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Originally Posted by Gorefiend
I'd like to note: modern American society. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that in modern society elsewhere, white people would be more discriminated against than brown/black people. And in certain parts of the US, white folks would be discriminated against at an individual level (I say this in full acknowledgment that in the US, as a whole society has historically and continues today to be very racist, if not tremendously overtly so.)
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Actually more like modern
western society... oh and Asian society if you're not Asian and living in an Asian area.... oh and African society if you're not african.. unless you live in South Africa. And, considering that most of modern society EVERYWHERE has been influenced by western society in SOME way, yeah....
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Originally Posted by Gorefiend
And I doubt there is a culture in the world where culture wouldn't dictate that men should rule anyways.
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Actually there were lots of them, but, the cyclical nature of human culture meant that they eventually got either, inverted to a patriarchy, or Steamrolled over by an invading one.
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I know that I'm a minority, but what I guess I'm trying to say is that I exist, and people like me exist. Members of minorities so integrated into American society and wealthy enough that they haven't really suffered racism.
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Except you know, the racist-ass culture they live in, where, apparently having to be "Normal" or "integrated" means "acting white and/or having money" and is seen as a plus instead of a cultural intolerance of people's differences. Where white is seen as a standard to aspire to instead of just another skintone/cullture/ ethnicity.
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Originally Posted by Gorefiend
A larger example would be Guatemalan and Chinese children adopted by upper-middle class white folks, raised to be white folks of a different color, with the culture of being members of the upper-middle class, with the money to back that culture up, and who, I'll bet, mostly grew up in places where they didn't experience racism.
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Like that. Where these Guatamalan kids can't be Guatamalans living in the U.S. but "exotically attractive" white people with tans in order to succeed in our society.
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Originally Posted by Mannix
And while I personally haven't experienced much racism growing up in a small mountain town that had like 1 black family, 1 or 2 asian families, and a handful of mexican
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soooo, you never questioned why your area was'nt more diverse?