Junot Diaz is the perfect representation of a Dominican growing up with many identities. Many find his personality striking but I really relate to the perfect way in which he mixes NYC slang in scholarly conversations.
I had the chance to meet Junot Diaz at CCNY when he came to visit campus one day. He was the nicest person ever, very humble and signed my copy of 'This is How You Lose Her'. Big shout out to Mr. Diaz.
This guy speaks true, i was born in Kosovo when the storm of a genocide hit us and after living under that fear for 5 years with family we moved to New York, culture shock and trauma brought to a country that knew freedom for centuries more than ours. Traveled back to Kosovo after it was free in the year 2000, went to school there too, another culture shock and gained so much perspective in life. Came back to the U.S again and became a citizen living a life with an American woman. I have kept who I am as a person and the lessons I've learned during my childhood travels. All that is what all of us immigrants need to keep regardless of what nation you live in tells you otherwise. I've lived in the Bronx, Queens, Harlem and lower Manhattan. You always ran into people that felt the same way, fear of losing their identity. As long as you have family and friends that you can relate to and tackle those problems, it helps to understand where you as a person stand in this modern world. Keep what and who you are!
Thanks for this. I've felt that navigating the different cultures that make up your identity can be so difficult and heart-breaking at times. But remembering there are others like me out there, juggling with the same issues, can be incredibly uplifting and inspiring.
I met him about 15 years ago, he spoke at my school. He was just getting famous, and he joked that the students had nicer cars than he did. He is super friendly and approachable.
Third-generation Ukrainian-American with both Ashkenazic and Sephardic roots on my Mother's side, and at least 3rd generation Polish-American with Celtic roots on my Father's side, and proud of it! #FillTheDamnPlate!
That's what i have been thinking. Coming to America as an immigrant you can't erase the fact that you are from another country. You let the culture u learnt influence the people around u positively so that they don't start having wrong ideas about where u are from. Spot on.
Samuel Alswell nobody is asking you to do that. My ancestors came from Italy and kept much of their heritage. They put the Italian flag up with the American and cook their foods and go to a Catholic Church. They did bring their heritage. But you must also realize and respect the country that YOU now live in. America isn’t Italy. It’s America and you should at least say the pledge and be proud and defend the nation you CHOSE to come to.
Ball 15 lolzzz. It is funny that most people can dictate how u live ur life. There are many things that i have learnt while i was here and it is different from the country i am coming from 1. Respect; Most people don't respect themselves here all in the name of freedom of expression which can affect the way most people see it on the outside. 2. If u are from a less developed country u are inferior it is only u that can change peoples perspective on how ur country is. 3. When u do most things here people think u are crazy and that is sad. 4. It is also sad that u definitely can't also mind ur own business and that also SAD!!! 4. I know what u mean and u clearly don't understand where i am coming from so byeeee!
Whoa, super classy, the way he's dressed as a business man and speaks like a businessman but then casually drops a "yo" here and there :-D so much style! Awesome!
My Grand Daughter lives in CA and is only 3. When she's a little older I'm going to buy her this book. Such a great subject to learn about other people and to learn acceptance and understanding of everyone.
wow i must read this book cause i can see myself in it ... I've been born and living 32 years in a country that i can't even call it my country (even though i love it and feel it as my home) and i hold a nationality of a country that i know nothing about and yet this country that i'm living in are doing their best to kick immigrants out by raising their staying fees, their immigrant card, medical insurance and limiting the job fields for immigrants and the sad part is that this country doesn't see you as someone who lived their entire life on their land ...they see you as some immigrant that just entered their country few days ago... it's really hard to go back to a country that i know nothing about or even love that country...
This is just so true. In France too, immigrants are asked to live in one world and forget their culture of origin as if you can just ignore what's a big part of you. And when you have live in more than one country, you do have several worlds.
LexiLSify Well I'm Mexican living in south France (15 yrs) and never felt they were asking me to forget about my country. Inside my place is like mariachi and tacos 😋 znd when I'm out well as they say... "when in Rome do as Romans do" I feel that is a good compromise at least for me.
The french are some of the most xenophobic people in the world tbh. They "tolerate" difference as long as it abides by their cultural norms and expect people to give up their cultures and their identities in order to adhere to some stupid idea of a unified nation. It's all based on white supremacy imho and the idea that french culture is superior and all others need to be left at the door.
natees, I feel like you're being a little too harsh here, but as a French person I do understand where you're coming from. France is clearly not the most hospitable country to be an immigrant in.
Okay first of all, yeah some French people want the French language to be spread in the world, alright, but others do feel like it's not necessary as the number of francophone people is due to colonialism. As for Hitler, he did invade France and the DICTATORSHIP in place at the time was collaborationist and is a big stain on French History. An event that took place 70 years ago is proof that an entire population is spineless ? Also wtf is this about French people stinking ? Why do you even say that ? You know we do shower right ? (And we're the number one country in the perfume industry.)
America needs to understand it should be a tapestry not a melting pot. Millions upon millions of different threads joining together to make something beautiful. But Americans can seem to do that.
The book has a really good concept. Talk about things people in the US are still struggling with... but also touching one of the facts of how mixed not just US but the whole American continent is becoming.
It sounds great, I'll check it out for my kids. He's so charming, usually authors are a bit awkward. This is a really important subject, especially right now in America. Congrats on the new book!!
I was bred, born and raised in Florida. Any time I visited any other place in the U.S., I felt like an immigrant. Oh, sure, the currency is the same, and the language is similar. But the customs are different. I've visited several other countries where I felt more comfortable, England in particular. There's hostility every where you go. But there's good people, too.:)
Jason Bean - it makes since that you as Floridian feel like a immigrant in other states as other states pretend your state is another country. Florida is to the USA what Logan Paul is to TH-cam, a major part that we don’t want to acknowledge. So yeah, as a Floridian, you truly are an immigrant in this country. ;)
I've never been to Florida (I can't stand anything above 68 degrees, I don't get how people can live in constant heat...) nor anywhere else outside the Pacific Northwest, apart from a two week trip to Japan a decade ago. But I was just informed that outside this area of the country, it is considered very rude to ask your customers things like, "Any fun plans for the rest of the day?" or "How was your weekend?" while waiting for services to finish. I'm a barista, so I often fill the silence in a transaction with polite (?) chatter. Apparently, that is very intrusive or rude elsewhere in the country? I don't know, the thought of a stilted, awkward silence mortifies me. So how's it like in Florida? Is it more polite to wait in silence or to prompt light conversation?
I love how he backs up to excuse the word "damn", but the crowd cheers and trevor just looks like na bro, you said it right the first time, "Fill the damn plate!"
Hey I moved from the east coast to Las Vegas and people gave me shit at work about saying how we did things at work back east ! I also saw a bumper sticker that stated this, [ If you love New York so much go back there! ] So don't feel singled out for people not wanting to share your previous experiences...
People confuse me... “ooo look I was born in some place, ooo!” why does it matter? You are born where you are born, that is given to you... Its like a name, you are given a name... You can change it though, and you can earn one too. It really shouldn’t matter where you are born, its what you do that matters, who you are, not as a name, or a place, but rather what you define yourself to be.
It matters because white America makes it matter. By refusing to acknowledge that immigrants very often bring strengths to the US, American lavish hatred on those from other lands, forgetting that they, too, ate from other lands. If you are not a recent immigrant to the USA you are not wanted.
Are you not familiar with white the supremacists view? They want America for whites only, "blood and soil." Stupidty does not allow them to realize that the soil belongs to the native peoples of this land.
The soil belongs to no one, it's just dirt... I don't understand why its so important to people, unless it is important, why does it matter? We are all natives and we are all foreigners, there is no difference, just one calls the other such. White supremacists are just the negative reflection of this distinction, they want America to be for whites only because they know of America and being white means something... Its one of those we and them kinda things... People like to think they are special or unique, or that someone is lesser or greater than them... That this means that... We made those meanings, these words, those distinctions... As long as someone can be described as being something, and someone else isn't, then stuff like this happens. :/, I could just as easily imagine a world where being born somewhere else is better than being native to somewhere... People and society keeps doing this... It's dumb...
no. I think there is a group of small minded people might feel that way. That you must be "All~American" whatever that is supposed to be. But it is for sure a Melting Pot. A melting Pot Nation is just that a combination of all the cultures all the people come from. I mean we should be glad to enjoy the good stuff of America, but we need to share all our cultures. we are a Smörgåsbord of cultures. not a Hometown buffet that serves only Fried Baloney sandwiches.... we need to embrace each other's differences. because I'd be lost without Japanese or Thai food or I am going to a Himalayan place next month. How horrible it would be to go there and have them force Fried Baloney Sandwiches... Instead of Lovely new Experience in Culture & food. So as a nation we must individually embrace all cultures. Because that is what we are. And what makes us all unique and beautiful. I would hate a Beige world. they only thing that should be beige is my tea. IMHO
As the Puertorrican poet Fortunato Vizcarrondo would say, "Y tu abuela, ¿Donde está?" (Where is your gandma?). All those self-proclaimed master race snobs pretend to forget what we'd find if we looked back at their ancestors. Sadly, they've become the people who oppressed their ancestors and forced them to emigrate. Given a chance to make things better they choose to repeat the mistakes of people who should have done better.
Isn´t it an insolence to put away the nation of immigrants: All these white true americans should never forget, that they came to indigenous country and took it away . This is so incredibly sad. This is not right
Exactly, I sometimes laugh when I hear people with names in my (European) language say how the U.S. belongs to them. The funniest thing was that woman called Dolezal claiming she was African American. She is of Czech ancestry and she even looks like a Czech artist, not an African American woman LOL Come on, if your name is Dolezal or Novak or Dvorak, what you have a historical right to is a small house and a field in a village called Dolní Lhota or something, not the U.S. :-D
Why does it even matter where your born if you moved when you were so young you can't even remember it? Like if you were born in the DR but grew up in America then America shaped you and is your home. A place is a place in the same sense that objects are just objects, worthless. It's the people around you that make you who you are, not the sections of invisible walls we use to divide us.
You don't need to tell me, but I'm curious what your cultural heritage is/whether you're born from immigrants. A lot of immigrant communities, like mine, come to America in hope to give their kids a better future because they know there's more opportunity and safety in America. That being said, when those kids (like myself) grow up, there's a lot of conflict and confrontation between the American culture that my immigrant friends/family and I grow up in, and the culture that our parents come from. The conflict can be in small things like dating/relationships, to bigger ones like expectations about careers. But that being said, when my parents picked up and moved to the states, it's not like they immediately dropped everything they ever knew about their homes and instantly picked up a book to do everything how white Americans did. I grew up eating the food from where they're from, speaking their language, wearing their clothes, listening to their music. My entire immigrant community did so. America definitely shaped me to be who I am, and I would call myself an American first, but my identity is more complicated than that. At home, I grew up immersed in the culture that my parents grew up in, while going to American schools and living in American society that shaped me as well. I don't think places are "worthless" as you've described them. Think about it from the point of view of my parents, or any immigrant who moves to a new country they've never been in before to start a new life; it's jarring and unnerving, your hundreds/thousands of miles away from everything you ever knew. Of course you would want to show your kids, who are growing up in a new society and will be shaped differently than how you were, what your culture is like. It's not a bad thing to remember your roots and learn about the places/cultures your parents are from. I think growing up as an immigrant can be incredibly complicated and difficult at times. It feels like your bouncing between multiple identities, all of which which have people who want you to only accept that identity. The people around me do make who I am, and I happened to grow up around immigrants from very different places, people who have been here for generations, and other people like me who are trying to navigate both America and their parents' homes. I think its absolutely ridiculous and beautiful, at the same time, how people can move around the world and start new lives in a place that might as well be a different planet, and do it all from a place of hope and optimism. Sorry for making this so long.
s0ngf0rx I didn't mean places were worthless as in anywhere but America is worthless, I meant it as in no place has worth. A country does not have culture, the people within it do. I was born in America and love when people introduce me to their cultures. I just believe that people should feel free to embrace their culture anywhere. There will always be people that try to outcast people for "being different" in different parts of life. People shouldnt feel like they don't belong they should be encouraged to stay strong.
Where are the trump supporters nowadays? I haven't seen them since the 2016 election, it seems they kinda faded away (which they hopefully do the next election period)
“Fill the damn plate yo”- a Pulitzer award winning author who teaches (Taught) at MIT.
I love this man.
Junot Diaz is the perfect representation of a Dominican growing up with many identities. Many find his personality striking but I really relate to the perfect way in which he mixes NYC slang in scholarly conversations.
I had the chance to meet Junot Diaz at CCNY when he came to visit campus one day. He was the nicest person ever, very humble and signed my copy of 'This is How You Lose Her'. Big shout out to Mr. Diaz.
Pardeep Singh I saw him speak at SUNY Albany. He was dynamic, funny, angry, articulate.
Yea I love that piece ,
This guy speaks true, i was born in Kosovo when the storm of a genocide hit us and after living under that fear for 5 years with family we moved to New York, culture shock and trauma brought to a country that knew freedom for centuries more than ours. Traveled back to Kosovo after it was free in the year 2000, went to school there too, another culture shock and gained so much perspective in life. Came back to the U.S again and became a citizen living a life with an American woman. I have kept who I am as a person and the lessons I've learned during my childhood travels. All that is what all of us immigrants need to keep regardless of what nation you live in tells you otherwise. I've lived in the Bronx, Queens, Harlem and lower Manhattan. You always ran into people that felt the same way, fear of losing their identity. As long as you have family and friends that you can relate to and tackle those problems, it helps to understand where you as a person stand in this modern world. Keep what and who you are!
Thanks for this. I've felt that navigating the different cultures that make up your identity can be so difficult and heart-breaking at times. But remembering there are others like me out there, juggling with the same issues, can be incredibly uplifting and inspiring.
Man, friggin loved Edison, New Jersey and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. This guy is a good author.
I met him about 15 years ago, he spoke at my school. He was just getting famous, and he joked that the students had nicer cars than he did. He is super friendly and approachable.
This interview was central jersey
Trevor's a great interviewer. He always comes prepared and really seems interested in what his guests are saying
Love the conversation between these two intelligent, funny men. Thank you!!
Third-generation Ukrainian-American with both Ashkenazic and Sephardic roots on my Mother's side, and at least 3rd generation Polish-American with Celtic roots on my Father's side, and proud of it! #FillTheDamnPlate!
Everything he said was so true.
That's what i have been thinking. Coming to America as an immigrant you can't erase the fact that you are from another country. You let the culture u learnt influence the people around u positively so that they don't start having wrong ideas about where u are from. Spot on.
Samuel Alswell nobody is asking you to do that. My ancestors came from Italy and kept much of their heritage. They put the Italian flag up with the American and cook their foods and go to a Catholic Church. They did bring their heritage. But you must also realize and respect the country that YOU now live in. America isn’t Italy. It’s America and you should at least say the pledge and be proud and defend the nation you CHOSE to come to.
Ball 15 lolzzz. It is funny that most people can dictate how u live ur life. There are many things that i have learnt while i was here and it is different from the country i am coming from
1. Respect;
Most people don't respect themselves here all in the name of freedom of expression which can affect the way most people see it on the outside.
2. If u are from a less developed country u are inferior it is only u that can change peoples perspective on how ur country is.
3. When u do most things here people think u are crazy and that is sad.
4. It is also sad that u definitely can't also mind ur own business and that also SAD!!!
4. I know what u mean and u clearly don't understand where i am coming from so byeeee!
Samuel Alswell well of course other people dictate your life. You live with other humans hahaha. And no I must not know what you mean.
Ball 15 No it is u that is telling me what to do. Stop saying rubbish or else i will report u boi.
Ball 15 REPORTED
I love this book so much. I’m Islandborn from Jamaica 🇯🇲
Whoa, super classy, the way he's dressed as a business man and speaks like a businessman but then casually drops a "yo" here and there :-D so much style! Awesome!
My Grand Daughter lives in CA and is only 3. When she's a little older I'm going to buy her this book. Such a great subject to learn about other people and to learn acceptance and understanding of everyone.
wow i must read this book cause i can see myself in it ... I've been born and living 32 years in a country that i can't even call it my country (even though i love it and feel it as my home) and i hold a nationality of a country that i know nothing about and yet this country that i'm living in are doing their best to kick immigrants out by raising their staying fees, their immigrant card, medical insurance and limiting the job fields for immigrants and the sad part is that this country doesn't see you as someone who lived their entire life on their land ...they see you as some immigrant that just entered their country few days ago... it's really hard to go back to a country that i know nothing about or even love that country...
One of my top favorite authors. Thank you, I love you both.
This is just so true. In France too, immigrants are asked to live in one world and forget their culture of origin as if you can just ignore what's a big part of you.
And when you have live in more than one country, you do have several worlds.
LexiLSify Well I'm Mexican living in south France (15 yrs) and never felt they were asking me to forget about my country. Inside my place is like mariachi and tacos 😋 znd when I'm out well as they say... "when in Rome do as Romans do" I feel that is a good compromise at least for me.
The french are some of the most xenophobic people in the world tbh. They "tolerate" difference as long as it abides by their cultural norms and expect people to give up their cultures and their identities in order to adhere to some stupid idea of a unified nation. It's all based on white supremacy imho and the idea that french culture is superior and all others need to be left at the door.
natees, I feel like you're being a little too harsh here, but as a French person I do understand where you're coming from. France is clearly not the most hospitable country to be an immigrant in.
natees123 That sounds like every country. You could have swapped in Japanese, Ethiopia, or Mexico and it would still be as ‘true’ as what you wrote.
Okay first of all, yeah some French people want the French language to be spread in the world, alright, but others do feel like it's not necessary as the number of francophone people is due to colonialism.
As for Hitler, he did invade France and the DICTATORSHIP in place at the time was collaborationist and is a big stain on French History.
An event that took place 70 years ago is proof that an entire population is spineless ?
Also wtf is this about French people stinking ? Why do you even say that ? You know we do shower right ? (And we're the number one country in the perfume industry.)
Oscar Wao is a brilliant novel. He gets a full pass on being slow with his children's book.
thats true i always feel like im the only one who struggles of that an tend to forget that there are so many ppl out there feeling the same way
America needs to understand it should be a tapestry not a melting pot. Millions upon millions of different threads joining together to make something beautiful. But Americans can seem to do that.
Kiara Arriaga- beautifully said.
That was really good, actually...
Kiara Arriaga some people say salad. But I like tapestry better
The problem with being "a tapestry" is that the individual factions eventually clash.
Gideon Johnston clashes happen between people all the time. In fact, most murders happen between friends and family.
I want this book! great story that relates to many who are multi-cultural and we should embrace all our etnicities.
Some of the rare uploads of Trevor's interviews. Maybe some more here and there??? 🙂
God Bless you Juno Diaz !
Hello from Dominican Republic!!
Gabriela Makhlouf
You yourself are an immigrant to the Dominican Republic, of Levantine Arab decent?
#FillThe Plate! #LiveALLofYou
I have never heard of this author before but after viewing this interview I really want to get his book
The book has a really good concept. Talk about things people in the US are still struggling with... but also touching one of the facts of how mixed not just US but the whole American continent is becoming.
It took 20yrs, due to, you can not write a kids book about your kids until they're done being kids
Agreed!
They are his God kids. That is a modern family phase
I'm afraid it will take me 20 years to write a book
I really enjoyed this conversation..
It sounds great, I'll check it out for my kids. He's so charming, usually authors are a bit awkward. This is a really important subject, especially right now in America. Congrats on the new book!!
One of my favorite authors!
Love "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao!" Such a great book :) Glad Trevor is featuring him!
I love this man.
I was bred, born and raised in Florida. Any time I visited any other place in the U.S., I felt like an immigrant.
Oh, sure, the currency is the same, and the language is similar. But the customs are different.
I've visited several other countries where I felt more comfortable, England in particular.
There's hostility every where you go. But there's good people, too.:)
Jason Bean - it makes since that you as Floridian feel like a immigrant in other states as other states pretend your state is another country. Florida is to the USA what Logan Paul is to TH-cam, a major part that we don’t want to acknowledge. So yeah, as a Floridian, you truly are an immigrant in this country. ;)
I've never been to Florida (I can't stand anything above 68 degrees, I don't get how people can live in constant heat...) nor anywhere else outside the Pacific Northwest, apart from a two week trip to Japan a decade ago.
But I was just informed that outside this area of the country, it is considered very rude to ask your customers things like, "Any fun plans for the rest of the day?" or "How was your weekend?" while waiting for services to finish. I'm a barista, so I often fill the silence in a transaction with polite (?) chatter. Apparently, that is very intrusive or rude elsewhere in the country? I don't know, the thought of a stilted, awkward silence mortifies me.
So how's it like in Florida? Is it more polite to wait in silence or to prompt light conversation?
Pearl Carol in KC polite convo plz!
Jason Bean I agree, every state in the US is different, I've been to many of them.
Enoch Powell well being a "monitary" probably does suck! Whatever a monitary is....please educate yourself before commenting such nonsense
I love how he backs up to excuse the word "damn", but the crowd cheers and trevor just looks like na bro, you said it right the first time, "Fill the damn plate!"
I love this guy! "Fill the damn plate yo!"
I can't see him the same way after learning of the allegations against him. I hope there is justice if in fact he is guilty.
"Fill the damn plate"...I love it!
I like it, “look at it like a buffet!!” Haha
Saw him in Brooklyn yesterday
New York City is very different in that, there is an encouragement to keep your culture along with being American.
Out of many,one people!
Two of my faves ♥️🇩🇴
"Fill the damn plate"! I love it!
Love this
Cool guy, wise words
Definitely a must read 😻
Fill the damn plate - love the phrase :-) enjoyed this episode
It s hard in other places too. I live in south Korea. Doesn't feel like home.
"Fill the damn plate yo!" Yaaaasssss!!
Iol this guy...I didn't expect that kind of talk from him with a tie looking all conservative
love him!!!
Beautiful!
"Fill the damn plate" just entered the cultural lexicon!
Definitely from NEW YORK!
Hey I moved from the east coast to Las Vegas and people gave me shit at work about saying how we did things at work back east !
I also saw a bumper sticker that stated this,
[ If you love New York so much go back there! ] So don't feel singled out for people not wanting to share your previous experiences...
(Whistle) now that's a hot suit!
I thought I knew Diaz, but Junot Diaz.
This guy looks like the non high version of snoop dogg
Blades Might that guy was definitely high
*it's not EITHER//OR. "it's BOTH"*
*"and if you got trips, that's good too, 3 is a lucky number, baby"*
I LIVE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC! :D
"Fill the damn plate yo, fill the damn plate."
Why is the guest chair so high? I love the interviews but distracted from awkward seating.
every time I hear Islandborn I think of a tropical Dovahkiin
I only have one video recommendation after the video
Six12since02 i have none
Six12since02, I also have none, sooo weird!!!
i have 4, it's weird
Strange, I have 3
3
Eso Junot!!🎉🎊🎉🎊 Dominicans in da house.
oh hell yes!
yeah man.
“Fill the damn plate, yo.”
Junot!
People confuse me... “ooo look I was born in some place, ooo!” why does it matter? You are born where you are born, that is given to you... Its like a name, you are given a name... You can change it though, and you can earn one too. It really shouldn’t matter where you are born, its what you do that matters, who you are, not as a name, or a place, but rather what you define yourself to be.
Narret because if you arent born here you arent welcomed, atleast to 40% of Americans.
Thats dumb...
It matters because white America makes it matter. By refusing to acknowledge that immigrants very often bring strengths to the US, American lavish hatred on those from other lands, forgetting that they, too, ate from other lands. If you are not a recent immigrant to the USA you are not wanted.
Are you not familiar with white the supremacists view? They want America for whites only, "blood and soil." Stupidty does not allow them to realize that the soil belongs to the native peoples of this land.
The soil belongs to no one, it's just dirt... I don't understand why its so important to people, unless it is important, why does it matter? We are all natives and we are all foreigners, there is no difference, just one calls the other such. White supremacists are just the negative reflection of this distinction, they want America to be for whites only because they know of America and being white means something... Its one of those we and them kinda things... People like to think they are special or unique, or that someone is lesser or greater than them... That this means that... We made those meanings, these words, those distinctions... As long as someone can be described as being something, and someone else isn't, then stuff like this happens. :/, I could just as easily imagine a world where being born somewhere else is better than being native to somewhere... People and society keeps doing this... It's dumb...
I live in 3 worlds. College. Mexican American household. Social.
Damn, Snoop got old...
Insipidont ок
😂😂
Fill the damn plate!!!! 😄
Awesome dude 😁
Thw Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is the best novel all the time.
Wow. I thought it was Snoop Dogg there for a moment
I will not lie... I am first..
One to say I am 14th...
He looks like Snoop Doogs academic brother
VIVA RD
Is this a new DLC for Skyrims Dragon Born.
Fill the Damn plate ! :)
no. I think there is a group of small minded people might feel that way. That you must be "All~American" whatever that is supposed to be. But it is for sure a Melting Pot. A melting Pot Nation is just that a combination of all the cultures all the people come from. I mean we should be glad to enjoy the good stuff of America, but we need to share all our cultures. we are a Smörgåsbord of cultures. not a Hometown buffet that serves only Fried Baloney sandwiches.... we need to embrace each other's differences. because I'd be lost without Japanese or Thai food or I am going to a Himalayan place next month. How horrible it would be to go there and have them force Fried Baloney Sandwiches... Instead of Lovely new Experience in Culture & food. So as a nation we must individually embrace all cultures. Because that is what we are. And what makes us all unique and beautiful. I would hate a Beige world. they only thing that should be beige is my tea. IMHO
As the Puertorrican poet Fortunato Vizcarrondo would say, "Y tu abuela, ¿Donde está?" (Where is your gandma?). All those self-proclaimed master race snobs pretend to forget what we'd find if we looked back at their ancestors. Sadly, they've become the people who oppressed their ancestors and forced them to emigrate. Given a chance to make things better they choose to repeat the mistakes of people who should have done better.
Today I learned that Junot Diaz has a very red right ear.
Trevor, what’s going on in South Africa?
This "We're all immigrants. We all 'immigrated from somewhere.' Unless you're indigenous blah, blah " should as contain an asterisk*
La gente dura
Why did his ear change color
trevor baby ... when are you going to write an other book??????
Isn´t it an insolence to put away the nation of immigrants:
All these white true americans should never forget, that they came to indigenous country and took it away . This is so incredibly sad. This is not right
Exactly, I sometimes laugh when I hear people with names in my (European) language say how the U.S. belongs to them. The funniest thing was that woman called Dolezal claiming she was African American. She is of Czech ancestry and she even looks like a Czech artist, not an African American woman LOL Come on, if your name is Dolezal or Novak or Dvorak, what you have a historical right to is a small house and a field in a village called Dolní Lhota or something, not the U.S. :-D
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Why does it even matter where your born if you moved when you were so young you can't even remember it? Like if you were born in the DR but grew up in America then America shaped you and is your home. A place is a place in the same sense that objects are just objects, worthless. It's the people around you that make you who you are, not the sections of invisible walls we use to divide us.
You don't need to tell me, but I'm curious what your cultural heritage is/whether you're born from immigrants. A lot of immigrant communities, like mine, come to America in hope to give their kids a better future because they know there's more opportunity and safety in America. That being said, when those kids (like myself) grow up, there's a lot of conflict and confrontation between the American culture that my immigrant friends/family and I grow up in, and the culture that our parents come from. The conflict can be in small things like dating/relationships, to bigger ones like expectations about careers. But that being said, when my parents picked up and moved to the states, it's not like they immediately dropped everything they ever knew about their homes and instantly picked up a book to do everything how white Americans did. I grew up eating the food from where they're from, speaking their language, wearing their clothes, listening to their music. My entire immigrant community did so. America definitely shaped me to be who I am, and I would call myself an American first, but my identity is more complicated than that. At home, I grew up immersed in the culture that my parents grew up in, while going to American schools and living in American society that shaped me as well. I don't think places are "worthless" as you've described them. Think about it from the point of view of my parents, or any immigrant who moves to a new country they've never been in before to start a new life; it's jarring and unnerving, your hundreds/thousands of miles away from everything you ever knew. Of course you would want to show your kids, who are growing up in a new society and will be shaped differently than how you were, what your culture is like. It's not a bad thing to remember your roots and learn about the places/cultures your parents are from. I think growing up as an immigrant can be incredibly complicated and difficult at times. It feels like your bouncing between multiple identities, all of which which have people who want you to only accept that identity. The people around me do make who I am, and I happened to grow up around immigrants from very different places, people who have been here for generations, and other people like me who are trying to navigate both America and their parents' homes. I think its absolutely ridiculous and beautiful, at the same time, how people can move around the world and start new lives in a place that might as well be a different planet, and do it all from a place of hope and optimism. Sorry for making this so long.
s0ngf0rx I didn't mean places were worthless as in anywhere but America is worthless, I meant it as in no place has worth. A country does not have culture, the people within it do. I was born in America and love when people introduce me to their cultures. I just believe that people should feel free to embrace their culture anywhere. There will always be people that try to outcast people for "being different" in different parts of life. People shouldnt feel like they don't belong they should be encouraged to stay strong.
I know it's his real face, but who also thinks he's wearing a Mr. Potato mask?
Well now, it's more about being encouraged to dismiss the native culture in order to make new comes feel comfortable. Fuck that.
by native culture, do you mean the Sioux, Apache, Navajo, Seminole...? OMG are they still losing their territory to immigrants?
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When are you covering the shit that going on in your home country Trevor Noah
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Where are the trump supporters nowadays? I haven't seen them since the 2016 election, it seems they kinda faded away (which they hopefully do the next election period)