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deangirls will start talking and say don’t you love it when dean is trapped in a prison of his own creation

Why is everyone on this website actually stupid. Yes even the most marginalised US-American benefits from the privileges afforded to them by living in the Imperial Core. Why do you think Indigenous US-Americans live, on average, in better conditions than Indigenous Americans in Latin America? Why is it that Indigenous US-Americans living on the poorest most isolated and neglected reservations have a better quality of life then the worst off Indigenous Latin American tribe? I’ll answer for you: It’s Imperialism

umbra-life

Indigenous and mestizos. We all in Latam are mestizos of Indigenous cultures and black and brown people and whatever other category, and every time I see "recommendations" of how to survive being empoverisher by western capitalism, its a westerner (not just a yanki) eating our food bought in cans at cheap prices. Even the marginalised westerner have access to everything that is stolen every day from us while we die hearing them whine about why one does nothing to stop imperialism with their mouths full of my ancestral vegetables, fruits and grains, sitting in a place made with the wood covered in our blood, holding a phone made with our minerals and metals and lives.

But this is a truth that they will never accept bc they really think their lives are above ours and they can't and will never stop being an imperialists. That's why every time a global southerners speaks of this ALWAYS shows up marginalised ppl from all identities from the empire or wannabe to tell us to shut up.

Ppl here have told me to buy expensive ass vegan foods and canned food bc "is cheaper" and gave me a price in dollars when I asked about nutrition under western caused famine. I felt disgust bc the food named was my native foods, yet they can buy it bc they take it from me. Canned food is not accessible to survive a fucking famine. I can't even buy fucking potatoes nor have a safe place to put them. We created the fucking potatoes and where in all the territories.

That's the privilege and ignorance of the west.

salgoot

third worlders complaining about global trade like us pausing our imports wouldn't send their economy into a decade long recession. say thank you for us funding your employment

anedgeberry

The second a third worlder is too uppity the average yankee turns into Hitler

danepopfrippery

I ain’t talking shit about indigenous people outside of the americas cuz the little I do know I know what is being said is true (shit for example look at Peru’s minimum wage vs cost of living or that it has like one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the Americas because it’s not seen as an issue).

But there are literally Navajo homes that don’t have running water, 1 in 3 in fact. Or indigenous women in the us make 57 cents on the dollar vs a white man the lowest rate of any group. Indigenous homes in the us have only 8 cents on the dollar of wealth vs white homes.

Nvm femicide and dv rates. Which ofc are high for all indigenous groups in the world.

All I’m getting at is it’s not a picnic to be an indigenous person in the United States or Canada and you may very well go just as hungry as someone farther south. I’m not indigenous but they are very much in a still ongoing genocide against them by these countries.

(That said 1 in 3 homes not having running water etc may still give some benefit over the most rural or areas in the global south. And if you are off the rez your access to refrigeration and air conditioning are almost certainly better. But its estimate 22% of indigenous people in the us do live on the rez).

(And a pps I have no shame in admitting I was stunned by how little I knew of what is not guaranteed outside of the imperial core. I live in Mexico and right now running water has been out for 5 days. Most people can’t afford ac even though it’s over 30c. In the us both things are unheard of for a lot of people)