#minorites

[conatic]

Le droit des groupes minoritaires face à la Justice Belge (Europe)

[useless-catalanfacts]

A day in the life of someone who posts on the internet in Catalan *cue dozens of Spanish people asking "what's wrong with your mouth", ordering him to speak in Spanish or "in Christian", saying he's rude for speaking in Catalan, calling him "polaco" (derogatory Spanish word to mean a Catalan person), calling the Catalan language a dialect, saying he is possessed because he's speaking Catalan, etc*

This is a video by Sergi Mas showing some of the comments he gets on YouTube. He makes videos about mountain biking that he posts on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. And the first comment he got on his first YouTube video was already someone telling him he should do it in Spanish.

Some days ago, another creator who posts his videos in Catalan (Joan Sendra, find him on Instagram and TikTok) answered to a Spanish person who was complaining that it's rude to speak Catalan/Valencian on the internet instead of Spanish because then there's people who don't understand you (as if everyone in the world spoke Spanish lmao). Joan, who is tired of getting this kind of comments so often, answered: there are already endless videos and things to watch on the internet in Spanish. In fact, if you look for [the topic he was talking about in the video that this guy commented] all the videos are in Spanish except for mine. And yet you had to come to me, the one in Valencian, and tell me that I can't make a video in my language and that I can only make it in yours. If you don't like it, it's so easy to find another one!

However, it's not a matter of actually being interested in what's being said in a language they don't speak. It's about the imposition of the language they consider superior (Spanish) and telling speakers of the languages whose land Spain had occupied that they are useless and should be ashamed of existing in public. Well, we aren't. Like Sergi's video, don't let the comments disturb your macarrons.

[minglana]

today is the last day to sign the petition to keep aragonese and catalan protected under aragonese law

so please if you have a minute, sign the petition

[beautiful-basque-country]

I've given a try to Tumblr Communities and so MINORITIZED CULTURES has been born!

If you wanna show the world your culture, learn about different minoritized cultures - or cultures that are very much ignored by Western media -, reconnect with one, discover languages and history, and/or share struggles and joys, this is the place!

[agrebel18]

“we need more m/f friendships in media that stay platonic due to heteronormativity that’s rooted in homophobia/aphobia plus women and men can actually be good friends without romance” and “having m/f romances aren’t inherently bad especially if the people involved are fat, disabled, neurodivergent, and/or people of color because queer people aren’t the only marginalized group that need to be represented” are two statements that can and should coexist. 

[quatregats]

What if The Frogs and the Lobsters but they actually set it in the real Muzillac and Mariette was Breton

[racketti]

homophobic/transphobic billy fans are NOT welcome in this fandom!!! 🚫

It's not whether you like harringrove or not, it's your behavior. you can dislike a ship without being an asshole about it, or you're just acting like the antis.

you can't stand a fictional ship/headcanon for some reason? it's not our fault, don't blame us. turn off the phone or something.

[thenixkat]

whenever I see fuckers in the fandom saying that Dunmeshi handles racism well I'm like, no the fuck it didn't.

And I very much suspect the folks saying it does probably don't experience racism on a daily basis. Or have to work closely with people who are openly racist as hell on a regular basis.

We get informed that characters are bigots, experience secondhand bigotry to characters getting macro or microaggressed, none of the characters are shown to actually challenge their beliefs or change them, and the characters that are actively openly bigots receive no comeuppance for it and are supposed to be on some level relatable.

That is not handling the topic of racism in a work well. That's an example of a creator who doesn't really think it's a big deal.

(the same way how the folks who go 'well everyone is a little racist' are just bigots who think that everyone thinks like they do and are the same kinda people who say shit like 'everyone had a nazi phase when they were a teen')

[alechans-cutetickles]

🇮🇹:Perfavore fattemi felice cioe pk far parte della communita dell solletico essendo minore FA SCHIFO?! CIOE MI SI SPEZZA IL CUORE QUANDO UN BLOG DI SL DICE "MINORS DNI" MA PK ODIATE I MINORI?!?! (Ho 14 anni)

🇺🇸:pls cheer me up like why be in the tickle community has a minor IT'S SUCK LIKE..MY HEART GET BROKED WHEN A TK BLOG SAY "MINORS DNI" WHY U ALL HATE MINORI!?!? (I'm 14)

[useless-catalanfacts]

Sweden saying they'll vote against allowing the use of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the European Union Parliament because "there's lots of minority languages and we can't allow them all" is so funny because CATALAN HAS MORE SPEAKERS THAN SWEDISH

Catalan is the 13th most spoken language in the EU. It has more than 10 million speakers, which means it has more speakers than other languages that are already official EU languages like Maltese (530,000), Estonian (1.2 million), Latvian (1.5 million), Irish (1.6 million), Slovene (2.5 million), Lithuanian (3 million), Slovak (5 million), Finnish (5.8 million), Danish (6 million), Swedish (10 million), and Bulgarian (10 million).

Neither Galician (3 million) nor Basque (750,000) would still be the least spoken languages to be allowed in the EU representative bodies.

But even if any of them did, so what? Why do speakers of smaller languages deserve less rights than those of bigger languages? How are we supposed to feel represented by the EU Parliament when our representatives aren't even allowed to speak our language, but the dominant groups can speak theirs?

It all comes down to the hatred of language/cultural diversity and the belief that it's an inconvenience, that only the languages of independent countries have any kind of value while the rest should be killed off. After all, isn't that what Sweden has been trying to do to the indigenous Sami people for centuries?

[scentedpastaclodsoul]

Parlam un pauc de l'occitan (Let's talk about occitan)

L'occitan es una langa que se parla dins lo sud de França, al nòrd d'Itàlia, dins la Val d'Aran, en Catalunya. Es una lenga romanica que fa pas partida de las lengas oficialas en França mas qu'es ensenhada dins d'unas escòlas e universitats. Se retròba dins l'occitan diferent dialèctes, aicí es de lengadocian. L'Estat francés en unificant lo país astors d'una lenga comuna a participat activament a l'esfaçament de nòstra lenga e de nòstra cultura. Son ensenhament èra defendut, los ensenhaires que parlavan occitan son estats remplaçats e se los escolans parlavan occitan a l'escòla èran punís fisicament. Uèi, nòstra lenga es "en dangièr seriós d'extincion" segon l'UNESCO. L'occitan es pas la sola lenga regionala a aver subte aquò. Totas la diversitat lingüistica en França es estada tocada.

Occitan is a language spoken in southern France, northern Italy, the Aran Valley and Catalonia. It is a Romance language that is not an official language in France but is taught in some schools and universities. Within Occitan itself there are different dialects, here it is Languedocien. The French state, by unifying the country around a common language, has actively participated in the erasure of our language and culture. Its teaching was forbidden, teachers who spoke Occitan were replaced and if pupils spoke Occitan at school they were physically punished. Today, our language is "in serious danger of extinction" according to UNESCO. Occitan is not the only regional language to have suffered this. All linguistic diversity in France has been affected.

[minglana]

occitan is now available on google translate.... at the cost of using ai for it

google translate has incorporated 110 new languages to its translator, including breton, occitan, or sami, for example. thanks to its ai language model, it has relative ease to learn languages that are related to each other.

if you do not want to use google and/or diminish the use of ai, other translators such as apertium, softcatala, or deepl are available (albeit with less languages)

[beautiful-basque-country]

with Basque being a difficult language to learn, how often do you meet someone who proficiently speaks it as a second language ?

"With Basque being a difficult language to learn".

Anon, I can't believe you internalized the same old lie about Basque difficulty - led by French and Spanish nationalists - whose only intention is to promote it as a second-class language, unable to gain new speakers, suffocate any real interest in learning it by making it appear impossible for non-natives, and eventually lead it to extinction.

Language difficulty depends not only on its grammar, script, vocabulary, etc., but also on learners' skill, dedication, mother tongue, other learnt languages, available resources, etc.

Mandarin Chinese is often considered one of the most difficult languages to learn and still it has 100s of millions of speakers as a second language.

Basque is not a hard language to learn: it uses Latin script, has lots of Latin loanwords, very few grammatical exceptions, and mostly very clear phonemes. It's not an impossible language that will take years and years to dominate. In the Official Schools of Languages in Spain, it takes students around 5-6 years to achieve C1 level.

I've personally met Moroccan, Polish, Catalan, Senegalese, and Russian people that spoke perfect Basque. Even here on Tumblr there are people from different parts of the world that learnt /are learning Basque on their own, with limited resources, and making such an incredible job.

Stop the propaganda: everybody can learn Basque - or any other language for that matter.

[caruliaa]

YOU DUMBASSES IN AMERICA ARE GONNA SUCK IT UP AND DO WHAT WE DID OR IM GOING TO GO OVER THERE AND KILL MYSELF IF FRONT OF ALL OF YOU IM NOT JOKINGGG OH MY FUCKING GOD !!!! THE TORIES DIDNT NEED PROJECT 2025 FOR US TO GET RID OF THEM SO WHY ARE YOU STILL ARGUING OVER BIDEN WHEN TRUMP BEING ELECTED AGAIN IS GOING TO LIKE. ACTUALLY RUIN ALL OF YOUR LIVES AND BLOW BACK ON THE REST OF THW WORLD TOO OHH MY GOD !!!

[scintillatingscotoma]

I'll be honest I'm one of those people who hates men more than I love women

[technician-x]

Vote this year. Don't care if you "aren't interested in politics" or whatever the hell, if you care about the people of this country, go and vote. The only reason we have so many pseudo-nazis in the house right now is because the Republicans have manipulated the young into not voting. You may miss the election but you know who won't? Former/current KKK members, neonazis, racists, homophobics, and many other hateful groups. You NEED to vote if you want to avoid these scumbags putting their puppets into office to make the lives of minorities absolute hell. The Republicans have only taken rights away in the past decade, I know you don't want to lose any more rights than you've already lost.