There’s No Such Thing As a S-Hole Country

MJ Adia
5 min readNov 15, 2021

So stop taking a dump on my Peruvian boyfriend

Latino man standing on the beach with sunglasses. Sign of dog pooping with x in it near him
Photo by Kindel Media from Pexels, Adapted by Author on Canva

I lived in Peru for six years. I met my boyfriend a few months into my stay and we’ve been together ever since. Our relationship opened my eyes to the prejudice people show LatinX people, especially of African descent, particularly Spanish-speaking ones. From friends to esteemed colleagues, people I knew in Peru gave him the cold shoulder at…

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MJ Adia

Black-Filipina. Lived in Peru for 5 years. LICSW, dancer, meditator. Writes about multiculturalism, cinema, race, social issues.