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Is US pop-culture racial discourse really the arbiter of truth for discussions on HN? I understand that it can appear slightly confusing to people here in the u
by bostonsre 6y ago
Is US pop-culture racial discourse really the arbiter of truth for discussions on HN? I understand that it can appear slightly confusing to people here in the united states, but over a billion people who you don't consider asian, refer to themselves as asian.
- imbnwa 6y ago"US pop-culture racial discourse" is a generous way of representing the de facto racial caste system in America as some kind of consensus. Because people get browner the further southwest in Asia you go, a distinction is made. Though its most fascinating that in America only recent immigrants would be referred to as European-American, if not their by their specific ethnicity, even though the majority of the country is European-descent; they're called "white" instead. "White" is a racial caste designation, European indicates a person descends from the people in a specific place on Earth; "white" is not a place on Earth. And yet everyone who is not white gets referred to by where they're ancestors are from