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IronBornCorps posted...

We really need to stop framing discussions of racism around a single person hating a certain group. Racism is much bigger than that.

For example, in the US, people with darker skin are far more likely to experience failures of the criminal justice system, lower bank loan approval rates with smaller loans when they are approved, less access to higher education and even healthy food options. All while hearing rhetoric like "Well, we set the slaves free, what more do they want?". Of course this is in the context of the US. I would ask however, where can a light skin person go in the world and be treated like this? Do you think the US is really the only country with these issues?

I know this is a tangent, but too many takes on racism are overly simplified as "if you hate a person for being part of a certain group...". That's prejudice sure, but racism needs to be corrected on a systemic level, and the fact it's so rarely mentioned in discussions should convey how deeply ingrained it is in some of our minds.

Off the top of my head a lot of asian countries tend to fit foreigners in a variety of racist ways. Though, TBF, that applies to pretty much every race. Like remember that ad a while back where that Chinese woman threw a black man into her washing machine and a handsome chinese man came out with the implication that the detergent did that? I also seem to recall a Japanese ad in which an airline company had one man ask another if he had gone overseas only for said man to turn to him with an extremely long nose which was a stereotype of white people in Japan or something (I'm not really all that knowledgeable about these things. I haven't exactly LOOKED for 'how do other cultures treat other races in regards to stereotypes and racism outside of America.) I also recall an incident in Africa in which white farmers were outright forced to give up their farms to native africans, which backfired horribly as a lot of them didn't know how to farm, but that's neither here nor there. I ALSO recall some book that had taken a lot of effort for historic accuracy in which the Chinese characters constantly referred to non-Chinese as 'foreign devils' or 'dwarfs' or something for the Japanese. Not to mention the notion of 'pet white guy' in Chinese companies in which a company would hire a white guy just so it would appear like they had international businesses involved. Plus some stereotype about Americans always drinking soda. Like I said, I don't exactly look for this stuff. This is just what I've passively, and mostly randomly, heard.

But I guess what I'm saying is that NO ONE is immune to racism, not even white people. Just because they don't get the worst of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

As for the bank loans thing and what-not... I feel it's a much more complex issue than that and something that is best discussed more in halls of knowledge and research as opposed to an internet forum.