Hi! I’m a second generation Dominican-American. Growing up with an American father and Hispanic mother, we spoke alot of English in the house, but now being 23 , I want to become fluent so I can pass on the language to future generations. If anyone is willing to be my pen pal who speaks Spanish (preferably the Dominican dialect), that’d be great. I’d also be happy to receive any recommendations (you favorite podcasts, tv shows music, apps) that a young adult living in the Dominican Republic would listen to/watch/read.

A bit about me: I’m 23 years old, and I’m currently in medical school to become a physician. I love reading and roller skating, and I have an adorable little puppy. I’ve visited the DR a couple of times, but I’d like to go again to visit my mother’s family for a summer in the near future.

I really look forward to meeting someone on here that will help me immerse myself in the language everyday!

This is why:

My latino friend, mid--50's, guy just came back from Charleston.  He was stopped 4 times by Charleston police in the week he was there helping his daughter move.

First time:  he pulled into his hotel parking lot.  Two 30ish white cops stopped him and started questioning him.  Having been a punk as a kid, he knew how to behave and he did; they had guns. He also didn't divulge he was in town to help his daughter; he didn't want them knowing anything about her.

Eventually, they made him pull of his shirt (he's got tattoos on his trunk and arms), cuffed him and sat him on the blacktop in 29-degree weather.  This took awhile, during which time they went thru his wallet and took $1000 of the $1200 cash he had in there.  The cops were not wearing cameras or id badges. Eventually, they let him go. Same cops did it again a few days later.

After the first time, he put any cash he had in his shoe, so the subsequent three stops didn't cost him any  more money.

Granted this took place in the ol'South, but what Trump has done is to free up the kind of people who will do this sort of stuff.   If you are Latino,  you will just have to take it.  My hope is that  with the RealID it won't go as far with you as it did for my friend.

And, without it, I worry that you may not have the experience/skills to handle bullying cops and come out alive.

It breaks your heart....

Estoy aquí para hecharle aceites al fuego. Está tontería de q si somos o no somos. Q coman merda estos putos. Somos… LATINOS. No les olvide. Cada uno de nosotros. Nuestras raizes son de las en q caminamos. Somos una gran población.

Hello! I’m a high school junior sending out a survey for second-generation Puerto Rican immigrant college students in the state of Pennsylvania for my AP research project. The survey revolves around the student’s upbringing and their perception of Trump’s impact on their future. If you or anyone you know could answer the survey, that would be greatly appreciated. Here is the link:

https://forms.gle/frUT52FKueydbmvN8 

Here’s my rant. My mother and I own a house cleaning business. Our company has grown to the point where we have teams working for us. We work because we see that it’s actually good exercise lol.

The clients we have are the ones that we’ve been cleaning since the start of the business. This one client is kinda weird. I’ve felt like she is kinda racist. Whenever I would speak to her most of the time I would have to repeat myself all the time because she can not understand my “accent”(I’m more fluent in English than Spanish). Her husband and kid understands me completely. Another thing is she always get so shocked to know that I graduated from college recently, not a public or a community college, but a private university. She asks how I afforded it, I afforded it with a scholarship. She looks almost uncomfortable when I tell her good things going on in my life. It’s as if she’s uncomfortable or she thinks I’m delusional. She also gets shocked when she asks us how was our holidays and I tell her that we went to an out of state vacation. She asked where we lived and I told her I recently bought a house with my sister and again she looks at me as if I was crazy!

She doesn’t talk to my mom and she talks to me, but treats me like an idiot. I had a gold necklace and asked if it was real and how long I’ve had it. I’ve had it for about 8 years now. She even got annoyed when we pulled up in my truck instead of our work car that is all worn down. She assumed we have borrowed it from someone but I explain to her that it’s mine and I used it as a daily car when I’m not working. Also she voted for trump. I know all trump supporters aren’t bad but they can be self centered and stupid, or they are nice but just live in their own bubble.

Maybe I’m a bit sensitive but she’s the only one that treats me weird.

I have other clients and they are the most friendliest people, I have one that literally gifted me a $300 crafts machine, knits me sweaters, and another one that gift my mom Chanel 22 perfume for her 50th.

Is she a classist or a racist?

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I find it difficult to understand why the Hispanic community doesn't come together like Black Lives Matter. We are the most oppressed and everyone's punching bag. Why haven't we come together as a community and try to fight this. I understand taking away criminals but are we really going to sit back and let them come after our family members that work, pay taxes and try to do the right thing.

As part of my doctoral research, we are conducting a study to evaluate the effectiveness of an informational video that introduces key terms, skills, and techniques for anxiety treatment. The goal is to adapt an app-based treatment for anxiety to better serve Spanish-speaking and bilingual Spanish-English individuals in the Latinx community.  Participants will be asked to fill out self-report questionnaires, then watch a 10-minute video, and finally provide feedback on the video and their opinions on mental health and anxiety treatment. 

Participants must be over 18 years old, Latinx/Hispanic, and bilingual in Spanish.

REDcap link: https://redcap.link/Spanish-app

Like many people, I’ve been following the news and I’m disgusted and saddened by the forced deportations. I’m a United States citizen with some Spanish ancestry and a Spanish surname, and while I don’t consider myself Hispanic, I want to be able to help Latinx people retain their right to be in the United States. Unfortunately I’m broke, but are there other ways I could help fight the good fight? I’m open to suggestions.

Im building a team of web developers who can help build a website where people can report ICE sightings. We're looking for a couple more people. Please DM me if you have the skills to help with this and are interested. Lets protect our community.

I’m born in the US but my family is from Latin America. Growing up, my name was always spelled as one word (Delvalle) and the pronunciation was butchered. At some point I started asking people to spell it correctly as two words, “Del Valle,” but with the D capitalized. Does this still look strange? Should I start spelling it as “del Valle”?

PS I know this isn’t really a big deal and non-Hispanic people probably won’t even notice. I’m just trying to fight the no sabo allegations :(

Sad truth that many people got to comfortable here, and never did anything with their life. No savings, cars, house, retirement fund etc. Brakes my heart seeing many leave that way but can’t turn the clock back

Besides just DBZ and Naruto 🤣

Hi I'm (F19) and I have an opportunity of moving out and in with a friend of mine (F19) who's openly lesbian. It's like 2 hours away in the mountainous area and I'm currently living with my family. My parents are homophobic and have been against me moving out since I first brought the idea up at like 18. They want me to stay home until I'm ~23? Because they've grown used to having their older kids stay home. I want to leave and experience the mountains with my friend. She's been my friend since childhood and they know her but I don't think they'll be happy with this idea. I just need help in convincing or breaching the topic to them without getting them too upset. If that's not possible lmk how you moved out if you did at my age. Idk how reddit works too well but plsplspls help 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

A bit of context. I’m Hispanic, my fiancé is white. I take pride in my last name even though it’s fairly common. My fiancé has some super German last name.

She’s not very attached to her last name and is willing to change it to mine but also suggested that rather than taking my last name, we both create a new last name. I think it’s a neat idea but I’m conflicted. I’m big on family and even though my last name is common, I feel like by changing my last name, I’m losing a part of my identity. I know nothing will change between my parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, the whole works, but I feel like it creates a division and separate myself from my past. Not to mention, I have kids from a past relationship with my current last name.

Changing my last name will create a new beginning and adds to our unique relationship but also feel like I’m separating myself my past, identity, and my family.

I’m conflicted and don’t know what the best approach would be. Reaching out to the community for a discussion. Gracias!

I believe I posted here before regarding names that aren’t Spanish (hispanicized) give you grief when stating you’re Hispanic/Latino. I was told basically it doesn’t happen. Here’s a perfect example (pictured): a Salvadoran with an Irish name. He was discredited until I was like naw, he Salvadoran. I have an Anglicized name and I hate it because everyone thinks I’m just white American until I’m like naw, I’m Argentine. 🇦🇷

One reason I’m glad I gave my son a full Spanish name. He is re claro (super light skin) and most think he’s white American until they hear his name. My son is 14. I recently asked if he likes his name and he said he’s glad it’s Spanish to connect him to the Latino community.

Hello, I am African American but within my community we have subgroups. My mother’s line, Louisiana Creole. Well, I found out was told by others to say I’m distantly Hispanic if I choose to. I don’t care to mention that to anyone. Though I have grown up in the culture from childhood friends, household, and media consumptions if that counts-up until my late high school year and now I’m at a predominantly white school. I wanted to join the Latin community on campus, NOT for that reason * I didn’t know I was distant Hispanic up until some weeks ago * but because I really do just vibe within the community. Anyway, I would like to continue from afar my appreciation to the culture and was wondering what foods would be a good try. I’m trying to stay away from candy but I’m not against those suggestions too! I would’ve googled this but you can’t really trust google for anything.

If this is offensive or anything, please let me know.

I'm having an identity crisis about if I'm Hispanic or not because Spain conquered Sicily but not much Sicilians celebrate Hispanic Heritage month (as i know of) except me and my family and i love Spanish culture, so am I?

quieres saber las ventajas y desventas de una iul? mucha gente se deja llevar por lo que otras personas dicen pero la verdad una iul tiene que ser personalizada no todos tenemos las mismas necesidades ni las mismas condiciones vamos a compartir ideas sobre las iul

Hi my name is Kat I’m 26f and I have known Spanish my whole life as I’m Cuban. BUT I moved from Miami and most of my family quite young, I understand almost everything (struggle with proper Spanish or certain slang seeing as I know a chunk of Cuban slang in place of proper words) but get stuck when speaking myself sometimes. I assume it’s simply because I’m not actively speaking Spanish all the time, I have trouble forming sentences or forget words when forming the sentences. I also never actually learned to spell/write in Spanish so I’m quite rough at that.

I really want to bridge the gap to fluent, and start actively practicing when not speaking to my own parents lol I’m trying to find friends to talk to, reference to or have similar interests. I play video games; World of Warcraft, marvel rivals, league etc. I also have 2 kids! I’d love to connect with people on here.

Before anyone starts getting offended hear me out first. A lot of Hispanics come to the U.S. illegally and then demand that the local population of the country speaks Spanish. I used to work in retail and this was such a massive problem. Many Hispanics also threatened Spanish-speaking cashiers when they acted like Karens in order to not be understood by everyone else. The situation was so bad that the Hispanic cashiers just stopped speaking Spanish all together.

Then, if one even looks Hispanic there is always that one weirdo that bothers said individual with the "e-speaky Spanish" question. One says "no" and they keep pestering with a 100 questions such as asking where one is from, where one's family is from. Like what else do you want my 23andMe along with my SSN ?

Lastly, dealing with the "anchor babies" is an issue. There is this mindset that they have where they think that since they can't get deported due to being born in the U.S. that they can do whatever the hell that they want. In the store I worked at the mothers would let their kids run around alone and tear up the establishment while they went off looking at clothes. I worked at other retail stores at that time and the difference in mindset amongst certain demographics was obvious. The black and Asian parents would beat their kids if they even remotely embarrassed them. The white moms 80% to 90% of the time would be apologetic if their kids misbehaved. The Hispanics, especially the Mexicans, would let their kids cause property damage. One couldn't say much of anything because many are quick to play the race card. "Mexican moms don't play and will hit with the chancla". Bullshit ! I could write a whole book on my experience witnessing the level of negligence that occurs amongst Mexicans.

It makes me always feel so sad when I see latin americans (or any latinos) putting themselves down for "not being hispanic enough" whether its because the color of their skin, the fact they dont know spanish, live in america, never been to the country their roots are from, or because anything that will make them feel as if they arent good enough for they own race. please, never EVER let anyone who knows NOTHING about your ancestry tell you what you are. they are a ignorant human. not a dna test. and its a vicious fucking cycle. Hispanic is the most diverse ethnic group. Makeup of African, Indigenous, Indian, Spaniard and even some Asian background. You know in your heart you are latino. SO EMBRACE IT. PLEASE.

Im latina, (Puerto Rican in specific) And am so sick and tired of the fetishization of latinas/latin american women. Its one thing to have interest or fascination with latinas and think that we are beautiful and its okay to like dating us and having latinas "as your type". but its so gross always seeing men fetishizing us and saying the most vile shit about us, "I need a bit booty latina" "speak spanish for me" "call me papi" "I need a sexy latina bitch" "I want her to moan spanish when im fucking her" and i cant help but feel just a bit dirty. latina women are not all full lipped curvaceous sex figures with thick accents with big butts and fiery attitude. but rather come in all shapes and sizes, the most diverse ethnic group, and many men just love to idea of fetishizing the "exotic" or "elusive" category of hispanic women that is potrayed by other men. cherry picked into a fetish. objectifying them, a popular porn genre is latina which says it all. I can barely find a hispanic subreddit without a bunch of nsfw subreddits coming up first. its sad. i want us to be seen as strong and proud. not.. whatever is going on now.

Hey guys! I’m getting married next year and I kind of want some thoughts on our traditions and how to go about them? For example padrinos for like the venue, food, etc… did anyone actually ask people around or did the wedding all by yourself with no help?

Have you had or sought out female sterilization for birth control in the last 10 years?

Are you a Latin or Hispanic person with a female reproductive system?

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My family and I are Puerto Rican and one of the dishes we all love is Arroz con Dulce. My grandmother used to make it and we all lived it. Unfortunately, my grandmother passed a few years ago before she could fully teach my mother and I her recipes. Because of the recent holidays, my mother had been trying to make arroz con dulce the way my grandmother used to and it's almost perfect except for one thing: no matter what we've done, the rice always comes out crunchy. She has soaked it for varying amounts of time with the same degree of success: crunchy rice. She even left it to soak for two days, changing out the water so the rice wouldn't ferment but it's the same. Is there something we're doing wrong? Should we try partially cooking the rice in water alone before adding it to the rest of the mixture [still on the stove]?

TLDR: Soaking the rice for arroz con dulce [Puerto Rican style] is still leading to crunchy rice. What can we do to fix it?