Whitespeak is English as used by White and Whitewashed people. You see it on Fox News and in The Economist. It is noticeably different than the Standard English taught at school and recorded in dictionaries.
Some examples where Whites do not use words with their dictionary meanings:
- All-American / American / British / Canadian, etc – White people.
- ghetto (adj) – said of Black culture not approved by Whites.
- cool (adj) – said of Black culture approved by Whites.
- urban – Black.
- inner city – scary Black neighbourhoods.
- War on Drugs – War on Black People.
- War on Terror – War of Terror.
- nation building – nation destroying.
- the police are just doing their job – the police are just terrorizing Black people.
- let the process work – let the police get away with murder.
- wait till the facts are in – wait till the police investigate themselves.
- police investigation – police cover-up.
- soft on crime – not keeping Black people in their place.
- Black-on-Black crime / just obey the law – police brutality is not a big deal.
- no angel / no saint – deserved to be brutalized by police.
- savages / terrorists / thugs – people who stand up to White violence are the bad guys.
- thug – 1. The N-word. 2. Blacks as naturally violent. 3. Deserved to die for being Black.
- savage / native – someone whose land is being stolen.
- settler / pioneer / colonist – someone who is stealing land.
- terrorist – 1. A Muslim who kills White people. 2. A non-state actor who uses violence to oppose Western interests.
- freedom fighter – a non-state actor who uses violence to further Western interests.
- freedom – freedom for White men.
- the free world – the American empire.
- regime – an anti-American government.
- democracy – a pro-American government.
- spreading democracy – American imperialism. See democracy.
- justice system – injustice system.
- progress – that which furthers White or US (business) interests.
- truth / myth / history – as determined by White universities and the White press.
- racist – 1. Someone who uses the N-word or joins the Klan. 2. A Black person who points out White racism.
- whitey – a racist slur about Whites used to put down Blacks by putting it in their mouths to make them seem racist.
- Some of my best friends are Black / it was just a joke / I’m not racist, but … – do not call out my racism.
- sorry – sorry that you are oversensitive.
- playing the race card / Martin Luther King / get over it – shut up, racism does not affect me so I do not care.
- hard-working Americans / taxpayers – White people. Blacks are lazy.
- gated community / nice neighbourhood / a good place to raise kids – segregated, lily-White neighbourhood.
- proper English – White English, especially as a sign of intelligence and education as measured by standardized tests.
- No problemo – improper Spanish, not as a sign of lacking intelligence, but of not being (ew) Mexican.
- Where are you really from? – You are not really American, Canadian, etc.
- You are pretty for a Black girl – White women are the standard of beauty.
- You’re not like other Blacks – most of what I know about Black people comes from television and racist Whites.
- I don’t see you as Black – Black people make me uncomfortable.
- Why can’t I use the N-word? – I am racist.
– Abagond, 2015.
See also:
lol he said ghetto heh heh heh …wait for it and inner city i thought it was inner urban, because the first one implies also downtown, and that’s always different…
i have been talking white a lot, hmmm i favor errybody these days that’s about it
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or non-american southern
*See supra!
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Abagond, I took the liberty to correct this particular definition:
settler / pioneer / colonist –
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because white people see themselves as “colonist/settlers/pioneers”
and not as the thieves that their ancestors truly were
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Lord of Mirkwood,
so are you saying that when the media or white people talk about “settlers / pioneers / colonist’s” — they are NOT speaking about Irish immigrants?
that Irish people are EXCLUDED from the definition of settlers, pioneers, and colonists?
(and please remember, the Irish were in the America’s before the mass immigration periods in the 1800s)
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Great list and precise list, Abagond!
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oh yeah now i remember i guess to be uber leftist or liberal or something? you can say and i don’t say the *-word as in ‘wildcard’ it’s an operating system guy kind of thing, and it would mean from a position of derision, ad hominem, or otherwise uncalled for annoyance
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it’s so tempteing as you are (as i was) you know called that particular word and everything it’s part of the e-ticket hood pass system
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In response to Linda, Lord of Mirkwood said: “Your words are a slap in the face to Irish immigrants who suffered horrible deprivations at the hands of the WASP elites, and are still (!) stereotyped as foolish drunkards.”
So, … how does your post negate what Linda posted? Furthermore, the Irish people came to Amerikkka willingly and upon their own volition as indentured servants. Black Americans, … hhmmm, … not so much. Blacks as we all know by now, were forced against their own will and sold by Africans, Arabs, the Catholic church and a host of other feeble minded Europeans. Irish Americans were NOT slaves, the Irish woman wasn’t raped, they were not forcibly removed from Ireland, they were not shackled, their culture and language were not destroyed, nor did they have a yoke applied around their neck and made to wallow in their own feces and urine within the darkened hull of a slave ship on a two-months journey to Amerikkka over the ocean.
The Emancipation Proclamation was announced in September 1862 but not enacted until January 1863. In 1863, The New York City Draft Riots took place on executive order from Pres. Lincoln. If you made less than $300.00 per year, you had to join the military. Irish Americans took offense to this and attack African Americans in the street and burned what little businesses they had after the Proclamation went into effect. Their argument was that they were not going to fight a war for Negroes. The Irishman has never been a friend of blacks nor have they suffered the same fate as the black man in Amerikkka.
I told you a mere week ago, your posts have the stench of INSINCERITY and I’m going to prove it from here on out.
In summary, the Irish being stereotyped as foolish drunkards aren’t that bad after all. I implore you to STOP with your nonsense before I further embarrass you!
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Daniel 9:11-12 12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
Here you go Lord of Mirkwood. This Bible passage alone proves that no other group on the planet has suffered more than God’s own people, us blacks here in Amerikkka. Sorry ’bout that, get information together!
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That’s a good list. I like how the war on terror is really the war of terror. The drug war is really a war against non whites and specifically attacks the black family.
Maybe Lord of Mirkwood is playing the oppression Olympics. Its not that what happened to the Irish doesn’t matter rather its what is happening today that is important.
The Scotch Irish were the same kind of predators as the English. On my moms side the Wallace’s came to America in 1734 from Ulster Ireland and did quite well. My great, great grandfather owned a family in Liberty Mo. so its not that far detached and the effects of slavery has left a wound on our nations soul that has yet to heal. My great grandfather came from Ireland in the 1890’s and his life was a bit harder but nothing like what blacks had to endure.
Yes its true that the English shit on the Irish, had coffin ships and tried to destroy their identity through outlawing their language and raping their women. But here in America the Irish became assimilated fairly quickly and to be part Irish today is looked at as cool.
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OFF TOPIC: Irish Americans.
You can discuss them here:
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I’ve been following this lovely blog for years now and I’m making my first comment/post ever. Typing that perplexes me as I don’t know why that is. But out of the slew off “spot on” posts this one NAILS it. I just had a healthy chuckle because it’s so accurate.
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That was beautiful. It managed to be pithy, funny, and pretty much the truth.
A few that came to mind:
Riot – Any protest with more blacks present than whites
Right to bear arms – right for police to assume every black person is armed and dangerous
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@Abagond
The Economist? Never been there. Thanks for the warning.
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I disagree with “inner city” and “ghetto” being purely whitespeak terms. One of the most poignant songs which was an anthem of black struggle in the 70’s was Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues”. The local independent Rap label created by Bay Area Rap pioneers in my old neighborhood in Oceanview San Francisco was called Inner City records and all of the rappers and producers on the label were black. And “inner city” is defined as an older part of the city populated mostly by poor minorities. The term “ghetto” has been embraced with pride by many black people who actually grew up there in recent decades. The term “ghetto fabulous” was originally coined by black folks.
Some terms that have been recently hijacked from black culture by white people to put it down in these respects are words like “ratchet”. I haven’t heard a black person use that term in a few years. “Ratchet” was a local dance originating in black communities in Louisiana after rapper Lil Boosie created a local hit song called “Do the Ratchet” sometime in the mid to late 2000’s. After a while, “ratchet” became a term to describe anything this article would describe as “ghetto” by white people. Popular black-oriented gossip sites like mediatakeout exploited this word in the early 2010’s to describe any stereotypical black behavior seen as unsavory, low-class and ridiculous.
Nowadays, the only people I hear using the word “ratchet” are usually young suburban white kids who like to hang out at Starbucks and mock other races, particularly “ratchet” black people, around their monoracially white groups of friends. This is because young white people have come to label anything associated with poor black people as “ratchet” culture. Some of the most visible cheerleaders of cultural appropriation in “ratchet culture” are Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber:
http://www.racialicious.com/2013/04/09/lets-get-ratchet-check-your-privilege-at-the-door/
As a matter of fact, if you Twitter search #ratchet it is mostly young suburban whites using the term. And it is not being used in a positive light. One of the tweets written by what looks like to be a young white man says “Why do people TALK SO LOUD, If I can hear you talking outside from in my car and there’s a bus next to me… Shut up! #lol #ratchet”. Or another which also appears to be a young white woman tweeting “Only in jersey does someone get arrested at a party city #RATCHET”.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ratchet&src=typd
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Sorry ’bout that Abagond, I just had to get some stuff off of my chest. By the way, your list regarding Whitespeak is quite accurate.
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@SanFranpsycho415
Once again, you’ve completely missed the point. The terms “inner city” and “ghetto” were not invented in reference to black people, but they are NOW used by modern white American society (including the media) in the manners Abagond described in the article. So it’s not the terms, it’s how they’re used by white Americans that matters. Therefore bringing up how Marvin Gaye or some local rap group used those terms is irrelevant.
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I saw this article concerning Whitespeak: http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/11/11/the-n-word-updated-6-code-words-or-terms-that-often-mean-the-same-thing/
Abagond, you already covered the first two. The other four are:
State’s Rights
During the Civil Rights Movement, politicians used racially coded appeals and words such as “state’s rights” to try and capitalize on the racial anxiety during that time.
Welfare and Food Stamps
When President Lyndon Johnson wanted welfare to include a racial component, it became possible to associate welfare with helping minorities. The same stigma is used with food stamps today. When Newt Gingrich called Obama “the food stamp” president, everyone knew what word he really was using.
Law and Order
During the Civil Rights Movement, the opposition said that “Law and Order” was needed to handle the racial tension and civil rights protests. In other words, we need to control the Blacks.
Cut taxes
Making the poor and people of color sound more threatening, cutting taxes has long been racial code for not using tax payer money to help Black and brown people.
One day, combined with your Economist-posting, and others, you could publish it as a little dictionary
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Abagond.
“inner city – scary Black neighbourhoods.”
What term would you think is preferable..?
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@Abagond,
I see two different types of terminology conflated as being the same. Sure many whites use coded or loaded language to signify Black such as, “urban” or “native” (truthfully I’ve never heard any whites other than on TV use the term “thug” for Black). But some of the terms like “justice system” aren’t used as code for anything. It doesn’t matter that whites and Black view the justice system differently, when whites speak about the justice system they aren’t coding to each other.
Some whites may use coded language when discussing Black topics and that language could be classified by you as “whitespeak”, I don’t see how language that isn’t coded or loaded could be called “whitespeak”. For instance,in conversation with whites I’ve have never heard anyone use the words “war on drugs” to mean “war on black people”. Most whites aren’t aware enough of life in poor black neighborhoods to make that connection, assuming there is a connection.
Perhaps two lists would make more sense. The first list would be those words that you think whites use as code language to signify to each other and the second list would be terms that you have applied a different definition than the ones applied by whites.
It should be noted that many of the terms and the double meanings you list above are really only used in sophisticated upper-middle class white society. It’s how they talk to each other about Black people or when in mixed company. And American media outlets generally reflect upper-middle class white taste and therefore reflect their sensibilities in use of language. Working-class whites don’t code as much to each other in private white only conversation and anyway they aren’t sophisticated or self-hating enough to connect terms like “colonist” to “land stealer”.
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I’ve looked askance at the term “All-American” for quite some time…this is one reason why Almay’s “All-American Beauty” commercial for their line of cosmetics has made me cringe from day one.
Oh that’s right…what I say here will be overlooked! Move along, then – nothing to see here.
😀
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To Lord of Milkwood:
“@Uncle Milton
I think Abagond’s point here is that “inner city” might be even worse, since it obscures the intentions and beliefs of the speaker.”
Ok.. so what word or term would you use…?
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@ SanFranpsycho415
I agree with resw77. The Black usage does not matter, at least not directly.
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@ Uncle Milton
Not sure what you mean. If you mean “Black neighbourhoods” or “rough neighbourhoods” or “the poor parts of the city” or “places with high crime”, then just say that. “Inner city” is used as if there are no Whites living between the suburbia and the business district. At least in the case of New York, that is just not true. Even in Baltimore, which has become a poster child for “urban ills” (Whitespeak for “Black poverty”), that is not true. “Inner city” presents itself as neutrally geographical, but it is just a coded way to talk about Black people that Whites find comfortable.
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#facts. the subtext of our language is the subtext of our lives. So much unlearning.. so much learning.
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I don’t understand why it’s so hard for white people to acknowledge that their unconscious actions are in fact racist.
As a Eurasian that passes as white, the only thing I need to really do is look at how my brother is treated, as opposed to me, to see that white privilege is actual a real thing; if anything white privilege allows me to get seen as an individual rather than a stereotype.
I would gladly give up my white privilege if it meant that my brother or other people in my family would be able to live happy, safe lives free from violence, generalizations, stereotyping, discrimination and other micro aggressions…. which are comparatively little, but I know for a fact that 60 years ago their physical safety would actually have been endangered.
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But not all “ghetto” areas are even black. Out here in Maryland, there are white ghetto areas in and outside of Baltimore city. They formed the same way as black ghetto neighborhoods. Poor whites from Appalachia moved to Baltimore neighborhoods like Hampden to work in factories before they shutdown just like how blacks moved from the South to work in such factories. Where I’m from in the Bay Area, there are majority Latino and Asian inner city areas. Latinos in the gentrifying San Francisco Mission district refer to it as the “Latin ghetto”. Are they wrong for that because they’re not black?
If you can’t use the term “ghetto” or “inner city” what the hell do you call those areas? Some of you place to much validity on the ideas of white people who could care less about you.
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@SanFranpsycho415,
Seriously, do white people mean the poorer working class white neighborhoods when they use the word “ghetto”? I never heard that in MD and I grew up in DC and PG county and southern MD where you could find poorer working class white neighborhoods, including the ones full of those Appalachia-descended people. They (ie, middle-class white people) use a lot of other different words to refer to those neighborhoods. But “ghetto” meant the rougher, and sometimes not so rough black (and very occasionally the Latino) neighborhoods, not the white “ghetto” areas.
And when it is used as an adjective to describe cultural attributes, do you seriously mean that middle-class white people use “ghetto” to refer to the culture in poorer white neighborhoods? Don’t they use another term, even “low class”?
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I can recall White kids at the high school I attended speaking on several predominately white high schools as being “ghetto”. One time I overheard a White kid tell his school buddies who were White, Asian and Latino that a particular high school in the White suburbs was “ghetto” and I interjected by saying there’s a high school in Compton that’s totally trailer trash. You should’ve seen the White kid’s face – it was bloodshot red! That moment told me that White people can’t accept what they dish out. I love playing boomerang. I’m teaching my sons how to play boomerang (when necessary).
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The first time i saw the noticed the word “urban” was back in the day from Columbia House Music Company and the description for the different genres of music. The word “urban” was used to describe the black music artist. Then there is the “uban dictionary” when people want to understand what popular slang words mean. How different groups use language and the context in which it is used is an interesting study.
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***Urban Dictionary****
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In an interesting article written by Howard Bryant he said terms like “inner city,” “urban” and “underserved populations” serving as code that encapsulates Black America only as something that requires saving – by the government, by the committed wealthy or by the individual talent of a great jumper.
Let’s be honest, White Americans view the “ghetto” or “inner city” as an inhumane underworld where single Black mothers, Black drug dealers, Crips and Bloods, street pimps and hookers, and deadbeat Black fathers reside. White people are the #1 consumers of propaganda.
Thanks to helpful information and knowledge, I’m no longer surprised by White people’s perception of Black people and their community. By knowing all of this I can properly combat the White collective thinking.
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@ SanFranpsycho415
“Latin ghettos” are considered barrios by the Latino commmunity. This I know. When people, particularly White people, think of East L.A. they don’t think of Los Angeles’ east region – they think of poor neighborhoods of Mexicans. Barrio, favelas, and ghettos are defined as poverty-stricken areas (basically, slums) of a particular demographic (usually Black or Brown people).
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@ Abagond
I would love to see you post an article on Western terms (racist or not) that describe White and Black people.
Examples:
1. Orthognathism (White people’s lower face) and Prognathism (Black people’s lower face)
2. Callipygian (White women’s buttocks) and Steatopygia (Black women’s buttocks)
3. Pheomelanin (White people’s skin) and Eumelanin (Black people’s skin)
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In light of the Dylann Roof massacre (and also James Holmes and Adam Lanza), I have another one:
Mentally Ill: white terrorist or mass murderer
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^^^ Yup.
Copied here from the Dylan Roof thread:
@ Origin
Great link!
Excellent examples of Whitespeak that that article pointed out:
“a possible terrorist” – violence by Muslim people is systemic.
“we don’t know his mental condition”, “one hateful person”, “lone wolf” – violence by White people is NOT systemic.
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FWIW, Lone Wolf terrorist is a term used by the law enforcement in the US, it does not necessarily mean that the incident is isolated:
The term certainly seems to apply to Dylan Roof
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_wolf_(terrorism)#Current_usage
The term “lone wolf” is used by US law enforcement agencies and the media to refer to individuals undertaking violent acts of terrorism outside a command structure. The FBI and San Diego Police’s investigation into Curtis’ activities was named Operation Lone Wolf, “largely due to Curtis’ encouragement of other white supremacists to follow what Curtis refers to as ‘lone wolf’ activism”.
While the lone wolf acts to advance the ideological or philosophical beliefs of an extremist group, they act on their own, without any outside command or direction. The lone wolf’s tactics and methods are conceived and directed solely on their own; in many cases, such as the tactics described by Curtis, the lone wolf never even has personal contact with the group they identify with. As such, it is considerably more difficult for counter-terrorism officials to gather intelligence on lone wolves, since they may not come into contact with routine counter-terrorist surveillance.
Adam Lanza and Aaron Alexis both seemed mentally ill (and were taking psychotropic medication) unclear with James Holmes.
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@abagond.
Yes, I though it was a good read too. Whitespeak is a form of “loaded language”. It’s almost instictive that they won’t readily call a white man a terrorist especially if he did not target whites.
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“Developed countries” Countries run by white people.
“Developing countries” Countries in sync with American foreign policy.
“Rouge Nation”. A country that rejects American interference.
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Allow me to add another definition for one of those:
“Developing countries”: Former European colonies trying to recover from their depredation
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@ Kiwi
You’re absoultely right. I’ve debated a lot of Japanese-Americans who have similar ideologies as the White supremacist. There’s one internet troll named takfam07 – who claims to be a Japanese-American from Hawaii – who loves using African-Americans and Asian-Americans as “polar opposites”. According to the troll, takfam07, Black people have yet to make the “one leap forward” into human advancement, whereas Asians and Whites are contantly moving forward in the competitive era of modern technology. His mission is to align Asians with Whites and Blacks with anything primitive. White guys, like Biff, would probably agree with him.
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Well said Kiwi, Origin
At what time do you think the Japanese became “honorary whites”. Within the last 20 years ?
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the dark continent – Africa, the continent that gets the most sun.
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@Kiwi
Your second to last post reminds me of a chapter of Marimba Ani’s book Yurugu. I was in agreement with quite a bit of what she wrote because she took what we observe and experience about white/European cultural behavior and stitched it into one soldiers’ garment.
Excerpts from Chap 9
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The “idea of progress” as it is euphemistically referred to by Europeans provides an essential dynamic of the main thrust of European ideology. The idea is a fundamental aspect of the European philosophy of life, providing moral justification for the technical order and giving supposed direction to the strivings of individuals within society. […] it’s effects have been powerful, though most often subtle and have spread to ther cultures. […]
In the setting of European culture, the parochial nature and ideological significance of the idea of progress is difficult to discuss. In the classroom, the attempt to present the idea as being culturally bound is met with blank stares. “What do you mean? Everyone wants to make progress!” […]
The critical conceptual leap is that by which action directed toward a concrete objective becomes confused with change that is merely reflexive, i.e, in which the object is change itself. The “progress” toward which Europeans perceive themselves to be “moving” is neither concrete nor reachable – a spurious goal indeed. Why then has the idea such an attraction for the European mind – a mind that is at once rationalistic and empirical, a mind which seems to say, “Show me?” The answer lies in the fact that this ingenious invention – “progress” born out of the European utamaroho [collective personality] – is ideally fashioned to encourage the growth of the technical order while justifying cultural and political imperialism.
We have said that Europeans are expansionistic. To Europeans the universe represents actual physical space into which they can impose themselves. Their movement in this respect is never from place to place (they are no longer nomads); it is not displacement, but extension. They expand and extend their possessions, never relinquishing territory they have claimed. They never migrate, but always conquer and consume. By this process they themselves become “bigger”. The idea of progress allows for the same kind of movement and extension. Conceptually, “progressive” motion consumes all of the past within it, and “progress” is not merely “different from”, it is “more than”. The idea is, in this way, essentially expansionistic. […]
We have said that the European self-image requires an “inferior” to which it relates as “superior”. The idea of progress helps to explain to Europeans in what way they are superior. They believe, and are able to make others believe, that since they represent the most “progressive” force at any given moment, they are the most human, therefore the best; others in the world represent varying degrees of inferiority. This characteristic of the European utamaroho is already observable in archaic Europe. In comparing the Romans with other peoples, Aristides claimed not only that they are greater than their contemporaries but that they are greater than aything which preceded them. […]
While a particular kind of “improvement” may be essential to the idea of progress, ethnologically, in terms of the European utamaroho an equally significant aspect of the idea is the assumption that the present is properly better than and superior to the past. The way the idea is put firmly into the service of European cultural imperialism is that the superior “present” becomes something more than merely what is occurring (or exists) now. What is “progressive” or “modern” is the proper form or model for what ought to exist in the present. Therefore existent forms that do not comform to the “progressive” (modern or European) model are not part of the “present” – they are “outdated” and “backward”. In this way, the culture, in the vernacular of European cultural nationalism, is made to be superior not only to what precedes it – as it does its own past – but also to coexistent “unprogressive” cultures. In other words, the idea of progress provides a scale on which to weigh and by which to compare people via their cultures (their group creations).
The European utamaroho [ie collective personality] requires a self-image of not merely superiority but supremacy, and the “idea of progress” makes Europeans supreme among humans. […] Without the idea and this conceptual sleight of hand, cultures would merely be different; European culture would merely be intensely and obsessively rational; with the assumption of the idea of progress Europe becomes “better”. In the ways indicated, then, the idea of progress supports the expansionism and supremism inherent in the European utamaroho.
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The whitespeak words you pointed out, Kiwi, fit into the framework of the “idea of progress”.
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I think one powerful aspect of all the whitespeak terms (and the concepts the represent) is the way people who’re not white can internalize them simply by growing up in the environment.
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let the process work – let the police get away with murder.
wait till the facts are in – wait till the police investigate themselves.
These two are the most dangerous in this society. We might disagree on whether that’s “whitespeak” or “head-in-the-sand,” though.
No one even questions “the process,” behind the entire Wilson affair.
The story doesn’t make sense: a guy provokes a cop, gets shot during a struggle, runs away, then turns around and decides to charge back at a cop who has a gun trained on him.
Wilson’s actions after are consistent with someone trying to get away with murder: washes off blood, travels alone back to the station, handles his own gun; investigators don’t tape the interview or take measurements at the scene.
The Grand Jury proceedings are jaw-droppingly ridiculous; normal men are routinely indicted on nearly NO evidence at all.
It all only makes sense if someone believes “well, you know how those people are.”
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Origin,
I basically agree with argument.
But, alas, I don’t think it is purely a European thing. For example, I don’t think Chinese are that much different before or now. In the past, Arabs may have shown some similarities also. We know Japan did. Any group of people bent on spreading their influence to ever expanding areas will have at least some of these characteristics.
I am not trying to justify it or rationalize it. And of course I do not deny it has occurred or try to mitigate any effect by “putting in perspective”. But besides solely addressing the issue of western hegemony, we may also have to look at it in global holistic sense.
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Imperialism isn’t unique to Europe. That wasn’t her thesis. It’s that it is Europe’s raison d’etre which is what makes it unique and what makes it the most successful in that regard. A global holistic approach, when Europeans have a global empire, points the fingers right back at that peninsula.
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Sub Saharan colonists speak for African people as beneath and to be looked down upon threw the white gaze. Deepest Darkest Africa. I recall this from old movies and some literature.
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