I have a new favorite song, well, more of a spontaneous chant whenever my government does something powerful and in line with being the inheritor of the Roman Empire. We are what Rage Against the Machine tried to call The Evil Empire. And that song/chant is, "USA, USA, USA!" I just keep yelling it around guys as we dry hump each other, cry, and raise fists for the military, God, country, patriotism, and Zionist Christian Nationalism. Oh, and apple pie and our moms. Therefore, if Trump attacked Venezuela, killed many to abduct their leader, and is preparing to make a Banana Republic of it and steal its oil, already having forgotten all that drug trafficking pretext, we can only patriotically conclude...they must have had it coming. Why? USA, USA, USA!
I'm a beneficiary as half white and only half Asian
White worship is internalized racism, a form of internalized oppression, defined by sociologist Karen D. Pyke as the "internalization of racial oppression by the racially subordinated" [1].
Robin Nicole Johnson in her study The Psychology of Racism, emphasizes that internalized racism involves both "conscious and unconscious acceptance of a racial hierarchy in which a presumed superior race [is] consistently ranked above other races."
thinking that supports the status quo (i.e., denying that racism exists) [2].
We're "status symbols" in Korea
Internalized racism as a phenomenon is a direct product of a racial classification system and is found across different racial groups and regions around the world where "race" exists as a social construct [1].
In these places, internalized racism can have adverse effects on those who experience it. For example, high internalized racism scores have been linked to poor health outcomes among
Caribbean Black women,
higher propensity for violence among African American young males, and
increased domestic violence among Native American populations in the US [3, 4, 5]. More
"Latin has no [single] skin tone." (Latin America has ALL of the colors, shades, and tones).
Colorism: racist legacy brought from Europe to Americas
Casta (Spanish "caste") is a term that means "lineage" [institutional racism] in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier.
In the context of the European Spanish Empire in the Americas, the term also refers to a theoretical framework which says that colonial society operated under a hierarchical race-based "caste "caste system."
From the outset, colonial Spanish America resulted in widespread intermarriage: unions of Spaniards (Espaรฑoles), indigenous people (Indios, "Indians," indigenas), and Africans (Negros, lit. "Blacks").
Colonists, do we internalize racism?
Basic mixed-race categories that appeared in official colonial documentation were mestizo("Mixed," "Blended"), generally offspring of a Spaniard and an Indigenous person; and mulatto, offspring of a Spaniard and a black African.
Many terms were used for people of mixed Spanish, Indigenous, and African ancestry in 18th-century casta paintings... More
CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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