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Oriental sex is white man’s fantasy.
The origin of white men’s sexualization of Asian women can be traced back to the 1800s, at the latest. The assumption of white supremacy combined with cultural sexual repression led white Western...
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The term “moderate Muslim” is still Islamophobic.
George Lakoff is a professor of cognitive linguistics at UC Berkeley, and the author of Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate. While Lakoff’s book is generally a great...
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Considering intent to evaluate morality is an ancient Western tradition.
Contemporary Western intellectuals embrace secularism as ‘modern’, and they often perceive Eastern and African cultures as ‘traditional’ cultures that are steeped in ancient religious practices. Many...
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Eastern societies are not more sexually liberated than Western societies.
To perceive Eastern societies as more sexually liberated than Western societies is to perceive the world from a position of extreme white Western male egocentricity. This alleged sexual “liberation” is...
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“Black or white”, “East or West” are not racially or culturally exhaustive.
Black (#000000) and white (#FFFFFF) are opposite colours, because they have opposite RGB values. As these colour names have been used as labels for racial categories, sometimes Americans make the...
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“Easterners” are not collectivist automatons who are poor at analytical...
Figure 1. German (blue) versus Chinese (red) opinions, according to a German art exhibit. The piece was created by a German-educated Chinese woman named Yang Liu. Compare this symbolism with the term...
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Unemployed? You fail at being Canadian.
Are you currently unemployed? According to the new Canadian citizenship guidebook for prospective immigrants, over 8.6% of unemployed Canadians are not fulfilling the Canadian responsibility of having...
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The Orientalist Riff is an example of white culture and tradition.
The typical white liberal assumes that non-white people have more “culture” than white people, and may express “envy” as an attempted compliment. Given that white liberals feel that they are denied...
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Auto-exoticism is Asians performing Chinese New Year for a non-Asian classroom.
Once a year, dmp and her mom performed Chinese New Year for her 98% non-Asian elementary class. Afterward, she went to her grandparents’ house and celebrated Têt, the real New Year’s. dmp writes: I...
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Multiculturalism displaces anti-racism, upholds white supremacy.
Dr. Sunera Thobani, of the University of British Columbia, criticizes the discourse of multiculturalism in Canada (transcript): I think multiculturalism has been a very effective way of silencing...
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Québec wants to make niqabi women illegal.
The creeping racism and eroding of civil liberties of Arizona makes me worry about the Quebec Provincial Bill 94 to exclude niqabi women from social services, employment, health, and education. If you...
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White culture rejects the agency of Asian women.
White culture humanizes white women more than Asian women. Racist stereotypes about the alleged submissiveness of Asian women convince even white women that Asian women lack agency. While most white...
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Commercials conflate whiteness with modernity.
In Romanticizing Ancient Chinese Wisdom at Sociological Images, Lisa Wade writes: This 40-second commercial for HSBC bank, sent in by Michelle F., is an excellent example of the way that non-white and...
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We cannot name ourselves without Othering ourselves in the White Gaze.
In Bad Romance: Feminism and women of colour make an unhappy pair, Sana Saeed writes: “Women of colour” beautifully illustrates the exact problem I discovered with feminism, as a woman who did not fit...
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