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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 14, 2022, 9:26 pm
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There is hope in the youth:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/across-generations-south-southeast-asians-001152209.html
--- Quote ---
> When 21-year-old Samaa Khullar found out Queen Elizabeth had
died, she was in a U.S. college classroom filled with other
people of color.
>
> “We had just wrapped up a conversation about white feminism,”
the New York University student said. “Everyone was checking
their phones and saw that she died. There were a lot of South
Asian girls and East Asian girls and girls from the African
diaspora, as well. No one was in mourning.”
> ...
> When her parents found out the news, they had a different
reaction than she expected, she said.
>
> “My mom was like, ‘Oh, it’s sad to see her reign end.’ And I
was like, ‘Why?’” she said. “I was like, ‘She literally ruined
everything.’”
> ...
> “There’s such a weird fascination and almost a parasocial
relationship, where you think that they care about you,” she
said. “I have to keep reminding my parents that they don’t. They
do not care about us.”
>
> Years of trying to survive as immigrants in a predominantly
white society have also forced South Asians in the diaspora to
swallow their suffering and trauma, Khullar said.
>
> “Their whole lives, they were accustomed to being polite
towards their British colleagues, and their peers,” she said.
“And I know that now, it’s just become so ingrained that they
feel they can’t express their sorrow about their own pain.”
> ...
> At her former college campus in London, Bangladeshi Brit
Fatima Rajina recalled how she was confronted daily with the
royal family’s legacy on the subcontinent.
>
> “When you walk into my campus, the first thing you see is a
statue of Queen Victoria on her throne. And at the bottom it’s
carved, ‘The Empress of India,’” she said. “That has shaped my
identity. I remember just being furious…I had to see her
presence every day for four years.”
>
> In London, train stations, statues and buildings are named
after officers of the British Raj, the name for direct crown
rule in India, Rajina said. South Asians who now live there are
forced to encounter them every day.
>
> “Colonialism’s presence is there pretty much in every
building,’’ she said. “Go to the British Museum and you will see
artifacts that were looted and stolen.”
> ...
> “It might be quirky to come and see Kensington Palace or
Buckingham Palace. But for a lot of us who live here who drive
past these monuments, these aren’t just a tourist hotspot. These
are memories of people who died, people who were oppressed and
looted by her and her family.”
>
> The British Empire has shrunk in size, but the legacy of its
violence and plundering remains across the world, she said.
>
> “People have been trying to dilute the monarchy and the royal
family’s relationship to colonialism and imperialism,” she said.
“They’re very much representative of modern-day colonialism and
how it has continued from its past.”
> ...
> Khullar, who is Indian and Palestinian, grew up with the queen
as a constant presence in her life. Attending English schools
during her childhood in Dubai, once a British protectorate, she
remembers pausing class in third grade to watch William and
Kate’s wedding. Every Christmas, she would be forced to listen
to “God Save the Queen” and sit in the corner while the other
kids decorated crosses and tree ornaments.
>
> “I felt so out of place because I was an Indian Muslim,” she
said. “We were like seven or eight. And I realize now that we
were being indoctrinated into something that we didn’t believe
in. It was a club that we couldn’t be a part of.”
--- End Quote ---
Woke comments:
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> When I was a child in the caribbean and had to take the
"common entrance exam", there were questions like, "describe a
snowy day in blah, blah, blah. . " Well, it doesn't snow in the
caribbean, but since we're part of the Commonwealth, they
dictated the education and we had to make up stuff that wasn't
part of our reality.
--- End Quote ---
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> Adolf Hitler is the savior of the colonized. He shattered the
backbone of the British empire and freed half the world from
colonial slavery. He bombed london continuously for 6 months
and gave them a taste of their own terror they exported
worldwide. Those same anglo saxons are the ones writing the
history on Hitler.
--- End Quote ---
I am especially proud of the second comment. See also:
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/when-history-is-written-by-leftists/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/when-history-is-written-by-leftists-contd/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/blm-sides-with-third-reich/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/mainstream-admits-churchill-was-defending-western-civilization/
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 3, 2022, 6:28 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/cultural-biases-made-could-love-180940926.html
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> While waiting at the airport, my undocumented Mami would look
for the camouflaged yellow of crocodile eyes. And when she
finally spotted some — on the faces of patrolling white
immigration officers and security guards — she would stand close
to them and take out her tattered copy of The Wall Street
Journal, flipping through the pages as though she understood
every word. Mami was a woman of pretend. Growing up, I watched
her mouth spin the lies and tricks that kept us safe in a white
man’s world, learning to hold my breath whenever I saw her hold
hers.
--- End Quote ---
And how do you respond?
--- Quote ---
> I didn’t always get it right, though. I wasn’t always as good
at controlling my feelings as Mami was, and it frustrated me
that I couldn’t be better. The first time someone called me a
white boy simp, outing me to our entire sixth grade class, I
punched him in the face. As I got older, I couldn’t tell which
felt worse: admitting to myself that all my crushes had blonde
hair and turquoise eyes or the thought of telling Mami that I
dated more white men than I would read newspapers in front of.
It didn’t seem to matter to me that these were the same boys who
pestered me about my country of origin or used “deport” as a
slang word, either. I stopped answering questions in math class
because I thought they would like me better that way.
--- End Quote ---
Answer: Eurocentrism.
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> At home, I forced an awkward laugh whenever my cousin warned
me that I was attracted to my own oppressor — and at school, I
listened quietly as my Asian classmates tore down European
beauty standards and homonormativity, wanting nothing more than
to be able to do the same.
--- End Quote ---
Well, at least your cousin and classmates are woke. And at least
you know wokeness has the moral high ground. So why can't you
practice it?
--- Quote ---
> The answer to that question came packaged in freckles, a
yellow plaid shirt and mahogany shorts towering above me at the
Young Adults corner of Barnes & Noble — a flickering shadow over
the copy of Pride and Prejudice resting on my lap.
--- End Quote ---
Firstly, my theory about Giant-worship among Gentiles appears
validated. Secondly, you fantasize about life in colonial-era
Britain:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MmcT_vcBU
so there is no hope for you.
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> Three years ago, during the summer of my sophomore year of
high school, I met Owen. He asked if I knew any good coffee
shops here in downtown Brooklyn, and I gave him my two
favorites, thinking that he was just another stranger I would
smile at once and never again.
>
> The next time I saw Owen, he was shirtless and blowing a
whistle at some kids who were tossing loose change into the
water. The English accent and black nail polish gave him away. I
told myself it was embarrassingly shallow to fall for another
white guy that quickly, someone who probably didn’t even
remember me, but I couldn’t help angling my good side towards
the third lifeguard tower anyway. When his shift ended, I was
giving piggyback rides to my younger cousins in four-foot-deep
water, and Mami was sitting a few feet away in a neon bikini,
asking me to get her lemonade. Not the view I wanted to be part
of when I saw Owen jump into the pool and swim my way.
> ...
> on one date in Little Italy, Manhattan, I kissed his lips for
the first time. Nearly as sweet as his touch was the July air
around us, thick with the smell of donuts, cannabis and his sea
salt cologne.
--- End Quote ---
So let's not expect legalizing even
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/marijuana/
will cure
Eurocentrism. It won't.
--- Quote ---
> I used to think that dating a lifeguard would mean I’d finally
learn how to swim, but all I learned was how to hold my breath
forever. I was jealous of the time that slipped so effortlessly
past our fingers. Sweaty afternoons falling asleep on his chest,
singing Christmas songs in the blistering heat, looking at our
baby photos together — I didn’t want to come up for air. All I
knew was that Owen cared about me, and I found comfort in how
unafraid he was to show it. In the stickers he put all over his
face after I said that my acne made me feel insecure about going
out — and in his winces as I slowly peeled them off his stubble.
I liked the feeling of dissolving in his hugs that made me feel
so protected and small at the same time. I waited for Saturday
beach dates sitting atop his shoulders like a baby crocodile
being carried into the water, my helpless eyes silently begging
his wild, crocodilian ones for love.
>
> The thought of giving up my vulnerable Asian body so easily
disgusted me, but I couldn’t stop. I started to think about sex
all the time.
--- End Quote ---
Again the Giant-worship.
--- Quote ---
> One evening, a few days before the start of my junior year of
high school, and his senior year, the guilt consumed the last of
me. It didn’t help that no matter where I was, I’d always felt
like a nobody; 15-year-old me dreaded the reality of returning
to my life outside of this person who made me feel so guarded.
There was still so much to figure out — Mami’s tumor treatment,
junior year workload, my loneliness at school — and I didn’t
want to picture how the few people who chose to stay in my life
would react to Owen. Loving a white boy felt like coming out all
over again. To my Asian bloodlines that called me a white man’s
****, to friends I didn’t have and to the side of myself that
claimed I was an activist, even though all I ever wanted was to
belong.
> ...
> I finally understand that there is no form of activism more
powerful, no greater security in my Asianness, than
unapologetically choosing someone who made me feel chosen.
--- End Quote ---
Your Eurocentrist bloodline has been chosen by me for
elimination.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 5, 2022, 5:46 pm
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It's OK for refugees to be "white" contd.:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/russians-fleeing-draft-unlikely-haven-115630368.html
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> Russians Fleeing the Draft Find an Unlikely Haven
> ...
> on the dusty, sunny streets of Bishkek, the capital of
Kyrgyzstan, bands of young migrants, nearly all men, wander
aimlessly, dazed at their world turned upside down — and their
hasty, self-imposed exile to a poor, remote country that few
could previously place on a map.
>
> After leaving often well-paying jobs and families in Moscow
and Vladivostok, Russia, and many places in between, tens of
thousands of young Russians — terrified of being dragooned into
fighting in Ukraine — are pouring into Central Asia by plane,
car and bus.
> ...
> “their citizens can of course come here and work freely” and
had no need to fear being extradited home.
>
> He said he did not know how many Russian draft dodgers had
arrived but added that the influx would help his country, even
as it jacks up rents and leads some landlords to evict Kyrgyz
tenants to make way for Russians willing to pay double, triple
or more.
>
> “We don’t see any harm and see lots of benefits,” he said.
> ...
> Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries have long worried
that refugees would pour in from nearby Afghanistan
--- End Quote ---
Eurocentrism never fails.....
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> Fleeing Russians, he added, did not want to be regarded like
refugees from developing countries
--- End Quote ---
And they aren't!
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> In Osh, the country’s second-largest city, a Kyrgyz woman,
Dinara, posted her telephone number online and offered to host
penniless Russians at her home. “I will be happy to help you. No
money needed, meals included,”
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://smallimg.pngkey.com/png/small/129-1297667_clip-free-stock-collection-of-free-failing-clipart.png
Comments are even worse:
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> This is sometimes how history is made. No one ever imagined
that there will be migrants from Russia to Kyrgyzstan. These
Russian migrants could end up being the ones to help turn
Kyrgyzstan into a developed state.
--- End Quote ---
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> With the influx of highly trained Russians maybe Kyrgyzstan
will be uplifted on a brighter path towards modernization and
1st world status? One can hope.
--- End Quote ---
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> Well all those young educated men can boost there economy ,
and help that poor nation grow. Wishfull Thinking, but it would
be great if that happens .
--- End Quote ---
--- Quote ---
> Sound like Kyrgyzstan will benefit greatly from a range of
talents and abilities bring with them.
--- End Quote ---
Similar behaviour:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/msg1497/?topicseen#msg1497<br
/>(second story)
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/reproductive-decolonization/msg11491/#msg11491
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/reproductive-decolonization/msg12084/#msg12084
#Post#: 15982--------------------------------------------------
Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: October 5, 2022, 7:29 pm
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Progressivism led into "White Nationalism", culminating in
Yahwism
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 11, 2022, 12:04 am
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Another case of psychological colonization:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-nury-martinezs-rant-reveals-000533149.html
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> Column: Nury Martinez's rant reveals the worst enemy of Latino
political power: ourselves
> ...
> instead of taking responsibility for the underwhelming state
of Latino political power, they just whined and whined about
their predicament and blamed everyone else — especially Black
people.
>
> When you have an elected Latina official use words to describe
Black people — children, no less — as changuitos ("little
monkeys") and negritos ("darkies") while no one else in the room
pushes back, it shows the rot, pettiness and paranoia that
infests L.A.'s Latino political class.
> ...
> "Hay trae su negrito," Martinez added — there he goes,
bringing his little darky. Later, she said the boy's behavior on
a float during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade made him seem
like a "changuito."
> ...
> Herrera then said, "You just gotta combat CoCo with that seat.
That seat has to be anti-CoCo."
>
> He was referring to Community Coalition, the nonprofit started
by mayoral candidate Karen Bass and once headed by Councilmember
Marqueece Harris-Dawson that has spent the last three decades
trying to improve relations between Latino and Black folks in
South Los Angeles. Bass and Harris-Dawson are Black; Community
Coalition's current chief executive and executive vice president
are Latino.
> ...
> "Twenty-five or so are Black," Cedillo added. "And the 25
Blacks are shouting."
>
> De Leon interjected, "But they shout like they're 250."
>
> The toxicity of the quartet was such that they found time to
trash other groups too.
> ...
> Martinez mentioned Oaxacans, who have lived in the
neighborhood for decades.
>
> “I see a lot of short little dark people,” she said, cackling
as she trotted out anti-Oaxacan stereotypes common in Mexico and
the U.S. "Not even like Kevin — little ones," Cedillo added — a
backhanded compliment to De León, who is of Guatemalan descent,
when Guatemalans also get mocked by Mexicans for their stature
and complexion.
>
> “I don't know where these people are from," Martinez
continued. "I was like, 'I don’t know what village they came
from, how they got here.'”
>
> "And now they're wearing shoes," someone added.
>
> “’Tan feos,” Martinez responded — they’re ugly.
> ...
> a conversation in which she and her political allies ridiculed
Black people, Oaxacans and Central Americans, who are now
apparently not "communities of color" in her Mexican-centric
world.
--- End Quote ---
No, she is not a Mexican-centrist. If she were, she would also
ridicule "whites". She doesn't. She is, like all the
psychologically colonized, a Eurocentrist, who replicates the
exact attitudes introduced during the colonial era by the
Western colonialists.
--- Quote ---
> Sadly, nothing about this embarrassing fiasco surprised me. I
hear whining all the time from Latinos that Black people have
too much political power, at their expense. Mexican
discrimination against Oaxacans is so pernicious, even in
Southern California, that the term "oaxaquito" — little Oaxacan
— was banned in Oxnard schools. I'm surprised Martinez didn't
call Koreans "chinitos" — Chinamen — because that would've
followed the same diminutive, demeaning line as slurs like
"negritos" and "changuitos." Too many Mexican Americans still
toss them around.
--- End Quote ---
The one term she will never use is "blanquito". We all know why
not.
--- Quote ---
> Casual racism and classism among Latinos is something our
community has never really confronted until recently, as a new
generation has started frank and honest conversations about our
anti-Blackness and colorism.
> ...
> when you're now the majority, you're not supposed to act like
those who previously oppressed you.
--- End Quote ---
Our enemies have already given Martinez a pictorial feature (and
of course she looks like what we would expect):
HTML https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/58604/vdare-fringe.jpg
This is the type that, given a choice between identifying with
the conquistadors or their victims, will always choose the
former, as we were discussing here:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/uniting-americans/msg16017/#msg16017
#Post#: 16041--------------------------------------------------
Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 12, 2022, 12:23 am
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Further discussion:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/op-ed-nury-martinez-says-160537253.html
--- Quote ---
> City Councilwoman Nury Martinez, caught on a leaked audio,
says she sees a lot of short, dark people in Koreatown. Martinez
says she doesn’t know what “village” they are from and referred
to them as “tan feos” — “so ugly.”
> ...
> Oaxacans, who come from seven regions of Oaxaca, make up a
large portion of those who speak Indigenous languages in
California. It is estimated that there are at least 150,000
Oaxacans in Los Angeles — the largest Oaxacan population outside
Mexico.
> ...
> It is stunning to hear a leader of the L.A. City Council make
such hateful remarks about a vibrant community whose members
help keep this city running. But in some ways, it’s not
shocking. For far too long Oaxacans and other Indigenous groups
have faced racism and colorism based on their skin color and
Indigenous roots. This kind of bigotry has come not only from
white people but also from light-skinned Mexicans who view
darker, Indigenous Mexicans as inferior.
--- End Quote ---
It's not just that they view darker Mexicans as inferior, but
that they view "whites" as superior. You cannot end the former
without first ending the latter.
--- Quote ---
> I know this kind of colorism very well. When I was younger,
there was a lot of stigma attached to being Oaxacan and
specifically being a darker Mexican. These identities were
associated with being Indigenous, which was subject to ridicule
and contempt. Growing up, I would often hear darker-skinned
Mexicans get called indio or india, meaning “Indian” — words
used as derogatory terms for people with Indigenous roots.
--- End Quote ---
The real problem is that those called indio do not take pride in
being so called. Why not? Because they themselves are ashamed of
its connotations!
HTML https://laist.com/news/essays/the-pigmentocracy-problem-a-brown-mexicano-gets-real-about-the-color-hierarchy
--- Quote ---
> one day, after I started my first job in the U.S. as a
financial analyst for a film company, I attended a business
meeting. At this meeting, my boss, a successful Latino film
producer, was physically describing an actor — and he used my
appearance as reference.
>
> “He has Indigenous features, very much like Julio,” he said. I
felt deeply offended. I thought, “How dare he say in public that
I look Indigenous! Me? That’s outrageous!”
>
> For a Mexican, you see, one of the most offensive insults is
to be called “indio,” which translates in English as Indigenous.
“Indio” is used as synonymous with stupid, lazy, uneducated,
disgraceful, ugly, and pretty much every negative sterotype
imaginable.
--- End Quote ---
See what I mean? If anything, it should be the ones who look
like the conquisators who have negative stereotypes associated
with their looks, given what the conquistadors did to the
indigenous (which is surely common knowledge). So why is it the
wrong way round? And why is no one except me even saying it is
the wrong way round?
--- Quote ---
> Racism in Mexico is the cornerstone of economic and social
differences among people there. In essence, a small minority of
the population monopolizes access to education, capital, and
resources — and to belong to this privileged elite group, there
is an unspoken requirement that has to be met: whiteness.
--- End Quote ---
If we do not solve this problem promptly, this is how it will be
in the future US too!
--- Quote ---
> During my first year here, I was afraid of being discriminated
against by gringos, so I looked for other college-educated,
first-generation Mexicans my own age living in the U.S. to whom
I could bond with and feel “safe.”
>
> I reached out to the L.A. chapter alumni association of the
university I attended back in Mexico. At one of our first social
gatherings, I invited the members to participate in a project
that focused on increasing the presence of Latino executives in
U.S. Fortune 1000 companies.
>
> One of the attendees, a light-skinned man who at the time was
an MBA student at UCLA, replied: “I am not Latino — I’m
Mexican.” I told him that by U.S. definition, yes, he was
Mexican, hence, Latino.
>
> He refuted again, this time raising his voice and emphasizing,
“No! I am Mexican, not Latino!” I then asked him to explain the
difference between both, to which he replied, “Mexicans are
white, nice people who have visas and travel to the U.S. by
plane, like me. Latinos, on the other hand, are indios prietos
(dark-skinned Indigenous) who cross the border illegally and
work in kitchens”.
>
> The rest of the attendees listening, most of them other white
Mexicans like him, openly laughed and nodded, celebrating his
comeback and agreeing with him. One might expect that kind of
outrageous racist statement from a white supremacist, but from a
Mexican, referring to other Mexicans? How is that even
conceivable?
>
> “Aren’t we all Mexican?” I thought.
--- End Quote ---
You are all Eurocentrists.
--- Quote ---
> To be honest, many white Mexicans take pride in not looking
Indigenous, and secretly enjoy being told by a foreigner that
they “don’t look Mexican,” that they could be Spanish, or even
better, French or Italian.
--- End Quote ---
This is how psychologically colonized they are. (You can be sure
these types do not consider Andalus to be the best period in
Spanish history either.)
--- Quote ---
> The distinction between “Mexican” and “Latino” as depicted by
this MBA student in my meeting reflects a severe, deep,
embedded, yet denied and overlooked problem in Mexico and Latin
America: racism.
--- End Quote ---
Not ethnotribalism, but Eurocentrism.
--- Quote ---
> Unfortunately, even mentioning the word “racism” is taboo for
us. It’s awkward and uncomfortable. There is no acknowledgement
of the issue, and when you try to bring it up, you are shut down
immediately and accused of being over-sensitive, because after
all, “we are all Mexicans,” “we are all one race,” “we are all
mestizos,” and all mestizos are the same, the conversation goes.
Except that light-skinned mestizos have big advantages over
dark-skinned mestizos in what is called pigmentocracy.
--- End Quote ---
It is not pigmentocracy. As I have repeatedly pointed out,
plenty of "whites" are more pigmented than plenty of
"non-whites", but still get the full advantages of "whiteness":
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/msg520/#msg520
Whereas even the most unpigmented "non-whites" are still bullied
for being "non-white". Call it what it is: Eurocentrism.
--- Quote ---
> Mexicans have been trained to define ourselves as one race:
mestizos. During and after Mexico’s independence from Spain, the
dominant elite, mostly white Europeans of Spanish descent,
embraced this idea to help strengthen and consolidate the
newborn nation. Let’s give them some credit, race-blindness
within national boundaries sounds like a good idea — given the
assumption that everybody gets treated equally, and no special
privileges are granted to anyone based on physical appearance.
>
> But when that condition is not met, and the reality is not
acknowledged, racial injustices against dark-skinned Mexicans of
Indigenous or African descent — the latter group counted for the
first time last year in the country's census — are
systematically made invisible. This is exactly what happens in
Mexico today, and in most Latin American countries that share
the same Spanish colonial heritage.
>
> Over the centuries, dark-skinned Mexicans have been taught to
embrace and replicate a racialized system, becoming unconscious
supporters of their own oppression and living in a constant
state of self-hatred, taught to wish deep inside they were
white, like young Pecola Breedlove in “The Bluest Eye.”
--- End Quote ---
Which is why the only way to end Eurocentrism is to assert a
different standard of superiority. Physical appearance
influencing impressions of individuals is inevitable. But which
aspects of physical appearance are considered important can be
changed. We should not be trying to get people to ignore
physical appearance, but trying to get people to attach
importance to aspects of physical appearance related to our
racial ideal (which is not Eurocentric and might in some aspects
(e.g. neoteny, low sexual dimorphism, gracility/ectomorphy) even
be anti-Eurocentric).
--- Quote ---
> white is seen as “aspirational” and “beautiful.” This practice
is so embedded and normalized in Mexican media that nobody
questions it.
--- End Quote ---
We are here to question it.
#Post#: 16054--------------------------------------------------
Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 13, 2022, 6:22 pm
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If nothing else, the recent scandal has made the issue of
Eurocentrism among formerly colonized people more prominent.
While our enemies may be presenting it as a positive phenomenon,
they are at least making it harder for those who want to deny
that it even exists:
HTML https://twitter.com/steve_sailer/status/1545186094861336576
--- Quote ---
> "White supremacy is the normative ideology and dominant ethos
of dozens of nations, particularly in Latin America. It will
dominate public opinion, popular culture, domestic policy, &
foreign interventions of the coming Hispanicized USA."
--- End Quote ---
--- Quote ---
> I mentioned recently that some of the "whitest" television you
can watch is Mexican telenovelas...
--- End Quote ---
--- Quote ---
> My brothers and I have blonde hair and when we went to Mexico
as kids, we'd get chased around by all the Mexican girls. Pretty
formative experience
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> I am in a deeply brown South American country now. Its no
exaggeration when I say every billboard, TV ad, and in store
display (esp those) is completely White washed.
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> Latinos are the only group left that can normalize white
dominated institutions in their own communities while also
bypassing accusations of being un-diverse. LOL.
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They are also aware of our decolonization activism:
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> Steve, what do you think the CRT curriculum is for? The left
understands that most immigrants don't really share their
worldview, hence the urgency to indoctrinate the next generation
of Latino and Asian children into hardcore anti-whiteness.
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> This seems to be happening in LatAm as well, a shift away from
identifying with Spain and Europe towards the pre-Columbians
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 19, 2022, 6:07 pm
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Old but revealing:
HTML https://www.npr.org/2010/06/22/128011084/job-ad-in-china-white-man-no-experience-needed
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> There's opportunity in China even if you're a Westerner with
no skills. If you're a white male and have a nice suit, you can
get a job that pays well -- and requires no work.
> ...
> "Basically, a friend of a friend knew of a company that needed
a bunch of white guys to go down and represent the company,"
Moxley told NPR's Robert Siegel. "I didn't know too much other
than it was going to be $1,000 for a week and then we would be
put in a hotel. And we'd have to attend a couple of banquets and
tour a factory."
>
> Moxley was acting as one of the quality control experts.
>
> "I was told in advance we weren't going to be doing any
quality control," he says. "Which is good because none of us
actually had any experience in quality control."
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Being "white" = quality in the minds of the psychologically
colonized.
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> Moxley says his guess is that companies hire white people in
suits to gain "a bit of credibility." He says that connections
in China are important, especially in business.
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Being "white" = credibility in the minds of the psychologically
colonized.
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> "It was pretty funny. The whole thing was a little bit
surreal," he says. "We were down there and were being paraded
around a half-built factory and we had to sit in temporary
offices the rest of the day, not really doing anything. ... We
were sleeping at our desks or reading magazines."
>
> But Moxley says he and the fake businessmen got the
"red-carpet treatment" at the opening ceremony for the factory.
>
> "They had police escorting vehicles to the ceremony," he says.
"We were sitting at the front row right before the stage. One
guy was supposedly the company director, and he gave a speech in
front of 100 or so people. At the end, he was taking pictures
with the mayor and being interviewed on local TV."
>
> Moxley says that although his experience was surreal, it's
"surprisingly common."
>
> "I've been here for three years, and it was something I heard
about soon after I got here. Off the top of my head, I know
about six people who have done similar things."
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/308119/
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> I became a fake businessman in China, an often lucrative gig
for underworked expatriates here. One friend, an American who
works in film, was paid to represent a Canadian company and give
a speech espousing a low-carbon future. Another was flown to
Shanghai to act as a seasonal-gifts buyer. Recruiting fake
businessmen is one way to create the image—particularly, the
image of connection—that Chinese companies crave. My
Chinese-language tutor, at first aghast about how much we were
getting paid, put it this way: “Having foreigners in nice suits
gives the company face.”
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Foreigners? Does anyone believe the same companies would hire
"non-white" foreigners for this purpose? Why does everyone try
so hard to avoid the conclusion that this is Eurocentrism, the
whole Eurocentrism and nothing but Eurocentrism?
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> The mayor was there with other local dignitaries, and so were
TV cameras and reporters. We stood in the front row wearing
suits, safety vests, and hard hats. As we waited for the
ceremony to begin, a foreman standing beside me barked at
workers still visible on the construction site. They scurried
behind the scaffolding.
>
> “Are you the boss?” I asked him.
>
> He looked at me quizzically. “You’re the boss.”
--- End Quote ---
Still don't believe me?
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 20, 2022, 2:47 pm
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Continuing from:
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as if Reza Eurocentrist Pahlavi was not already psychologically
colonized enough, his son was even worse:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi
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> throughout his life, Mohammad Reza was obsessed with height
and stature, for example wearing elevator shoes to make himself
look taller than he really was
> ...
> By the time Mohammad Reza turned 11, his father deferred to
the recommendation of Abdolhossein Teymourtash, the Minister of
Court, to dispatch his son to Institut Le Rosey, a Swiss
boarding school, for further studies.
> ...
> The Crown Prince was educated in French at Le Rosey, and his
time there left Mohammad Reza with a lifelong love of all things
French.[40] In articles he wrote in French for the student
newspaper in 1935 and 1936, Mohammad Reza praised Le Rosey for
broadening his mind and introducing him to European
civilisation.[41]
> ...
> During his time in Switzerland, Mohammad Reza befriended
Ernest Perron introducing Mohammad Reza to French poetry and
under his influence Chateaubriand and Rabelais became his
"favorite French authors".[44] The Crown Prince liked Perron so
much that when he returned to Iran in 1936, he brought Perron
back with him, installing his best friend in the Marble
Palace.[45] Perron lived in Iran until his death in 1961 and as
the best friend of Mohammad Reza was a man of considerable
behind-the-scenes power.[46]
> ...
> In 1942, Mohammad Reza met Wendell Willkie, the Republican
candidate for the U.S. presidency in the 1940 election who was
now on a world tour for President Roosevelt to promote his "one
world" policy; Willkie took him flying for the first time.[65]
The prime minister, Ahmad Qavam, had advised the Shah against
flying with Wilkie, saying he had never met a man with a worse
flatulence problem, but the Shah took his chances.[65] Mohammed
Reza told Willkie that when he was flying he "wanted to stay up
indefinitely".[65] Enjoying flight, Mohammad Reza hired the
American pilot Dick Collbarn to teach him how to fly. Upon
arriving at the Marble Palace, Collbarn noted that "the Shah
must have twenty-five custom-built cars...Buicks, Cadillacs, six
Rolls-Royces, a Mercedes".[65] During the Tehran conference in
1943, the Shah was humiliated when he met Joseph Stalin, who
visited him in the Marble Palace and did not allow the Shah's
bodyguards to be present, with the Red Army alone guarding the
Marble Palace during Stalin's visit.[66]
> ...
> A qualified pilot, Mohammad Reza was fascinated with flying
and the technical details of aeroplanes, and any insult to him
was always an attempt to "clip my wings".
> ...
> Mohammad Reza was frequently unfaithful towards Farah, and his
right-hand man Asadollah Alam regularly imported tall European
women for "outings" with the Shah, though Alam's diary also
mentions that if women from the "blue-eyed world" were not
available, he would bring the Shah "local product".[150]
> ...
> He also had a passion for automobiles and aeroplanes, and by
the middle 1970s, the Shah had amassed one of the world's
largest collection of luxury cars and planes.[151]
> ...
> On 24 July 1959, Mohammad Reza gave Israel de facto
recognition by allowing an Israeli trade office to be opened in
Tehran that functioned as a de facto embassy, a move that
offended many in the Islamic world.[127]
> ...
> Milani noted the close connection between architecture and
power in Iran as architecture is the "poetry of power" in
Iran.[154] In this sense, the Niavaran Palace, with its mixture
of modernist style, heavily influenced by current French styles
and traditional Persian style, reflected Mohammad Reza's
personality.[153] Mohammad Reza was a Francophile whose court
had a decidedly French ambiance to it.[155]
>
> Mohammad Reza commissioned a documentary from the French
film-maker Albert Lamorisse meant to glorify Iran under his
rule. But he was annoyed that the film focused only on Iran's
past, writing to Lamorisse there were no modern buildings in his
film, which he charged made Iran look "backward".[149]
> ...
> The Shah continued on with his father’s ideas of Iranian
nationalism concluding Arabs as the utmost other.
> ...
> Iran in the 1960s and 70s was a tolerant place for the Jewish
minority with one Iranian Jew, David Menasheri, remembering that
Mohammad Reza's reign was the "golden age" for Iranian Jews when
they were equals, and when the Iranian Jewish community was one
of the wealthiest Jewish communities in the world.
> ...
> In 1961, the Francophile Mohammad Reza visited Paris to meet
his favourite leader, General Charles de Gaulle of France.[187]
Mohammad Reza saw height as the measure of a man and a woman
(the Shah had a marked preference for tall women) and the 6 feet
5 inches (1.96 m) de Gaulle was his most admired leader.
Mohammad Reza loved to be compared to his "ego ideal" of General
de Gaulle, and his courtiers constantly flattered him by calling
him Iran's de Gaulle.[187] During the French trip, Queen Farah,
who shared her husband's love of French culture and language,
befriended the culture minister André Malraux, who arranged for
the exchange of cultural artifacts between French and Iranian
museums and art galleries, a policy that remained a key
component of Iran's cultural diplomacy until 1979.[188] Many of
the legitimising devices of the regime such as the constant use
of referendums were modelled after de Gaulle's regime.[188]
Intense Francophiles, Mohammad Reza and Farah preferred to speak
French rather than Persian to their children.[189] Mohammad Reza
built the Niavaran Palace which took up 9,000 square feet and
whose style was a blend of Persian and French architecture.[190]
> ...
> The Shah was the first regional leader to grant de facto
recognition to the State of Israel.
> ...
> In 1961 he defended his style of rule, saying "When Iranians
learn to behave like Swedes, I will behave like the King of
Sweden."[212]
> ...
> He coveted the British Order of the Garter, and had, prior to
courting Maria Gabriella, inquired about marrying Princess
Alexandra of Kent, granddaughter of King George V, but in both
cases he was rebuffed in no uncertain terms.[223] As an Iranian,
Mohammad Reza greatly enjoyed supporting the Greek branch of the
House of Glücksburg, knowing the Greeks still celebrated their
victories over the Persians in the 5th and 4th centuries
BC.[222]
> ...
> going on to say that since he "belonged to this [European]
world," he did not want Europe to collapse economically.[225]
> ...
> Reflecting his need to have Iran seen as "part of the world"
(by which Mohammad Reza meant the western world), all through
the 1970s he sponsored conferences in Iran at his expense
> ...
> In the field of diplomacy, Iran realised and maintained
friendly relations with Western and East European countries as
well as the state of Israel
> ...
> Mohammad Reza was also known for his interest in cars and had
a personal collection of 140 classic and sports cars including a
Mercedes-Benz 500K Autobahn cruiser, one of only six ever
made.[374] The first Maserati 5000 GT was named the Shah of
Persia, it was built for Mohammad Reza, who had been impressed
by the Maserati 3500 and requested Giulio Alfieri, Maserati's
chief engineer, to use a modified 5-litre engine from the
Maserati 450S on the 3500GT's chassis.[375]
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So when Khomeini began his revolution to take back Iran, the
Eurocentrist Pahlavis naturally needed the worst possible insult
to use against Khomeini. Can you guess what they came up with?
--- Quote ---
> attacking Ruhollah Khomeini, who was in exile in Iraq at the
time; it referred to him as a homosexual, a drug addict, a
British spy and claimed he was an Indian, not an Iranian.[248]
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Psychological decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 21, 2022, 9:18 pm
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How psychologically colonized is Mexico?
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexicos-racial-reckoning-movement-protests-100044402.html
--- Quote ---
> A few months ago, several employees of an upscale Mexico City
steakhouse came forward with a damning allegation: The
restaurant had a policy of segregation in which the best tables
were reserved for the customers with the lightest skin.
> ...
> Monserrat Ramos, a 26-year-old attorney from the state of
Oaxaca who founded the group Basta Racismo MX, said reckoning
with racism in Mexico requires opening "deep, deep colonial
wounds."
> ...
> The Spanish conquest of the New World five centuries ago
established a caste system in which social standing was largely
determined by a person's racial mix. At the top of the ladder
were people of European descent, followed by those of mixed
colonial and Indigenous heritage. At the bottom were Indigenous
people, followed by Black slaves.
> ...
> grandparents cajole young people to find a light-skinned
partner "to improve the race."
> ...
> In films and on television, darker-skinned actors are often
relegated to roles as housekeepers and criminals. A casting call
for an Aeromexico advertisement in 2013 said “dark-skinned”
people need not apply.
>
> Racial inequality is just as visible in many homes, where
women employed to cook, clean and nanny are often dark-skinned
or Indigenous. It's not uncommon for apartment buildings to bar
such laborers from public areas, or for elevators to be
designated specifically for the help.
> ...
> Several described childhoods in which their mothers sought to
change their complexion using skin-lightening products. One
young man said that while breaking up with him, an ex-girlfriend
had said: "I can't believe I was with an ugly brown person."
--- End Quote ---
We have to break the false link between beauty and "whiteness":
--- Quote ---
> Aketzaly Verástegui, an actress with the group Poder Prieto,
which pushes for diversity in film. "When I was growing up and
watching television, I never saw faces that looked like mine."
--- End Quote ---
You should be pushing not for diversity, but for an Aryan
standard of facial aesthetics with your own face as the Mexican
ideal:
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