nekare

I just saw Guillermo del Toro described in an article as a POC and like, uh... what. Yeah, he's Mexican (from my city! The council keeps on reminding us every chance it gets!), and he's culturally plenty latinamerican, but, dude, he's white. No way around it. The fact that latinamericans don't come in one standard brown seems to be so alien to the US, it weirds me out. We're white, we're brown, we're black and hey, there are large numbers of Asian people as well! Because, you know, latinamerica is huge and stuff.

While it's still a pretty big deal that Hollywood gives massive projects opportunities to non-US people, gold old Memo del Toro is still a white man. The triumph is against xenophobia, not racism.

And since I'm already on my soapbox - I've always had a bit of a problem with the term POC. I know it's a better alternative than a lot of other terms, but in the end, it sounds very much like 'white vs. other', and if you're gonna count all of us non-white people in one giant weird homogenous group (which, why?), then we as a group would massively bigger than the white population. Why then is it that we get the minority denomination?

And yeah, I know that we mostly have US demographics to thank for that. I don't know, it just rankles a bit.