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If you a white person who finds this question offensive I challenge you to reflect on what it is that you find offensive. The Oscar-winning film director Pedro Almodóvar also cast Rosalía in his 2019 film Dolor y Gloria ("Pain and Glory"), alongside Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. The general rule of thumb should be to use English as the default language when engaging with Latinxs living in the US unless you receive indication that they speak Spanish. A great method for pronunciation and fluency training is to record yourself speaking or singing lyrics and listen back to the audio. Regardless, that's the summary of a good deal of her argument in favor of "is speaking Spanish cultural appropriation? Not every nationality comes with a passport that is as strong as others. The real world consequences of a non-Latino speaking Spanish are non-existent. Though I love how again her focus is literally only on white people. Or maybe talking on Whatsapp with a Colombian girlfriend in Spanish on a train heading back to Iowa. The singer told Vogue España "yo siempre intento dar, dar y dar; crear; compartir" ("I always try to give, give and give, create, share"). Do they have a gasoline shortage in Puerto Rico? Another area of society that leaves room for language appropriation is music. By following her life and career, you can keep up with Spanish political views and trending issues in Spain.
"Education by Hardship: Native American Boarding Schools in the U. S. and Canada. " After all, it came from Spain -- A COUNTRY OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO COLONIZED LATIN COUNTRIES!! When these people are told that stealing from another culture's language is also cultural appropriation, the pushback becomes much more intense. Hell, I had an ex-girlfriend from Colombia who lived in a relatively shit neighborhood that I was warned against visiting by a taxi driver and yet even she was able to travel around Europe eventually.
Among other reasons like Tassja and others of any children of immigrant community would want to retain parts of their heritage (like language). Regardless of how you feel about her use of flamenco or her involvement in the Latin Grammy awards, you cannot deny Rosalía's influence on today's society. Wesley Morris, in his article, "Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music? " Be it the necessity to learn Spanish to get ahead career wise like pointed out before... Or the necessity of companies to not piss off Latino audiences. Doing whatever church work she did, white woman observed how "happy the poor people are" in whatever community she was in. If you are brand new to the Spanish language, you can look up the lyrics in your mother tongue and get to know the context. In one case, however, I believe there's a closely-related dialect with an active educational program that welcomes outsiders. ) Which, as I said, is part of where much of the tension surrounding this topic comes from in my opinion. You'll get better quickly, I promise, but it won't be easy in the beginning. Plenty do allow easy enough access to travel around! You can copy the inflictions, tone and accent Rosalía has in her music to sound as natural and authentic as you can. So I'd take her side on this one when it comes to calling that out.
Video and questions on the history and culture of flamenco. I agree anyhow that context matters and to not speak Spanish to every Latino person in the US. It has been a long, constant struggle to convince those people to understand that cultural appropriation does exist, and that it is really harmful to any minority populations that are affected by it. Unless maybe they want to lecture Latinos who live in Latin America about how they need to change their language to always say "latinx. I have read novels, short stories, and essays from black authors. She might've sat around a campfire talking with the people she met in Latin America all night about her privileges! In that the struggle of the decade had nothing to do with some historical oppression by Spain or the US but actually were local shit in their lives.
And when I read stories like this, I always question if the author is recounting personal experiences they lived through or the stories of their parents or grandparents of which they wouldn't have as many emotional scars from due to not being part of the story. "Personal Hymnal of Harriet Tubman. " Similar to the mother of the second author, some of them take it quite nicely. She lifted her eyes to the door and saw him standing there bent over with laughter at her fright. Now, let's unpick the themes explored in Rosalía's songs. Her Music is Accessible. I mean it's not; how much bullshit do you think Latinx Americans who learned a bit of English in school before coming to the US get? But that doesn't mean that the non-Latinos speaking Spanish is a bad thing.
So folks in Latin America are not any different here -- let's be real. You can see a strong flamenco influence in the red outfits worn by Rosalía in the video. Is Speaking Spanish Cultural Appropriation? Plus, you'll never have the case where literally everyone has equal access to travel and most people do have access to media (social media, TVs, etc). Though I don't see that as big of an issue either. To Tami with the deadbeat dad. For hundreds of years, dominant cultures have been stealing language from the people that they oppress in order to profit off of those oppressed cultures. The article she quoted anyway was a Huffington Post article about Mexican-American Studies being banned in Arizona. In some countries, like Colombia, Bolivia or Nicaragua, I found the people very friendly despite how good or bad my Spanish was.
People meet others all the time in a wide variety of communities and then recount their experiences and their impressions of others when talking about it later. Many of these problems are self-correcting. Legal Information: Know Your Meme ® is a trademark of Literally Media Ltd. By using this site, you are agreeing by the site's terms of use and privacy policy and DMCA policy. However, this is still the kind of thread that tends to remain interesting and constructive for a while, but which almost always heads downhill sooner or later. Then we have the "English-privileging education system. ", and the answer, obviously, is "Yes of course, my going rate for Spanish tutoring is $17 an hour, cash only, and I round up. Others, however, are ignorant jackasses who can't comprehend how a foreigner could learn Spanish but that's a topic I've already beat to death in my blog.
In my time as an English major, I have read more books than I can count. After the introduction of Eminem, rap music immediately became much more mainstream, and white people have now completely appropriated the very soul of rap music, which has changed the way that black Americans are able to interact with their own form of music. Here are the main points that I've had while writing this article for those who skipped ahead: First, stop gatekeeping Latin America and Spanish to brown people. In a society where most of the population is monolingual English speaking, anybody who is bilingual, regardless of what their racial background, should be proud of this accomplishment. Rosalía particularly leans into the pop, hip-hop, flamenco, and reggaeton genres. And thinking about some of the Latinos I've known from the US…. Well, let's not beat the dead horse again. So she's making an assumption there that the white woman never assumed her privilege and also that she doesn't know the history of the Spanish language in the US. And so disappear (Orange 8–9). Again, yes I can see the Catch-22 that we are presenting white people. However, the intersection of bilingualism and whiteness is the focus of my response here.
"NCTE/ERIC Summaries & Sources: Teaching Cultural Appreciation through Literature. " Or all the others who lost their jobs due to their racist behavior. With only a few words, Dimock conveys the dangerous side-effects of accepting language elitism. If you're white and speak Spanish that I can I will basically hate you. Most of the non-Latinos I know personally in the US only speak Spanish literally in the classroom only so they can graduate. That, being a foreigner, I get discriminated against in various ways frequently like the following: - Gringo pricing. Some critics have voiced concerns over Rosalía, a Catalan artist and a northerner, taking so much liberty with this music genre that was born from the influences of Jewish, Romani, and Moor peoples in the south of Spain. Also, maybe being at a new Mexican restaurant in your small town in Iowa where the waiter doesn't speak a lick of English and Spanish is necessary so he understands what your mom wants. Rosalía told El País that "music doesn't have an owner" when asked about the flamenco genre. And not every Latino in Latin America is either. But, over the years, I try to be a little bit understanding in that some just want to be nice and find a common thing we can relate to. And, from what I've seen, you can sometimes easily enough distinguish the different nationality of someone by how they speak Spanish and that can provoke at times some discrimination against these folks.
The album was inspired by the medieval 13th-century feminist novel called Flamenca. But as I said, I think it's likely a case of your friends just trying to find a commonality with you. And there's nothing disrespectful in any of those examples to the Spanish language. I think the appropriation applies more accurately to white people celebrating Cinco de Mayo without a) knowing what it signifies and b) while being bang-up in favor of deporting Mexican immigrants. If we, as Americans, can come together and appreciate each others' cultures, we can start to move toward a culture of appreciation rather than one of appropriation. Though, as a side point, I've heard some private schools do supposedly have more English language instruction if needed in some circumstances down here in Latin America.
Honestly, most folks learning Spanish aren't doing crazy shit with it to disrespect the language. Just asking if only white people, no matter the context, can be guilty here. The more we understand different cultures, the more we will respect those cultures.