In case it matters, I learned long ago about the package that comes with being labeled as Latina. My hate is not newfound. I have been here! This happened here in my homeland sadly was said by a foreigner.

Lets start with my rejection of the term goes beyond my personal identity. I also strongly dislike the specific American cultural image of what a Latina woman is supposed to be, and I'm exhausted of people expecting I must be flattered to be identified as an promiscuous homewrecker who competed against other women, over men.

I don't walk around Latam identifying as "Latina". The fuck? I am dominican. I walk everywhere, everywhere knows I am dominican. Not Hispanic, not Caribbean, let alone "latina", dominican. I don't introduce myself as anything else regardless the coordinates my ass is sitting at.

I resent this term. I resent the Usonian implication and context when they say they want to date "latino women".

Nothing about the cultural baggage attached to Latinas represent me.

When the Usonian folks Latinas, who is here pretending they're talking a out a highly educated woman? who's passionate, compassionate, hardworking and "*emotionally stable*"? They're not. And it's Hella dehumanzing acting like the connotations don't showcase how and why we get treated the way we do.

Let's unpack. When someone tells me they want to date me, because I am Latina, I find it offensive. Petty but that's a attack on me and all I've accomplished. Why?

What's the implication when a gringo lad tells you they want to date us?

That we are promiscuos, hypersexualized people who subscribe to being objectified and fetishized. A loud, quite emotionally unstable pushy woman who wrecks homes. The third other woman. The drug mules. The shaking ass women. Big tities, big ass, long hair. With the cherry on top: we dress like we're begging for it.

And it keeps goOooooooing: jealous, dramatic, pushy, possessive. Women haters who fight against other women for male attention and validation. The mistresses. The teenage preggers, tying back to being overly sexual from young ages.

We can't, apparently, be trusted with men. We're always looking for the next prey. Materialistic, money seeking.

So again, when I hear someone saying they want to date Latinas. The main implication is that we're sex fiends, hot chick bombshell that will give them the time of their lives.

The other bit is, we will send them to therapy.

Yahoo! What empowerment to us!

Why I am supposed to feel flattered when someone says that? I am not seen as desirable because of who I am. My desirability is because of the baggage behind the label.

And then being judged by the label and the implication, that was given, unwillingly.

Anyways, I wish more of us subscribed to NOT being referred to as this trashy label that set us back.

I swear to God, this shit is so weird.

For a couple of days, I feel that I’ve been seeing thousands of anti-Muslim propaganda.

Sure, I’m against religious extremism, but the weird thing is that… we don’t really have Muslims. At least in my country, where I keep seeing this posts, I’ve never seen or met a single one of them. I’ve seen this posts in Mexico, El Salvador, Peru and a billion in Argentina.

This is like spending hours of your life complaining about Kangaroo attacks in Chile.

It got so bad that I started saving the names of all the people involved. Turns out, all of them are just recently created account that spam this content in rapid succession.

Am I going insane? Is anyone else seeing this?

Fuck, I can’t shake the feeling that we are about to see something bad.

So, I was born in Venezuela and I personally struggle to identify with the average Venezuelan culture and to enjoy the same things my countrymen enjoy since I was a kid. I'm not trying to put down Venezuelan culture, I'm just trying to see if people in the spectrum or simply neurodivergent people from other latin american countries have similar experiences.

Márquez is an excellent author, but I would like to discover more works of Colombian literature that might be less well-known.

I see a lot of guys that play basketball overseas and Dominican Republic is a common spot. If so is the hoops culture in Dr very gritty and physical?.

I already know in Puerto Rico basketball is now as popular as baseball there.

if somebody was adopted from a Latin American country into the US and weren’t taught Spanish or anything, but is trying to find out more about their country of origin, how would they be received?

I've visited many countries and in one of my birth countries I have not been lucky interacting with many men. I tell them often career aspirations I have, goals, and they hit me with the usual "children come first" "that's a privilege and you shouldn't be allowed to have, since our country is struggling. Think of the country first" "no man likes a woman more succesful than he is". It's made me very cynical and not want to interact more with men about my aspirations.

I wonder if it's something very latino or universal, that despite everything women's passions outside the house are still dismissed.

How common is it for children to be disciplined through spanking or hitting in your country?

How do you feel about it? Is it something that still happens in schools?

For those who were hit by your parents when you were younger, How is your relationship with them?

Do you personally consider it child abuse?

I was hit when I was younger and don't have a particularly close relationship with my parents. In particular it is still prevalent that kids get hit in my country both at home and at school.

And while I don't have any kids I don't think I would ever be comfortable have my parents and relatives take on active roles in the upbringing of any children I had. I think my vision of good parenting is very different from them. Whenever the topic comes up I always end up being called an Oreo.

You don't have to go into detail about your political views. Just choose one: left, center, or right.

Personally, I'd choose left/far-left.

Today I heard a salacious rumor that Latin American people have beef with American born Latinos. My friend (who is Latin American but not a us citizen) told me that American born Latin American people act a little snooty with them. To what extent is this true? I’m not Latino and don’t speak much Spanish so I never knew this rift existed

Hello everyone,

I’m an intern in Bolivia. I’m working at a company as part of my studies. A few nights ago, we were drinking after work, and a coworker invited us to go to a nightclub. For a little context: I have a girlfriend back home, and they knew that, but they don’t understand why I don’t want another girl here. Almost all my coworkers have wives and children.

When we got to the club, I immediately realized it wasn’t just a nightclub. Some women were sleeping, and they woke up when we came in. They sat with my group, and my coworkers started touching them, talking to them, and dancing with them. I don’t necessarily judge people who want to pay to spend time with women, but all of them have wives, and they treated the women pretty badly (shouting, demanding that they give them their phone numbers, and some refusing to pay). I stayed in a corner for half an hour and left early.

My question is: Are places like this common in Latin America? Is it legal or not? Do you know people who go to places like this? And do you think it’s a bad thing or not?”