I’ve been thinking today what would be the most random country I could think of for my new origin story. Some of the smallest, most peripheral cld have a lot of cultural resonance, charge etc. But like what if you created an origin story that you were from Belgium or Canada.
2/ Interesting, a number of classmates of Baldwin have piped up to say she was very nice but definitely white. Which is humorous on a number of levels since apart from recent immigrants Spaniards will definitely tell you they’re white.
3/ Basically all these stories have some effort to gain some historically contingent cultural/political cachet. But what country cld you be from that would leave you as vanilla and normie as just being from somewhere in America?
2b/ Confused by the responses to this tweet. A bunch say, hey, no, Spain is in Europe. Spaniards are white. No kidding. That’s the point. Her classmates are shooting down her Spanish origin story by saying she was white, which obviously makes no sense.
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