Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican?English
8·16 days agofor one thing, you’re in a country where this once happened 🤦
I am a white European Spanish woman
Race is a social construct and in the eyes of your friend’s racist dad you are apparently not white (even if he might have classified you as white if he had only your appearance to go by and hadn’t seen your name).
Here are a few somewhat relevant wikipedia articles:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_the_United_States
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_census
and also, outside the US:
did an LLM get involved in your dictionary somehow? (why are four of these six definitions very minor rephrasings of each other?)
Fwiw, the American Heritage Dictionary has only one definition; the other two are in wiktionary (which has citations for both).
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Will both street performers & buskers accept my money?English
6·19 days agoto all five of your questions: yes
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month insteadEnglish
7·21 days agowhat happened next? (do the terms actually allow you to cancel it immediately for no cost, or is their $10-per-month-for-nothing offer an alternative to paying a cancellation fee?)




I posted the 10 points according to one source and then said