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  • afronaut@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.world•The world longest roadEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Because it’s not really racist, is it? I don’t see how this meme contributes to the suffering or oppression of any white person. I suppose the meme can be taken in different ways. Some people are perceiving it as racist. Others are perceiving it as one of the admirable characteristics of white people.

    Something I’ve noticed about a lot of white people who do take offense to memes like this is that they simply do not like being made aware of their race at all, which is just not a reality most non-white people get to experience.

  • afronaut@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.world•The world longest roadEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Best way I can explain American’s “fixation” on race is that our country’s history is based on the attempt to create a racist white utopia through law (slavery, ethnic cleansing, manifest destiny, segregation, Jim Crow, private prisons etc.).

    Many of the historical debates, protests, rebellions, riots, and wars we’ve had were largely surrounding the issue of racial equality. And… it never went away because racist white people have evolved their political tactics. They still want “the South to rise again”, they still want “to Make American Great Again”, they still want segregation, slavery, and woman subordination.

    You might be thinking, “it’s not that serious”, but the mere fact that America is becoming the de facto Nazi Regime of the West now says it all. Hitler was deeply inspired by America’s Jim Crow laws and used it as a platform to address “the Jewish Question”. But, White American’s racism didn’t just materialize out of nothing. It’s descendant of Western Imperialism and Colonialism that was being exported across the globe by Europeans who had finally come to a geopolitical status quo on their continent after checks notes thousands of years of fighting over whose nation and religion is better.

    TL;DR: American’s being fixated on race is just the next phase of geopolitical infighting that came after thousands of years of Europeans fixating on nationality and religion, both of which are becoming less relevant each day than one’s ethnic and cultural identity.

  • afronaut@slrpnk.nettoWorld News@lemmy.world•Earth Could Have Billions More People Than We Ever RealizedEnglish
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    10 days ago

    China has 400 million “Millennials” compared to 280 million “Gen Z”. I put quotation marks around those terms because they do not use those terms locally. Their “Millennial” is technically two categories combined (Post 80’s and Post 90’s). Their Post-90 gen would be equivalent to mid-late millennial and zillennial.

    I’ve done a bit of research into how other countries categorize their generations. They don’t all perfectly overlap age-wise. But, if we’re looking at people born around the late 80’s to mid 90’s, they all follow similar trends and behaviors, including the decline in sexual activity and birth rates. In the East, you also have Vietnam’s “Millennial”, 9X, and Taiwan’s, the Strawberry Generation.