Growing up I always knew that I was ugly on the outside
then slowly believed that I was ugly on the inside too.
palabra
the lies we tell...
spe·lunk·ing
2020
mixtec≠mexican
For the life of me, i can’t help but laugh at it..
i mean they claim to be mexican…
to be indigenous.
In all the things I’ve read,
they consider themselves part of it.
If i recall, there is a narrative:
“you don’t speak our language,
you do not sing our songs,
you do not practice our rituals,
you are not us”
It must be difficult to want to be part
of a community/culture that you find fascinating
& sure tu familia
may have been born there but is that enough?
Seattle
CINCO de MAYO
Cinco de mayo es una celebración de la derrota del Imperio francés por el ejército mexicano en la Batalla de Puebla.
Pero para mi, it is an excellent opportunity to share some Mexican culture with some new friends from Japan.
These three lovely ladies are international students from Waseda University in Shinjuku, Tokyo. We all have the same class in which we learn about cultural differences between the U.S. and Japan. Although I have a little understanding of Japanese culture, I explain how similar my Indigenous Oaxacan upbringing was akin to theirs.
