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Post by Paddy on Dec 1, 2008 9:18:47 GMT -5
Well, your attitude would appear to match Han Suyin and Freddi from the opening quotation.
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Post by agingmale on Dec 1, 2008 22:35:36 GMT -5
Well, your attitude would appear to match Han Suyin and Freddi from the opening quotation. I'm sorry...this kind of went over my head ....perphaps it's because I'm a high school kid with much to learn as apposed to an "aging male"??.... When I read the quotes you had provided by Freddi and Han Suyin I felt a kinship and relatability towards them...I would be very interested in reading the materials you mentioned.... I guess my experience goes that In my time spent in Japan as a child was that most people took me for a Brazilian immigrant....I can recall my relatives saying some not so kind things about BRs ....some things about how they were "crime committers" and a "liability to the country" despite the fact that they would always bring up the fact that I "looked Brazilian" or "looked Filipino".....I also heard them say negative things of Filipinos...but at the same time I was considered "one of them" I hope my posts are understandable....I fail at communicating
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Post by Paddy on Dec 2, 2008 9:05:52 GMT -5
Well, I don't know about the others, but I understand what you're saying!
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Post by Subuatai on Dec 4, 2008 14:59:23 GMT -5
I tend to find purebloods in many cultures (including western and eastern) rather discriminary against anyone who looks different. When I was a child my hair was very light brown, and I was always coined as odd, unnatural, strange, halfbreed (even though I'm only 1/4 slavic, the rest pure mongol). Fortunately during teens it grew darker now it is much darker brown.
Though I am born and raised in Australia, the one aspect of western culture I can't seem to understand and refuse to assimilate into is racialism. Studying history I know that the colonial racial classifications served as a new uniting tool post-Catholic and justify colonisation and expansion.
In the middle ages, it was all religion, Europe was deemed "superior christians", and everywhere else was deemed "inferior pagans, heretics, infidels" etc. Now, it's "superior race", and everyone else are "inferior africans, asians, natives,etc"
As a result I seem to have resorted in only prefering to date either girls born from the steppe or my own culture that doesn't discriminate people based on how they look or their individual features, or societies' own "mixed" girls.
Unfortunately, that's pretty much all we who are 'different' can do. Most people of this world both colonial and colonised will be educated in racial discriminative thinking - which I also feel is the cause of a lot of identity issues between mixed people in western or eastern countries.
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