#neocolonization

[flawlest]

[raging-guanche]

funny how canarians are agressive and xenophobic for telling Europeans to stop overpopulating, exploiting, stealing recourses and disrespecting our islands and culture, but europeans treating us like shit is okay and not racist at all and it obviously doesn't reinforce colonialist mindset.

[sweetlovingoldsoul]

[creepy-scrawl]

I forgot how fucking rude usamericans are like I was eating normally at the "restaurant" and a bunch of mormon missionaries came and did not greet. and whatever I shouldnt care that much but It fucking boiled my blood when everybody leaving or enetring would tell them "provecho" and they'll be like 🙄🙄🙄 and say nothing to them... Like idk what to tell ya. It is costumary here to greet and if you don't speak the language or more importantly don't care about the manners you can fuck off to your shit hole country omfg

I was this close to tell them "se dice gracias pinche gringo maricon☠️☠️☠️"

[cassiterite-tenring]

hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don't want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn't even a work holiday for us.

june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day

happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

[all-doggirls-go-to-heaven-2]

Man Im glad Kosa didnt pass and all but let me tell you how joker-fying it is to rely on another country's decision on what the ENTIRE internet should look like and you can't even do the posturing bit of "calling your reps" because they're NOT your reps, you're simply a neocolonized idiot.

Like I know I'm supposed to be happy but the reality that a law passed in the US would directly affect the platforms I make money, in Brazil, is kind of depressing.

[snowtamale]

it's 2024 i promise there's good food and liquor in countries outside of france, italy, and japan. i would love to see food shows not based at all on those "cuisines"

[komsomolka]

MI6 general cosigning his emails (about the secret project aimed to neocolonize russia thru ukraine war) with "LGBTQ advocate"😃 from here.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By John Parker

Today’s most dangerous period of the push towards World War III by Western imperialism – led by U.S. imperialism, which also leads NATO – can only succeed with the participation and obedience of the former colonized and neocolonized governments and peoples.

However, the Aug. 12-13 Forgotten Peoples: International Conference to Decolonize the World" in Abuja, Nigeria, made it clear that the anti-imperialist organizations, activists, and youth in the colonized orbit will more likely become the gravediggers of the imperialists.

[alien-in-the-mirror]

You say that but there IS an epidemic of white trans women wanting to look like anime girls who constantly act like children and give themselves eating disorders just to look like gooner bait waifus

i opened up my inbox last night because i was needy and this is the first ask i got since then

you are insanely racist. but leaving that aside, i live in argentina, the country with the biggest amount of disordered eating in the world. do you ever stop to think why that might be? if maybe there are other cultural factors at play in a neocolonized nation that make it be so? be for fucking real anon

[sweetlovingoldsoul]

Maya warrior

[quixoticanarchy]

ok you cannot have the post being slightly facetiously negative about industrial production anymore i am putting it on a high shelf. sometimes capitalism is NOT the only problem at hand. sometimes the entire mode of industrial production and the harm built into the supply chains that allow us to have consumer goods and electronics is flatly unsustainable. and cruel. and there is no guarantee socialism would fix that. we cannot haul minerals and other resources out of the earth at this pace forever, or even for that much longer. "the machines aren't the problem the capitalists are the problem" i am SO sorry to break it to you but the (production of) machines are in fact sometimes the problem. the demand for smartphones and the rare earth metals they contain IS a problem. the astronomical amounts of cobalt and lithium you'd need to produce batteries enough to transition the world's fleet of cars to electric ARE a problem. the fact that "green energy" technologies (solar panels, lithium-ion batteries, etc) still require mass-scale extraction of rare earth and "conflict" minerals IS a problem. the human and ecological costs of extracting the resources to make the machines (not to mention the waste when they're disposed of) ARE a problem.

you want fully automated luxury socialism or something, do you? how many people in neocolonized countries are you willing to sacrifice? who gets to partake in that fully automated fantasy? who is mining the cobalt? even if you could dismantle capitalism overnight and have whatever your preferred alternative is, if you envision maintaining something akin to the western consumer lifestyle (in terms of both consumption of goods and of energy) then you will be guaranteeing that many people continue to suffer to produce the materials that enable it.

and before anyone comes at me accusing me of being a primitivist who naïvely hates all machines, i'll say once again i am a type 1 diabetic who relies on devices that use batteries and a lot of plastic and a functioning industrial medical supply chain. i do want to have my insulin pump - i don't want people paying in blood for me to have it! of all technologies to preserve that rely on resource extraction, i would want to prioritize livesaving medical shit and figuring out what options exist for doing things differently and less harmfully. the end of capitalism would be great. but saying "oh well without capitalism we can have all the machines we want without any of the problems and live in automated luxury" is fucking ridiculously naïve

[ghostsofharrenhal]

oda gave the most serious and realistic and cunning laugh to donquixote doflamingo and it's absolutely saying something. doffy is the villain and what's scary is how he's an amalgam of all the worst things in humanity. it's fucking insane - seeing doflamingo is too real. even more so watching him through the lens of a person of color (i the viewer) whose country has lived through centuries of colonization and at present, neocolonization and its lasting effects.

[praisedbesophia]

im lightskin quarter latine whose greatgrandparents deliberately did not teach their son mexican culture or even to speak spanish hoping he would have better opportunities. then he and his daughter married very white europeans. i look white, culturally im white, but theres something missing in me, i feel lost and theres freedom and an overwhelming sense of place in the deserts of the southwest(my home already), the flow of the spanish tongue(estoy aprendiendo), the flavors of the cuisine, everything.

i feel a strong (though currently broken) connection to my ancestry and pull towards mexican culture, but im very concerned about appropriating or claiming something never meant for me. i knew i wasnt ready for any of the spirituality, but reading your blog made me realize it may never be available to me.

do you have any advice for a young person trying to reconnect with their ancestors' culture?

im still not even sure i can claim to be latine, or if even that much is inappropriate

Hi anon! I'm excited to hear that you're interested in reconnecting to Mexican and Latine culture. One thing I would recommend (and it seems you're already doing this considering you sent me an ask) is to reach out to and interact with people who were raised in the culture. Here on Tumblr it would mean not only following Mexicans and other Latines, but also reblogging our posts. And not just the "fun" ones. We absolutely do notice how whiteblr is quick to reblog pictures of Santa Muerte but ignore posts that discuss things like the absolute racism and vileness of "Mexican coquette", or the neocolonialism of Mexico and other Latin American countries

For example, I have mentioned in the past that non-Latine westerners have moved into Indigenous and rural Mexican communities and have either driven out the locals (many of whom whose families have lived in those same communities for literal centuries) or else have unofficially introduced segregation with the locals getting the short end of the stick. I am not exaggerating when I say that there are banks, restaurants, grocery stores, hotels, schools etc. in Mexico that will not serve Mexicans. These exist solely for (non-Latine white) western neocolonizers. Sadly but unsurprisingly, my posts and similar posts by other Mexicans have been all but ignored by whiteblr

Which brings me to another point. It is important that you acknowledge your whiteness and privileges it gives you. Understand that you will most likely be perceived as gringo by most Mexicans. In fact most Latines will likely perceive you as gringo. This isn't meant to discourage you; it is simply a fact. Even my dad and I who aren't remotely white passing by US standards have been perceived as gringos — which in Mexican culture typically refers to a non-Latine white USAmerican — by other Mexicans because we are light skinned USAmerican native English speakers

There are people who will tell you that you will never be able to claim Mexican culture. Ignore them. I have found that most of those people aren't even Mexican in the first place. Many aren't even Latines. And the ones that are often turn out to be xenophobic and white supremacist. Yes, the legal definition may say one thing, but the legal definition isn't the cultural definition. I have cousins who do not fit the legal definition of Mexican whatsover, yet they are still Mexican. They walk through this world as Mexicans. The only people to have ever told them that they're not Mexicans? I'm sure you can guess

Claiming Latine may be a little more complicated. There are many who believe that the term Latine should only apply to people raised in Latin America or who have a parent raised in Latin America. The Mexican definition of Latine is more relaxed, but even we would give dirty looks to someone with absolutely no connection to Mexico or Latin America whatsoever (beyond some distant unknown ancestor) claiming Latine

This is not out of xenophobia. Rather this is a response to racist and xenophobic attempts by non-Latine white westerners to redefine and claim Latine and Latin American for themselves within recent years after centuries of dehumanizing us and deeming our cultures inferior

Learning Spanish is of course a good idea. Becoming fluent isn't necessary — I'm not, and it was my first language as a small child — but you should learn enough to at least communicate in full sentences. Plus learning Spanish will allow you greater interaction with Latamblr. Many Latines on here write their posts mostly if not entirely in Spanish or Portuguese. Some do it because they don't know how to read or write in English. Others for other reasons

Do you know where your great grandparents were from? Mexican culture is rich and varied. Each state is its own traditions, cuisine, dress, dialects, music, etc. White rice (often cooked with butter) is a common part of the diet in Jalisco where my mother is from. Yet my paternal grandparents from Chihuahua had literally never even eaten white rice until one of their daughters married a Chinese man. And let's not forget Californio, Tejano, Nuevomexicano, Sonoran Chicano cultures. These cultures are often dismissed and degraded (even by other Mexicans) but they too are rich

I am also grateful for you admitting that you are not ready to engage with Mexican spirituality and may likely never be able to. However, should you choose to look into Mexican spirituality in the future, please keep this in mind: Mexican spirituality is heavily Catholic. Mexico is the second most Catholic country in Latin America (Brazil takes first place). More specifically, Mexican spirituality centers heavily around La Virgen de Guadalupe. In fact one of our most famous hymns is called La Guadalupana, and in that hymn is a verse that claims devotion to La Virgen de Guadalupe as essential to being Mexican

Many of us find it offensive and insulting when people attempt to separate Catholicism and devotion to Guadalupe from Mexican Spirituality. Even some Indigenous Mexicans have expressed finding this offensive and insulting because while it's true that most Indigenous Mexican religions and spiritual traditions predate the Catholic Church in Mexico, even many of those have been influenced and permanently altered by Catholicism

[catgirlcommissar]

Hatred and violence. I think all European social democracies should have to deal with even half of what they inflict on colonized and neocolonized people

[elfilibusterismo]

Should we still insist in the axiomatic dualism of objective truth and subjective interpretation in accounts of fraught, emotionally charged events? Should we not consider the exigencies of the dialogic communication: who are the parties involved? In what historical moment or sequence of events should we frame this controversy? In what arena or set of circumstances can a citizen of a dominant global power question the veracity or truth-telling competence of a citizen of a subordinated country without this act being considered an imperial intrusion and imposition? Can the investigation of individual facts or events in these dependent poli-ties be considered legitimate as sources of “objective” knowledge without taking into account the hierarchical ordering of nation-state relations in the existing interstate system? What attitude should researchers from these powerful centers of learning adopt that will dispel the suspicion that “Third World” peoples are partisans of a neocolonizing program, if not unwitting instruments, of their rapacious governments?

— E. San Juan Jr., US Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines