yeah it’s funny seeing Poland in that list since for a hot while we were not considered “real white” and were “slavic”, same story as what the Irish went through. From what i’m reading at some point we were even considered terrorists in the US! (because one Polish dude killed some president), and the same scare tactics as what happens around Muslim people today were engaged
Yeah, whiteness is all about who isn’t white so it doesn’t make sense for it to exist without people who aren’t. The Irish, Italians, and Jews are all just some demographic shifts away from being not-white.
Seeing as the “one drop rule” is still essentially in effect, yeah basically. Moreover, “white” was never a skin color. Irish people weren’t considered white when they were mass immigrating to the US, and they’re the palest motherfuckers that exist.
That’s because “White” as a concept has always been invented to be nebulous and exclusionary. It’s not a real group.
yeah it’s funny seeing Poland in that list since for a hot while we were not considered “real white” and were “slavic”, same story as what the Irish went through. From what i’m reading at some point we were even considered terrorists in the US! (because one Polish dude killed some president), and the same scare tactics as what happens around Muslim people today were engaged
history is so fun /s
None of the examples are “white” countries, gotta be anon doing some kind of a bit
Yeah, whiteness is all about who isn’t white so it doesn’t make sense for it to exist without people who aren’t. The Irish, Italians, and Jews are all just some demographic shifts away from being not-white.
Does the same go for black then too?
Oh man, you’ve never heard of racism between black people? It’s quite something…
My friend of Haitian origin can’t mention his family is from Haiti when he goes on vacation in the Dominican Republic!
Blacks from Africa hating on blacks from American countries because they’re not true blacks…
Rwanda genocide…
A lot of that is down to colonial meddling, though obviously not all of it.
Asian countries get in on this kind of thing, too. Try being Asian-but-not-Chinese in China or even Singapore.
Or being Korean in Japan… The funny thing is that anthropologists believe that the (non-indigeonous) Japanese actually descended from Koreans.
Seeing as the “one drop rule” is still essentially in effect, yeah basically. Moreover, “white” was never a skin color. Irish people weren’t considered white when they were mass immigrating to the US, and they’re the palest motherfuckers that exist.
It’s all made up.