hello friends. unfortunately I lost my glasses two weeks ago and since then I have been suffering from bad migraines and obviously I can't see anything well, and my day to day is turning into a nightmare. I'm having a bad time financially so I can't afford the glasses, they cost about $120, my family can't help me so I go to Tumblr. I would be very grateful if you could help me with a reblog or a donation i will be really grateful , thank you! 

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I'm full of nostalgia and melancholy. I miss being with my friends. I miss laughing and playing and feeling at home. I miss my 7AM classes wich I could stand just because I talked with my friends. I miss our jokes, our stories, our memories. I miss knowing that I could cry and open myself with them. I miss feeling their hugs. I miss going out with him after school. I miss the sweet kisses. I miss it.

When I see myself, all alone, surrounded by strangers which I can't understand, feeling that nobody cares if I die, if I'm missing, if I'm sad... It hurts, and it makes me wish I was at home.

And I like being here... But I wish it wasn't so lonely.

Bernard Malamud: The Assistant (1957)

John telling Javier "this people ain't your family" in chapter 6 is so unfair. They are his family, John, the gang was all he's ever had in the US. He lets it crumble what does he have left? what will he do? In a country that is hostile to him it's the only place he's found comfort. John can say he's got his own family now, after refusing to care for it, and in the last chapters he's constantly being reassured that other folk -Arthur and Sadie- had his back.

You know who had Javier's back? Who fred him in Guarma? Dutch! sorry but it's not strange he's clinging to that man.

How can people not understand Javier's struggle? Others have been moving on for a while now, and he's being left behind, stuck in the same place. Being treated like it's his fault. He just tried desperately to hang on what little he had left of his family, he was mean and angry cause he's desperate.

Dublin, March 2nd

I tend to just stick to canon races for the Arrowfam(including adaptions so my Dinah is a black natural blonde)but ngl 'Oliver Queen','Roy Harper' and 'Mia Dearden' go hard as hell as names for black characters

what language is for you to love in?

dnfies rn

How long do you think will take until someone calls you a fake latino bc you made that post about your family being originally from Europe.

They already told me to "go back to Europe". I am the fifth generation here, and that's only counting my inmigrant ancestors. I couldn't care less about Europe.

(worth noting, the person who told me that was an inmigrant to the UK)

amazing exchange i saw where someone called badempanada a white guy and someone replied isnt he latine and another one said hes argentinian but white people can be latine

one of the ways that race is percieved differently between USA/Europe and latin america is how whiteness is positioned in two completely different extremes, for example being mixed in Latin America was encouraged as a way of whitening "the race" by governments, plus previous colonizer worldviews of european superiority are deeply ingrained, thus a person being half white and half indigenous/black meant that you could sort of "quit" being indigenous/black especially if you were more white passing. This is very noticeable when you see that census' race cathegories in latin america are filled by self determination, and theres a huge amount of ppl who identify as white (european descendants would be a more exact cathegory than white tbh) but would never be seen as such in USA or Europe.

meanwhile in USA you have a whole line of thinking where "one drop of non white blood" turns you completely away from claiming whiteness, and just like with latam, a lot of POC people wouldnt be seen as such here either. Think zendaya for ex, i dont think anyone would have said shes a black woman in latam bc the parameters are very different bc whiteness is what is looked at first, how "much white you have in you" is the focus, its a completely inverted situation.

Hell I cant believe Im gonna say this but twitter is finally making me laugh ...and thats thanks to Oye Primos

1- The title is badly written

2- The protagonist´s nick name is ¨Cuquita¨ wich literally means ¨little pussy¨ in my country

3- The fucking sky is yellow ala Mexico in Braking Bad

4- None of the characters wear shoes, like wtf are we too poor for shoes or what? lol

5- The ¨whole family lives in the same house¨ stereotype/cliche

6- Most of the latinoamerican countries have been devastated by earthquakes throughout history and the writers have the audacity to call the show´s town ¨Terremoto Highs¨ = "Earthquake Highs¨

There is nothing wrong with Americans creating shows based on other cultures... but for the love of god, investigate about that culture first!!

The emigrants (Jann Troell, 1971)

I always felt weird about being a mixed person (in my case, Spanish dad-Moroccan mom) because it was like I didn't belong to Spain neither Morocco.

As I get older I start to feel the differences are even greater; it's mainly about everything related to both cultures.

Sometimes I feel slightly empty, it's like I'm incomplete and started to read about how I feel. This way I found that more people feel this way, people whose parents are first generation inmigrants: they don't identify themselves completely to a neither country/culture.

Anyway I haven't found too much research (at least in Spanish) about this but I'm still looking for more information that may help me someway.

every time i read the word “expats” i go a little bit more rabid