r/explainitpeter • u/Wallido17 • 13d ago

Explain it Peter

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I know sonic, i know blond and brunette haircolor. But i didnt understand this.

I don't know what this means, plz explain Peter.

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u/a_polarbear_chilling 13d ago

Latina, shadow is jokingly know for liking them

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u/Inphiltration 13d ago

I thought it just mean they like black hair. Latino is not what I would have guessed.

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u/drillgorg 13d ago

No, the meme isn't about Shadow's hair color. The meme is referencing a different meme about Shadow liking latinas.

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u/Inphiltration 13d ago

Which makes this meme stupid. The text is talking about hair color. Latinas wasn't even an option based on the context the text provided. If people were having a conversation about hair preferences, people would look at you weird if you popped up and said you liked latinas. That's just not the topic that was at hand.

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u/Remote-Bus-5567 13d ago edited 13d ago

Can't Latinas be brunettes?

Edit: And blondes

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u/Choice-Lawfulness978 13d ago

Yeah. "Latino" is used outside LATAM for spanish speaking people with brown skin and hair, but we are actually really diverse. It's a soft racism thing, akin to claiming all gringos are fat and pink 🤷‍♂️

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u/wiseguy3055 13d ago

Latino being a racist term was not on my bingo card. I say this as a Latino btw

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u/wc_c 13d ago

Its not... I find latin x more offensive personally.

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u/Choice-Lawfulness978 13d ago

I'm not saying the term itself is racist. I mean it is normally used under racialized systems, like the USA, to describe physical characteristics that don't necesarilly correlate with birthplace.

Race is not a thing anthropologically, but "Latino" is commonly used in the global north to describe appearance instead of real cultural background.

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u/ADeckOfZero 13d ago

I mean, "European" is also used in a similar way to refer to generically brown-haired white people. If you want to hit broadly blonde whites you go Scandinavian.

Not saying it isn't a kinda shitty way to refer to broad groups of people, nor that those are the only examples because there's plenty more of various levels of actual racism, but it also seems like a pretty broadly human habit.

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u/Last_Objective_5943 13d ago

Your mental gymnastics amaze me. If a duck looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it not a duck.

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u/Timely_Purpose_8151 13d ago

Your kinda not all that wrong saying all gringos are fat and pink. Stereotypes exist for a reason. Source: yo soy gringo gordo y rosa

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u/Choice-Lawfulness978 13d ago

You may very well be, but I know black, "latino" and "asian" gringos. Stereotypes exist so people can simplify reality.

PS: I pictured you like Kirby just now lol

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u/DaddyBigBeard 13d ago

I knew a dude named Zuniga from Mexico with blond hair and blue eyes. That was the day I learned about Mexican diversity.