I would also like to add that as far as the colonialism/racism aspect of it goes, I don't think being educated enough to just say "chai" has any impact at all on anything and white people who clearly think it does annoy me *more* than other white people YMMVhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1331127083796336641 …
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So I dunno, I have tremendously mixed feelings about the idea among hipster liberals that if they learn the language, if they learn the right words, if they pronounce everything properly that's some kind of absolution To me it almost feels like the opposite
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Who's more of a colonizer really, the white girl I knew from Pensacola who said "tortilla" with a hard L and blushed over her redneck past because of it, or some NY celebrity chef who says it perfectly and has made a fortune from "Mexican-inspired fusion cuisine"
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That is part of it; like I said in another branch of the thread, the other part is that English was born out of Norman colonization of England; this is why we eat beef but raise cows, while Germans eat Rindflesch, the Flesch of Rinden.
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Yeah I know all that and I don't consider it particularly relevant
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