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> make his people more like white Europeans is not lost on me. What’s white about it ?

• rayiner 4y ago
  It reflects attitudes towards gender roles developed by white europeans and imported into their colonies, and exported worldwide through western influence. Which is not a bad thing! These days we tend to talk about race and culture in a weird way, where we ascribe bad things to white Europeans, but pretend like aspects of white European culture we think are good (like attitudes on gender norms or sexuality) transcend culture and are universal truths. In a way, that's more condescending than just saying "Europeans have figured out how to do this particular thing better." I think it's important to be honest. I'm a Bangladeshi who changes diapers and feeds the baby at night because I was raised around people of European descent. Men in my home country overwhelmingly do not do that.
  • foogazi 4y ago
    > It reflects attitudes towards gender roles developed by white europeans and imported into their colonies Bangladesh was not an isolated cultural island, where did they import their current gender role attitudes from ? the real problem of machismo spelled out in the article is not diapers or dishes, but violence against the rights of others Can someone look at the enlightenment and say “white” ?
    • rayiner 4y ago
      > Bangladesh was not an isolated cultural island, where did they import their current gender role attitudes from ? Nearly a millennium of rule by Islamic empires. > Can someone look at the enlightenment and say “white” ? Yes, and far more so than pretty much anything else commonly ascribed to “white people” these days.