I'm not sure how well Oscar speaks Spanish. I'm sure he understands it perfectly but he doesn't seem comfortable speaking it at all. That's just what I've observed in the vlogs. And as far as I've observed he has absolutely no accent in English, sounds completely American. I think that accent is just that weird accent he and Kyra like to use. It's really strange and really annoying.
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He is 100% fluent in Spanish. I've heard him speak it on younow and for the most part his pronunciation is completely accurate. The thing he gets tripped up on is reading but that's to be expected as most of us fluent in Spanish by first language rarely learned proper grammar. They're speaking in a Spanish accent with their i's by turning them into the Spanish sounding ee's. It's not Russian, they're just fooling around. However, I think it's borderline racist / offensive for kyra who is a white girl mimicking a Spanish accent when she shows zero knowledge of the culture and has even said she doesn't care if Levi learns Spanish. (Idiot)
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Ahhh!!! It is NOT RACIST!!!!! Nothing Kyra does could ever be considered as racist!! She does not think she's better than Oscar because she's white and he's Mexican. Even if she did do things similar to Mexican culture, couldn't that mean that she just simply likes it? Why is it considered "racist" because she is a white girl?
I don't believe that they are talking in a "Spanish" accent because that's the way Oscar naturally talks, they say weird words in weird ways because just like someone else said...they're weird!!
I'm sorry, I live in the US and right now the word "racist" gets thrown around so freely that I don't even know if people truly know what the word means. It's a very strong word with a lot of consequences. It seems like nowadays, anytime someone disagrees with another person, they are automatically called a racist. I may not agree with even 10% of what Kyra does but she is definitely not a racist. Immature yes, thinks she's superior, no! If anything she lacks self esteem.
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Actually, racism can be defined by a variety of things. It's not black and white. Until you've experienced racism or discrimination it's unfair to "define" what it means. It's not up to you to decide for a person of color what racism means... anyway, By appropriating someone's culture, or speaking in an animated/false accent it turns that culture into a caricature! It comes across as having disregard for that culture. Regardless of the accent they're trying to do, it's just weird and unnecessary. Most people have common sense to not walk around insulting other people's cultures. I'm obviously not going to go around talking in a "Chinese" accent because I think it's funny or cute. It's rude and insulting.
I'm telling you, as someone ALSO born in Mexico, ALSO having Spanish as a first language. That "accent" they're play speaking in is, in fact, Spanish. I can understand why Oscar sometimes speaks that way as it is natural to pronounce i's as ee's. I don't always do it, but sometimes slip into it subconsciously. Kyra mimics it because she's around Oscar who does it constantly lol. I never said she was racist... I'm just offended she thinks it's okay when it's not.
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Very true. I'm taking an anthropology class right now and we just covered race.
A very important line: "You can have racism without any racists."