#mestizo — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mestizo, aggregated by home.social.
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Blog: I’m Having a Race Crisis.
As y’all are aware of from Friday’s post, I have graduated high school, which means that it’s now imperative that I get a job. I have been searching for a job for three years but unfortunately was never able to find anyone wanting to hire me. I sent in my resume and applied to numerous places, and most of them never got back to me. Obviously, this isn’t ideal in any situation, but it especially wasn’t great since my choices were limited. I was too young to work in many places, including retail (I was turned down a cashier job at Home Depot because I wasn’t 18), and my various severe food allergies excluded me from working at many entry level jobs, such as fast food or grocery stores.
However, since I am now legally an adult, more job opportunities have become available and as I’ve been trying to find a job, I have become aware that my race is more complicated than I thought it was.
For those of you who don’t know, I am a melting pot of various ethnicities and races. Yes, quite a bit of my DNA is from Europe and it’s very apparent if you look at me, but I’m also Navajo, Hispanic, Puerto Rican, Cherokee, Iroquois, and possibly some other stuff that I’m unaware of. And, no, with the exception of the Iroquois ancestry, this isn’t a super small part of my genetic makeup, either. We’re talking almost the entire maternal side of my family being a mix of Navajo, Hispanic, Puerto Rican, and some other things. The Cherokee blood came from my paternal great-grandmother.
Basically, I have a better claim to a job at some prestigious university based on my ancestry than Elizabeth Warren does.
That said, when filling out job applications, when they’re asking for my race or ethnicity, I typically laugh at it. However, when filling out my most recent application, when asked for my ethnicity, it asked if I was Hispanic/Latino or not.
Why there were only those two options available, I don’t know, but it gets worse.
When asked about my race, I had numerous options, including:
- Hispanic/Latino
- Caucasian (Not Hispanic/Latino)
- Black (Not Hispanic/Latino)
- Asian (Not Hispanic/Latino)
- Pacific Islander or Hawaiian Native (Not Hispanic/Latino)
- Native American or Alaskan Native (Not Hispanic/Latino)
- Mix of two or more races (Not Hispanic/Latino)
If you’re wondering why I have, in parenthesis, “Not Hispanic/Latino,” isn’t me trying to be super specific. This is how it was actually laid out on the application.
Now, this isn’t the first time I have seen this stupidity. The first time I saw it was on a government job application form when I was applying for a job as a toll booth attendant at a state park. I laughed at it, thought it was weird, but, what else can you expect from the government, especially in a blue state? But to see it on a job application for a private company? Why is this necessary? And why are Hispanics/Latinos excluded from every group except their own?
Seriously. For the groups that aren’t part of that category, I can understand it somewhat, though it should go without saying. But for people who are mixed race? I’m sorry, but are mestizos not a thing? Why are we excluding people who are part Hispanic/Latino, especially since White/Latino marriages are the most common interracial marriages in America? What’s going on here? And how are those of us who have one mixed race parent supposed to answer? Do we just go off of how we look or our actual ancestry?
Even worse were the definitions given to further specify who is actually part of a specific racial group. One example of this was their definition of who is White/Caucasian. According to the application, if you are from Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East, you count as white.
You read that correctly. If you’re from North Africa or the Middle East, you count as white. I wish I was kidding.
Another example of the application’s ridiculous definitions was what constitutes as Native American. Apparently, you can’t just be genetically Native American, from any number of tribes from North, Central, or South America. You have to still be affiliated with your tribe to count as Native American.
My Navajo great-grandmother would be offended.
Because of how these definitions work, I once again have to wonder where mestizos or those who have mestizo ancestry fit in. Do I go off of how I look when answering this, or do I go off my actual ancestry? How does that work if I’m related to Native Americans, but they don’t affiliate themselves with their tribe? None of this makes sense.
The simple solution to this problem is to stop asking people this question in the first place. Who cares about your race if you can do your job well? We shouldn’t have to feel pressure to answer this question lest we be discriminated against because we didn’t pick a race or we picked one that’s not desirable in today’s workplace DEI culture.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Blog #Employment #Funny #Genetics #Hispanic #JobHunt #life #Mestizo #NativeAmerican #OpinionPeice #Race #Racism #White #Writing -
"they've been hopping across borders and genres since day one of their party starting mission, which was probably inspired by the ripples in time and space caused by Manu Chao's Clandestino album"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/monsieur-et-madame-loops-à-toi-aussi-ça-peut-t-arriver-self-releaseFind Monsieur et Madame LoOps in the End of Week Freak Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/end-of-week-freak#mestizo #dub #fusion #independent
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Educational Infographics – Sharing Some Of The Work Of Zachary Ammerman
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https://www.zacharyammerman.com/portfolio/infographics <-- shared infographic examples, including maps…
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[I do not know Zachry personally or professionally, but these examples of his work are TOO dang good not to share 😊 ]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #alldataisspatial #cartography #education #infographics #FirstNation #history #ancienthistory #StoryOfAmerica #USHistory #K12 #schools #designer #NativeAmericans #mestizo #culture #migration #geography
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Mestizo:
🎵 Truth Be Told🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KW4FxNKVGpVTgIJYolnNY🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
Les vengo a recomendar un buen libro está en PDF, epub y formato impreso de igual forma, me parece muy bueno para entender con profundidad la relación entre los proyectos para acercarse """" a la burguesia nacional como el mestizaje
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Improvised ambient, classic Mestizo, a Jazz vocal oddity, deep windy city Disco & a bit of a banger. Now Spotify has severely reduced, or in many cases stopped paying many small indie artists recommended by TSMM, make sure you give them a listen & a like. https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/blog/great-new-singles-emerging-artists-from-the-independent-underground-august-23rd-20244206304
All the tracks are available on TSMM's extensive playlists also via the profile link:
https://the-slow-music-movement-playlists.submithublinks.com/,#slow #music #independent #artists #house #electronic #jazz #disco #ambient #mestizo
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Cierre de lujo con bailongo de la mano de #Mestizo para este lanzamiento de cartografiasmigrantes.uy
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CW: Racism
@KinocKayfar @Wander you're correct! you may be ethnically latino but racially white. but even if you're just a little #mestizo, you're a person of color, though! do not let the oppressor take your heritage away from you. that is part of what they want. they want you to act like you're part of this weird white homogenized group that they've invented. you are not them. you are puerto riqueño.
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@Wander for example: i usually take time to mention that i am #mestizo. that does make me part of the umbrella of the label #bipoc, but i prefer to identify as #latino / #latine / #mestizo because those labels feel closest to me; i grew up with them and people at home in #colombia, #ecuador, and #venezuela know what i'm talking about usually.
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@amayasnep thank you for sharing! i've been meaning to do one of these myself, as a #mestizo person myself with nebulous family history. what service did you use?
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A bit about my DNA test 🧬
I haven't mentioned this here yet but I took a DNA test in 2022. The small package came with a plastic test tube and instructions on how to take the test. I spit in the tube and sent it off right away. After waiting a couple of months as they processed the sample, my results were ready. (1/3)
#ancestry #familyhistory #mixedrace #mestizo #latino #hispanic
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she also talks about how latino people are quick to use slurs and cultural differences against each other even though we share a lot of the same blood and genetic material in our claim to mestizaje. this one rings especially true for me and i can vouch for it first hand.
"The anti-Black slurs I heard used in the Latino community in respect to African Americans only reinforce my early impressions that #Blackness was problematic, despite our assertions of a #Latino pride and being a mixture of 'all races', [...] not all parts of the mixture were equally welcomed or celebrated."
