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I wonder if that's tension caused by lack of assimilation, or more because of fundamental injustices towards people with that heritage. There isn't a racial "La
by lostcolony 5y ago
I wonder if that's tension caused by lack of assimilation, or more because of fundamental injustices towards people with that heritage. There isn't a racial "Latinx" flag, so I can see waving a country's flag, not as a political statement but as a "I and those with my heritage and skin color should not be second class citizens".
Lack of assimilation can also look like, say, ethnic neighborhoods within a city; neighborhoods where local businesses clearly target particular ethnicities, such as where English is given second class status for signage, if it appears at all. And while that makes some people mad, honestly, I kinda like it. Anyone who has gone to a city's "Chinatown", or headed for restaurants on Buford Highway in Atlanta, or similar, knows that creating cultural enclaves like that can create enough economic demand to sustain non-Americanized practices, and that's both beneficial on the individual level, and I can't help but think also beneficial on the broader societal level in ensuring a feeling of emotional comfort and safety for those of that ethnicity, and allowing others to be exposed to different cultures and expectations, beyond simply "the foreigners they see on TV".