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I doubt anybody is colonising anyone anymore . Everybody has enough domestic shit going on. But I do feel it has been a good partnership overall as India was c

• PaulHoule 3y ago
  I already have the feeling that people in the U.S. are sorted by ethnicity, even if they are “white.” My wife’s family is Italian and my relatives there are so typecast it seems like a parody. Men work in construction or own pizza restaurants. The women work as hairdressers or schoolteachers. My own family is French Canadian and Polish and the fraction of my cohort who are cops or first responders (even the girls!) is a little scary. (My uncle rose high as a bureaucrat in a city government and it helped that he married into an Irish family which might have been low status overall but was higher status than where he came from.) People from other ethnic groups might think their only options are college professor or reporter for a prestigious newspaper and when they bomb out of that their parents might have more respect for them being a notorious conspiracy Youtuber than if they got one of the above jobs. East asians frequently get it drilled into them from preschool that they are a nobody if they don’t get a professional degree, etc. “Anti-racists. struggle to get to the bottom of “systemic racism” but look closer you see not every white has the same “white privilege” and anyone who tries to go outside the tracks of their family history will find all sort of mysterious ways that they don’t fit in, things go wrong, etc. It is all a mockery of competence, equity, etc. so when i see a new “typecast” is catching on I think that’s automatically a bad thing.