Omg yes this. I mean how am I supposed to know how to speak the language (and like a native) if white people literally took me from the people, culture and country that would’ve taught it to me? And then they say I have no claim? Or worse, that I’m not “really X”? Total baloney. Totally an attempt to try and control the narrative of who I am.
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I really wish some people wouldn’t act like just because we can’t speak our heritage language we don’t have the right to claim our heritage. It may be different for those with white European ancestry but a lot of us minority speakers were pretty much prohibited from speaking our heritage language out in public or our parents never taught us because of the backlash we might receive.
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