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queen-scheherazade

ATTENTION!!!

hey friends, i got a new phone and i’ve been locked out of this account everywhere else so please follow my new account!!! my new url is immimikyu! (this is being sent from my old phone, but idk what’s gonna happen to it so ya)

queen-scheherazade

ATTENTION!!!

hey friends, i got a new phone and i’ve been locked out of this account everywhere else so please follow my new account!!! my new url is immimikyu! (this is being sent from my old phone, but idk what’s gonna happen to it so ya)

queen-scheherazade

ATTENTION!!!

hey friends, i got a new phone and i’ve been locked out of this account everywhere else so please follow my new account!!! my new url is immimikyu! (this is being sent from my old phone, but idk what’s gonna happen to it so ya)

queen-scheherazade

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ATTENTION!!!

hey friends, i got a new phone and i've been locked out of this account everywhere else so please follow my new account!!! my new url is immimikyu! (this is being sent from my old phone, but idk what's gonna happen to it so ya)

tamamita

Lovebirds

staurolith

Kukui is a wholesome meme

hustleinatrap

MY LONGEST YEAH GIRL EVER

blackwoolncrown

This is unironically the exact problem with Whiteness- lacking an actual ethicity/culture of its own, it is only established by comparison to other races and cannot exist as an identity without them. Hence loads of racism/appropriation fueling the same need to measure one’s identity as a lacking of any other features rather than its own cultural presence.

strkid

@trapqueenkoopa I’m really intrigued by what you’re saying but as a non native speaker as well as poor reading comprehension I’m having such a hard time understanding it. Like I understand just enough to know it’s profound and probably a very concise accurate summary of a complex problem but not enough to actually understand what it means. So I was wondering if you- or maybe someone else who feels up to the task and can do the message justice, would be able to write a simpler version? It would be really great. @readableposts

blackwoolncrown

No problem. This will be long to give more context but I know it’s gonna ramble, sorry. The more brief I am the bigger my words are.

Race by skin color is honestly a concept born of racism. Without it, people still have cultural identities. But the average white person in the west today has a dead culture with no roots, tradition, or ethnic identity.

When people talk about Western Whiteness, everyone basically knows that it’s more about ppl who identify as ‘white’ more than being Irish, German, Scandinavian etc because they are pretty far from those roots.

So being ‘white’ as a thing can only be a ‘thing’ if it’s compared to people who are *not* white. Whiteness needs, in order to ‘find itself’, to compare to or make itself different from other races because it isn’t an identity of its own.

So white people often fill that void by attaching themselves to OTHER cultural identities (for some reason they rarely use their own roots) or by constantly comparing themselves to other cultures’ features. It’s a very toxic cycle. Whiteness cannot seem to decide if it wants to destroy cultures or be them. It hates them but can’t exist without them.

Whiteness establishes itself by being -not- other. And in order to do that, it has to make every other race seen as a ‘deviation’ so it can be the center/standard.

But the more it does that, the more it distances itself from ethnic identity and culture, and the more it NEEDS to compare and impersonate. So while white people, say, made fun of Black women for having big butts, they also need to put themselves back in the spotlight because that ‘exotic, non-white’ feature is popular and that takes attention away from them. But they aren’t happy with just going ‘we have big butts!’. They HAVE to compare to and belittle another race, so they can stand out as ‘white’. This is a corner white people have backed themselves into by saying every physical/cultural feature that ‘stands out’ too much is ‘other’. It starts like this: “Those people are dark. They are different than us because they are dark. We are white skinned, they are not. That is what makes us different. That is what makes us us.” “Those people have large noses and dark hair. They are different than us because we are not hairy and our noses are small. We do not have dark skin or big noses. We are white.” “Those people have rituals, we do not have rituals, that is witch craft. They are different than us because of their rituals. We do not have dark skin or big noses or rituals. We are white.” “Those people wear colorful clothes and dance wildly. We do not do that. We are white, and they are different than us because of their culture. We do not have dark skin or big noses or rituals or colorful dances. We are white.” “Those people have large lips and butts. That makes them different than us. We are white, our bodies are slender. They are different than us because of the way they are shaped. We do not have dark skin or big noses or rituals or colorful dances or large lips and butts. This is how we know we are white.” And on and on. Which is how we end up with a mainstream white culture that identifies as:

White, slender, ideally light-haired, ideally not hirsute, not ritualistic, not vivacious or ‘wild’ or colorful, not spiritually traditional, not too dark, not too much nose, not too much lip, not too much color, not too much spice. That is how they know they are white. To remind themselves, they say “Look at that big nose! Ha! That’s different than ours. Look at those big lips! Ha! That’s different than ours. Look at that braided hair! That’s different than ours. We are different.”

But by pushing allll of those things away as ‘other’ they stripped themselves of the ability to actually identify with any of it. And they are now lonely and empty. So then they see Native American headdresses and go “It would be fun to have spirit. If I wear this I can be white but also have spirit.” They see Black women’s bodies being fetishized and go “They can’t have all the fun! It would be fun to dance and show off our butts, too, so let’s compete for Black men’s attention by reminding them that WHITE women are attractive, too!” They see cultural neighborhoods and go “Wow, this place has so much life and color! I want that. We will move in here and take over. We will take your exciting community because ours is boring. We will make it white.” And so on.

Because whiteness is a void that white people have made, and they need to fill it. Sorry that’s so long, that’s the best way I can give it enough background info idk. :/

turntwifey

just want someone who can’t shut the fuck up about me

confessionsofadiabetic

You know what absolutely boggles my mind? That healthy people exist. Genuinely healthy people. No mental illness, no physical illness, no chronic illness. Just healthy. What a life that must be.

weavemama

Where’s the #BlueLivesMatter people for her?…Oh wait, “blue lives” only matters when they’re white.

wakaranaikotoba

Why Japanese is EASY

A lot of people want to study Japanese but think it’s too hard and that they will never succeed. That is really a myth, though. Here is why Japanese is actually easy.

1. All verbs are regular, there are only 2 exceptions

If you know French, this must sound like a dream to you. In other languages [like French] there seem to be more irregular verbs than regular ones. Not in Japanese, though. There are 3 groups of verbs, the first 2 being regular and very easy to conjugate. The third group consists of only 2 irregular verbs!

2. Easy pronunciation

Japanese doesn’t have any exceptionally hard to pronounce letters. Unlike Arabic, German or Finnish, Japanese should be quite easy to pronounce for English speakers. Also, Japanese isn’t a tonal language like Thai or Chinese.

3. No genders, plural or articles

Anyone who studies a romance language [and many other languages that have that] knows how frustrating it can be when you use the wrong article or verb ending. In Japanese, it doesn’t even exist, so nothing to worry!

4. Grammar is easy!

That’s true. It’s just completely different from English, but that doesn’t make it hard. After a while, it will feel completely normal. The best part about the grammar is that you can build a whole sentence with just one word. For example, if you wanted to ask somebody in English if they did their homework, you’d say ‘did you do your homework?’ Kind of long, isn’t it? In Japanese, you can ask by using only the verb ‘to do, can, be able to’ - like this: ‘done?’ Also, spoken, you can drop many words if you don’t really need them, especially particles! So if you’re not sure what particle to use, chances are you can just easily leave it altogether without the sentence losing its meaning. It’s easy to build sentences that seem to end in ‘…’, but that’s completely normal in Japanese and everyone will understand.

5. Tons of resources

Sadly, there are some languages people don’t really care about or not a lot of people want to study/ are interested in. Japanese is not one of those languages. There are hundreds of books about Kanji alone! And so many courses for every level. Also, it doesn’t matter what you’re interested in - anime, manga, books, movies, game show, video games, dramas, music - it’s all out there and super easy to find, so you definitely will find something you can listen to or read to practice your skills.

6. Kanji/the writing systems are hard?

No. They aren’t. It’s just a huge workload, it takes time and effort, but they are not hard.

At first, having to learn 3 writing systems will seem exhausting. But believe me, later, when you start reading, you will be so glad! You can detect if a text has a lot of foreign words at one glance if it has a lot of Katakana, for example, and you could say a lot more on twitter because of the syllabaries!

So actually, the 3 systems put together makes everything easier to read!

So please, just start studying and go at your own pace, and have fun studying every day ⭐︎

#cool!#languages

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monsterkissed

here is an idea: normalise the idea that adopting kids is a valid option even for parents who could conceive a child themselves, and not just an inferior backup option for parents who can’t