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writingwithcolor · 6 months

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Naming International POC Characters: Do Your Research.

This post is part of a double feature for the same ask. First check out Mod Colette's answer to OP's original question at: A Careful Balance: Portraying a Black Character's Relationship with their Hair. Below are notes on character naming from Mod Rina.

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@writingraccoon said:

My character is black in a dungeons and dragons-like fantasy world. His name is Kazuki Haile (pronounced hay-lee), and his mother is this world's equivalent of Japanese, which is where his first name is from, while his father is this world's equivalent of Ethiopian, which is where his last name is from. He looks much more like his father, and has hair type 4a. [...]

Hold on a sec.

Haile (pronounced hay-lee), [...] [H]is father is this world’s equivalent of Ethiopian, which is where his last name is from.

OP, where did you get this name? Behindthename.com, perhaps?

Note how it says, “Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. Check marks indicate the level to which a name has been verified.” Do you see any check marks, OP?

What language is this, by the way? If we only count official languages, Ethiopia has 5: Afar, Amharic, Oromo, Somali, & Tigrinya. If we count everything native to that region? Over 90 languages. And I haven't even mentioned the dormant/extinct ones. Do you know which language this name comes from? Have you determined Kazuki’s father’s ethnic group, religion, and language(s)? Do you know just how ethnically diverse Ethiopia is?

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To All Looking for Character Names on the Internet:

Skip the name aggregators and baby name lists. They often do not cite their sources, even if they’re pulling from credible ones, and often copy each other.

If you still wish to use a name website, find a second source that isn’t a name website.

Find at least one real life individual, living or dead, who has this given name or surname. Try Wikipedia’s lists of notable individuals under "List of [ethnicity] people." You can even try searching Facebook! Pay attention to when these people were born for chronological accuracy/believability.

Make sure you know the language the name comes from, and the ethnicity/culture/religion it’s associated with.

Make sure you understand the naming practices of that culture—how many names, where they come from, name order, and other conventions.

Make sure you have the correct pronunciation of the name. Don’t always trust Wikipedia or American pronunciation guides on Youtube. Try to find a native speaker or language lesson source, or review the phonology & orthography and parse out the string one phoneme at a time.

Suggestions for web sources:

Wikipedia! Look for: “List of [language] [masculine/feminine] given names,” “List of most common [language] family names,” “List of most common surnames in [continent],” and "List of [ethnicity] people."

Census data! Harder to find due to language barriers & what governments make public, but these can really nail period accuracy. This may sound obvious, but look at the year of the character's birth, not the year your story takes place.

Forums and Reddit. No really. Multicultural couples and expats will often ask around for what to name their children. There’s also r/namenerds, where so many folks have shared names in their language that they now have “International Name Threads.” These are all great first-hand sources for name connotations—what’s trendy vs. old-fashioned, preppy vs. nerdy, or classic vs. overused vs. obscure.

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Luckily for OP, I got very curious and did some research. More on Ethiopian & Eritrean naming, plus mixed/intercultural naming and my recommendations for this character, under the cut. It's really interesting, I promise!

Ethiopian and Eritrean Naming Practices

Haile (IPA: /həjlə/ roughly “hy-luh.” Both a & e are /ə/, a central “uh” sound) is a phrase meaning “power of” in Ge’ez, sometimes known as Classical Ethiopic, which is an extinct/dormant Semitic language that is now used as a liturgical language in Ethiopian churches (think of how Latin & Sanskrit are used today). So it's a religious name, and was likely popularized by the regnal name of the last emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie (“Power of the Trinity”). Ironically, for these reasons it is about as nationalistically “Ethiopian” as a name can get.

Haile is one of the most common “surnames” ever in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Why was that in quotes? Because Ethiopians and Eritreans don’t have surnames. Historically, when they needed to distinguish themselves from others with the same given name, they affixed their father’s given name, and then sometimes their grandfather’s. In modern Ethiopia and Eritrea, their given name is followed by a parent’s (usually father’s) name. First-generation diaspora abroad may solidify this name into a legal “surname” which is then consistently passed down to subsequent generations.

Intercultural Marriages and Naming

This means that Kazuki’s parents will have to figure out if there will be a “surname” going forward, and who it applies to. Your easiest and most likely option is that Kazuki’s dad would have chosen to make his second name (Kazuki’s grandpa’s name) the legal “surname.” The mom would have taken this name upon marriage, and Kazuki would inherit it also. Either moving abroad or the circumstances of the intercultural marriage would have motivated this. Thus “Haile” would be grandpa’s name, and Kazuki wouldn’t be taking his “surname” from his dad. This prevents the mom & Kazuki from having different “surnames.” But you will have to understand and explain where the names came from and the decisions dad made to get there. Otherwise, this will ring culturally hollow and indicate a lack of research.

Typically intercultural parents try to

come up with a first name that is pronounceable in both languages,

go with a name that is the dominant language of where they live, or

compromise and pick one parent’s language, depending on the circumstances.

Option 1 and possibly 3 requires figuring out which language is the father’s first language. Unfortunately, because of the aforementioned national ubiquity of Haile, you will have to start from scratch here and figure out his ethnic group, religion (most are Ethiopian Orthodox and some Sunni Muslim), and language(s).

But then again, writing these characters knowledgeably and respectfully also requires figuring out that information anyway.

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Names and naming practices are so, so diverse. Do research into the culture and language before picking a name, and never go with only one source.

~ Mod Rina

#asks #language #languages #linguistics #east africa #african #immigration #ethiopian #names #naming #research #resources #writeblr #character names #character name ideas #rina says read under the cut. read it

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majestativa · 2 years

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I know I'm helpless to cross this great impassable divide. Forward or backward or nothing moving? What am I seeing? How can this scene be so glowing? Is it only last night's rain? What am I hearing? That theme? Does it belong so strangely here? Like a fantasia? What's that language? Is it my own, pure, Under the spell of another, yet expanded and deepened? It's so remote, [...] why do I feel free?

Charles Cantalupo, Where War Was: Poems and Translations from Eritrea

#American #Eritrean #Charles Cantalupo

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🟢 Mon morning - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

❌ IRANIAN PRESIDENT DEAD.. along with Foreign Minister and 7 others - it appears his presidential helicopter flew directly into the mountainside.

Search efforts took all night, only confirmed a few minutes ago, and the wreckage was found by a Turkish observation drone.

This president was known as a “the hangman” and the “butcher of Teheran”, a mass murderer of political opponents of the regime in his early ‘career’, and was the president responsible for the mass drone and missile attack on Israel.

❌ IRAN CHIEF OF POLICE (likely) ASSASSINATED.. (unconfirmed report, possibly fake) the chief was shot multiple times and killed. He is held responsible for the murder of hundreds of innocent civilians in protests.

▪️RUSSIAN NATIONALIST CHANNELS.. are sure that this is the work of the Mossad. (( The placement of the mountain in front of the helicopter was particularly masterful. ))

▪️SAUDI KING HOSPITALIZED.. with pneumonia, 88 years old.

▪️PROTEST - Sha’ar HaGai .. "Brothers in Arms" slow down and block traffic on Highway 1, demonstrating against the conscription exemption law. 13 arrested including 4 of the leaders of the movement.

▪️AID PROTESTORS.. were stopping trucks on the oad in the French Giva neighborhood in Jerusalem, interrogating drivers looking for humanitarian aid trucks coming from Jordan to Gaza. Police were called to the scene.

▪️REFUGEE RIOT.. late night a fight broke out between Eritrea’s including tools, knives and clubs in the Tel Aviv Hatikva neighborhood. Several of these riots between opponents and supporters of the Eritrean regime have occurred. 3 injured, 1 policeman lightly injured.

▪️POLICE RAID TEL AVIV MUNICIPALITY.. LAHAV 443 (Israel’s major crimes unit) investigators raided the Tel Aviv municipality this morning: 13 were arrested on suspicion of public corruption, money laundering and offsetting fictitious invoices amounting to hundreds of millions of shekels, and the involvement of the mafia. Among those arrested is the head of a department in the municipality and his deputy.

▪️LAG b’OMER FIRE CONCERNS.. The Israel Fire and Rescue Commissioner has announced that in light of the fire conditions expected on Lag B'Omer there is a ban on lighting bonfires outside specified (controlled) areas.

▪️POPULAR FRONT & POP. RESISTANCE COMMITTEE THREATENS THE US FLOATING PIER.. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine warns against using the floating port to deport Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and protect Israel. The Resistance Committee warns the pier s "a propaganda measure that helps legitimize the Israeli siege and occupation of the Rafah crossing, and divert attention from the siege, the mass extermination and the war of starvation."

"any Israeli or foreign presence at the floating sea port or at the border crossings, including American forces, would be a legitimate target."

⭕ ROCKETS at Metulla, by Hezbollah, 2 rounds.

#Israel #October 7 #Hamas Massacre #Gaza #Israel/HamasWar #Real Time Updates #Lebanon #Hezbollah

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queerafricans · 3 months

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Polish-Eritrean-American model and influencer Emira D’Spain for Galore Magazine. Interview by Shirley Reynozo, photography by Jared Ryder and styling by Fred Kim.

#emira d'spain #eritrea #magazine

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strawberryqueen00 · 7 months

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Hell no we are not letting this OFMD finale distract from that THIS LETTER.

Had a signature from Taika Waititi. I understand the sensitivity here this issue with Taika being Jewish(and that’s not my place as someone that’s Not Jewish or in those regions to condemn him on that perspective’s behalf) but this letter is directly bastardizing the situation.

Now, when there is a major production from a major figure in this platform that did this, is when we can make the most impact. Remember our values, even when those values involve a show that is strengthening the LGBTQ community.

Because this letter tore down the strength of the movement in support of Gaza. There are going to be so many people that saw this letter and take it completely uncritically, unchallenged.

Standing up for our values means sacrificing our interests, holding accountable the things we enjoy.

And also. I don’t want to see ANYONE. Being fucking antisemitic or racist towards Taika here. That is never appropriate and absolutely inexcusable behavior. You should he ashamed if you think that’s okay even after Taika’s actions.

[Text of Letter]

October 23, 2023

Dear President Biden, We are heartened by Friday's release of the two American hostages, Judith Ranaan and her daughter Natalie Ranaan and by today's release of two Israelis, Nurit Cooper and

Yocheved Lifshitz, whose husbands remain in captivity. But our relief is tempered by our overwhelming concern that 220 innocent people,

including 30 children, remain captive by terrorists, threatened with torture and death.

They were taken by Hamas in the savage massacre of October 7, where over 1,400

Israelis were slaughtered - women raped, families burned alive, and infants beheaded. Thank you for your unshakable moral conviction, leadership, and support for the Jewish people, who have been terrorized by Hamas since the group's founding over 35 years ago, and for the Palestinians, who have also been terrorized, oppressed, and victimized

by Hamas for the last 17 years that the group has been governing Gaza. We all want the same thing: Freedom for Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace. Freedom from the brutal violence spread by Hamas. And most urgently, in this

moment, freedom for the hostages. We urge everyone to not rest until all hostages are released. No hostage can be left behind. Whether American, Argentinian, Australian, Azerbaijani, Brazilian, British, Canadian, Chilean, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Eritrean, Filipino, French, German, Indian, Israeli, Italian, Kazakh, Mexican, Panamanian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, South African, Spanish, Sri Lankan, Thai, Ukrainian,

Uzbekistani or otherwise, we need to bring them home.

Sincerely,

[Text of the names presented. This isn’t all of them, just the copy of this with Taika’s name on it)

Jessica Biel

Jessica Elbaum

Jessica Seinfeld

Jill Littman

Jimmy Carr

Jody Gerson

Joe Hipps

Joe Quinn

Joe Russo

Joe Tippett

Joel Fields

Joey King

John Landgraf

John Slattery

Jon Bernthal

Jon Glickman

Jon Hamm

Jon Harmon Feldman

Jon Liebman

Jon Watts

Jon Weinbach

Jonathan Baruch

Jonathan Groff

Jonathan Marc Sherman

Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Steinberg

Jonathan Tisch

Jonathan Tropper

Jordan Peele

Josh Brolin

Josh Charles

Josh Dallas

Josh Goldstine

Josh Greenstein

Josh Grode

Josh Singer

Judd Apatow

Judge Judy Sheindlin

Julia Fox

Julia Garner

Julia Lester

Julianna Margulies

Julie Greenwald

Julie Rudd

Julie Singer

Juliette Lewis

Jullian Morris

Justin Theroux

Justin Timberlake

KJ Steinberg

Karen Pollock

Karlie Kloss

Katy Perry

Kelley Lynch

Kevin Kane

Kevin Zegers

Kirsten Dunst

Kitao Sakurai

Kristen Schaal

Kristin Chenoweth

Lana Del Rey

Laura Benanti

Laura Dern

Laura Pradelska

Lauren Schuker Blum

Laurence Mark

Laurie David

Lea Michele

Lee Eisenberg

Leo Pearlman

Leslie Siebert

Liev Schreiber

Limor Gott

Lina Esco

Liz Garbus

Lizanne Rosenstein

Lizzie Tisch

Lorraine Schwartz

Lynn Harris

Lyor Cohen

Madonna

Mandana Dayani

Mara Buxbaum

Marc Webb

Marco Perego

Maria Dizzia

Mark Feuerstein

Mark Foster

Mark Scheinberg

Mark Shedletsky

Martin Short

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Mary McCormack

Mathew Rosengart

Matt Geller

Matt Lucas

Matt Miller

Matthew Bronfman

Matthew Hiltzik

Matthew Weiner

Matti Leshem

Max Mutchnik

Maya Lasry

Meaghan Oppenheimer

Melissa Zukerman

Melissa rudderman

Michael Aloni

Michael Ellenberg

Michael Green

Michael Rapino

Neil Blair

Neil Druckmann

Neil Paris

Nicola Peltz

Nicole Avant

Nina Jacobson

Noa Kirel

Noa Tishby

Noah Oppenheim

Noah Schnapp

Noreena Hertz

Octavia Spencer

Odeya Rush

Olivia Wilde

Oran Zegman

Orlando Bloom

Pasha Kovalev

Pattie LuPone

Patty Jenkins

Paul Haas

Paul Pflug

Paul & Julie Rudd

Peter Baynham

Peter Traugott

Rachel Douglas

Rachel Riley

Rafi Marmor

Ram Bergman

Raphael Margulies

Rebecca Angelo

Rebecca Mall

Regina Spektor

Reinaldo Marcus Green

Rich Statter

Richard Jenkins

Richard Kind

Rick Hoffman

Rick Rosen

Rita Ora

Rob Rinder

Robert Newman

Roger Birnbaum

Roger Green

Rosie O’Donnell

Ross Duffer

Ryan Feldman

Sacha Baron Cohen

Sam Levinson

Sam Trammell

Sara Berman

Sara Foster

Sarah Baker

Sarah Bremner

Sarah Cooper

Sarah Paulson

Sarah Treem

Scott Braun

Scott Neustadter

Scott Tenley

Sean Combs

Sean Levy

Seth Meyers

Seth Oster

Shannon Watts

Shari Redstone

Sharon Jackson

Sharon Stone

Shauna Perlman

Shawn Levy

Sheila Nevins

Shira Haas

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Tikhman

Skylar Astin

Stacey Snider

Stephen Fry

Steve Agee

Steve Rifkind

Sting & Trudie Styler

Susanna Felleman

Susie Arons

Taika Waititi

Thomas Kail

Tiffany Haddish

Todd Lieberman

Todd Moscowitz

Todd Waldman

Tom Freston

Tom Werner

Tomer Capone

Tracy Ann Oberman

Trudie Styler

Tyler Henry

Tyler James Williams

Tyler Perry

Vanessa Bayer

Veronica Grazer

Veronica Smiley

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Will Ferrell

Will Graham

Yamanieka Saunders

Yariv Milchan

Ynon Kreiz

Zack Snyder

Zoe Saldana

#taika waititi #ofmd #our flag means death #gaza #isreal #free palestine #swearing

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wibble-wobbegong · 7 months

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Ross Duffer, Shawn Levy, Brett Gelman, and Noah Schnapp have signed the #NoHostageLeftBehind letter to Biden which reads,

“Dear President Biden,

We are heartened by Friday’s release of the two American hostages, Judith Ranaan and her daughter Natalie Ranaan and by today’s release of two Israelis, Nurit Cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz, whose husbands remain in captivity.

But our relief is tempered by our overwhelming concern that 220 innocent people, including 30 children, remain captive by terrorists, threatened with torture and death. They were taken by Hamas in the savage massacre of October 7, where over 1,400 Israelis were slaughtered - women raped, families burned alive, and infants beheaded.

Thank you for your unshakable moral conviction, leadership, and support for the Jewish people, who have been terrorized by Hamas since the group’s founding over 35 years ago, and for the Palestinians, who have also been terrorized, oppressed, and victimized by Hamas for the last 17 years that the group has been governing Gaza.

We all want the same thing: Freedom for Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace. Freedom from the brutal violence spread by Hamas. And most urgently, in this moment, freedom for the hostages.

We urge everyone to not rest until all hostages are released. No hostage can be left behind. Whether American, Argentinian, Australian, Azerbaijani, Brazilian, British, Canadian, Chilean, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Eritrean, Filipino, French, German, Indian, Israeli, Italian, Kazakh, Mexican, Panamanian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, South African, Spanish, Sri Lankan, Thai, Ukrainian, Uzbekistani or otherwise, we need to bring them home. “

You can read it yourself here, alongside every celebrity who signed it.

Knowing that so many people involved with Stranger Things’ production are going out of their way to support this, I’m no longer going to be posting about or interacting with Stranger Things content and I won’t be watching season 5.

I suggest reading the full list as others may disappoint you as they have disappointed me.

From the river to the sea,

Palestine will be free.

#i hope the rest of y’all are able to find new interests #stranger things #shaking with violent rage rn #bunch of pieces of shit

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weepingwidar · 9 months

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Ficre Ghebreyesus (Eritrean-American, 1962-2012) - Untitled (ca. 1990s)

#ficre ghebreyesus

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yourdailyqueer · 2 years

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Aida Osman

Gender: Non binary (she/they)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: Born 1997

Ethnicity: Eritrean

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer, screenwriter, comedian, actor, presenter, podcaster

Note: Is Muslim

#Aida Osman #queerness #bipoc #qpoc #lgbtq #non binary #queer #1997 #black #african #Eritrean #poc #writer #screenwriter #comedian #actor #presenter #podcaster #muslim

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dear-indies · 2 months

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hi cat, hi mouse! i hope your day has been lovely! i'm working on a mw queue for my rp, and i need more non binary fc's with resources! could you help me out? <3 thank you so much in advance!

Sara Ramírez (1975) Mexican and some Irish - non-binary, queer and bisexual (they/them) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (1975) Tamil Sri Lankan, Burgher Sri Lankan / Romani, Irish - is non-binary transfeminine and autistic (they/she).

Ser Anzoategui (1979) Argentinian, Paraguayan - is non-binary (them/him/she).

Andrew Gurza (1984/1985) Jewish - is non-binary (they/them) and has cerebral palsy.

Asia Kate Dillon (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unspecified - non-binary and pansexual (they/them) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Pidgeon Pagonis (1986) Mexican and Greek - is intersex and non-binary (they/them) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Janelle Monáe (1985) African-American - is non-binary (has said "pronouns are free-ass motherfucker—and they/them, her/she.")

Elliot Page (1987) - is trans non-binary (he/they).

Jonathan van Ness (1987) is non-binary (they/she/he) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Poppy Liu (1990) Chinese - is non-binary (she/they) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Olly Alexander (1990) - is non-binary and gay (he/him) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Vico Ortiz (1991) Puerto Rican - non-binary (they/them) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Jacob Tobia (1991) Syrian - is non-binary (they/them).

Alok Vaid-Menon (1991) Malayali and Punjabi from Malaysia and India - is gender non-conforming and transfeminine (singular they) - has spoken up for Palestine!

E.R. Fightmaster (1992) - is non-binary (they/them).

Alex Newell (1992) African-American - is non-binary and gay (he/she/they/all pronouns).

Emma D’Arcy (1992) - is non-binary (they/them) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Theo Germaine (1992) - is non-binary (they/them).

Jesse James Keitel (1993) - is a non-binary trans woman (she/her).

Olive Gray (1994) Zambian / White - is non-binary and queer (they/them) also has ADHD dyspraxia and dyslexia.

Dua Saleh (1994) Tunjur Sudanese - is non-binary (they/xe).

Bilal Baig (1995) Pakistani - non-binary, queer trans-feminine (they/them).

Mason Alexander Park (1995) Spanish and Mexican - is non-binary (they/them).

Emma Corrin (1995) - is non-binary (they/them).

Kehlani (1995) African-American, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Mexican, Filipino, Choctaw, and White - non-binary womxn, lesbian and polyamorous (she/they) - has spoken up for Palestine!

James Majoos (1996) Black South African - is non-binary (they/them).

Aida Osman (1996) Eritrean - is non-binary and queer (she/they).

Quintessa Swindell (1997) African-American / White - is non-binary (they/he) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Blu del Barrio (1997) Argentinian - is non-binary (they/them) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Misha Osherovich (1997) Russian Jewish - is non-binary (they/them).

Celeste O'Connor (1998) Kenyan - is non-binary (they/them) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Ryan Simpkins (1998) - is non-binary (they/she).

Chella Man (1998) Hongkonger and Jewish - is deaf, trans genderqueer and pansexual (he/they) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Sabrina Wu (1998) Chinese - is nonbinary (they/them).

Alin Szewczyk (1999) - is non-binary (they/them).

Pedro Vinícius (1999) Brazilian - is non-binary (she/her).

Sivan Alyra Rose (1999) Chiricahua Apache / Afro-Puerto Rican, Creole - is genderfluid and pansexual (they/them).

Lizeth Selene (1999) Mexican [Black and Unspecified Indigenous] - is genderfluid (they/she).

Zoe Terakes (2000) Greek - is a trans-masc non-binary guy (they/he) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Ari Notartomaso (2001) - is non-binary (they/he) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Lachlan Watson (2001) - is non-binary (they/them).

CG / Queer as Folk (?) African-American - is non-binary (they/them).

Hey anon! I have a masterlist of non-binary faceclaims here too but I've copied them here for ease.

#fc help #rph #rpc #nonbinary fc

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eretzyisrael · 5 months

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by David Swindle

HIAS generated critical headlines earlier this month when Ashley Chteh, a volunteer at HIAS Pennsylvania, was recorded helping to burn an Israeli flag and saying “Down with the Nazi regime.”

The nearly 145-year-old nonprofit founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society quickly noted that HIAS Pennsylvania was an independent partner of HIAS. “This person is not and never has been affiliated with HIAS, and is no longer affiliated with HIAS PA,” it stated. “We strongly condemn antisemitism in all its forms. Hate has no place in our world.”

HIAS has been drawing additional criticism, including that it has contributed to rising antisemitism stateside since Hamas’s terror attacks in Israel.

“Sadly, since Oct. 7, HIAS has again failed to prioritize Jewish safety, as HIAS did in decades gone by,” Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS. “HIAS works to bring Muslims to America, most of whom are Jew-haters and Israel-haters.”

On Oct. 7, HIAS posted: “We are horrified by the attack against civilian populations in Israel on Shemini Atzeret, one of Judaism’s holiest days. Civilians throughout the region are living in fear of even more violence, more suffering and more loss.” It has since posted that it is “heartbroken by the violence that continues to devastate Israeli and Palestinian families.”

The nonprofit was “originally set up by Jews to help fellow Jews for reasons of religious imperative and communal solidarity,” and worked to help the American Jews find relatives in Europe post-World War II.

Today, its mission has changed. It is now “a multi-continent, multi-pronged humanitarian aid and advocacy organization with thousands of employees dedicated to helping forcibly displaced persons around the world in keeping with the organization’s Jewish ethical roots,” per the HIAS website. It has also quoted the Talmud on X.

Klein, however, charges that HIAS has “failed to call for the defeat or surrender of Hamas, even though this is absolutely necessary to stop more Oct. 7s from occurring.”

A JNS review of HIAS’s X account returned no references to “Hamas.” The terror organization, which the United States has designated for 26 years, is mentioned several times on the HIAS website, but the organization doesn’t appear to have called for Hamas to be removed.

HIAS has also “promoted untrue accusations about Islamophobic and anti-Arab attacks in Israel and the ‘West Bank,’” Klein said.

He also criticized HIAS’s efforts to push Israel to resettle 30,000 illegal Eritrean and Sudanese immigrants, saying that “HIAS inaccurately calls these economic migrants ‘asylum seekers,’ despite their lack of legal or moral entitlement to asylum.”

“There have been huge problems with these illegal economic migrants committing crimes and attacking elderly Jews in southern Tel Aviv, making life unbearable for many poor elderly Jews,” Klein said.

“Especially at this time, when there are so many displaced and injured Jews who need assistance in Israel—and antisemitism is hurting Jews throughout the world—HIAS needs to return to prioritizing Jewish lives and safety,” he stressed.

‘Aiding displaced persons, regardless of their faith’

JNS asked HIAS how, if at all, it has done its work differently since Oct. 7, particularly given rising Jew-hatred.

“With growing antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred around the world, HIAS will not stray from our mission,” Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, told JNS. “In Israel, we are assisting Jewish evacuees as well as non-Jewish Ukrainian and African asylum seekers.”

“Our work in Israel is a reflection of our work around the world—aiding displaced Jews and, as a Jewish organization, aiding other displaced persons regardless of their faith identity,” he said.

JNS asked what percentage of the refugees with whom HIAS works are Jewish, and the nonprofit did not respond.

#hias #zoa #ashley chteh #migrants #mark hetfield

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warcabsaismunv · 6 months

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A Bushy advance.

B2 Stealth bombers successfully find and bomb out 80,000 Eritreans (including most of the Eritrean army), additionally asmara air base in eritrea blows up michael bay style. Over 100,000 Eritrean civilians perish over the course of the night as a result of run on gasoline fires due to the carpet bombing by the B2's. Alpha, Delta and Charlie group, the covert ops team sent in from Ethiopia, succesfully make landfall. The full might of the brewing storm that is the ethiopian infantry, 75,000 men strong, collapse onto the Dengola Adilges road into Eritrea, bolstered by hundreds of tanks, at least a thousand armored vehicles, its like an army of death descending down on the Eritreans. The fighters jets recently procured, numbering at least 20, lay waste to all defenses along the 2 lane road leading into Eritrea's capital. With this succesfull Invasion, the Ethiopian army (thanks too Bush's generous donations) decimate the Eritrean army. Fall of casualties: 80,000 Eritrean soldiers + all their armored tanks and cars + fighter jets 115,000 Eritrean Civilian casualties 4,000 Ethiopian Soldiers 2 American Navy Seals (why were they there???) 1 Random Farmer who was uncovered as a Chinese Spy 1 Backroom Cabinet Member 1 Ethiopian Jet 4 Trucks.

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majestativa · 2 years

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SbuQ nr'esu kfu'e nr'esu. Your good comes back to you, And you bad does, too.

Charles Cantalupo, Where War Was: Poems and Translations from Eritrea

#American #Eritrean

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ausetkmt · 4 months

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U.S. Census Bureau: New Population Counts for 62 Detailed Black or African American Groups

This delineation is getting out of hand

African American was the most reported detailed response by those who identified their race as Black or African American in the 2020 Census, according to recently released data. Nigerian and Ethiopian were the most reported Sub-Saharan African groups, while Jamaican and Haitian were the largest Caribbean groups.

In the 2020 Census, 46,936,733 respondents identified as Black or African American alone or in combination, the third largest race group. For the first time in decennial census history, there was a Black or African American write-in area with detailed examples for people to report detailed responses. This was among the improvements made to the 2020 Census race and Hispanic origin question designs, data processing and coding procedures.

More than half of the Black alone population (53.7%) and the Black alone or in combination population (52.3%) reported being African American.

As a result, data are available from the 2020 Census for three regional Black or African American groups (Sub-Saharan African, Caribbean and Other Black or African American) and 62 detailed Black or African American groups such as African American, Eritrean and Grenadian.

Detailed responses from the race question are tabulated in two ways: race alone and race alone or in any combination.

The Black or African American alone population includes respondents who reported only one response, such as Zimbabwean, to the race question. The Black or African American alone or in any combination population includes those who reported one or more responses, such as Zimbabwean, or Zimbabwean and St. Lucian, or Zimbabwean and White.

Understanding the composition of the race alone and the race alone or in any combination populations is important as our country’s demographics change and the nation becomes much more multiracial.

Throughout this article, we will refer to the Black or African American population as the Black population. The term African American throughout this article refers to people who reported their detailed response as African American.

Over Half of All Black Respondents Wrote In African American as Their Detailed Identity

Nearly two-thirds of the Black population provided a detailed response to the race question. Those who did not provide a detailed response are included in the “Other Black or African American” category.

More than half of the Black alone population (53.7%) and the Black alone or in combination population (52.3%) reported being African American (Figure 1).

The Sub-Saharan African and Caribbean regional groups combined made up over 10% of the Black alone and Black alone or in combination populations in the United States.

Caribbean Oldest Among Regional Groups

Of the regional groups, the share of the youth population (under 18 years) was largest among the Sub-Saharan African alone (26.3%) and the African American alone or in any combination (28.3%) populations (Figure 2).

The Caribbean alone and Caribbean alone or in any combination populations were the oldest Black regional group; 14.4% and 12.9% of their populations were age 65 and over, respectively.

Largest Groups Within Sub-Saharan African and Caribbean Populations

The largest Sub-Saharan African groups in 2020 were Nigerian, Ethiopian, Somali and Ghanaian. The top four groups made up about half of the Sub-Saharan African alone (50.5%) and Sub-Saharan African alone or in any combination (46.9%) populations. Each group was less than 2% of the total Black alone or in combination population (Table 1).

Four Caribbean groups (Jamaican, Haitian, Trinidadian and Tobagonian and West Indian) made up the majority of the Caribbean alone (90.1%) and Caribbean alone or in any combination (91.5%) populations. Together, Jamaican and Haitian comprised 80.5% of the nation’s Caribbean alone population. Jamaican and Haitian each made up 2.2% of the Black alone or in combination population.

Detailed Black Population by State

The three states (Texas, Georgia and Florida) with the nation’s largest African American populations had nearly equal shares of that population (Table 2).

Nearly 20% of the Sub-Saharan African population lived in Texas and New York. Texas was home to the largest Sub-Saharan African alone population (11.4%) and over 20% of the Nigerian alone population resided there in 2020. Maryland had the next-largest Nigerian alone population (10.7%). Virginia (11.1%) and Maryland (11.0%) had the nation’s largest Ethiopian alone populations.

Caribbean groups were geographically concentrated: over half of the Caribbean alone (60%) and the Caribbean alone or in any combination (56.1%) populations lived in Florida and New York. Nearly half (46.4%) of the Haitian alone population was concentrated in Florida.

Detailed Black Population by County

In 87% of counties, the largest detailed Black alone or in any combination group was African American, and these counties were spread throughout the country (Figure 3). The largest number of people reporting their detailed identity as African American (773,963) was in Cook County, Illinois, home to Chicago.

Where other groups were the largest:

Somali was the largest detailed Black group in 18 counties and eight were in Minnesota.

South African was the largest group in six counties, two in North Dakota, and one each in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas.

Haitian was the largest group in five counties — two in Florida (Collier and Monroe) and one each in Texas (Frio), New York (Rockland), and Indiana (Daviess), respectively.

Jamaican was the largest group in Barnstable and Nantucket Counties, Massachusetts and Cook County, Minnesota.

Congolese was the largest group in two Missouri counties: Adair and Sullivan.

Ethiopian was the largest group in Nobles County, Minnesota, and Nance County, Nebraska.

Cameroonian (Willacy County, Texas), Antiguan and Barbudan (Wheatland County, Montana) and Equatorial Guinean (Jeff Davis County, Texas) were each the largest in one county.

African American and South African were tied as the largest groups in North Dakota’s Dickey County.

Detailed Sub-Saharan African Groups by County

Nigerian was the largest Sub-Saharan African alone or in any combination detailed group in almost 700 counties (Figure 4). Harris County, Texas, home to Houston, had the largest Nigerian population (34,937) of any county in the nation.

Where other Sub-Saharan African alone or in any combination groups were the largest:

South African was the largest detailed Sub-Saharan African group in 70 counties, including 10 in Florida and nine in North Carolina. Los Angeles County, California had the nation’s largest South African population (3,634).

Somali was the largest group in 66 counties, including 21 in Minnesota. Hennepin County, which contains Minneapolis, had the largest Somali population (38,588).

The Ethiopian population was the largest in 62 counties, including Washington, D.C, and many of its surrounding counties, such as Montgomery County, Maryland, which had the largest Ethiopian population (23,402) in the country.

The Congolese population was the largest group in 46 counties, mostly in the Midwest. Tarrant County, Texas (home to Fort Worth), had the largest Congolese population (4,823).

Ghanaian was the largest group in 20 counties. Bronx County, New York, had the largest Ghanaian population (15,631).

Kenyan was the largest group in 17 counties; King County, Washington, where Seattle is located, had the largest Kenyan population (4,243).

In 64 counties, Sub-Saharan African groups other than Nigerian, South African, Somali, Ethiopian, Congolese, Ghanaian or Kenyan were the largest. Sudanese was the largest in 15 counties. Cameroonian and Liberian were the largest group in 14 counties each. Eritrean was the largest group in six counties. South Sudanese was the largest group in three counties. Central African, Equatorial Guinean, Tanzanian and Togolese were the largest groups in two counties each and Ivorian, Rwandan, Senegalese and Zambian were each largest in one county.

In five counties, there were two groups that tied as the largest Sub-Saharan African group. In all five counties, Nigerian was one of the two largest.

Detailed Caribbean Population by County

Jamaican was the largest Caribbean alone or in any combination group in over 900 counties in 2020 (Figure 5).

In many counties, Jamaican was the only detailed Caribbean group large enough to have data tabulated in the Detailed DHC-A.

Where other Caribbean groups were the largest:

Haitian was the largest detailed Caribbean group in 179 counties, concentrated in the eastern half of the nation. Broward County, Florida, home to Fort Lauderdale, had the largest Jamaican (96,527) and Haitian (117,251) populations.

Trinidadian and Tobagonian was the largest group in seven counties, including two in Texas: Chambers County (just east of Houston) and San Patricio County. The largest Trinidadian and Tobagonian population (32,613) lived in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York.

The U.S. Virgin Islander group was the largest in six counties, including four (Barron, Burnett, Polk and Sawyer) in northern Wisconsin. The largest U.S. Virgin Islander population (1,062) was in Orange County, Florida, home to Orlando.

Anguillan, Bahamian, Antiguan and Barbudan, Montserratian and Dominica Islander were the largest Caribbean groups in one county each.

In two counties, Grant County, Indiana and Isabella County, Michigan, Haitian and Jamaican were tied as the largest Caribbean groups.

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Related Information

The Technical Documentation [PDF 10.6 MB] provides more information on data quality and how the Census Bureau collects, codes and tabulates statistics on race and Hispanic or Latino origin.

Information on the application of differential privacy and data accuracy for the 2020 Census at various levels of geography are available on the 2020 Census Data Products: Disclosure Avoidance Modernization webpage.

All the authors are in the Census Bureau’s Population Division:

Alli Coritz is a demographic statistician in the Racial Statistics Branch.

Ricardo Henrique Lowe, Jr. was a demographic statistician in the Ethnicity and Ancestry Branch.

Jessica E. Peña is a senior researcher in the Race/Ethnicity Research & Outreach Area.

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