及其热闹。豆蔻汁，冰奶茶，椰子水又是搭配酷暑的最好饮品。吃过酸咸可口的叻沙，辣到要哭的椰浆饭，香浓入味的卤鸡脚，每只跟拳头那么大的生蚝,开胃的水果大杂烩rojak和又甜又冰的煎蕊。千万不可以错过的是又肥又香的猫山王大榴莲。这种大排档放在中国怕是过不了卫生那关吧哈哈哈哈。但是难得在异国感受一次地道的特色风味，允许我的胃放纵一次吧！

[chicafinal]

muticulturalism is at its peak with moms watching soap operas from the other side of the world

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

New and interesting article from the Mail on Sunday: “Why the Princes' fallout is more toxic than ever: William thinks Harry has 'disrespected the Monarchy and the Queen', while Harry thinks his brother is 'overbearing and rude about Meghan'“ It really does come down to Harry’s ego and need for validation... that’s the kind of support they were looking for—the “support” that made them feel important.

I would change that slightly and say they wanted the “support” that would make them feel more important than the Cambridges.

I think that’s the main issue here. They could have had a fantastic platform as the “woke” muticultural royals, but they didn’t want that. They wanted to be the most important royals.

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[stirringwinds]

Yo man i appreciate ur America Australia headcanons but isn't Australia super old? I mean................ Aboriginal culture is flourishing. The earliest memory bit insinuated he was young.....he not. But still, 10/10 headcanons

hi! many thanks for your question, i’ll explain my interpretation—these are just my personal headcanons, and i certainly believe that other interpretations are possible. i’m also constantly developing these headcanons as i read and learn more: 

to start off, i conceptualise the personifications as representing cultural/political identities, so they are not just linked to a particular place. in my headcanon, aph australia—the commonwealth of australia, which includes a concept of the whole australian landmass as a single political unit, is young. but the indigenous australian nations exist and are much older. prior to the advent of british imperialism, as i imagine it, there wouldn’t be just one singular personification because of the diversity in customs, language and political structures between different indigenous australian communities. it’s similar to how i see mexico being born in the 16th century: it didn’t mean there was no personification before that. there would’ve been the tlaxcalan confederacy, the triple alliance/aztec empire, tepanec and so on in the area that later comprises modern mexico. this is also the case with pre-roman britain: no modern sense of “england” and “wales”, but various celtic british polities.

in my headcanon, aph australia is “born” later, but that certainly doesn’t mean he is solely english or european. i see him as being mixed: the existence of racial hierarchies and british imperialism involved in the formation of colonial australia ≠ only european cultural influences shaped australia, the commonwealth. as you point out, indigenous australian cultures are living cultures. i’m also thinking of how other groups of non-european immigrants influenced and built the country during the colonial period, such as during the gold rush (south sea islander and chinese labourers). in my view, most personifications have more than two “parents”, and upheaval and violence is so often the midwife of new nations. because new political and cultural identities have historically often been created through massive change—and in the past that was often catalysed through imperialism. just as modern europe—and england itself—was profoundly changed by the roman empire and the subsequent invasions of various germanic tribes. (history rhymes, after all). 

at the same time, said imperialism doesn’t mean that the newborn personification only reflects the ethnic/cultural make-up of the dominant culture being imposed. what those in power say the nation is, and what the nation really is might be different. whether we’re talking about roman britain, colonial mexico or colonial australia, most colonies end up being multicultural entities even if they certainly were not racially egalitarian and had social hierarchies. so, i see the british empire as having a role in causing australia the commonwealth to be born—but england (for all he is Lord Father™) is definitely not the sum of australia’s heritage. i do see australia feeling quite alienated from viewing england as a trustworthy parental figure he’s comfortable around for many reasons, and they probably have quite a tense relationship at several points in history. 

so overall; i do see aph australia as a younger nation, but he is indigenous and european and more: the blood that runs in the veins of most nations is from many “parents”. coming from a muticultural and multiethnic family shaped by british imperialism myself, mixed identities are something i like exploring with the hetalia characters. there are layers of contradictions and history to navigate for those of us whose modern identities stem from the legacy of the british empire, and aph australia would also go through that in how he understands his sense of self. 

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