for talking about REAL endophobia

endophobia awareness blog!

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HELLO!! INTRO POST TIME!!

Hi!! Welcome to @this-is-endophobia! This blog was made to take back the original meaning of endophobia which has slowly been replaced by pro non-traumagenics! This blog focuses on sharing people's experiences with endophobia, and I hope that this blog can help spread awareness of this very real issue! Endophobia is not a joke, and it should not be overlooked!

"What is actual endophobia?"

Endophobia is the aversion/disdain of ones own ethnic group, nationality, phenotypical characteristics, and sociocultural aspects of one's own region(s) of origin. It is the inverse of xenophobia, which is the aversion/disdain of foreigners. Endophobia can also be linked to oikaphobia, the tendency to reject or criticize own's own home while praising others'.

For example, Colombia has a history involving colorism. Many Natives (like myself) and Afro-Colombians are discriminated against due to our darker or lighter shades of skin. We are persecuted by fellow Colombians, which is endophobia!

Endophobia is deeply rooted in classism, racism, colonization, and outgroup favoritism.

"Are there any other ways for someone to be endophobic?"

Yes! There's a lot of ways people end up being endophobic!

Disdain for one's way of speech or accent

Disdain for one's language

Disdain for one's lifestyle

Disdain for one's clothing

Disdain for one's cuisine

Disdain for one's skin tone

Disdain for one's religion (i.e., a majority Christian country showing hatred towards their own Natives for having different practices)

Disdain for one's physical appearance

DNI LIST!! FOLLOW OR YOU WILL BE BLOCKED

RCTA Radqueers (RQ transrace). You are endophobic! Radqueers are not welcome!

Apart from that, there is actually no set DNI list for this blog, but I will block freely for my own comfort! That being said:

Please do not bring discourse into this. Despite me being anti-endo, if you are a pro-endo wanting to learn what actual endophobia looks like, I will not stop you from educating yourself (and hopefully you can find this as a reason to use alternative terms instead)! Just please, do not bring discourse into this. This is a space where people that have experienced actual endophobia can talk about their experiences and what they've had to put up with, all without feeling like they are being overshadowed or joked about.

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What's the difference between endophobia and internalized racism?

its actually basically the same thing! endophobia is just another term for it

[calypsotrain]

hi guys sorry #the horrors were happening again. might be more offline because of ghat but im still in the discord and whatnot

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Endophobia is learning to internalise shame around your ancestors being colonised because a lot of people think colonisation is simply about the colour of peoples skin which means that because my ancestors (celts) were white, they can’t have been colonised.

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The racist Thisisendomisia blog has been deleted!!!

W!

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Pretty sure their new URL is thisisendomisia? I think I remember it correctly

im going to be honest im not gonna bother to check it out, i really dont like looking into endo spaces and the fact that this person is avoiding taking accountability for actual endophobia makes me really upset. at least they changed the url i guess..

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The previous owner of the This-Is-Endophobia URL still hasn't apologized holy shit

They deleted all posts regarding the drama and racism like nothing happened

oof. thats really fucking awful. imagine avoiding actually apologizing to people experiencing racism and then hiding anything about it to save face :/

this is endophobia in and of itself

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i am so sorry for the inactivity lately, some IRL stuff (and online stuff!) has been impacting me greatly unfortunately 😓 i hope youre all doing well!

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Endophobia is my mom being upset she's white....deadass..(? I think this will be endophobia..)

We did one of those DNA blood things and she got genuinely upset that she had ties to "Germanic Europe" .. BECAUSE THAT MEANS SHES RELATED TO HITLER????? WHAT???????? 🫩🫩🫩

She tries to live vicariously through me because I'm native Alaskan (dad's side) it's so fucking weird. You're allowed to participate in cultures mom, mom you're Scottish, mom you have a culture, mom stop being racist wtf

SHE GOT UPSET I HAD A HIGHER SCOTTISH PERCENTAGE THAN SHE DID. I DON'T EVEN CONNECT MYSELF TO BEING SCOTTISH AT ALL IM JUST WHITE AND NATIVE PLEASSEEEE SHES MORE CONNECTED TO OUR SCOTTISH FAMILY THAN I AM

this is endophobia!

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Endophobia is nobody in my family knowing anything about our cultures because its never ‘relevant’

( we feel disconnected from our cultures because we never learned about anything )

this is endophobia!

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endophobia is my parents insisting i "act british" and squash down the indian pronunciation of words that i have sometimes in order to sound more "western" and "acceptable"

this is endophobia!

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endophobia is calling Natives in traditional attire primates. yikes. (saw it online on another platform).

asks still open btw! and post still being made

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endophobia is the fact that im only NOW finding out about my culture and heritage because my parents literally refused to answer me when i asked.

!! this is endophobia!

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still working on my long post! please feel free to keep sending asks in the meantime though!

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Is it endophobia when my family uses "Irish" in place of stupid? My family is from Ireland and growing up they've always said things like "well that's Irish" whenever they or someone else do something silly, forget something, make an obvious mistake etc. It's like an inside joke but I never really understood it, why is being Irish synonymous with being an idiot? Why can't it be something we're proud of? Why are we using it self depreciatingly? I want to be proud of my heritage but thats hard when my grandma only calls me "Irish" when I've done something embarrassing.

this is endophobia!!!

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Idk if this is allowed but uh here

I am white, from the USA, Christian-raised, etc.

I was also raised being taught about Native Americans in my area and native beliefs and all that. My mother claimed that her father was Native American and she was getting reconnected with his side. I believe this for 17 AND A HALF YEARS!!! I believed that my grandpa was native and my mom was half-native and all that. Guess what: she lied because she just liked the culture and wanted to raise her kids thinking their grandpa was Native American.

The only reason I ever found out was cause I asked her what tribe he was from for a project in my senior year of high school and she was like “what? Oh, I made that up lol” and just brushed it off like it wasn’t something I grew up believing for my whole life😭

(Sorry for the rant/ramble but yeah my mom is apparently obsessed with cultural appropriation/claiming cultures that are not her own. She’s still actively choosing to practice closed religions because “who says I can’t practice them? I can believe in whatever I want!” I can’t tell if she’s genuinely clueless or if she just doesn’t care.)

GULP?????

that is so 😭😭😭 oh my god..?? does she know she can just learn about Natives and appreciate them without needing to pretend she is one and literally lie to her children her entire life?!?! especially using her dad!!! what!!!

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Is endophobia kinda the same thing as xenophobia?

! NOT SAYING ENDOPHOBIA IS A BAD TERM NOR SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NOT BE USED, I'm genuinely asking if they are different.

If they are different, how do they differ? :D tysm

endophobia is the opposite of xenophobia!

while xenophobia targets people outside of their region/origin, endophobia targets people with the same origin/region!

for example,

bulgarian makes fun of a canadian person based on features, stereotypes, etc: xenophobia

chilean makes fun of another chilean based on features, stereotypes, etc: endophobia