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Re: Re: Racist bullying
By: rp Date: March 19, 2021, 8:42 am
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What empire is the first picture?
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Re: Re: Racist bullying
By: Dazhbog Date: March 19, 2021, 10:42 am
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[quote author=rp link=topic=35.msg4952#msg4952
date=1616161332]What empire is the first picture?[/quote]
Portugal:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire
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Re: Re: Racist bullying
By: rp Date: March 19, 2021, 10:46 am
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[quote author=Dazhbog link=topic=35.msg4954#msg4954
date=1616168526]
[quote author=rp link=topic=35.msg4952#msg4952
date=1616161332]What empire is the first picture?[/quote]
Portugal:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire
[/quote]
Ok.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 31, 2021, 2:30 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBmV0bG59u4
Related:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/colorism-spectrum-black-communities-yet-155118445.html
[quote]I was sitting at a lunch table in 10th grade when an
amber-skinned boy told me that I was the darkest girl he would
go for. I remember being annoyed by his assessment that I had
barely made the cut for desirability, but as a teenage girl
wrestling with her own perceptions of beauty, instead of being
outraged, I accepted a moment of simultaneous praise and
devaluation.
That experience of being temporarily placed on a lighter-skinned
pedestal simply because I was a noticeable gradient lighter than
a few of the chocolate girls around me, is just one of many
within Black communities that showcase the nuances and
subtleties of colorism. It’s those subtleties that can make the
problem even harder to see and easier to perpetuate.
From hit reality shows, to the lyrics of our favorite songs, to
uncovered stories from Black Hollywood, the reality of colorism
continues to show up in Black entertainment and culture. Though
many of us are aware of this centuries-long issue, Black
communities have yet to truly reckon with it.
...
Colorism is a system of power that favors lighter-skinned people
and it has a history of enforcement by government, educational,
and media institutions.
The emotional scars inflicted by dark-skinned girls and boys who
bully lighter ones are not “the same” as the systemic scars left
by employers preferring less qualified but lighter-skinned Black
men over dark-skinned men or a criminal justice system that is
65 percent more likely to convict people widely considered to be
very dark.
That said, healing is messy and while the ways that colorism
shows up in our lives may not be the same, we are all unified by
our right to be seen and for our pain to be acknowledged. We all
have blind spots in one area or another, and centering
compassion can help us find them.
I used to think that lighter-skinned girls were celebrated, but
in recent years I’ve come to understand that being exoticized
and fetishized is not “the same” as being celebrated, and being
likened to a trophy is not “the same” as being cherished. In
some cases, it may even increase the risk for violence.[/quote]
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 2, 2021, 1:05 am
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HTML http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-10/12/content_33154166.htm
[quote]Uygur faces are finding their way to movie screens,
phones, and billboards across China.
Members of the ethnic minority group have facial features that
Chinese brands have deemed “attractive,” creating opportunities
for talented Uygurs to break into the entertainment business as
singers, models and TV stars.
...
Though he cautions that Han Chinese still far outnumber the
number of Uygur models, many of his Chinese clients are “looking
for a face that have some Asian characteristics, but also have
some kind of white Europeanness to it.”
...
In many ways, the shift in beauty standards correlates to a rise
in purchasing power. Increased disposable income is a calling
card for international brands looking to take advantage of the
new market.
The brands bring their own standards for beauty, revealing the
Western bias in defining beauty, even in local cultures.
...
A 2012 McKinsey survey of this group found that “this generation
of Chinese consumers is the most Westernized to date.”[/quote]
HTML https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000052318933-jo9edx-t500x500.jpg
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 3, 2021, 11:47 pm
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Eurocentrism not only does not end when "whites" are a minority,
it often amplifies as the rarity of "whiteness" makes it even
more 'valuable' in the minds of the colonized:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/grew-majority-minority-country-still-184200923.html
[quote]Trinidad and Tobago, known for its Carnival and sunny
beaches, is a compelling study of colonialism’s enduring
psychological wounds. Trinidad was invaded by the British in
1797. Tobago, a nearby island, was annexed to Trinidad in the
late 1800s. British rule in Trinidad and Tobago shared
characteristics with other countries also owned by the crown,
including a political system that stripped most of the country’s
population of their rights and humanity, policing that preserved
white people’s positions at the top of the race-class pyramid,
and a primary aim of extraction that molded the country into a
plantocracy. The queen would be removed as head of state only in
1976 when the twin-island nation became a republic.
For more than a century, Britain transposed its own ideas of
racial purity, comportment, language, society, and culture,
systematically dissolving and criminalizing ways of life enjoyed
by Black people in Trinidad and Tobago.
...
I found my own Trinidadian upbringing confusing. On one hand, I
was made to believe that race mattered very little, echoing
sentiments of postraciality that surfaced after President Barack
Obama was elected. My schoolbooks emphasized that Trinidad and
Tobago was a rainbow utopia, evident by the shoehorning of as
many creeds and races as could possibly fit into small,
grayscale pictorial representations. I’d look at my face in the
mirror—my light but definitely brown skin, my broad
nose—clocking my features against the fact that my last name was
confusingly Chinese (my great-grandfather on my dad’s side came
from there) and wondering what the hell I was.
I was Black when I traveled, a fact made clear to me on my
first-ever trip to America when I was seven. But when I was
home, in a society that was mostly Black and Brown anyway, I
could just be Trinidadian. My mixedness represented a kind of
ideal amalgamation that fit neatly into the nationalist
narrative our country’s first prime minister proposed—himself a
Black firebrand who stated in one breath that “Massa day done,”
but in another, “There can be no Mother India for those whose
ancestors came from India. There can be no Mother Africa for
those of African origin. … A nation, like an individual, can
have only one Mother.”
On the other hand, I was made to believe that race mattered very
much. I never considered my Blackness, because I knew, deep down
and even as a child, what kinds of trauma my light skin exempted
me from. I desperately wanted to be white, not just to look it
but to feel it, to feel as though I was popular at school, as
though I was special, as though I could vacation overseas
whenever I wanted. My “diverse” and private Catholic school made
that abundantly clear, in which we were told once that if we
failed our exams, we would be accepted to only those high
schools—coded language for schools that were typically all-Black
and largely neglected.
Theorists speak of decolonization as a process involving a
reordering of our society and culture according to Indigenous
worldviews. But even before this, even before Trinidad and
Tobago can reach consensus on what indigeneity means to such a
confluence of people, its most powerful must reflect on the
wrongness of a system that while wreaking psychological havoc
below, still graciously sees white and lighter-skinned people
sitting on thrones that have simply switched hands.[/quote]
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: rp Date: April 4, 2021, 6:20 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/JordanSumbu/status/1290769754634870784?s=19
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 6, 2021, 12:27 am
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"Non-white" victim of bullying thinks it's OK to be a "white"
bully:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/asian-american-man-punched-hate-215522370.html
[quote]Asian American Man Punched in Hate Crime Asks for
Attacker to Get Restorative Justice, Not Jail
Daniel Hutchens, 38, pleaded guilty to a bias crime for
assaulting an Asian American man at a Portland MAX stop last
year, according to Oregon Live. He allegedly approached the
victim and asked if he was Chinese before punching him in the
face. Hutchens fled the scene after the attack. The suspect, who
had already spent 100 days in custody, was sentenced to 90 days
in prison during his hearing on March 30. The victim, who did
not wish to be identified, requested to find a resolution that
does not add jail time for Hutchens[/quote]
[img]
HTML https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/jhiRoTv9KG_g559lDDMLRA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTM3My42NTtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/UGMiZOU0mLFPr2oaxBX.CQ--~B/aD00Nzc7dz05MDA7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/nextshark_articles_509/335503af9f2ab45996ae155cbc87818f[/img]
This is how sick in the head many victims of colonialism are.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 11, 2021, 10:40 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/huffpost/internalized-racism-asian-american-130000170.html
[quote]I Hated Myself For Not Being White For Most Of My Life.
Here’s How I Stopped.
I used to hate being Korean. I grew up envying the blond-haired,
blue-eyed, skinny white girls on TV and the movies. It was hard
not to hate my small eyes and flat features when all I ever saw
in the media were portrayals of white beauty. Even my parents
wanted me to get a nose job and shave down my cheekbones because
that’s what they thought was beautiful ― not our faces,
but theirs.
I was ashamed of how we looked to everyone else: uncivilized,
loud, smelly with garlic breath, and dumb with our broken
English and awkward accents. I hated how enmeshed and closed off
my family was and how it seemed like nothing outside of us was
allowed in and we weren’t allowed out.
I used to hate being around other Asians ― in part because
like most Korean Americans, I grew up in the church and thought
that all Koreans were judgmental Christians, but also because I
refused to accept that I was anything like them.
I hated how Asians traveled together in flocks and how abrasive
their languages seemed compared to the calm consistency of
English. I used to make fun of other Asians, believing I was
nothing like them, and trying to convince myself that I was more
American ― or more white ― than them.[/quote]
Pick one.
[quote]Cathy Park Hong, author of “Minor Feelings: An Asian
American Reckoning,” writes, “Racial self-hatred is seeing
yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your
own worst enemy.” I became my own worst enemy from the moment I
arrived at LAX at only 3 years old, beginning what now feels
like a lifetime of assimilating to whiteness and desperately
trying to be seen and accepted.[/quote]
This (in bold) is probably the best line in the article.
[quote]For a large part of my youth and young adulthood, I spent
my time in America fawning out of survival. Fawning is one of
the trauma responses, similar to flight, fight or freeze.
Fawning is when you people-please to diffuse conflict in order
to reestablish a sense of safety.
I fawned by aiming to please white people and viewing myself the
way they saw me. I fawned by laughing off racist jokes,
microaggressions, fetishizations, and the repeated belittling of
my cultural background and how I look.
I learned early on that this is what I would have to do to make
it through alive. I laughed off countless “open your eyes” jokes
and I begged my parents to buy me Lunchables so I wouldn’t have
to bring smelly kimchi to school for lunch. A friend once told
me I smelled weird, so I became accustomed to spraying myself
from head to toe in perfume to mask the smell of Korea whenever
I left my house.
I distanced myself from other Asians, thinking I had found the
solution to all of my problems by aligning myself with white
people, clinging to my proximity to whiteness. Instead of just
quietly minimizing myself and my racial trauma, I simultaneously
perpetuated and mocked Asian stereotypes and rejected the parts
of myself that didn’t fit the white mold. As the saying goes, if
you can’t beat them, might as well join them.
I fawned into the model minority myth, designed to pit people of
color against each other to uphold white supremacy. I fawned and
tried to survive the only way I knew how, by blending in ―
only that was never actually possible.
It wasn’t until I got older and I was able to explore my culture
outside of my family of origin that I could appreciate these
parts of myself that I desperately tried to keep hidden.
...
In Korea, I learned about our painful history and just how much
colonialism is rooted in racism. I learned about how long we’ve
been carrying and passing down this trauma from generation to
generation, until it reached me and my family ― the first
to make it to the land of opportunity and freedom and have a go
at the American dream.
...
Now when people ask me what was once a very dreaded question
― “Where are you from?” which really means, “What are
you?” ― I proudly respond that I’m Korean American because
I want to normalize the fact that this country is made up of
humans of all colors, shapes, sizes and ethnicities. I view
myself from my own lens instead of filtering myself to appeal to
white people because I want to show the world that this is what
America truly looks like.[/quote]
OK, but if fawning is merely a survival reaction by an ethnic
minority living among a majority of a different ethnicity:
1) why does one "non-white" minority living among a different
"non-white" majority not fawn to that majority group? (Did
Ghandi try to be "black" during his time in South Africa? LOL)
2) why does a "white" minority living among a "non-white"
majority not fawn to that majority group? (
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/orania/
Duh!)
Until we recognize that fawning is only ever directed towards
"whites", we have not reached the root of the problem.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: rp Date: April 21, 2021, 2:11 pm
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"Non-White" defends "Prince" Phillip:
HTML https://twitter.com/tunkuv/status/1380499302280220675?s=19
[quote]
I liked Prince Philip.
He was...candid.
My favourite line was his saying aloud that a badly installed
fuse-box somewhere in Scotland seemed to have been "put in by an
Indian."
I've never met a decent Indian electrician.
Have you?
[/quote]
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