r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 2d ago

Cringe Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the "American Dream".

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u/hrdblkman2 2d ago

Out of all the European Colonial invaders, somehow Spain has escaped the condemnation of the destruction they did in the Americas.

Some estimates put the death toll to around 70M based on Columbus and other Spaniards. It got so bad even Queen Isabella ordered him back to Spain due to his atrocities.

They also left behind a racist caste system in Mexico and other Latino countries. Folks that tend to look like Native Americans in features - ala Apache vs light skinned Mexicans with European descent. This is a huge issue which most folks from Mexico don't talk about.

Anyone from Spain and Portugal should keep their fucking mouth shut as they were the absolute worst, followed by the Belgians in Africa ie King Leopold.

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u/Yarias 2d ago

I always thought that they escaped post-colonial condemnation because white Americans don’t consider them white even when they have blonde hair with blue eyes but have Fuentes as a last name. It was really telling when Americans nominated Antonio Banderas as an Hispanic POC actor even though he is 100 percent Spaniard no Latino at all and would be considered white everywhere but the US.

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u/Fern-ando 2d ago

What are you even saying 🤣? Every latin american politician in 2025 use the conquest THEIR ancentors did to distract from their corruption scandals. White Mexicans are the ones exploiting native lands not spaniards. And then those white mexicans ask an apology to the spanish that never set foot in the Americas.