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I don't usually get to use my tagalog or even show people that I CAN speak it but I've heard many things about racism in the United States and I am TERIFFIED because of how much I hear about it. I have plans to work in the medical field and my mama said that I should study and work in America because you get paid more. Not very excited...

I think the racism happens because the country allows it to, learning new languages allows you to appreciate how different the world is and get used to the diverse sounds of languages. Since there is a great limit and not much support going into having people be fluent in foreign languages this doesn't happen.

Not only that, without the experience of trying to be fluent in one language there is a lack of appreciation for people who HAVE to become fluent in English inorder to better the lives of themselves, family and their descendants.

My parents come from the philippines and immigrated to the UK, my mom speaks to people because my dad tends to struggle with things like "he or she" because there is just "sya" for both genders and can't remember singular words for ideas which are seen as basic to English speakers but is still considered fluent because you could hardly tell unless you've known him a long time.

Here's the real kicker, they're trilingual. Both my parents speak their local language (I can only understand a word or two per sentence 😅) , Tagalog AND English plus a good deal of Spanish (not enough to be fluent but could hold a conversation).

If the US just gave people more motivation to study languages then I feel like the racism would die down. Seriously, cutting down the foreign language studies is letting racism continue.

I'm not sure if it's died down at all or if it's increased since I'm not there to see it but considering the president's history... Uh...

I'm not so sure... (If I'm wrong I'm sorry, I've been immersing in work, books and duolingo)

Edit: I've gotta add this but, one time my family were walking to wagamama and we were conversing in tagalog when some dudes rode by saying "A ching Chong ching", excuse me? First off, just because we look Asian and speak a different language doesn't mean we're Chinese, I've had that before, I hate it. Second, I have and have had Chinese friends, if they heard you!!! I don't understand why you felt it necessary to do that, you're not going to achieve anything...

Yes

Postin here cause it blew the fuck up on twitter

Lyrics by @ajlenoire and @kiwi

Tagged by @isappho! I miss uuuuuuuuuu!

Name: Riley (common so eh)

Pronouns: she/her

Nicknames: Rils, Reelee (thanks Ruby (;¬_¬)) and, if your my lola, baby baket

Zodiac: Taurus (FOOOOOD)

Height: a bit shorter than isappho

Languages: English and Tagalog (native), Spanish(B1), Japanese+ Swedish+ Mandarin(A1) ngyhrrrrr

Nationality 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

Favourite season: Summer (way too cold the rest of the year 😅)

Favourite scent: book smell 👌

Favourite color: Pink or blue

Favourite animals: Dogs, Red panda, sun bear,

Favourite fictional characters: Everyone but Lila (in MLB), but my all time favourite character HAS to be Saitama from One Punch Man (dudes hilarious!)

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Halo-halo all the way! Never had it? TRY IT ( to answer question, tea/hot chocolate)

Average sleep hours: Uh... Like, 2 hours or 10 hours. No in between

Dog or cat person: PUPPIES!!!

Number of blankets I sleep with: 1 but I have 5 pillows, max comfy

Dream trip: Alcala or Solana in the Philippines. I'll go see my family

Blog established: Uh... I have no sense of time but around late 2019

tagged by @boleyn-falcon (tysm!!!)

Name: Azalea

Pronouns: She/her

Nicknames: Zaley, Azza, Alea, Leelee

Zodiac: Capricorn

Height: 5′8

Languages: English, halfway decent amount of Spanish and ASL, dismal amount of French and German

Nationality: American 

Favorite season: Winter! Winter winter winter.

Favorite scent: Lavender or the ocean

Favorite color: Purple or yellow

Favorite animal: Seahorses or stingrays probably

Favorite fictional characters: Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Lex Foster, Ethan Green, Hannah Foster, Emma Perkins, Annabeth Chase, Samirah Al-Abbas, Alex Fierro, Chloe Valentine, Brooke Lohst, Miles Morales, I could go on but I’ll spare y’all 

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Tea, hot chocolate, coffee, in that order.

Average sleep hours: 05:00-09:00 or 01:30-08:00

Dog or cat person: I’m not a huge animal person in general but I have three dogs at one of my households and I love them all very much

Number of blankets I sleep with: two comforters and one blanket on top

Dream trip: I want to go to California, Louisiana, New York, Alaska, Hawai’i, Greece, London, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. In that specific order, on one trip. 

Blog established: Sometime last year but I didn’t use it for anything other than liking posts until like September lol

Followers: 56 (i just want to say I still don’t know how that happened this is literally just me screwing around and finding stuff I like)

Random fact: oh gosh okay uh one time in third grade I got locked in a classroom for a full two hours (lunch and music, which was a different classroom) and didn’t even notice because I was reading in a corner and didn’t hear my entire class and teacher leaving.

tagging: @sweetestrequiems, @clockwork–frog, @aveasorae, anyone else who wants to do it (also idk if you three have done it or not and you don’t have to if you don’t want)

How about, instead of "Magandang Umaga" we say

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Please don't take seriously*

You can't say "Magandang Umaga" without being cheerful

*and I hate it.

ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER EVERYWHERE. 

ZIMBABWE NEEDS YOUR HELP (please read and signal boost!)  there is little to no coverage on this crisis worldwide. Rally for it just like you have for Black Lives Matter in the US, Yemen, Australian bushfires etc. 

˗ˏˋ Link to petitions/donations!  ˊˎ˗

reposted from: @theslacktivists on IG 

“why bother writing bisexual characters if they just end up in a m/f relationship”

my dude

my guy

my pal

stop talking forever

So I just found this and I am watching it on loop!

The director of cybersecurity from the Electronic Freedom Foundation is offering to help women who have been threatened with compromise of their devices.

to the white readers:

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.

period.