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Friday, May 17, 2013
European Americans Want it Both Ways
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I was commenting on Yong Chan's post at CHANGELAB about Jason Richwine & the Asian American dilemma when I remembered I wanted to write this post which is also about how European Americans have some unusual logic.
European Americans often complain about the culture and presence of non-Europeans, although White policies are selective of the cultures and peoples allowed into the U.S.
European Americans trafficked in Africans for their labor, forbid them to read, then complain about their educational level; treat them worse than animals, then complain about their culture which is now a culture living with Post Traumatic Stress and ongoing stress from the New Jim Crow.
European Americans flood the Mexican market with low cost U.S. corn and other crops and meats, causing Mexican farmers to loose the ability to sell their own harvest and meats and in turn seek employment in the U.S., then Latinos are demonized for their presence in the U.S. while they try to feed their family and survive NAFTA.
European Americans complain that they can't get into universities because students of Asian heritage take up seats. But immigration policies are written by a majority White congress in favor of college educated families.
European Americans want privileges on top of their privileges.
European Americans want low cost labor, low cost products, easy access to excellent universities, no immigrants of color and no language spoken in the U.S. except English.
And European Americans would like to continue their history of cultural genocides by shaming new immigrants into not speaking their native language.
European Americans want privileges on top of their privileges on top of institutionalized racism.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Replace the "White" ethnic label in the U.S.
Why are European-American's called 'White'?
Many ethnic labels have changed through the course of U.S. history. The next one that needs to change is "White".
Modern politically correct terms for every ethnic group have a tie to the regional heritage of that group -- except for White.
Vague and disrespectful labels of the past have changed to respectful modern descriptions:
Oriental changed to Asian-American
Negro changed to African-American
Native Savage changed to Native-American
European-American changed to White.
Using color labels verbally is acceptable. It's conversational and prevents guessing wrong about nation of origin. Writing should be more precise. Color labels should not be the first choice. When official paperwork is involved, especially government forms, what would this color label imply? The term "White" in the U.S. was originally used as a way to group all Europeans (regardless of color) together as a team because it was the "whites" against the people of color. The early days of the U.S. was not primarily about fitting into your group of national origin, it was an actual 'race' war (for what was understood at the time), due to the sudden collision of different phenotypes brought together by the new larger and faster sailing ships of the day. Everyone had to make sense of each other, and phenotypes of a feather flocked together.
Using the word European-American makes European-American's sound like foreigners. (Which they are - but European-Americans don't want to have a foreign sounding label. Another issue is that using the word "White" is perpetuating a false brand of purity, goodness, and cleanness.
I don't expect my European-American brothers and sisters to stop using the label of "White" for themselves, nor the government to stop using the term "White". I think they like the positive branding.
However, all my non-European-American brothers and sisters should be happy to label European-Americans what they really are: European-Americans.
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Glenn is a European-American married to a Mexican-American. They have two children. Glenn is interested in progressive immigration reform, and desegregation within schools and communities. He is a life long learner with interests in sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and politics.
Connect to Glenn at CommunityVillage.us
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Yahoo's Ethnocentrism
I'm reading my email when my wife comes by and sees the Yahoo targeted ad within my email.
"You know those ads are based on what you search on.", she says.
I laugh and say "What do your ads show?" "Shoes and clothes" she says.
I want to know where my African-American sisters are in these ads Yahoo!?
Boycott Yahoo for ethnocentrism!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Women Against War
We need more women running government.
Actually, we need women only to run government.
How many women would declare war? Women are nurturing.
They don't want to fight and kill - they want to resolve problems, find solutions and get along.
How many hateful groups are lead by women? How many hateful forum comments are from women?
As long as men have testosterone, they will continue to be overly competitive, and continue to start wars where innocent women and children are harmed.
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