Last update: December 16th 2015.
Eurocentricisms are words that centre Western experience, that make White people seem “normal” and good and everyone else strange, exotic or screwed up. Such words get in the way of clear thinking.
In general, use the third person and avoid words that divide the world in half (dichotomous thinking). The world is a coat of many colours. There is no Chosen People, no centre.
Some examples (click on links for further discussion of a particular word):
America – use “US”, “United States” or “North America”. Use “Anglo America” where its counterpart would be Latin America.
backward – a loaded word that makes the West the measure of all. Use “poor” or “non-Western”.
canoe – use “boat” unless you are talking about particular kinds of boats.
chief – use “king”, “ruler”, “leader” or the person’s title. Avoid “chief” since it is rarely applied to Whites. Even Vikings did not have “chiefs”.
civilization – Loaded word. Use “culture”, “society” or “the West” instead.
civilized – use “Western” or “Westernized”.
contribution – use “invention”. Western inventions are just inventions, never “contributions” to China or elsewhere.
developed – puts Western industrialized society at the top of human development. Say “Westernized” or “industrialized” or “rich”.
discovery – White gaze all the way. Avoid.
elders – use their title. No one calls American senators “elders”.
ethnic – everyone is ethnic.
everyone – use “White people”, “Americans”, etc.
exotic – Everyone is exotic and no one is exotic.
freedom – use “freedom for White men.”
God – use “their god”, “the Christian god”, etc.
hut – use “house” unless you are talking about styles of housing.
Indian – prefer “Navajo”, “Iroquois”, etc.
Islamic, Muslim – avoid unless you would use “Christian” for its Western counterpart.
known world – avoid or use “known to the West”, etc.
mainstream – use “White”.
medicine man – use “doctor” where possible. The trouble is that “doctor”, like “hat”, “science” and “soldier”, has been Eurocentricized to mean the Western sort.
Middle East – use “Muslim world” or “Arab world” instead.
minority – on a world scale everyone is a minority. Even in the US, Whites are already a minority in places like California and metropolitan New York.
modern – use “Western” or “Westernized”.
myth – use “story”.
natives – use the name of the ethnic groups in question.
no accent – everyone has an accent.
normal – avoid if it centres Whites, Westerners or any particular group.
our – talk about your society, country, race, ethnic group, etc, in the third person.
progress – use “Westernization”.
regime – use “government”.
regime change – use “imperial intervention”.
savages – use “people”.
settlers – use “invaders”.
science – use “Western science”.
sub-Saharan Africa – racist geography that tries to sound “objective”.
terrorist -Avoid. One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
tribal lands – use “country”.
tribe – use “nation”, “people” or “ethnic group”.
universal – use “Western”.
urban – use “Black”, “Latino”, etc.
village – use “town”, the term for White settlements of the same size.
warrior – use “soldier” or at least “fighter”.
we – always use the third person we talking about a group. See our.
Western values – use “military might”.
world – use “Western world”.
– Abagond, 2013, 2015.
See also:
- style guide:
- racial language – general rules
- Whitespeak
- patterns of thought:
- tips and notes on writing about:
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Abagond, could you categorize this and other posts under something like “the Abagond Style Guide ?”
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the descriptor adjective ghetto is a bit gauche i reckon; however, it does not just apply to black people from my perspective. I guess it is deprecative, regardless of the reflexivity of the context. oxford commas up!
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“mainstream” and “crossover” – code words for white folk-consumers
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What about “ethnic,” i.e., ethnic food. The implication is that there is regular food and everything else is lumped together. But isn’t all food “ethnic?”
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Yes, what about “ethnic”…
like “ethnic music”, meaning “not white”, “not western”. (interchangeable with “world” music in stores, as if “whites” were somehow floating above the “world” for some reason).
Every other thing that is “ethnic” (if we take the definition of it) is every different ethniticity’s thing, INCLUDING European.
The word is used in France, for instance, as a replacement for “race” by racists, so that they cannot be charged with racist behavior.
LePen said “les bandes ethniques” to talk about groups of dark-skinned youth.
So either ethnic is for everyone, or for no one.
Yeah, “ethnic” definitely belong to the list.
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I don’t agree with “Sub-Saharan Africa” being one of those. Many African scholars use it because they don’t want to include “race” in a geographic term: “black Africa”. For instance Ambroise Kom.
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http://motspluriels.arts.uwa.edu.au/MP1400akan.html
An article by Ambroise Kom (a life-long companion of Mongo Beti, a major African writer and activist, who wrote in French but was translated and read more in English than in French) that is well assorted with today’s post.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/04/25/how_can_white_americans_be_free/#comments
Here’s an article on Salon that talks about white being the default.
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Excellent post!
Once we understand (and accept as a fact) that we live under a GLOBAL system of white supremacy/white domination, then we will understand how words are used as weapons to REINFORCE white supremacy/white superiority and to reinforce ‘non-white’ inferiority.
When Non-white people use the same words without understanding how we’re supporting the false concept of white superiority by our use of them and by our passing the words along to the next generation.
This programs non-whites to think illogically and to accept all kinds of other lies about ourselves, most of which have to do with our false inferiority. And that is the most illogical (and insane) thing a person can do
is to believe they are inferior from birth due to the color of their skin, or the shape of their eyes or noses or lips or the texture of their hair
compared to someone (white) whose ONLY claim to fame is USUALLY that they were born “white.”
That is completely, insanely, illogical and a psychologically dangerous way for the NON-WHITE MAJORITY on the planet to think
No wonder it is so easy to dominate, deceive, sex and mistreat us…
Has anyone ever noticed that no matter what city you live in, that the traffic reports on news TV and radio stations always give the whitest side of the city first?
And that diseases that afflict whites more than non-whites are generally addressed public as a generic and general condition
but diseases that afflict blacks more than whites, for example, are portrayed as diseases that afflict blacks more than whites?
These double standard, double speaks are ways of REINFORCING non-white inferiority
@ Abagond
I could not find an email contact for you but I did read on your blog that it was permissible to repost your blog as long as a link is provided to the original content.
I think this post is so useful I am re-posting it on my blog
http://racismws.com
please let me know it this is a problem and if so, I will immediately remove it.
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@ TrojanPam
Feel free to repost so long as you link back or give credit.
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@ Cornlia
Yes, “ethnic” is another one. Everyone is ethnic. It just means you belong to a particular culture. I find it amazing that some people do not understand this;
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@ abagond
thanks, I definitely will
I also want to encourage my readers to check out your blog
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Also, British people who move to another country never refer to themselves as “immigrants. ” Rather, the term “ex-pat” is used which dissassociates them from the negative connotations of being labelled an immigrant.
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Enda,
Excellent observation.
I would like to add “explorers”. They are always “explorers” while everyone else are nomads, invaders or conquerors.
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If we use words like “west” and “western”, is it really wrong to use “Middle East”?
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@ Enda and Darqbeauty,
Both of your comments remind me of my trip to London last summer. While I was visiting a number of museums, I couldn’t help but notice some of the terms they, the museum curators, used to explain how England came to possess the collection of ancient artifacts they had on display. For example, England discovered, acquired, or found them, when, in actuality, England just stole, took, and exploited people for those artifacts.
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miss b,
We have this show in the States (and the UK I believe) called “The Antiques Road Show”. I liked the show but something always bothered me until I came to a realization after watching a particular show. This show featured a woman of European descent in possession of Hopi tribal artifacts. The host doing the evaluating stated that these are impossible to get. They are family heirlooms handed down on BURIED with the family members. That’s when I light bulb went off in my head.
1. These people have generational ill-gotten wealth
2. They are now the conservators of the very cultures they have destroyed
3. The people robbed of said cultures are socio-economically poor.
These things they go to other countries and “find” is in actuality “looting”.
Double speak.
“The pale man speaks with a forked tongue” ~Native American Proverb
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“And that diseases that afflict whites more than non-whites are generally addressed public as a generic and general condition”
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Yes, such as cystic fibrosis and certain forms of skin cancer.
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Reading the last comments made me think of this: in France, when people travel (abroad or at home), they say “I made Egypt” (J’ai fait l’Egypte) as a way to say “I traveled to Egypt”.
Do people also use that verb in English ? I don’t remember hearing it.
I often tell them, no, you didn’t “make” it, you traveled there…
I have always thought it was quite revealing…
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Cystic fibrosis is not the best of example, as very few people have it, even among Euros. It is known because of the Telethon (which we have in France too, to raise money for private foundations, even though -until now- we’ve had a public health system as well as public research).
Its enormous publicity might be what you were pointing to Caffeine.
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@ Cornelia,
I was thinking skin cancers. Every summer they broadcast on the news how important it is to slather your skin in a chemical screen, like pigs to with mud, lest you wind up with skin cancer. They tout this like everyone is at risk to the same degree. This is the “white by default” that you see on mass media everyday. Yes, PoC can and do get skin cancer, but not to their epidemic proportions they seem to be subject to.
Sorry for the tangent Abagond.
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Sorry for all the typos. Eating a tomato, basil and mozzarella sandwich with pesto and balsamic with one hand and typing with the other. I ain’t letting go of this sandwich though! lol
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You are right darqbeauty.
And the skin cancers Afros- get from using clearing and whitening creams and all kinds of stuffs are never mentioned if one doesn’t look at “other” media…
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Oh Abagond, this made me think of something that’s not lexicon, but more about objects that express Eurocentrism.
I have been aware of that for as long as I can remember, even though I was not concerned with them, but to me it just wasn’t “normal” (but it was for most people).
Mind you, it does enter your list, now that I think about it:
The “color” labels you find on clothes:
– “natural”,
– “skin”, in French “chair” which normally means “flesh” (is it used in English? don’t remember) so it should be red, but it is beige colored.
There probably are other terms that refer to actually NOT white skin but beige skin… (the proof that we know we are not “white”…)
Also, in France (I have never seen those in the US, but they may exist – I never checked) there are small and expensive boxes of band aid that, FINALLY, are made for dark-skinned people, featuring very dark brown and dark brown band aids. I bought boxes for my nieces and nephews and kept the lighter brown for my son.
This is something most people classified as white NEVER think about…
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@ Cornelia,
Here in the States, everything is “flesh” toned. But guess for whose flesh? Because it sure isn’t mine.
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Thanks for the detail Darqbeauty. This makes things even more interesting… Flesh is supposed to be what’s inside, right ? Muscles ?…
Hmm, so “white-thinking” people imagine themselves as having no blood ? I wonder if there have been sociological studies on that very point…
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The term of preference seems to be “nude”. Or how about “normal hair” on countless shampoo & conditioner bottles, I still don’t really know what that means, I can guess though. I found it hilarious when Jergens(I think) was airing a body lotion commercial, the product contained a tanning agent and gave a pearlescent sheen, the voice over talked about making your skin appear “healthier” and more beautiful, I laughed like a jackal because I knew that wasn’t going to survive on TV and it didn’t. Saw it like once more and that was it!
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Developed, my heineken! The Western nations took resources that didn’t belong to them and that’s how they became wealthy. I’m sorry…I mean, developed!
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Great post. I am enlightened today.
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Eurocentric code words. I will learn to never assume that westernize means that it’s better.
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@darqbeauty, yes, you re right about the artefcts in the British Museum. There’s a big hoopla right now between Britain and Greece over Greek Marbles and ownership. And it’s funny that Brits hate to apply the word “immigrant” to themselves because it denotes escaping country of origin for better living conditions… Meanwhile Brits are leaving England in droves due to the poor quality of life. We have the smallest sub standard houses in western Europe, highest teen pregnancies and drinking problems, overpriced, late, dirty, crowded trains, stale food , small portions in grocery stores…big gap between rich and poor. It’s nothing like Downtown Abbey. Very few English people lived like that…..
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Nailed it!
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[…] Eurocentricisms are words that centre Western experience, that make white people seem "normal" and everyone else strange, exotic or screwed up. Such words get in the way of clear thinking. In gener… […]
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[…] Eurocentricisms are words that centre Western experience, that make white people seem "normal" and everyone else strange, exotic or screwed up. Such words get in the way of clear thinking. In gener… […]
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[…] Eurocentricisms are words that centre Western experience, that make white people seem "normal" and everyone else strange, exotic or screwed up. Such words get in the way of clear thinking. In gener… […]
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@ enda
It’s interesting you mention that. I’ve met quite a few westerners (including Brits) living abroad and there is also a class divide involved as to whether people refer to themselves as ex-pats or not. For example, I do not consider myself one because I was not placed in all these countries by my company with all moving costs, housing, healthcare and paperwork taken care of by them so I can live in a comfy little bubble without mingling with the locals.
@ Cornlia
I’ve never heard anyone say `I made X country’ in English, but I’ve heard `I did X country.’ As if it were some minor task on a checklist.
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Oh man, darqbeauty and enda…
your comments just awoke my anger…
On the Hopi sacred (because buried -thanks for the info– objects): just two weeks ago, a French judge authorized the sale of -yet other ?- Hopi “masques” at an auction in Paris. Let me paste the links to the articles.
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/9135
When I read the judge’s “justification” for his “justice”, it made me want to throw up. These racists have lost their soul. And it is still going on after 400 years.
And about the British museum’s (and other museums in the world, I always wonder what Greece and Egypt (and everywhere else) would look like if everything that was stolen was returned ! -the argument is always that “you won’t be able to preserve them from decay”-) Greek statuary.
I learnt in “The History of White People” by Nell Irvin Painter that in the 19th century, an art historian (I think he was German but not sure) asked for the statues to be SCRATCHED to show their supposed original WHITENESS. He thought the marble was originally white like the marble of Italian copies of Greek statues. So they damaged some of the statues until they realized that the marble was naturally dark and greyish… These idiots are so obsessed with their “whiteness” (they even think they are “white” like snow !) that they want to look like statues. I wonder what they would think now after it was re-discovered that the Greek used to paint everything in bright colors (as was the case in the Middle Ages too, supposedly the “dark ages”, which were not racist like the “Enlightment” age which actually invented it…).
According to Painter, it was just one British who “bought” (he did, but for very little as the British kinda controlled the place, if I remember well) most of the Greek artifacts from Greece, because at the time nobody really cared, and the subsequent Greek “revival” craze made his purchase extremely valuable. I don’t remember how it ended up in the British museum.
Also, Camper (a Swiss -most of these guys were protestants -Calvinists and Cie- and capitalists), one of the taxonomists that attempted to classify humans into races by “skull” after the 17th and -mostly- 18th naturalists, chose to use a Greek statue head in the place of a “European’s” head to represent the perfection of European beauty in one of his drawings…
And then there are people who wonder why I refuse to use racial terminology ? Isn’t it obvious ?
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Just wondering Abagond, what is it in my previous comments that triggered moderation ?
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@Cornlia, funny you should say that. The most neutral name for that color I encountered (in acrylic paint), is Naples Yellow Red, and indeed, one can mix it quite well from red yellow and a bit of white (and brown). Yes, I do change the skin colours of miniature figures quite often.
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This one is a standard that not even pro black or afrocentist want to question “west” and “western” for white european culture and people.
Africa is part of the western hemisphere and extends farther west than europe.
but they get to claim an entire hemisphere.
“These racists have lost their soul.”
the concept of souls is yet another myth…..
“These idiots are so obsessed with their “whiteness” (they even think they are “white” like snow !) that they want to look like statues.”
Maybe because the way they truly look is very painful (ugly) even to themselves and they have little to gain and much to lose if they admit it.
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The way I look is okay to me Mbeti 😉 ! I have never called, seen, defined or been brought up thinking I’m “white”.
“Soul” is a way to express things… Reading that “judge” decided on whether another people’s things are sacred or not is what prompted this. I wonder what he would think if Hopi people came and took stuff from the ground of Cathedrale Notre Dame and brought them back home to “protect” them.
I have read more elaborate comments from you at other times… 😉
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Hello to all! I am new here (I’ve been lurking for a month now)
I just want to say to abagond – I love your blog! It’s one of the best I’ve been to 🙂
In regards to this topic, this blog post made me think of one of the code words that I hate the most when referring to the biggest Black celebrities. They often get the honor of being distinguished as “transcending race”, as if Blackness is something one must transcend in order to be great and widely cherished
I’ve never heard this term applied to White person. Nope, just people of African descent and every time this term is used in the media it goes unchecked, even by most progressive blogs
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Abagond, in relation to “ethnic”, I don’t think anyone mentioned it:
“ethnic conflicts”… sometimes “ethnic wars” for refer to “others”, because European wars were somehow (by the operation of the holy spirit, probably) not “ethnic”.
All the way to the edge of “official Europe”: Yugoslavia… the “ethnic” ones were the Muslim Europeans who have lived in Europe for ever: Bosnians, Kosovars and the like.
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@Cornlia How about, “She’s kind of ethnic looking.” *eyeroll* Is anyone NOT “ethnic looking” ? We all have ethnicity, right? And we probably look like it?
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@Cornlia
India has been demanding the return of the Kohinoor diamond (currently adorning the racist queen mother’s crown), the Sultanganj Buddha (re-named by colonizers as the Birmingham Buddha), numerous limestone carvings (dating back to 100 A.D) and idols of Hindu gods and goddesses (among many, many other ancient items). Of course, the British govt. has no intention of giving any of these stolen artifacts back. The eurocentrism could not be more blatantly clear, because apparently Brit law only permits the the return of objects lost during the Nazi era. Reminds me of how obsessively we are taught that the Holocaust was an absolute crime against humanity, while slavery, imperialism and colonial genocide are merely footnotes to Western “development”.
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Wow, thanks for the info Siah.
I’m starting to wonder if I am not going to start some sort of association to “lobby” on this. Seriously. I wonder when this unbalance of power will finally be titled back. It will happen, not in our lifetime, it will, but we (people labelled as white who understand how things work) need to be much more aggressive with our same-looking fellow citizens. Everytime I hear about such a thing, I write to the “authorities” (I’m preparing to write to the French judge ^) but that’s obviously far from enough.
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I must say I love the Eurocentric cuss words. That is one of the few good things they have ever created! The others are the National Enquirer and fish and chips with gravy on the side! Oh I forgot, Kolbassa on a baguette!~
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White folks speak in code, informed black people know better. As black people, why do we continue to call ourselves a minority and colored. Tyrone is part of the majority on this planet, and is of African descent. Black people…Stop The Insanity!!!
Ty
realhistoryww.com
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I don’t like the phrase people of color.
It tries to create this false unity of all non-white people. Africans, Asians, and Hispanics( many of which are whiter than some white people) are too different to lump under people of color. We don’t even experience racism the same way.
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Every one is “of color” anyway, solesearch.
It was just a phrase to put self-and-so-called “white” people outside of the human realm, somehow placing them above it. As I mentioned in another thread (can’t remember which, maybe Is sub-saharan racist), 19th century taxonomists and other “scientists” sometimes even replaced the head of the “European” in their sketches (Camper) with the head of a Greek statue (thinking that they were “white” and represented the ultimate beauty of Man, as looking to Greece and Rome as “origins” of the modern European man was fashionable at that time).
And it also does what you’re saying.
“D’une pierre deux coups”, as we say in French. (Of one stone two strikes)
At the same time, racist lexicon separate and falsely “unifies”. Very clever. Not easy to escape. That’s why I don’t use it with the rest of the list.
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As to language period As a african american – a population who had its culture deliberately stripped away, all I know is the english forced apon me.
But as to their/our “cuss” words its becomes very troubling and confusing when whenever your hurt and angry basically your most extreme insults involve some sort of perverted sexual activity with the one who hurt and/or angered you ,as in
The near universal F–k you : meaning have sex unfairly and harshly with…really naa just go away
related to motherf–ker,
but no fatherf–ker??brother,sister,son,daughter etc…
kiss my a**: meaning obvious, and exactly who do you expect to do that outside of sex??
suck my dick :have oral sex with me…
bastard :fatherless child…. and its the childs fault??
bitch :female that is difficult and/or abusive…
rhymes with switch,hitch,ditch,cliche,witch and of course itch ,some coincidence
son of bitch :again who’s fault is it if you don’t like my mother…
BTW
why do white,might,light,spite,right and height rhyme??
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“solesearch
I don’t like the phrase people of color.
It tries to create this false unity of all non-white people. Africans, Asians, and Hispanics( many of which are whiter than some white people) are too different to lump under people of color. We don’t even experience racism the same way.”
I agree with the above….
Cornlia
Every one is “of color” anyway, solesearch.
It was just a phrase to put self-and-so-called “white” people outside of the human realm, somehow placing them above it.”
or below it, and while its true that white is a color ,the meaning of people of color as apposed to white may come from peoples sense that while all people have color,white people have less skin pigmentation which means biologically a “lack of color”.
Cornlia
The way I look is okay to me Mbeti 😉 ! I have never called, seen, defined or been brought up thinking I’m “white”.
As opposed to the millions of dark skin and black people who are so convinced their skin is ugly that they try to bleach it white, Michael Jackson being the most famous example.
I see many whites so secure in their privilege hegemony (my hypothesis) that they have seemingly no impulse to modify any aspect of their appearance and numerous black people who are just the opposite and they are without exception trying to look “white”…
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Mbeti, there is a difference between being “secure” or “okay” I’d rather say in that case with who I am (the way I was born, and the way I look), which is simply a fact of nature, and being “secure in (my) secure privilege hegemony”… The second I reject and fight against, because I do not consider it fair (to every one who has to deal with it) and it is not natural at all, as the political concept that I consider it is.
And yes, of course, whiteness as an “outside of the human realm” is “below it”, but racists *think* it’s above. I guess you understood that’s what I meant. But your precision was probably necessary, as racism is a deeply dehumanizing process.
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Herneith writes:
“I must say I love the Eurocentric cuss words.”
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Yeah, I right there with on that! I can cuss like a sailor, and enjoy doing so too. 🙂
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LoL
Correction: “I’m right there with you on that!”
(cussing might be my forte, but typing and editing aren’t)
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I never use terms such as “minority, people of color, etc.
If I am referring to ppl who are not white collectively, I call them “non-whites.”
If I am referring to a specific group, race, ethnicity, I use the proper term. E.g Cree (specific) or Native Americans/First Nations (general)
PS. In Canada, they use a cringe worthy term, “Visible Minority”.
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How is the term “subsaharan” racist?
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@ louiejacuzzi
There is a post on that:
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@ resw77
I added “ethnic”. Thanks.
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Legion,
I think the phrase is lazy. I think it would only serve to muddle discussion. It’s hard for me to see an instance when the term people of color would be useful. It allows for inaccurate thinking. It creates a false dichotomy of non-white and white.
Bulanik, thanks!
However, I don’t see much benefit in creating a “minority” women’s agenda. I would have told those other women to submit their own agenda. I don’t see how the agenda for Asian women would be any more similar to the Black women’s agenda than the white woman’s agenda.
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“It creates a false dichotomy of non-white and white.”
The term “white supremacy” imposes the view white vs not or non-white or people of color vs no color,non color mon-color ,whiteness.
One could use more accurate and specific words and definitions but such approach may trade off familiarity and ease of expression.
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Some of these are good, however some deny identity and cultural structures which are diverse, for example my Nigerian wife’s mother goes home to her ” but the “village” where she farms but the market is in the Town, the structure of her “village” ( her word not mine) is dependent on the “elders” again her word and it is a mark of respect, to be in the “Elders” who make decisions for the village. There is nothing wrong with this system and it works. Western Europe had similar systems in the past and is poorer for having lost them. We should not be afraid to learn from non Westernised Cultures before they are destroyed by MTV. the non “European cultures” and i do not just mean geographically will find their own solutions and we in European cultures should be ready to learn because they might avoid the sam mistakes that we made
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I suggest you add the word “fair” to this list.
The word fair subconciously associates the concepts of:
– justice, “Fair Trial”
– reasonableness, “Fair Price”
– beauty, “Fair Lady”
– celebration, “The State Fair”
– accuracy, “Fair Assessment”
with the concept of whiteness.
This term should be avoided, unless specifically referencing skin color of a person.
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I think it is NOT by accident that the English usage of slavery has not differentiated the African nightmare in the ‘New World’. Chattel slavery is an extreme euphemistic misnomer that does not begin to describe the UNIQUE sadistic form of slavery the world has ever known. Does the euphonic sounding word, colonialism conjure up the unparalleled grand theft, the world has ever known ,serial raping, sadistic and cruel destruction and subjugation of BLLIONS of people on the planet’s continents? The innocuousness of slavery in the American context and colonialism attests to the white/ European experience that hurting other people is a good thing.
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sorry for incorrect grammar and typos
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