A cut & pasted comment from a protected entry in a friend’s journal.<\/p>\n
How do you feel about the fetishization of asian, latino, not asian, anything-but-black, etc? Racial preferences? Whatever. I think that race has an effect on aesthetics, but culture is where it’s really at.<\/p>\n
The question of cultural identity is huge. I think my (probably upper class) Burkina Faso classmate rocks. I think (a particular) African American classmate is annoying. And I know it’s a cultural thing. This makes me feel really sorry for the people in the African American underclass. Caucasian Americans leave them behind, and many Africans who emigrated voluntarily view them with disdain. You generally don’t choose your culture. It’s more voluntary than sexual orientation, but not generally a deliberate choice people make.<\/p>\n
Latin American machismo irks me. You don’t have that, as far as I can tell, because you are not of that culture [despite being ‘affiliated’ by race]. I don’t think I’m racist to any significant degree, though I think I’m culturist. Since culture and race are highly correlated, the two types of discrimination are easily confused. And I do think racism is alive, and lurking in the shadows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A cut & pasted comment from a protected entry in a friend’s journal. How do you feel about the fetishization of asian, latino, not asian, anything-but-black, etc? Racial preferences? Whatever. I think that race has an effect on aesthetics, but culture is where it’s really at. The question of cultural identity is huge. I think … Continue reading “A brief aside on racism & culture”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}