What are some obvious racist and chauvinist things that are totally normalized?
What are some obvious racist and chauvinist things that are totally normalized?
Things that are so obvious and ingrained that no one even thinks about them.
Here’s a few:
All US americans can go to Mexico EASILY. You’re supposed to have a passport but you don’t even need one (for car/foot crossing). Versus, it’s really hard for Mexicans, who aren’t wealthy, to secure a VISA to enter the US. I’m sure there are corollaries in other geo-regions.
Another one is wealthy countries having access to vaccines far ahead of “poor” countries.
In US, we might pay lip service to equal child-hood education but most of the funding pulls from local taxes so some kids might receive ~$10000 in spending while another receives $2000. I’m not looking it up at the moment, but I’m SURE there are strong racial stratas.
I found out not too long ago that apparently in polite voteblue society it's still okay to talk about countries being "civilized" where "civilized" essentially means "white". I am used to chauvinism, but that one really got to me (it was about Russia's invasion being the first time in a long time that there was a war between two "civilized" countries).
Racial "preferences" in dating. No matter how they cut it, it's racist. Yet people will say "it's ok to have preferences!"
Yeah sure.... I mean back in the day many people "preferred" to not eat with black ppl.... jesus fucking christ the racial preferences in dating really ticks me off (especially when you see someone who is otherwise "liberal" and "hates hate" date only white people)
”Declining birthrates” is considered a normal thing to talk about, even though it only refers to white people.
Condescending attitudes towards any non-
country, like I remember when the US left Afghanistan and a lot of people said stuff along the lines of ”We helped them so much and they still didn't become a good liberal democracy!”.This one gets me mad, but just the base assumption that our Asian comrades and homies are inherently good at STEM. To this day I still hear people that Asian dudes are good at math as if it were a profession passive bonus in a game. It's just so other-ing to me. It's just kinda one of those racists stereotypes that I wish died away.
The police.
More specific answer, the very obvious racial stratification of any urban region in the US. How different demographics look from neighborhood to neighborhood and the clear relation to worse housing, education, everything really. But it seems very normalized.
I’m sure there are corollaries in other geo-regions.
This is pretty much how it works worldwide. Living in The Empire™ grants you that benefit. "The power of a US passport" is very well known. Every country could use American tourist money. It is absolutely another neo-colonial sort of relationship. I saw a documentary that shows that Jamaicans (or another Caribbean country) have a harder time getting into Jamaica than Americans do.
Safety and process rigor when people talk about heavy industry. Shit like "300 people fall in a mineshaft every day in China it's normal" and "it's india they don't care about safety there" as some indictment of the contempt for safety because of culture or something.
No it's entirely based on your preconceived notions of these people. Truth is every plant ever is a massive safety concern, just that some are more amenable to cheap labour with lapses in safety, while others have shittons of money to throw to prevent all the disasters at the last moment. Seriously, it's surprising just how much of our infrastructure is barely scraping by without incident
Everyone pets Lalafells without permission.
Joking aside, the way people treat the British as experts because of their accents.
How immigrants from Europe/Americas are "expats" in developing nations. How Euro-American immigrants gentrify the neighborhoods and country they're in, treating the local populace as NPC servants to their narcissism and wealth.
One very normalized thing that always infuriates me is the way news headlines report on major disasters. It's always "Plane crashes in China, TWO AMERICANS DEAD", "Nuclear explosions blows up populated city, four Britons confirmed missing", like bitch all the people on that plane and in that city were valuable humans with valuable lives, not just people with the same colour passport as me.
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Every time a local news channel covers a Black criminal (or even the idea of Black criminals, or hell, any Black person who can somehow be construed to be some sort of miscreant), they’re uniformly called a “thug” in every comment. Yeah it’s just self-censorship for the n word
cop shows
The passport thing was no longer the case when I went there in 2016ish. It used to be you could go about 15 miles into Mexico without a passport but when I last went in 2016, you had to have one just to cross in to Mexico, and they were inspecting the heck out of it, and visa was required to go more than a certain distance or stay. A lot of poor Americans live south of the border in San Diego area because it's all they can afford. Mexico was pissed at Trump and changed the rules.
I like your last point on the tax thing, that's so BS the way that money isn't equal per student. It should be state wide equal property tax and state-wide equal per student.
Whites
referring to northwest eurasia as a "continent"
Referring to "the west" in general.
I was talking to people who are minorities, and they didn't realize it was definitely a racially charged word, and thought it was just referring the Americas because they're west of Europe. They heard it a lot but never really looked into it (the whole Eurocentric/Whiteness thing).
It felt weird explaining to a minority person what that actually means, and that Aus/NZ are west but in the same longitudes as China who are definitely East, and why South America aren't really "West" even though the US/Canada are.