📣 MORE words from Southeast Asian languages English can’t colonize.

SEAblings!!! 🌏 We couldn’t get enough of your comments, so here are MORE words from Southeast Asian languages English can’t colonize. Our cultures are simply too rich for just one carousel. 😌

And Brunei 🇧🇳, we see you and we’re so glad you’re in this one. 🫶🏽

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From across the region, you shared words carrying memory, feeling, and community. We’re still taking notes!

What really got us? So many of you saying, “Wait… we have a word like that too!” ✨

Across borders, our languages echo each other. Us SEAblings have always been more connected than we’re often led to believe.

Because the truth is: our languages hold worlds that English was never built to carry. When you shared these words in the comments, it was a reminder that our local knowledge and meaning-making has always been rich, long before colonial rule.

But language is only one of the many tools colonizers have used to control our land and people.

💬 What’s something about Southeast Asia that is still overlooked or misunderstood?

In what ways is the region still being colonized that people aren’t talking about enough?

Let’s keep building this conversation together. ✊🏽📚

#WeAreManushyan ∞ Equal Human Beings

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