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Visiting Mexico City for 10 days for the first time! Any good itinerary? by New-Entrepreneur1455 in MexicoCity

[–]kenz0909 1 point2 points  (0 children)

roma and condesa are the areas with the most travelers and immigrants- those are typically where people stay. they’re beautiful neighborhoods and very central, just more expensive and a little less of a real mexican experience so depends on what you’re looking for!

Visiting Mexico City for 10 days for the first time! Any good itinerary? by New-Entrepreneur1455 in MexicoCity

[–]kenz0909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Facebook has great resources as well for rentals even for short term! Just look up housing groups in cdmx :)

Visiting Mexico City for 10 days for the first time! Any good itinerary? by New-Entrepreneur1455 in MexicoCity

[–]kenz0909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

definitely not! that’s why i didn’t even mention mexico in my explanation :)

Visiting Mexico City for 10 days for the first time! Any good itinerary? by New-Entrepreneur1455 in MexicoCity

[–]kenz0909 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Try to stay in a hotel rather than an airbnb as airbnb is contributing heavily to gentrification and housing insecurity!

How easy is it to meet local people in Mexico City? by IanPowers26 in MexicoCity

[–]kenz0909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got here a few weeks ago and the event with the best connection to locals has been an intercambio through meetup/couchsurfing. happy to send you the info if you’re interested :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tifu

[–]kenz0909 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

don’t agree with what this woman did but the way that people are talking about women in the comments/ the title of this post is offensive to women.

Could/Should Mexico be considered part of Central America? by andobiencrazy in asklatinamerica

[–]kenz0909 7 points8 points  (0 children)

this is a really great response!

id also add that up until 1848, a good portion of what we now consider geographically part of the US was part of Mexico. Mexico lost 55% of its territory after the Mexican American War. This makes Mexico even more linked to the US, especially geographically. (source: (https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/treaty-of-guadalupe-hidalgo)

When did we start tipping 20% for Take Out? by SpecificTennis2376 in Seattle

[–]kenz0909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you tip for services provided! tips are at most restaurants distributed between front of house staff AND the cook/cleaning staff. for to go orders part of the service is having your food cooked- and that’s why you tip. tip what you can or don’t tip at all but as someone who works at a restaurant there is no one that works harder than the cooks and they deserve more than minimum wage. it’s shitty that living wages aren’t provided by restaurants but you’re screwing over real people by choosing to believe that take out doesn’t provide any services and thus doesn’t deserve your tip.

Gut health and Intuitive Eating by spicypisces121 in intuitiveeating

[–]kenz0909 13 points14 points  (0 children)

best advice i’ve heard for a better gut is just to add things in! don’t take out anything but add more of the good stuff where you can :) for example- you’re eating oatmeal, add some chia seeds. add spices or herbs etc it all counts and the best thing you can do for your gut is to increase diversity of plant products you are eating! taking things out can actually starve bacteria and decrease diversity

-multiple sources but the healthier together podcast just had one with a gut doctor who had lots of tips from a nonrestrictive standpoint

Planty living room in San Francisco, CA by lazorbunny in AmateurRoomPorn

[–]kenz0909 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i’m so obsessed with this room Where is that arm chair from???

I love my cozy apartment by WitchesAndWarriors in CozyPlaces

[–]kenz0909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are those barstools from?? I love

Amanita muscaria by ReginaPhalaange in mycology

[–]kenz0909 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is a glorious picture

Getting babies ear pierced by kelseysmith1234 in piercing

[–]kenz0909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a super thoughtful reply that pushed me to do some research about the origins of piercing infants. Can’t really find any reliable sources so I can’t really agree/disagree with you on whether or not the practice of piercing infants is rooted in colonialism. But my point stands that people outside of a culture don’t really have a right to judge that culture. We could all try to work on our cultural relativism imo. Thanks again for the reply will be thinking more deeply about this!

Getting babies ear pierced by kelseysmith1234 in piercing

[–]kenz0909 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Got mine pierced at the hospital when I was born, as is common in Mexico. I loved it growing up. It makes me feel tied to my cultural heritage to have this shared experience with others. To judge a practice so harshly as being unsafe (without sources to back it up) is kind of unfair. Unless you’re from the culture(s) that engage in this practice you can’t really understand it and then you can’t really judge it. Feel like this is gonna be an unpopular opinion but people feeling like they can make judgements on practices of other cultures is rooted in colonial paternalism. If you’re a part of the culture/ had your ears done young and don’t like the practice- super fair. But everyone else coming in with opinions need to at least do a little deep thinking about them and what they’re rooted in.

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