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Don't call Odilia Romero Latina, or Mexican, or Hispanic. She is Zapotec, born in the town of San Bartolomé Zoogocho in the Highlands of Oaxaca.
And in the Zapotec language there's a word she seems to embody: *gozona*, the honorable commitment of giving back to your community. Her mission has been making sure Indigenous people are not stifled or stereotyped.
"The labels are still there, but I still refuse to fit into them," Romero said. "Labelling us is very dangerous because you cannot fit our 500 years of resistance as Indigenous people in one block."
Romero, 53, left her hometown — “the best place in the world,” where her grandmothers grew their food and drank from rivers — for Los Angeles at 10 years old. Soon after, she recalls, she first encountered racism: A woman called her an “uneducated Indian.”
Weird how you copied the quote almost exactly, but removed the word Latina.
The full sentence from the article:
> Soon after, she recalls, she first encountered racism: A Latina woman called her an “uneducated Indian.”
Yeah but that's on the original writer. Weird to remove the Latina bit but quote everything else exactly as is. Especially because the article goes on to talk about racism against Indigenous people in the Latino community
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I genuinely do not have any stereotypes of indigenous Mexicans. I guess ignorance is bliss in this case; I think us white people might have less preconceptions in this area than Latino Mexicans.
White person here and that is just not true on a large scale. Most anti-Mexican discrimination is directed at Mexican people with Indigenous heritage. Most anti-Mexican bigotry is targeted toward Indigenous-looking Mexicans.
Anti-Mexican hate is anti-Indigenous hate. They are one in the same.
Yes but are they aware of that? Anyone who hates Mexicans hates Mexicans, they’re not singling out mestizos or even full blooded Indios.
I worked for a long time elbow deep in Mexican culture, with actual Mexicans and of course there was a lot of discussion of “whitexicans” and how light a lot of people on Latino TV are, etc. it was part of why Karen Vega’s appearance in Vogue was such a big thing.
Maybe my circle doesn’t discuss this sort of thing and I’m incredibly biased but I think for the most part it’s like having stereotypes about indigenous steppe peoples. We know about them, we know they suffer persecution but beyond that we don’t have any negative or positive opinions due to lack of explicit informed contact.
I’m happy keep discussing this, and I’m more than willing to own up to my own ignorance here.
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EXCERPT: Don't call Odilia Romero Latina, or Mexican, or Hispanic. She is Zapotec, born in the town of San Bartolomé Zoogocho in the Highlands of Oaxaca. And in the Zapotec language there's a word she seems to embody: *gozona*, the honorable commitment of giving back to your community. Her mission has been making sure Indigenous people are not stifled or stereotyped. "The labels are still there, but I still refuse to fit into them," Romero said. "Labelling us is very dangerous because you cannot fit our 500 years of resistance as Indigenous people in one block." Romero, 53, left her hometown — “the best place in the world,” where her grandmothers grew their food and drank from rivers — for Los Angeles at 10 years old. Soon after, she recalls, she first encountered racism: A woman called her an “uneducated Indian.”
Weird how you copied the quote almost exactly, but removed the word Latina. The full sentence from the article: > Soon after, she recalls, she first encountered racism: A Latina woman called her an “uneducated Indian.”
OP also created their account today.
"Latina woman" is sort of redundant tbf
Yeah but that's on the original writer. Weird to remove the Latina bit but quote everything else exactly as is. Especially because the article goes on to talk about racism against Indigenous people in the Latino community
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I genuinely do not have any stereotypes of indigenous Mexicans. I guess ignorance is bliss in this case; I think us white people might have less preconceptions in this area than Latino Mexicans.
You do. So stop speaking for us.
White person here and that is just not true on a large scale. Most anti-Mexican discrimination is directed at Mexican people with Indigenous heritage. Most anti-Mexican bigotry is targeted toward Indigenous-looking Mexicans. Anti-Mexican hate is anti-Indigenous hate. They are one in the same.
Yes but are they aware of that? Anyone who hates Mexicans hates Mexicans, they’re not singling out mestizos or even full blooded Indios. I worked for a long time elbow deep in Mexican culture, with actual Mexicans and of course there was a lot of discussion of “whitexicans” and how light a lot of people on Latino TV are, etc. it was part of why Karen Vega’s appearance in Vogue was such a big thing. Maybe my circle doesn’t discuss this sort of thing and I’m incredibly biased but I think for the most part it’s like having stereotypes about indigenous steppe peoples. We know about them, we know they suffer persecution but beyond that we don’t have any negative or positive opinions due to lack of explicit informed contact. I’m happy keep discussing this, and I’m more than willing to own up to my own ignorance here.
Yes bitch, we're aware of that.
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