#white latin americans

[latin-american-diversity]

A Chilean Man of Palestinian ancestry partakes in a pro-Palestinian protest

Chilean-Palestinians

Outside of the Levant and the Arabian Gulf nations, Chile is home to the largest Palestinian diaspora in the world with up to 500 thousand Chileans having Palestinian ancestry. 

Palestinian immigration to the country began in the middle of the 19th century during the Ottoman rule. Like other immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, whether Arab, Slavic, Assyrian, or Greek; Palestinians were often called Turcos (Turks) since they usually entered the country with Turkish documentation. This denominate remains common in Chile and neighbouring Latin American countries to this day; which has erroneously lead many Latin Americans with non-Turkish ancestry and little information about family history, to be under the impression that they are of Turkish ancestry. 

Historically, the majority of Palestinians that arrived in Chile were Eastern Orthodox Christians, as most countries in Latin America barred the immigration of Muslims; for this reason there are more Christian Palestinian descendants in Chile than in Palestine itself. However, in recent times Chile has also taken in Palestinian refugees, the majority being Sunni Muslims. 

Many of the first waves of Palestinian immigrants lived in abject poverty and were illiterate. In addition to this like many other immigrant groups to Latin America, particularly those coming from the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and East Asia they were faced with xenophobia; a product of Chilean nationalism and rising post-independence ethnic/racial tensions. This xenophobia spread as far as the Chilean media, with one of country’s oldest national newspapers "El Mercurio,” writing:

“Whether they are Mohammedans or Buddhists, what one can see and smell from far, is that they are more dirty than the dogs of Constantinople...“

Despite the fact that the majority of people coming from the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe were Christian, the stigma of living in an empire ruled by Muslims or around Muslims was enough for them and other Christians such as Slavs, Greeks, and Armenians to be targets of Islamophobic sentiments that were prominent in Iberian American societies. 

Similar to other immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, many Palestinians began to work in commerce as merchants. This factor alongside their gradual assimilation into the white Chilean population, began their upward social mobilization. By the 1950′s Palestinian Chileans garnered a significant economic and political position in Chilean society, a good example of this is the recent presidential candidacy of Daniel Jadue.

The majority of Chilean Palestinians are inhabit the nations capital, and also the city of La Calera in Valparaiso Region, which attracted not only Palestinian immigrants but also other Levantine, Balkan, Italian, French, and German migrants.

[mueritos]

happy pride to all queer children of immigrants

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[agelessphotography]

Basket of Light, Flor Garduño, 1989

[bigbeauty0528]

GRACIE🍒 🇵🇦

[11oh1]

[semioticapocalypse]

Eric Thake. Latin American Jazz. 1970

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[aprofessionalwithoutstandards]

Why do you talk about white people as though you aren't white passing yourself

This is the funniest ask I have ever gotten in my entire life. Full context everybody this is because I said Scout tf2 wears dog tags bc he's a white boy

[whatever-you-can-give-me]

[ID: two images of wolfwood, from trigun 98 and trigun stampede, in similar fully sunlit lighting conditions, chosen specifically to show design similarities: light brown skin (98 wolfwood has a cooler undertone to his skin, stampede a warmer tone) a prominent nose bridge (more visible in the image of 98 wolfwood, straight with a slight curve) an open shirt collar, and a noticeably oversized jacket, as well as the way the punisher dwarfs their frames. End ID]

i’ve been thinking about the virulent unpersoning of stampede wolfwood again and while i’m not saying that criticisms of the stampede designs are complete unfounded. it’s not like studio orange was reinventing the wheel here. wolfwood is one of the most similar designs of the bunch, really, milly pending.

also. for the record. i’m not east asian so it’s not really my place to take this personally. but…

[ID: one of the earliest panels of wolfwood in the trigun manga, notable for the same oversized suit jacket as his later iterations and the way his eyes are drawn, almond-shaped and angled to imply a monolid, beside a photo of tortoise matsumoto (frequently cited as wolfwood’s main design inspiration) a japanese man in a suit with a wide smile and a prominent nose bridge). End ID]

[ID: a later illustration of wolfwood from trigun maximum, in color. his skin tone is closer to the reference of matsumoto above, with the same warm yellow undertone as stampede wolfwood’s design. his eyes are brown, once again with the almond shape and implied monolid. End ID]

…just something to think about, i suppose, next time the discourse carousel comes back around to various wolfwoods canon and fanon not being Of Color enough.

[disease]

GBRRRL JOHNSEN / “XL2” / 2023 from series THE IDLE RADIATIONS [10 P/D x-ray scans | 2:3 format .PNGs]

[latin-american-diversity]

Chilean Huaso’s During a Rodeo

“A huaso is a Chilean countryman and skilled horseman, similar to the American cowboy or Mexican charro, the gaucho of Argentina, Uruguay and Rio Grande Do Suland the Australian stockman. A female huaso is called a huasa, although the term china is far more commonly used for his wife or sweetheart, whose dress can be seen in cueca dancing. Huasos are found all over Central and Southern Chile while the Magallanes Region sheep raisers are gauchos. The major difference between the huaso and the gaucho is that huasos are involved in farming as well as cattle herding.” - Victor Englebert

[maranull]

baguette. olive paste. feta. cucumber. tomato.

top sandwich, rare greek W

[agelessphotography]

Habana, Raúl Cañibano, 2006

[redheadbigshoes]

Why Americans, especially among other Americans, love to act as if they aren’t American?

I mean people who act like “I’m Latine” (but they only have like a very distant relative who was Latine, they don’t speak spanish/portuguese and their culture is fully American).

Idk it seems a lot of people act like this just to be seen as more cool and special, because most of the time from what I’ve seen they’re not in touch with said culture at all.

[ilexdiapason]

what surprises me the most about the "white tumblr simultaneously telling on themselves that they don't engage with rap (alongside other notably black music genres)" is like. this is the fucking hamilton website, isn't it???????? you DO listen to rap because we were all out there memorising the daveed diggs section of guns and ships when we were fifteen, right?????????

[cinematic-literature]

Pamela, A Love Story (2023) by Ryan White

Book title

Letters to a Young Poet (1929) by Rainer Maria Rilke

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (1991), edited by Diane K. Osbon

Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν in Ancient Greek; 180 A.D.) by Marcus Aurelius