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[infocopa]

Humilité interculturelle

L’humilité interculturelle est le sujet d’une nouvelle formation de perfectionnement professionnel créée par le COPA National pour le Programme des TÉÉ (travailleuses et travailleurs d’établissement dans les écoles) et les travailleuses et travailleurs du secteur de l’établissement. Le COPA National est le coordinateur provincial du Programme des TÉÉ. Il travaille avec 10 équipes de TÉÉ qui desservent les élèves et leurs familles nouvellement arrivés aux quatre coins de l’Ontario. Pour en savoir plus sur ce programme qui est la pierre angulaire de notre travail, lisez notre blogue Présentation du Programme des TÉÉ. 

L'humilité interculturelle vise à aider les TÉÉ à mieux comprendre la vulnérabilité des familles nouvellement arrivées et à accroître leur capacité à les soutenir. Un grand nombre de TÉÉ savent elles-mêmes et eux-mêmes ce que c’est que d’être une personne nouvellement arrivée au Canada. Cette formation leur donne la chance de bien réfléchir et d’acquérir de nouveaux outils et stratégies pour leur travail avec les élèves et les familles nouvellement arrivés.

Il s’agit d’une formation magnifique et bien conçue qui combine le contenu, la pratique et le suivi dans un programme en trois volets, composé de ce qui suit :

(Jour 1) Savoir-être (savoir COMMENT être) - humilité interculturelle

(Jour 2) Savoir-faire (acquérir des compétences) - développer la compétence interculturelle

Suivis auprès de chaque équipe (toujours une partie essentielle de notre pratique)

L’humilité interculturelle s’appuie sur le cadre de travail du COPA National visant le cycle du changement positif qui consiste à apprendre, à réfléchir, à grandir et à changer. Par la prise de conscience, l’introspection, le dialogue et l’acquisition d’information et d’outils concrets, les participantes et les participants à cette formation apprennent à se décentrer et à mieux percevoir la réalité des autres. Elles et ils :

prennent conscience de leurs présomptions et préjugés, découvrent leur identité et leurs valeurs et définissent leur orientation culturelle et style de communication;  

comprennent et respectent la logique et le raisonnement des différentes orientations culturelles et styles de communication;  

développent le réflexe et la capacité de gérer l’interaction interculturelle par l’observation, l’analyse et l’engagement menant à la valorisation et à la validation de divers points de vue.

La vision et l’approche du COPA National encouragent l’apprentissage par l’autonomisation. Nous offrons « des outils plutôt que des règles », ce qui favorise l’adoption d’une approche interculturelle en cultivant la compétence interculturelle.

Nous espérons pouvoir un jour offrir cette formation partout au Canada aux autres travailleuses et travailleurs du secteur de l’établissement, au personnel enseignant et aux adultes qui soutiennent les enfants et les jeunes. Pour en savoir plus sur cette formation de perfectionnement professionnel et sur les autres programmes du COPA National, veuillez communiquer avec Lynn Hadley.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Months after saying that accepting more than 50,000 immigrants a year would be “suicidal” for Quebec, the province’s premier is considering increasing the number of immigrants who arrive in the province to 60,000 a year.

Premier François Legault said that will be possible after an immigration reform that will require the vast majority of people who come through the province’s economic immigration system to speak French before they arrive.

“From the moment we are able to, because there’s real openness on the part of the federal government, say that the increase is only francophones, or people who have mastered French, that completely changes the situation,” he told reporters Thursday in Quebec City.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[muirneach]

i love seeing the tunisian flags in paris soooo much :)

[catgirltoes]

7) The average anglophone speaks only English. You're doing better than them already.

my blog is, and always will be, a safe place for people who are not confident in their english speaking abilities. you will never be judged or mocked here.

[2mimmigration]

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[jumoyz]

Le Canada facilite l'accès à l'éducation pour les étudiants francophones étrangers

Vous rêvez d’étudier au Canada dans une communauté francophone? Une excellente nouvelle vous attend! Le gouvernement canadien vient de lancer un programme pilote visant à faciliter l’arrivée d’étudiants étrangers francophones dans les communautés francophones en situation minoritaire (CFSM) à travers le pays. Pourquoi ce programme est-il important ? Équité: Il vise à corriger les inégalités en…

[visa4you1]

On January 16, 2024, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, Marc Miller, unveiled a series of initiatives aimed at bolstering support for French-speaking newcomers outside of Quebec.

Here’s an overview of the key announcements:

Overview of the Francophone Immigration

Francophone immigration refers to the immigration of French-speaking individuals to a country or region where French is spoken, with a focus on promoting and preserving the French language and culture. This term is often used in the context of immigration policies and programs designed to encourage the settlement of French-speaking individuals in specific areas.

Opening Doors to Francophone Flourishing: Introducing the FISP 2023–2028

Mark your calendars! The Francophone Immigration Support Program (FISP), launched in 2023 and spanning five years until 2028, marks a pivotal moment for French-speaking communities across Canada. This bold initiative, championed by Minister Marc Miller, aims to:

Strengthen Francophone communities: By streamlining the immigration process for French-speaking individuals, FISP seeks to attract skilled professionals, entrepreneurs, and artists, enriching and revitalizing smaller communities outside Quebec.

Address labor shortages: With Canada facing critical workforce gaps, FISP leverages the potential of Francophone newcomers, injecting fresh talent and expertise into key sectors.

Boost economic growth: By fostering a vibrant Francophone presence, FISP contributes to a more diverse and dynamic Canadian economy, unlocking new opportunities and partnerships.

Embrace cultural richness: FISP celebrates Canada’s bilingual identity, strengthening the tapestry of French language and culture across the nation.

Renewal and Expansion of Welcoming Francophone Communities Initiatives:

In addition to the Francophone Immigration Support Program, Marc Miller also disclosed the renewal and expansion of the Welcoming Francophone Communities initiatives. Fourteen communities in Canada will continue to receive funding, facilitating the integration of Francophone newcomers into these communities.

Canada’s Ongoing Promotion of Francophone Immigration:

Canada’s commitment to promoting Francophone immigration remains evident through measures such as Category-based Express Entry draws and the inclusion of French proficiency as a selection criterion. In its endeavor to increase the Francophone immigrant population, even outside of Quebec, the Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced new measures while expanding existing ones.

Preserving Canada’s Bilingual Heritage:

As a bilingual country with English and French as its official languages, Canada is actively preserving its heritage through various initiatives. Quebec places particular emphasis on Francophone immigration to safeguard its traditions and culture. The government strives to uphold equality between English and French speakers, supporting minority linguistic communities through these initiatives.

To gain valuable insights and advice from our immigration experts on these developments, kindly fill out the form below. We are here to guide you through the evolving landscape of Canadian immigration.

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Originally published at https://www.visa4you.co.in on January 19, 2024.

[esseindiablog]

Esse India Canada passes new law to promote Francophone immigration #Canadaimmigration #Visaconsultant #migratetocanada #permanentresidency #immigratetocanada #canadaprs #expressentry #expressentrycanada #immigration #esseindia

[bakouni-consulting]

BREAKING RECORD: Highest Number of Francophone Newcomers Welcomed to Canada since 2006

January 23, 2023—Sturgeon Falls, Ontario The Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Marie-France Lalonde, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister, and Marc G. Serré, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Official Languages, were at École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité in Sturgeon Falls to announce that Canada has achieved its target of 4.4% of…

[rotzaprachim]

the thing about “secret israeli restaurants” is americans are generally more positive to israelis than arabs so a vague restaurant is more likely to be hiding arab origins than israeli

pretty sure the og tweet poster was Canadian but yeahhhhh I read it and blinked about the antisemitism but I also read it and blinked about the fact that like bro… are you…. are you that fucking unaware about the extent of anti-Arab and anti-middle eastern racism in the us&canada? Are you that fucking obtuse? Oh my god. It literally doesn’t fucking matter what “origins” the restaurants are “hinting at” but I couldn’t fucking process how a white Canadian would think that “people who simply describe themselves/their business establishment as “middle eastern” or “Mediterranean” are inherently sketchy” is in any way a productive idea to have for literally anyone

a) a restaurant/establishment describing themselves as “Mediterranean” or “middle eastern” would be inherently sketchy and suspicious (as loaded as “middle eastern” itself is, “Mediterranean” can often be taken more positively in the west and anglophone/francophone worlds, after all nutritionists have been going on about the “Mediterranean diet) for a while) but also

B) that those people would inherently be (in his opinion) Zionists and/or Israelis

also feel this person has big “have never interacted with middle eastern person in my life” because as much as xenophobia and various other issues pushes people to go for either the “Mediterranean/middle eastern” marker, there’s plenty of other reasons why establishments go for those identifiers like.

1) a lottttt of Mediterranean diaspora families, due to immigration and intermarriage, really are franco-lebanese, or palestinain-Greek, or Ashkenazi Jewish and Algerian, or Moroccan Spaniards, or something like that, (check the Arabs, Jews, and Italians of the greater nyc area lol) and

2) in diasporic situations one (1) grocery store or deli often services OR competes with others for a broader market share, I’ve lived places where I regularly shopped at a Turkish/greek/arab grocery store (Labelled itself “Mediterranean”) and a Persian/armenian/arab grocery store (Labelled itself “middle eastern groceries”) because it would be dishonest to say that these grocery stores are for any one “nationality!” Walk into many a Mediterranean or middle eastern grocery store or deli and you’ll see Turkish products from Germany, maghrebi Jewish products from France, halal versions of jamón and chorizo, and labneh from lebanon next to Greek and Persian yogurt. My favorite local market once had an entire NOT HALAL!!!!! Fridge Labelled in three languages to store the frozen pork products for the Greek and Romanian markets next to the general halal cheese boreks.

I’m not saying this is the case everywhere or like it’s all peachy perfect in diaspora but this just comes across as someone who has a lot of political Ideas about Mediterranean & middle eastern people but haven’t met them in real life. Also it’s a love letter to the diaspora grocery store with 6+ ethnicities inside them and an entire wall of tomato pastes. If there’s one in your city you should patronize them! (Also note the fantastic phenomenon of the “Black Sea” grocery, the mass halal Mart, and the particular greater London “Indian Bangladeshi Sri Lankan Persian Pakistani polish” mart

Also lol gonna have to lol at the “I’m so angry these diaspora Israelis would hide their nationality in order to avoid harassment because I want to boycott and harass them”

[infocopa]

BÉNA: Bienvenue aux élèves nouvellement arrivés du palier élémentaire

Dans son rôle de coordinateur provincial du Programme des TÉÉ (travailleuses et travailleurs d’établissement dans les écoles), le COPA National a créé et mis en œuvre un modèle efficace pour faciliter l’intégration des élèves et des familles nouvelles arrivés dans les écoles de langue française de l’Ontario. ANNA est un des programmes de ce modèle. Il est offert par les TÉÉ aux élèves de la 9e à la 12e année qui apprennent à agir comme mentors et alliées et alliés auprès des élèves nouvellement arrivés. L’objectif d’ANNA est d’élargir le cercle d’alliées et d’alliés au sein d’une école pour que la communauté scolaire devienne plus accueillante pour les élèves nouvellement arrivés ce qui, bien sûr, facilite leur intégration.

Une version de ce programme très prisé est maintenant offerte aux élèves de la 4e à la 6e année dans le cadre d’un projet pilote dans des écoles élémentaires. J’ai rencontré Yollande Dweme Pitta, la directrice du Programme des TÉÉ, pour discuter de l’accueil réservé à ce programme. J’ai été touchée par son enthousiasme et sa joie de travailler avec les enfants et je me suis sentie profondément inspirée. J’aimerais partager avec vous une partie de son enthousiasme contagieux. Jusqu’à maintenant, les TÉÉ ne travaillaient qu’avec les parents des élèves des écoles élémentaires, mais le COPA National a décidé d’offrir le programme BÉNA (Bienvenue aux élèves nouvellement arrivés du palier élémentaire) dans quelques écoles élémentaires pour répondre à une forte demande de la part des élèves, des parents, tutrices et tuteurs et du personnel enseignant. Le programme a donc été mis à l’essai en octobre dernier dans une école élémentaire de Peterborough. Quatre autres écoles à Brampton, Mississauga, Ottawa et Waterloo font partie du projet pilote. L’atelier offert à Peterborough a remporté un énorme succès. Les enfants étaient heureux, les TÉÉ étaient positifs et l’école était reconnaissante. Yollande et son équipe ont été ravies de constater l’enthousiasme avec lequel les enfants ont répondu à l’offre « d’outils plutôt que de règles » qui renforcent les capacités des enfants et de toutes les personnes. Nous espérons qu’en proposant ces outils et stratégies aux enfants de cet âge, nous serons en mesure de les inspirer à continuer à jouer le rôle d’alliées et d’alliés à l’avenir. L’équipe du COPA National a personnalisé les ateliers pour répondre aux besoins des élèves de ce groupe d’âge en y intégrant les dernières recherches sur le développement de l’enfant. L’équipe a aussi adapté le contenu et les activités pour tenir compte de leur énergie dynamique et de leur nature joviale. Il était évident que les enfants ont adoré apprendre en jouant et c’est pourquoi ce travail a été si agréable pour Yollande et son équipe de TÉÉ. Les élèves ont passé la journée entière avec l’équipe du COPA National. Elles et ils ont participé à une discussion en cercle, à des jeux et à une chasse au trésor pour leur apprendre comment aider les élèves nouvellement arrivés à s’orienter dans l’école. L’équipe a donné l’exemple de scénarios et de stratégies. Les enfants les ont mis en application et ont pris part à des jeux de rôles - l’une des parties de la journée qu’elles et ils ont préférées. Selon Yollande, ces enfants sont des championnes et des champions naturels. Elles et ils ont utilisé immédiatement les outils qui leur ont été proposés, car elles et ils avaient un désir très fort d’aider et de soutenir les autres. Les enfants en avaient aussi beaucoup à dire sur ce qu’elles et ils apprenaient et ont fourni des rétroactions à l’équipe sur le moment. Comme le dit si bien Yollande, nous sous-estimons souvent la capacité des enfants à comprendre la complexité de certaines situations et à s’y intéresser, comme l’arrivée de nouveaux élèves dans leur école qui doivent faire face à un grand nombre de changements. Mais, les enfants sont très perspicaces, elles et ils comprennent et absorbent ce que nous faisons et apprennent en nous observant. Si nous sommes conscients de tout ce que les élèves apportent, nous apprenons à notre tour en les observant et en écoutant ce qu’elles et ils savent et ce dont elles et ils ont besoin. Notre approche au COPA National permet aux enfants de nous dire ce qu’elles et ils savent - et c’est ainsi que nous apprenons, car les enfants ont tant à partager avec nous (et nous avec elles et eux).

[foreficfandom]

Alastor - Historical Trivia And Headcanons

Alastor was a mixed-race Creole man living in New Orleans, and was in his 30's/40's when he died in 1933. We don't know much else about him, but historical context can provide us with possible additional details:

The population of New Orleans in 1930 was 458,762, more than it is now. 27.2% of the people were black, 3.1% were foreign-born, and roughly half of America's bipoc population was unemployed thanks to the Great Depression. New Orleans' original Francophonication was still strong, and it was common to run into locals who only spoke French dialects (Cajun French, Louisiana Creole). The city has had a huge Chinatown, a small Little Italy, and multiple other districts known for their immigrant African/colonized French cultures.

The Jim Crow laws were heavily enforced, as was the 'One Drop' rule. If Alastor was a mixed race black man, he would not have been able to attend a white school, use the same public transport, and would have shopped at black-local stores and restaurants under threat of violence. If he was mixed with any other race, some Jim Crow laws didn't apply, but state or city laws might specify differently.

Just because Alastor wears a suit, it doesn't mean he was rich in life. Radio personalities often didn't earn a fortune. Unless he owned his own broadcast, he was paid by a private company for long shifts of hosting music, news, and radio plays. In 1930, 40% of households owned at least one radio, which means that a popular radio host would have been easily recognized.

If he was in his late 30's in 1933, he might have fought in WW1, so long as he was over the age of 21. Some cities gave veterans small benefits, or encouraged the community to give them jobs. This often did not include veterans of color.

New Orleans was famous for being one of the least Christian cities in America, thanks to its unique immigrant and slave population. Haitian-based faiths and practices (such as voudo), indigenous cultures, Asian Buddhism, and atheism were common. But Christianity was still the official, law-enforced religion. Schooling involved reading the Bible, laws were sworn to Jesus, etc.

Alastor's outfit in Hazbin Hotel isn't very accurate to real-life American men's fashions of the time. Back then, deviating from the norm with the smallest detail would have stuck out like a sore thumb - like his white-lined lapels. Men always wore a hat. They were allowed to go without a waistcoat, but not a jacket. Belts were becoming more popular than suspenders. The silhouette was bulkier than the slimmer, Italian cuts of our modern times, especially the pants. Hair was kept short, and oiled down in a side part. Americans preferred the clean shaven look. Ties were essential unless you were a blue-collar laborer. Colors were almost universally muted neutral tones for everyday wear. The most colorful textiles for men were sporting outfits, like a tennis jacket.

If Alastor was a middle-class single man, he likely would have lived in an inner-city apartment, in an ethnic neighborhood. He probably didn't own a car, and took public transit like the streetcars. If he owned a house, it would likely have been an inheritance, and even the more opulent houses of the time would have looked small and plain to our eyes.

Because of the Great Depression, unmarried men were becoming the norm, rather than the exception. Men of the community who were sought after but remained single were suspect to gossip, but less ire than you might think; in the '30s, American queer culture was going through a very sharp revival, escaping the rigid Victorian era and before the puritan 40's/50's. But as a mixed-race man, it may have been illegal for a white woman to marry him, as the Jim Crow laws forbade the marriage of white people and Black/Asian people.

A middle class city household would have had electricity, gas heating, indoor plumbing, but may not have had running taps or a gas stove. Even with decent means, Alastor might have been using a potbelly woodburning stove, a dry sink/washbasin, wooden bathtub, and did his own laundry instead of sending it to the neighborhood laundresses. He may or may not have bothered with an icebox. Fresh groceries needed to be cooked and eaten soon, as things like pasteurized milk or store refrigeration wasn't a thing.

If he had enough money, then he almost certainly hired maids or other servants. Whether the maid came over just once a week, or did the shopping and laundry every other day, hired help was much more common back then, especially if he had no wife.

The most popular musicians in 1933 were Bing Crosby, George Olsen, and Leo Reisman. As you might have noticed, it was trendy for the lead singer to be backed by an orchestra, not a 'band' of just four other people like today. The most popular radio shows were Dick Tracy, Sherlock Holmes, and Doc Savage. They were recordings the radio station would buy and then broadcast, or sometimes the actors were live on the air. The radio host was usually not the journalist - the production team was responsible for writing his script.

[magz]

Generally, it would do better to learn more about other people and cultures and history, if you can.

And not just believe the racist anti-immigrant conservative colonizer or fascist propaganda that come from places like France, Spain, Italy, U.K., Australia, and such by believing they're all "just white" as default.

What am not saying: "Don't be mean to white people" "Never criticize Europe"

What am actually saying:

When making fun of European's ignorance of U.S. or pointing out Europe's atrocities --

it doesn't make sense to also stay ignorant about nonwhite people existing in Europe,

other countries in general,

the different indigenous peoples and cultural groups of different colonies globally,

the labor of the Global South and nonwhite immigrant laborors,

the cultural foods made by immigrants and nonwhite Europeans being a part of Europe and the colonies,

the consequences of global colonization by Europe and U.S. on the global south ...

For example: When a South Asian Brit or Francophone Black person or Black / Coloured South African or whomever else,

says they too exist or have a complex history.

Responding with "but you don't count, you aren't actually [nationality]. your food / language / culture isn't really a part of [insert country]." is as silly as saying "Black Southern food isn't American" to make it clear.

That's the type of thing fascists of those countries love to hear.

The majority of our audience is of U.S.

[sergeifyodorov]

plz share the willy xenophobia discussion at your leisure i would love to read about it

Right. So.

Willy was drafted in 2014, a top-ten pick with legacy pedigree, and unlike the other two in Toronto's Big Three, took a little longer to develop -- Marner spent his D+1 in the OHL before coming up, Matthews made the team right away, but Willy spent time in the SHL and about a year and a half in the Marlies before joining at the end of the 15-16 season, after Marner was drafted but before Matthews was. Needless to say, expectations of him weren't quite as high, but he was firmly expected to be part of the Big Rebuild, too.

He's also Swedish. The first Europeans in the NHL were Swedish, and to this day the highest proportion of non-North Americans is Swedish. However, in order to understand the Swedes, we have to talk about the Russians.

The 1972 Summit Series is probably the most important single event in the history of hockey -- eight games, the first true best-on-best in the world, since the NHL and the Olympics have always had a fraught relationship and they weren't allowed to attend. If we really wanted to talk about the Summit Series, we could be here for years, but, the point: on this particular world stage, it was finally understood that Europeans -- Russians, but everyone else, too -- played a different style of hockey, one that emphasized a side-to-side possession-based game instead of the Canadian dump-and-chase style. The Euro style involves far less checking. And less fighting.

North American (largely Canadian, but nonetheless) hockey has always had a culture of hypermasculinity around it, and this relative lack of violence, as well as pre-existing stereotypes of the time, gave the impression that Europeans were "soft."

Back to Willy. Go back to look at draft-era Willy, before he learns how to grow facial hair -- not Mitch's baby face, but not Auston's full-grown jawline. A layer of puppy fat that disguises all but the most defined of his muscles. Silky blond hair and a dopey smile. He dresses expensively, breaks into fits of giggles in interviews, doesn't seem to take anything as seriously as he should. Because this is Toronto, and we feel as if we are about to enter a new golden age, we expect the most out of our prospects -- solemnity, hard work, not a flaxen-haired nepotist idiot. Especially not a soft flaxen-haired nepotist idiot.

Willy Nylander, raised and trained on a different continent, doesn't hit much, preferring to carry his puck in than dump it. He's speedy, patient with a shot, would rather make a dangerous chance than one through three lanes of traffic. He doesn't fight, doesn't get mad, scores less when the team's really going, and he held out to the last possible moment in his RFA negotiations. Every single one of these drives people mad -- people here trailing all after Don Cherry.

If you're not familiar with Don Cherry, imagine the worst Leafs uncle you could possibly realize, give him opinions of similar attitude on the rest of the NHL, and then understand that he had a national platform for decades. Cherry, fervent nationalist that he is, touted the "tough" Canadian forechecking style, adored players who would walk off injuries -- never mind their lives afterwards -- and once expressed his disdain for visors (you know, the thing that... protects your eyes... and a lot of your face...) by saying that only the Europeans and Francophones liked them. (He also got kicked off of Hockey Night in Canada for anti-immigrant statements. Yee haw.)

Cherry hated Nylander the entire time, explicitly citing his Swedishness (and implying a lack of toughness, or winning quality, which he equated) as a reason that the Leafs would never win with him. Here's an article from right around draft day with Cherry's opinion -- he says the Leafs, should they choose to contend, should forgo Europeans and instead take Canadians. He also cites Ritchie's high penalty-minute count as a valuable item. (I don't know about you, but generally I think regularly putting your team on the penalty kill is a detriment, not a strength).

Furthermore, there's a poll at the end of this article asking the reader if they think Cherry was right. Most people think he was. He was hugely popular not only because he was a charismatic figure (I keep talking about him as if he's dead; he's not, just no longer working) but because his ideas were popular. People believed, and still very much do, that Swedishness is softness and that softness is bad. And as -- as a Leaf -- arguably one of the most visible Swedes in the NHL, one of those tasked with shouldering the weight of the most known franchise, Willy bore a lot of it.

I think part of the reason I didn't mention it in the original post was because unlike Mitch, Willy doesn't seem to let it get to him a lot -- he's a blissfully oblivious Barbie-doll idiot -- and, again, because expectations on him weren't quite as high. That being said, it's still important to discuss imho !

[citoyen-rouge]

"What does it mean to inherit a legacy bathed in both glory and blood?"

Nearing the end of Law School, Enjolras is bent on confronting the French colonialism from which his family profited. Caught between his own identity as an immigrant and yet and inheritor of the French colonial germ, he rallies his closest friends to start a francophone social justice group to begin confronting this legacy.

Across the city, Grantaire runs in very different circles, making it from pay-check to pay-check and struggling with the fallout of addiction in his own life and amongst those he loves most.

When chance brings these two worlds crashing together, it is doomed to end in blood, but perhaps not before meaning can be found in the messy tangle of it all.

Summer Does Not Abdicate by Euryalus

[viktoriakomova]

i want to make this a separate post instead of tacking it onto the last post i reblogged, because a) i feel like its getting way too far away from the point of the OP and as someone who has been in that position several times on my main blog its annoying as shit, and b) i dont want it to feel like anybody is ganging up on OP or "dragging" them or whatever, i dont think what they said was mean spirited or came from a place of bad faith etc etc etc. (if i did i would have been a whole fucking lot meaner in replying lmfao) and i also dont think anything it said was Wrong tbh.

okay all that being said!

i will put my tags of my last reblog in the main text here, because this is something i want to expand on:

not to get too Deep about it but. the colonizing countries literally have more wealth and resources and opportunity *because* th#*they stole so much from the global south. they have the $ and the stability to develop ‘frivolous’ things like gym#at the direct expense of the colonies who are left penniless and in perpetual chaos and upheaval

(for context this is re: children of immigrants in diaspora and their connections to their parents'/grandparents' homelands and culture, and maintaining those ties when the reason they came to the global north are for increased opportunity for success and upward mobility etc.)

i wont turn this into a treatise on economic exploitation and its consequences like i alluded to in the tags (i would if i had like 3 glasses of wine tho lol) but the following is something i really do want to underscore:

i love nemour for a lot of reasons. the gymnastics itself, yes of course. i know i snark and make jokes all the time about her shitting on the FFG every time she does anything great under the 🇩🇿 flag. but sincerely, what she is doing for gymnastics in algeria, in north africa in general (hell even in africa overall given the attention that african champs got because of her), is truly something special. i will admit that i dont stay on top of algerian sports media lol but i do speak french and what ive seen, just what has come across my radar, in the francophone algerian press (both in france and in algeria) is drumming up major excitement about her. this is the kind of attention that gets people who otherwise wouldnt give a shit emotionally invested in the sport. the social and historical baggage of the treatment of algeria and algerians in france, and the olympics being in paris, is just the icing on the cake.

its not exactly the same dynamic, especially not in terms of the Discourse about resources and access in diaspora, but i cant help but to be reminded of daiane dos santos, who famously started the sport at the age of 12. and only 8 years later she became a world champion on floor. she was the first world champion in WAG from brazil, south america entirely in fact, ever!!!! rebeca andrade mentions her all the time as an inspiration for her as a little girl. rebe went out of her way (i mean that figuratively as well as very literally, we all know the story about her brothers escorting her through the favela to the gym and back) to do the sport, because she saw dos santos do great things and looked up to her. and now shes REBECA FUCKING ANDRADE. would we have Rebe™ if it hadnt been for daiane? no probably not!

i guess it just..... not "upsets" me, thats not the word im looking for, but maybe gives me pause when i see anybody say (about any of the aforementioned US-born gymnasts representing other countries, not just in this case with nemour) that its opportunistic or undeserved to be competing under the flag of a country your parent(s) came from but you've never properly lived in. because...... isnt that the whole purpose of the multi-generational Narrative Arc? dont they pick up their whole lives and move to "wealthy" countries to pursue better lives for themselves, and more importantly, for their children? and then their children do take advantage of those opportunities they would not have gotten back "home" and reach the highest levels of a (very expensive and, until very recently, highly "inaccessible") sport. and then there's a chorus of "well it isn't like she's FROM from there and came up from the ranks within that country." i mean you're not wrong but thats.... kinda the point!!! she couldnt have done it at "home," shes a clear example of how much talent there is in places that are torn apart and dirt fucking poor and how if you give those people the opportunity, they can be really fucking good at this! world class, even!

she is, in a very REAL sense, "representing" algeria. if she does well in paris (🧿🧿🧿🧿 *furiously knocking on every wooden surface in my apt*) she will become an emblematic iconic sports star for algeria. she will be the reason a ton of little girls in algeria (and even franco-algériennes in france) will want to sign up for gymnastics! she will have (and has already had, by the looks of it) a tangible impact on the popularity and the future of the sport in algeria. it cannot be overstated how fucking much that means.