After sending out invitations to a belated elopement party, I was suddenly fielding calls from friends who wanted to wear saris but were worried that it might be disrespectful.

Yay for multiculturalism and yay for a laugh!

Many of us are as confused as everyone else. We’re a large group bound together by only one factor — we’re not white. So different things matter in different degrees to all of us, it’s near impossible to speak as one.

I don’t even like the term people of colour. The first time I heard it I thought of the Smurfs because they’re blue.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    This is a famous story in the US.

    When the movie executives started getting called out on racism back in the day they stopped doing things like casting white actors to play Chinese people.

    They also stopped making and showing cartoons featuring Speedy Gonzalez, a Mexican mouse who spoke with a heavy accent.

    Turned out, the Mexican Americans loved Speedy.

    What one group hates, another embraces.