Being from a non-colonial European nation, it's difficult for me to understand, and comprehend the rules about which races can say what.
Some of these genuinely confused me. If anyone can elaborate because it's very interesting;
1) Can someone explain the one with Pharell's "Bae" to me? The way I understood it was: Bae is a black word, and with Variety making an article about it, they are trivializing it making it another word white people use, that comes from black culture, and then it has lost it's power or meaning?
2) The one with JLo being credited as a white person (Isn't she hispanic? I read that her family put her down by saying that no Latinos could be a popstar and that she should get a real job) who made big butts popular.
Is the author mad because it's not true or because it's a black thing to have a big butt, and white people are stealing it?
Earlier this year we had a discussion that was interesting about a black woman who felt outed when white gay men made the caricature voice and body language of a "proud angry black women". I cant find the gaf thread but it was an interesting discussion. Here is the link;
http://thedmonline.com/dear-white-gays/
I don't know if it's exactly the same, but we know from what goes on in China, that undermining someones culture is a weapon. In Tibet, to undermine the resilient Tibetan people, China is allowing mass immigration of chinese citizens to Tibet. The goal is to make Tibetans lose control of their country by becoming a minority, and making chinese culture and thinking the dominating influence.
These types of mass immigration have happened throughout the ages. Sometimes they happen unintentionally, and sometimes it's with cause. When the armies of Ghenkis Khan plowed through the Steppes and China and much Euroasia, and systematically raped everyone, it was not because they were just barbaric. By raping so many people you ensured a lot of the population would give birth to children who were half-Mongolians, and thus you indoctrinate your own people onto another people - Makes them less likely to rebel when their own children are half of your oppressor. Extremely cruel, and effective way of controlling a submissive people. This is for another discussion though - The point just being, that it's amazing how attached we as people get to our culture.
In northern Europe, our racism revolves around people being allowed to wear their hijab while working in the grocery store. In France this was outright banned, if I remember correctly! People are fighting over allowing Halal meat, and over here, people from poland, ex-USSR nations are blamed for organized crime. Romas are our number one hunted people. In the town next to mine, they are frowned and considered a menace. But being a non-colonian nation, it's really difficult to compare our immigration with the Americans.
But I have a question, for all the progress that has been made in Portugal, Spain, France and England, is the state of racism less in these countries than in the US, you think? With the right wing gov on the rise in many parts of Europe - Particularly France and the appalling Pen, I wonder if the problems, in Paris are comparable to the US?
