User talk:67.6.128.161

March 2024
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Maya Americans, you may be blocked from editing. My Pants Metal (talk) 20:16, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
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 * I am not engaging in disriptive editing. I am improving the accuracy, representation, and morality of the webpage. I have already posted about this problem to another editor's talk page. Just because Jessica Alba has distant Mayan ancestry does not mean that she is a good fit to represent Maya Americans. Indigenous American identity is much more about maintaining links with an indigenous community, maintaining links to an indigenous culture, and perhaps speaking an indigenous language than ancestry alone (especially distant ancestry). Jessica Alba does not meet the criteria for any of that. Trust me I am an expert on indigenous Latin American immigrants in the United States and have met Maya Americans myself. Besides having a single person let alone a celebrity with distant roots to an ethnic group represent an entire ethnic group (especially one that is indigenous) is extremely ignorant, unethical, and just overall a poor decision. Stop adding Jessica Alba's image and I will replace it with a collage more representative of Maya Americans. Whoever keeps adding her image back is clearly very ignorant about Maya Americans; indigenous American identity; indigenous identity in Guatemala; indigenous identity in Mexico and the complexities of race, ancestry, ethnicity, and skin color in Latin America especially indigenous identity versus Mestizo identity. Having Jessica Alba be the sole face of Maya Americans is not much different from having an image of Elizabeth Warren be the single image representing Cherokee people on the Cherokee Wikipedia page. If her image continues to be added I will keep removing it and I will eventually replace it with a collage of everyday Maya Americans or an image that is much more representative of Maya Americans (including people who maintain community links to their indigenous roots and maintain their indigenous Mayan culture) that is a much more accurate and representstive image of Maya Americans such as this image: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fc13c2_fe25b7ddaa12434eb4dc054ad7910e81~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_640,h_382,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/fc13c2_fe25b7ddaa12434eb4dc054ad7910e81~mv2.jpg or this image https://i0.wp.com/eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Mam_07-WEB.jpg?w=864&ssl=1 rather than some celebrity who does not maintain links with her indigenous Mayan heritage, did not grow up in an indigenous Mayan community, and did not grow up learning an indigenous Mayan language (though being fluent in an indigenous language is not necessary to be accepted as a member of an indigenous community it certainly helps). Besides I myself have significant indigenous Mesoamerican heritage so I am much more fit to make choices here than the ignorant (likely Anglo White American) people who keep adding her image. Let people with significant indigenous heritage decide indigenous representation not settler colonizers on stolen land. 67.6.128.161 (talk) 21:59, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary, as you did at Maya Americans. My Pants Metal (talk) 14:46, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Guatemalan Americans
Just because Jessica Alba has distant Mayan ancestry does not mean that she is a good fit to represent Maya Americans. Indigenous American identity is much more about maintaining links with an indigenous community, maintaining links to an indigenous culture, and perhaps speaking an indigenous language than ancestry alone (especially distant ancestry). Jessica Alba does not meet the criteria for any of that. 67.6.128.161 (talk) 04:11, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Jessica Alba
If you have an issue with the picture being used, please use the article's talk page to reach consensus rather than outright deleting it. Alternatively, try Wikipedia's request for comment to try to get input from other users. If you continue to remove the picture, you could be in violation of the three revert rule. Thanks. My Pants Metal (talk) 13:07, 26 March 2024 (UTC)