r/latinoamerica

Hi hello, just thought I’d use this as an avenue to find what actual Latinos / people of Latin American descent think about the word or phrase “Latinx”. If you would be so kind as to say where you’re from and maybe a general age range , that would be appreciated.

🎸 Niño (Milo J / Gregorio Nelli / Tránsito Cocomarola) — Arreglo fingerstyle con partitura sincronizada.

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In response to requests, we are now publishing daily World Cup posts. We hadn't done so earlier because there are literally countless soccer subreddits, and we thought we’d just be an inferior alternative; however, since the community asked for it, we’ve answered the call.

These posts will appear only on match days and cover all games scheduled for that day. Naturally, discussing other topics isn't forbidden, but each post is designed to focus on the day's matches.

Daily reminder: These posts are strictly moderated. Do not break any rules and treat others with respect; there is a huge difference between poking fun at a loss and being a prejudiced jerk.

Second reminder: The posts follow New Jersey (USA) time—UTC-4—since that is where the grand final will take place. Given the many time zones across the continent, we decided to use this one as our standard.

TODAY'S MATCHES ARE:

ENGLAND VS. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO AT 12 PM IN ATLANTA.

BELGIUM VS. SENEGAL AT 4 PM IN SEATTLE.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AT 8 PM IN SAN FRANCISCO.

I am honestly beyond annoyed. Tonight I’ve been deep diving into my own heritage and the history of the Andean people. My paternal grandfather is from Ecuador with indigenous Ecuadorian heritage. We’re Andean. I’ve actually learned the truth about what my people went through and it’s frustrating that it’s not even a blip in the history books!

The Andeans were treated like slaves. Actually, they were slaves in everything but name. Though the Spanish king called them “free vassals,” and they couldn’t be sold off to other people or shipped out of their own countries, they were forced into brutal textile sweatshops and mines for fourteen hours a day. They were trapped in endless cycles of forced debt and violently whipped and beaten if they didn’t meet quotas or tried to escape. Sound familiar? 

Their children were born into the same trap. One that they couldn’t escape. It was structural, multi-generational de facto slavery, and it didn’t truly end in Ecuador until the agrarian reforms in 1964! That’s 98 years after slavery was abolished in the United States! This isn’t exactly ancient history.

This erasure isn’t just in the history books. It directly affected my own family. Because he was indigenous, my grandfather didn’t get the basic rights that non-indigenous individuals often got. He literally had to lie about his own heritage and claim he was Italian just to be allowed to go to school and get an education. 

He did something incredible with his life. He joined the USA military, furthered his education and became a plastic surgeon at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. But the trauma of what he went through, that never really left him. Every time my Uncle Keith brought up the fact that we’re Hispanic or Andean, my grandfather would snap at him and insist that, “No, we’re Italian.” He had to bury his identity so deep just to protect himself and his kids. 

So yeah, I’m angry about the total erasure of what happened to the indigenous and Andean people. We don’t ever learn about what happened in the history books, not even in world history. Why? Why is our pain completely left out of the school curriculum? The Black community has fought hard and rightfully gotten their history and their suffering recognized in textbooks, but ours? It’s just forgotten and left in the dust. It shouldn’t be that way. There’s room enough to care about more than one group’s trauma! 

I’m so tired of pretending that our pain isn’t as great, or that centuries of whips, stolen lives, and forced survival that my family endured doesn’t deserve to be recognized as well. Our stories deserve to be heard. Our voices deserve to be heard! What the system did to my grandfather and our people matters!

Crecí en Estados Unidos hablando español en casa e inglés en la calle, y hay palabras que simplemente no me salen en inglés sin perder el alma. Como 'sobremesa', o decir que algo te da 'pena ajena', o el clásico 'ahorita' que lo mismo es en cinco minutos que nunca jaja. Tengo curiosidad por las suyas: esas palabras o dichos tan de su región que al traducirlos en serio pierden toda la gracia. Y díganme de qué país es, que me encanta ver las diferencias :)

Very proud of it and really wanna get it out there and would love to here others thoughts on it

Creciendo como latina en Estados Unidos, las canciones que "llegaron" acá siempre son el mismo puñado de hits internacionales. Pero cada vez que me meto en la música del país de algún amigo encuentro canciones que son simplemente perfectas y que de alguna forma nunca cruzaron la frontera. Me encantaría armar una pequeña lista de esas.

¿Cuál es la canción de tu país que merece muchísimo más cariño del que tuvo afuera? Puntos extra si cuentas un poco por qué te llega.

Hablar de estos temas acá en algunos foros es taboo, ofenden o tachan de gente que solo ve porno.

Será algo cultural? Prejuicios, etc.

Qué opinan?