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Topic	why are white Latinos being called people of color?
The_shibe 03/29/23 11:49:57 PM #52:	HannibalBarca3 posted... Whiteness is complicated. There's people from East Asia who are whiter than people from Southern Europe, yet one isn't considered white and the other is, or at least, should unless you're some fringe white nationalist group. What about people from the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, etc. who appear white? Modern race construct is strongly tied to physical appearance but that wasn't always the only case and perception could be more fluid. There's a quote by Benjamin Franklin decrying various European people as not white but as "swarthy": There's some really interesting threads on the perception of race in the 20th century in AskHistorians: Whiteness in the US in general: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/qtpj6g/is_the_idea_that_the_irish_or_italian_were_once/ Finnish as Asians: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/10fwxiy/my_american_friends_greatgrandfather_was_finnish/ now this is an informed historial post, and not the stuff sonic was posting ITT. ToteAll posted... Who the fuck is that lol Autocorrect changed the name for me. English autocorrect. I am an English speaker. I am 100% sure you know who I meant and are just being an ass because the name is misspelled, based on the tag I've given you in the past. --- So post. Much gamefaqs. Wow. <cite>The_shibe posted [p:972506754] in why are wh... [t:80395359]...</cite> <quote>HannibalBarca3 posted... </cite><quote>Whiteness is complicated. There's people from East Asia who are whiter than people from Southern Europe, yet one isn't considered white and the other is, or at least, should unless you're some fringe white nationalist group. What about people from the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, etc. who appear white? Modern race construct is strongly tied to physical appearance but that wasn't always the only case and perception could be more fluid. There's a quote by Benjamin Franklin decrying various European people as not white but as "swarthy":There's some really interesting threads on the perception of race in the 20th century in AskHistorians:Whiteness in the US in general:https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/qtpj6g/is_the_idea_that_the_irish_or_italian_were_once/Finnish as Asians:https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/10fwxiy/my_american_friends_greatgrandfather_was_finnish/</quote>now this is an informed historial post, and not the stuff sonic was posting ITT.ToteAll posted... </cite><quote>Who the fuck is that lol</quote>Autocorrect changed the name for me. English autocorrect. I am an English speaker. I am 100% sure you know who I meant and are just being an ass because the name is misspelled, based on the tag I've given you in the past. --- So post. Much gamefaqs. Wow.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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