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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 6, 2022, 8:15 pm
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The psychologically colonized Balinese Eurocentrists decide it
is OK for tree-huggers to be "white":
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-tourist-posed-naked-700-222347835.html
[quote]Indonesian officials announced on Friday that a Russian
influencer and her husband will be deported from Bali after they
staged a naked photoshoot on a sacred 700-year-old tree three
years ago.
Alina Fazleeva, who has over 18,000 followers on Instagram,
staged a nude photoshoot in 2019 at a weeping paperbark tree
inside Babakan temple grounds in the Tabanan Regency. She
uploaded the photos, taken by her husband Andrey Fazleev, and in
the caption described hearing “her ancestors’ voices” when she
hugged the tree, saying that she had become a “part of an
endless chain.”
Fazleeva’s Instagram posts were recently discovered by and
enraged local Hindu-Buddhist Balinese communities. Balinese
entrepreneur Niluh Djelantik then reported the photos to local
police, prompting an investigation into the incident. In
Balinese Hindu culture, elements of nature, such as trees and
mountains, are considered a sacred home for the gods.[/quote]
Why didn't get get the Otto Warmbier treatment?
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 25, 2022, 8:36 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/im-first-ever-asian-american-141631140.html
[quote]I’m Sports Illustrated’s first Asian American plus size
cover model. After years of self-doubt, I want to change the
industry’s narrative around race and body diversity.
...
This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Yumi
Nu, a 25-year-old model, artist, and singer-songwriter. It has
been edited for length and clarity.
...
I'm half-Japanese and half-white. Growing up, it wasn't really
cool to be anything other than white. I wish we weren't so
influenced by media, culture, and society, but we do, especially
when we're young. We look to it to tell us what's important and
what we should think, look, and be like.
So I just wanted to fit in with white people. I didn't have—or
wanted—any connections to my Asian side, because there was this
shame that it made me different, and it was the thing that
separated me from popular kids at school and what I thought I
needed to be beautiful. It was the same thing with being plus
size.[/quote]
No, it's not the same thing. On the contrary, if you were more
proud of your Japanese ancestry, you would be more ashamed of
being plus-size:
HTML https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2016/09/21/issues/body-image-foreign-female-japan-survey-shows-frustration-one-size-fits-thinking/
Continuing:
[quote]Culturally, Asian people don't want to glorify being
bigger, and that leaked into the American perception of how they
want to represent Asian people.[/quote]
Wait, so if Japanese - I refuse to use the term "Asian" - people
don't want to glorify being bigger, and American media
represents Japanese people as thin (ie. how Japanese people want
themselves represented), then what's the problem?
The problem is your Eurocentrism: you want to be celebrated for
being plus-size because you sees "whites" already celebrated for
being plus-size, therefore if you too are celebrated for being
plus-size, you can feel closer to being "white" which is what
you actually want to be, as you yourself admitted in the part in
bold.
This is Counterculture-era Japanese coolness:
HTML http://www.tenka1.com/gazodata/2018/07/17/270978.jpg
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/aryan-bones/
This is a present-day False Left useful idiot:
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HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/gentilism/msg2646/#msg2646
Again, recall:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg13049/#msg13049
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 27, 2022, 8:25 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/asian-american-woman-dating-app-130005460.html
[quote]Over the years of being on dating apps, I’ve built up a
personal list of automatic left-swipes: multiple gym mirror
selfies, pro-hunting content (when I lived in Texas), pro-NFT
content (now that I’m in New York), and the ubiquitous,
unremarkable fish pic.[/quote]
So far so good.
(See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/gentilism/msg7180/#msg7180
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/gentilism/msg9281/#msg9281
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/gentilism/msg11507/#msg11507<br
/>)
[quote]But the red flag that gives me the most pause isn’t one I
can joke about over brunch.
There’s one thing I see over and over that fills me with an
instinctual anxiety — a white man with pictures from his time in
Japan.[/quote]
Good instinct, but who is stopping you from joking about it?
[quote]Having grown up mixed race in the Midwest, I’m used to
the questions that stem from some level of curiosity about my
background — What are you? Where are you from? No, where are you
really from? And while comments like those might annoy me, they
aren’t the ones that make me nervous.
The white men who feel the most threatening are the ones who
enthusiastically tell me how much they love Asian culture, who
ask if I’m hafu, who call me “exotic” as if there’s no higher
form of praise.[/quote]
Good. (But you should still voluntarily refrain from
reproducing, just to be on the safe side.)
[quote]And while I don’t enjoy the openly gross behavior I
encounter in my life — from the catcalls to being grabbed on the
train — that’s less insidious than this masked fetishization
that hides behind reverence. Where I’m always one right swipe
away from finding the wrong person.[/quote]
You could easily choose to cut this all out of your life if you
wanted to.
[quote]I wish all the time that I no longer felt optimism, that
I could bury myself in my instincts of self-preservation and
simply stop dating for the rest of my life, that I could avoid
these apps entirely.
But on the days that seem safe enough, I find that I am still
pulled to put myself out there. Because the truth is that I do
want a partner, and despite my best efforts, I do still feel
hope.[/quote]
Why does the partner have to be "white"?
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 30, 2022, 8:56 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-women-pressure-face-certain-134518756.html
[quote]I remember looking at my body in the mirror and feeling a
strong disdain for my lack of curves for the first time. My
straight hips and lack of a derrière felt inadequate. And I
started to wonder if my lack of back would keep the boys
away.[/quote]
If they like high sexual dimorphism, they are genetic trash
anyway and thus not worth your time.
[quote]Ore says the root of the body pressure we feel is modern
eurocentric beauty standards that have been thrust onto us. “The
problem is the people who have made some of these body types
popular aren’t Black women,” she says. “And these non-Black
women have used black features and exaggerated them drastically
and have suddenly made this unrealistic body type the norm.”
She continues, saying that “while they borrow and steal from
Black culture and features, they’re also ironically influencing
Black women who don’t look this way. It’s a very vicious and
interesting cycle to watch. All of a sudden you have all these
women trying to look like caricatures of Black women — including
Black women.”
It’s an eloquent description of how deep this issue goes. Living
up to a fantasy, a fetishized version of who you are, created by
someone who is not you nor looks like you, is an impossible,
emotionally crippling task.
...
“We’re trying to fit ourselves into a box that never was meant
for us,” she continues. “Even historically and even still is
not.”
...
“We’ve co-opted the problem, and we’re trying to become what we
think other beautiful Black women effortlessly look like,” Dr.
Ebony says. “But, we don’t understand that this is all trying to
follow a trend of what eurocentric beauty standards
are.”[/quote]
Indeed:
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[quote]Czech women with higher perceived femininity were
actually perceived as more dominant, while in Cameroonian women
the association between perceived femininity and dominance was
weakly negative.[/quote]
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: rp Date: June 10, 2022, 7:02 am
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This Jew is becoming extremely annoying (yes, he is a Jew.
Unsurprising considering we know Jews are known for their
language learning abilities):
HTML https://youtu.be/pMKsed-y744
Instead of doing their duty as anti colonialists and removing
his reproductive potential, they do this instead..
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 10, 2022, 2:27 pm
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Plus they make money from the YouTube videos of this phenomenon!
There are countless similar videos where "whites" (including
Jews) receive favours from the Eurocentrist "non-whites" just
for speaking the local language, and then the video also get a
lot of views! (I never click on them myself.)
It goes without saying that it does not happen the other way
round. In other words, the hierarchy ingrained during the
colonial era is still in place.
Previously:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/msg199/#msg199
Now:
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/doll-test-history-racial-segregation-toy-diversity/638442/
[quote]In 1897, the father of American child psychology, G.
Stanley Hall, published his influential A Study of Dolls with
Alexander Caswell Ellis. They found that white dolls with “fair
hair and blue eyes are the favorites.”
...
Starting in 1940, the Clarks surveyed 253 Black children ranging
in age from 3 to 7. Their goal was to determine whether the
children had a concept of racial difference, and if so, whether
they expressed racial preference. A little more than half of the
children attended segregated nursery schools and public
elementary schools in Arkansas, while the rest went to
integrated schools in Massachusetts. Each child was shown two
dolls with yellow hair and white skin, and two with black hair
and dark-brown skin. “Give me the doll you like to play with,”
the Clarks instructed the children. Most of the children gave
them a white doll. When they prompted the children to “give me
the doll that is a nice doll” or “the doll that is a nice
color,” most of the children again gave them a white doll. As
Kenneth Clark later wrote, the doll study showed “that at an
early age Negro children are affected by the prejudices,
discrimination, and segregation to which the larger society
subjected them.”
...
Mattel released its first explicitly Black Barbie in 1968, and
Remco’s line of Black dolls appeared that same year. These
dolls, though, were mostly marketed to Black children.
Not until the 1980s were nonwhite characters marketed to a wide
audience, and then only gradually.
...
The toy market was coming closer to reflecting America’s
diversity. But had children’s attitudes shifted since the
Clarks’ era? In 2010, CNN commissioned the child psychologist
Margaret Beale Spencer to design an updated version of the doll
test. Her team interviewed 133 kids, ages 4, 5, 9, or 10,
hailing from both majority-white and majority-Black schools in
the New York City and Atlanta areas.
The Clarks had not studied white children, but Spencer did. She
found that they displayed a high rate of “white bias,”
identifying lighter skin tones with positive attributes and
darker hues with negative ones. As the Clarks had found 70 years
earlier, Black children, too, displayed some white bias—but far
less than their white peers.[/quote]
Eurocentrism is not going to be ended merely by offering a wider
selection of dolls.
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Re: Reproductive decolonization
By: christianbethel Date: June 19, 2022, 4:23 pm
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HTML https://youtu.be/d2eVEjzM4FI
Thoughts?
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 19, 2022, 11:16 pm
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This is a textbook case of Eurocentrism. 9:10 leaves nothing in
doubt. Note also how the narrator goes out of the way to make up
excuses for her own bullies at several points in the video.
To quickly debunk her excuse about 4th graders being prone to
laugh at any music "unfamiliar" to them, imagine if child of
French immigrants to China brought a CD of songs with French
lyrics to an equivalent school activity. Do you think the
Chinese 4th graders would laugh at the music? We all know the
answer. This asymmetry is what we mean by Eurocentrism.
There is no hope for this one. Let's just use her as an example
of how not to be American.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: guest78 Date: June 20, 2022, 1:50 am
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[quote]To quickly debunk her excuse about 4th graders being
prone to laugh at any music "unfamiliar" to them, imagine if
child of French immigrants to China brought a CD of songs with
French lyrics to an equivalent school activity.[/quote]
When I was a child growing up in England, after having
immigrated from Germany, I used to organize pretend battles
between pirates and the British forces on the Western schoolyard
playground I was forced to attend. These simulated battles would
often end up including all the children on the playground. They
were huge. Once the narrative was dictated these mock battles
would take on a life of their own. Later in life, I ended up on
a forum speaking my thoughts against colonialism on forums such
as this one. Blood memory?
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5GFbKu1p_o
As a child I was also eventually forced to immigrate to the
U.S., where I ended up finding my National Socialist roots and
speaking out against barbarians and subhumans. Coincidence?:
[quote]Members measure time of day according to a clock 5
minutes out of sync with normal time, the latter is called
"barbarian time."
One legend is that the numbers in the society's emblem ("322")
represent "founded in '32, 2nd corps", referring to a first
Corps in an unknown German university. [/quote]
[quote]Like other Yale senior societies, Skull and Bones
membership was almost exclusively limited to white Protestant
males for much of its history. While Yale itself had
exclusionary policies directed at particular ethnic and
religious groups, the senior societies were even more
exclusionary.[19][20] While some Catholics were able to join
such groups, Jews were more often not.[20] Some of these
excluded groups eventually entered Skull and Bones by means of
sports, through the society's practice of tapping standout
athletes. Star football players tapped for Skull and Bones
included the first Jewish player (Al Hessberg, class of 1938)
and African-American player (Levi Jackson, class of 1950, who
turned down the invitation for the Berzelius
Society).[19][/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones
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Too bad this idiot:
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Never took his oath to Skull and Bones seriously:
George Bush Sr. hailed as a ‘great friend of Israel and the
Jewish people’
HTML https://www.timesofisrael.com/george-bush-sr-hailed-as-a-great-friend-of-israel-and-the-jewish-people/
Foibles and all, Bush was a friend to Israel, Jewish community
HTML https://njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/foibles-and-all-bush-was-a-friend-to-israel-jewish-community/
Bush's Jews for Jesus Speaking Gig Troubles his Pro-Israel
Friends
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/george-w-bushs-jews-jesus-speaking-gig-disappoints-his-pro-israel-friends/355142/
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height=720]
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[img]
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Nicely done idiots!
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 18, 2022, 8:55 pm
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No matter how bad I imagine Eurocentrism being, the reality is
even worse than my most pessimistic estimates:
HTML https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01902725221090900
[quote]We find that as dogs’ names are increasingly perceived as
White, people adopt them faster.
...
Research has pointed to consistent results when it comes to the
effects of racialized names. Whether the outcome is in the realm
of hiring, housing, or a range of other areas that affect
well-being and daily life, those with White-sounding names have
an advantage over those with non-White-sounding names—including,
but not limited to, those with Black- and Hispanic-sounding
names
...
While we know that racialized names affect humans’ outcomes,
what happens when these racialized names are not tied to humans?
Do the premiums that are typically associated with White names,
and the penalties that are typically associated with Black and
Hispanic names, continue to persist despite the names being
attached to nonhuman entities? This study tests the effects of
racialized names in a novel context: dog adoptions. Dogs, by
definition, exist outside the human racial hierarchy—the unequal
distribution of social resources and treatment that advantages
Whites and disadvantages populations of color, particularly
Blacks, darker-skinned Hispanics and Asians, and Native
populations (Bonilla-Silva 2004). In short, dogs are not humans,
so it follows that racialized names may not influence the
adoption process.
...
Results
...
When 0 percent of the public perceives a dog’s name as White,
that dog is expected to spend about 7.6 days in the shelter.
Across the range of perceived Whiteness, however, time to
adoption declines substantially. When 90 percent of the public
perceives a dog’s name as White, that dog is expected to spend
only about 6 days in the shelter (p < .05). Overall, then,
perceptions of Whiteness emerge as a factor that encourages
adoption among shelter dogs. When a dog’s name is perceived as
White, adopters choose that dog more quickly than when a dog’s
name is not perceived as White. This pattern emerges net of
breed, personality, and other characteristics, suggesting that
Whiteness is a salient (if unconscious) factor in dog adoption.
...
When 0 percent of the public perceives a dog’s name as Black,
that dog is expected to spend about 6.3 days in the shelter.
Conversely, when 90 percent of the public perceives a dog’s name
as Black, that dog is expected to remain in the shelter for 8.1
days—a difference of about 2 days.
...
The patterns for Hispanic names, in the third panel, are muted
by comparison. We observe only about a half-day difference in
time to adoption between the least-Hispanic names and the
most-Hispanic names
...
When 0 percent of the public perceives a dog’s name as nonhuman,
that dog is expected to spend 6.4 days at the shelter. In
contrast, when 90 percent of the public perceives a dog’s name
as nonhuman, that dog is expected to spend about 8 days at the
shelter—a difference of slightly more than 1.5 days (p <
.05).
Taken together, the results in Figure 1 demonstrate that names
matter when it comes to the adoption of shelter dogs. Only White
names carry a premium, in the sense that people adopt dogs with
consensually White names significantly faster than their
counterparts with less-White names. All other names, including
Black names, Hispanic names, and especially nonhuman names, have
either null or negative effects on dogs’ adoption outcomes.
...
Discussion
...
Taken together, these findings illustrate the durability of
racialized names and their power to shape people’s behavior even
when they are not tied to humans. Biases in favor of Whiteness
and White people are so pervasive that they bleed into unrelated
decision-making, ultimately affecting the way people interact
with and evaluate pets as potential family members. One could
potentially argue: What’s the big deal? Dogs with Black,
Hispanic, and nonhuman names are adopted eventually, so what is
the practical significance of these dogs being adopted slower
than their counterparts with consensually White names? Although
it might be tempting to make this argument, the fact that people
use racialized names to make any distinctions among shelter dogs
powerfully reinforces the patterns of racial discrimination and
prejudice that continue to privilege Whites ahead of other
groups in American society. Given the volume of research on
racial discrimination in this country, including research into
forms of discrimination that matter profoundly for Black lives
(e.g., patterns related to policing, mass incarceration), it is
perhaps not surprising that people carry these prejudices with
them when they visit a dog shelter. What is more surprising,
however, is the way these prejudices manifest to affect their
interactions with animals—similar to Rosnow’s (1972:53)
description of prejudice as “any unreasonable attitude that is
unusually resistant to rational influence.”11 Bias on the basis
of racialized names is part of an unreasonable attitude
structure regardless of whether it emerges in the context of
hiring discrimination or a dog shelter. But when we see evidence
of racial prejudices in unlikely settings, the pervasiveness of
racism is laid particularly bare.
...
As a final thought, we consider a question that many shelter
personnel might have as a result of this study. If
White-sounding names have the potential to accelerate adoption
(especially among pit bulls), should we just give all the dogs
White-sounding names? Given our results, this might seem like a
“quick fix” that allows shelters to guard against any latent
prejudices that clients bring with them onto the adoption floor.
But in the long run, this would do nothing to combat the beliefs
that allow these inequalities to persist, both in the context of
the dog shelter and in the wider world. We therefore advise
against this practice because this would be akin to leaning into
bias. We cannot alter our behavior as a society to accommodate
those with racist inclinations, even when those inclinations
manifest in unlikely places.[/quote]
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