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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
There are no "double standards". It's not a two-way street. Read up about colonialism and whiteness and how the world we live in today has been shaped by it. White people do not experience racism and there is no appropriation of white culture (European, American, etc) in the same way that there is appropriation of other cultures, because white people literally murdered and enslaved millions of people around the world and FORCED their culture onto those people. Almost anywhere you go, American and European fashion, TV shows, music, etc will be what the upper class in those countries listens to, wears and watches and what they try to emulate. White = Higher status, and that's something that has its roots in colonialism. How can you say someone from India, for example, wanting to dye their hair blonde, change their accent and wear European clothing "appropriation" when India was colonized by the UK and their culture was degraded and British culture upheld as the standard that they should aspire to?
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We took our chance, 1492, the turning point, the Muslims lost Grenada, the New World was discovered.
But hey before us, it was China's Yuan Dynasty. and also the Muslim world conquered and enslaved the people the same as the the great Western World.
