#(modern day version) white passing scale i’m rlly on lol | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

latinokaeya-moving · 3 years ago

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i think it’s kinda funny how every now and then that post abt the origins of the term white passing and what it actually meant back then wrt actively choosing to live ur life pretending to be white to try n access things that would’ve been barred from u otherwise n everyone reblogs that post n nods n is like ah yes i get it now, That is what white passing really Means, n then not even a week later everyone goes back to using the the watered down/modern version of the term again

#x #lol #like it’s pretty convenient shorthand i suppose so i’m not saying it doesn’t make sense but idk. just smth i’ve noticed #like i’ve deffo done the same wrt straight up using white passing on the colloquial online context everyone understands it as #but in the back of my mind i’m always like i’m using this WRONG 😖#anyways. this just came to mind bc i was thinking abt the fact that i still don’t know exactly where on the racially ambiguous to #(modern day version) white passing scale i’m rlly on lol #here in the uk at least ppl never seen sure of where i’m from unless they hear me speak spanish. otherwise ppl have guessed pretty much #every ethnic background for me before it’s actually a fun game i used to do in college #but pretty much no one ever just assumes oh yeah ur native british like. that doesn’t happen ever. So 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️#ANYWAUS. it doesn’t matter twas just thinking now that i have free time 2 think abt smth other than my uni work…. feels good… feels organic

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