Finding Motherland

A process of rediscovering my cultural heritage as an adult and memories of growing up as a second-generation immigrant in America.

[redstonedust]

i think being proud of where you come from is one of those things that becomes fun the more specific you get. like "proud to be english" bad rancid vibes. makes you sound like the kind of person who rants about immigrants. "proud to be from yorkshire" better vibes. i cannot deny the yorkshire cultural heritage. "proud to be from pocklington" absolutely fucking hilarious please never let anybody kill your pocklington pride.

[redstonedust]

i love the USA: weird vibes. dont trust that.

i love muskegon michigan: you are experiencing a kind of personal joy that i can and will not take from you

[theamccafrey-deactivated2024071]

let me explain the difference between forced and genuine inclusivity

(a rant)

Most of the time, even if there is a character who is brown they are so very wrongly represented, like Parvati and Padma Patil in Harry Potter: the clothes they were wearing were not just plain; they were a cultural trainwreck

Look at her dress.

The Ghagra or Lehngha (skirt), she is wearing had pleats in the front. These are usually worn in a sari which is a completely different dress. A ghagra is a very elaborate skirt, and has a gown-like fall

The blouse she's worn is practically a t-shirt, which doesn't quite resemble any of the Indian clothes. In a Kurti, the shirt-like top is much longer, and is anyway not worn with a lehnga. In a Ghagra Choli the top is a very short blouse.

Its like a *very bad* mix of like 2-3 Indian dresses

Also, Indian dresses are never so plain. Even day-to-day clothes have a pretty embroidery. My grandmom's tablecloth has better embroidery

Judging by the dress the costume designers were goin for, it should have looked like this

I understand why a costume designer in the UK would not understand the specifics of Indian clothing, but it is funny how all other clothes were well thought out and this is just - not even culturally accurate.

I do not find somebody talkin in my language or eating my food cultural appropriation; it is encouraged infact. Insulting and not portraying that culture properly is the real problem.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

I remember seeing in WWII propaganda the motif of, “We cannot be gentlemanly to them if they are not gentlemanly to us,” in reference to murdering German and Japanese civilians rn masse. And you can find plenty of similar things said in any number of other contexts, when ppl wish to justify the killing of civilians and children and prisoners of war. It’s a very telling line of rhetoric, since what is so outrageous about these atrocities is that their victims are not fighting you at all. And it becomes obvious at this point the murderers uttering this nonsense see nations and races as single persons distributed across many humans, some of whom are too delicate to fairly hit at under usual circumstances, like testicles with souls

[magicmooshka]

I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023

I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.

id in alt

[prarthanaprasad]

Desi Sapphic Stereotypes

Because I'm tired of our queer culture being so white.

[manujanolavu-deactivated2023080]

MORE desi sapphic stereotypes because we need them (+my marathi sapphic experience because i will be your marathi sapphic representation, and also because i had almost no contact with western culture till i was 15)

- You watched Hindi serials because the female lead was cute (anchal sahu/vashma baig is the reason i watched kyun utthe dil chhod aaye sorry not sorry)

- Nose piercings. Side. Septum. All of it. You want.

- You are either a saree sapphic or want to date a saree sapphic or both

- You thought if the girl "best friends" actually run away and get married it would be much better than to marry the male lead(s) in Hindi tv shows.

- You're either a नथ gay or want to date a नथ gay or both

- Julun Yeti Reshimgathi was your queer awakening. You either wanted to be Aditya Desai or wanted to date him or both. (because let's be real, who doesn't like Aditya?)

- the Sairat album defines your wlw yearning

- hecc the entirety of marathi music industry determines your wlw yearning

- you have a thing for nauvari wearing women yielding swords.

- you have a thing for women with swords

- ✨feminine rage✨

- You have read/written fanfiction about female leads of a Hindi tv show getting together

- You definitely had crushes on characters who played some sort of feminine ancient regent/mythological characters.

- that one scene in jai malhar where mhalsa threatens latika with a sword. that's it. that's the post.

[the-icarustoyourcertainty]

If I may:

Have an obsession with jewelry and kurtis that even vaguely resemble the colour of a pride flag, preferably your pride flag

Used to have a childhood crush on Radha in that one Krishna cartoon, you know the one

Devasena. That's it. Devasena.

If you grew up with Bollywood, then you were way too interested in the Kamli music video and felt kind of weird for being so interested

Also, you have a crush on either Poo from K3G or Piya from 3 Idiots

[prarthanaprasad]

Based on a 1970’s guide published by a Feminsit Lesbian Newsletter from Atlanta which is MY NEW FAVOURITE thing on the internet

[intheheatherbright]

Costume. Chitons.

[intheheatherbright]

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

[killerchickadee]

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

[treewizarded]

that genuinely is it

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

[sourcefieldmix-deactivated20161]

lets bring back sheetwares

[hostagesandsnacks]

also chlamys:

and exomis:

[hidingthemane-deactivated201801]

trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day

[awhiffofcavendish]

Wear blanket. Conquer world.

[goys2men]

That last one looks dope

[moniquill]

Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.

[hc-svnt-dracones]

And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!

[pendragyn]

ancient Egyptian robes

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:

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[marlynnofmany]

Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.

[tieras]

https://kalaavarsha.com/how-to-wear-or-drape-a-saree/

[deliciouswastelandgoddess]

The lungi is a traditional garment worn in many southern states of India. It's different from the dhoti, in that it is a tubular shape (like

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.

I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.

[assessthatdress]

[sleepy-bebby]

No time to explain, just get in

[depsidase]

[arrghigiveup]

[nourelein]

classically trained but we’ll still fuck ya up

[ggnnbvfgbjmbfgj-deactivated2020]

better quality of the live performance on youtube:

another video (and more videos of them on this channel):

[findingmotherland]

[catchymemes]

[na-vidya-na-avidya]

[pinkplasticpen]

  this pun is entirely worth breaking my tumblr silence for

FROMIDABLE

[sinesalvatorem]

As an ex-French-student, I approve

[brin-bellway]

My personal favourite bilingual packaging (so far) is a brand of toilet paper that, in its description, emphasises how it’s made from recycled wood.

English: Tree-sponsible!

French: Respons-arbre!

[sparrownnax]

this one brand of iced tea with their raspberry flavour

English: razzleberry

french: framboyant

[drgaellon]

This is absolutely relevant to @copperbadge‘s interests, though I don’t think Sam speaks French.

[copperbadge]

I speak enough French to laugh every single time I see FROMIDABLE. :D 

[hairtusk]

okay new ask game. what's your ethnicity and can you slav squat (squat directly down with your heels touching the floor).

[findingmotherland]

Bengali, and yes

[draculasswife-deactivated202212]

Slashed Dress Morticia Addams by Wulgaria.

[thesoulfunkybrother]

-Portraits . 17′

Ph.  Rio Romaine

[bewbin]

Punjabi but in a southern accent

[imactuallylucifer]

The accent makes me think I should understand what he’s saying is this what a stroke feels like