In the United States, the term "Black Irish" was initially used in the 19th century to derogatorily describe Irish refugees of the Great Famine [1] [a manmade event the British wrought on their hated neighbors].
It later shifted into a term used to describe people of Irish descent who have black or dark-colored hair, pale skin, dark or light eyes, or any other dark feature or coloration. This meaning is not commonly used in Ireland [1], where "Black Irish" more refers to Irish people of actual African descent [4].
The most common use of the term "Black Irish" is tied to the myth that they were descended from Spanish sailors shipwrecked during the Spanish Armada of 1588 [5][6][7][8][9][10] that came to attack England. However, no anthropological, historical, or genetic research supports this story.
Some theorists assert that the term was adopted in some cases by Irish Americans who wanted to conceal interracial unions with African Americans, paralleling the phrase "Black Dutch" which was also used in the United States to hide racial identity. More
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 (Españoles), 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
(ReligionForBreakfast) March 13, 2025: Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, celebrates romantic love (as personified by Kamadeva, a kind of Cupid-Eros figure in Indian religions, sometimes representing Mara, the worst demon of all), spring, and the victory of good over evil, but its meaning is deeper than just throwing bright colored powders.
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It doesn't feel toxic. *Cough-cough*
When is this purnima? On the last full moon of winter (the Indian month of Phalguna), which in 2025 is March 13-14.
Holi (\ho-ly\) is a major Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colors, Love, and Spring. It celebrates the eternal and divine love of the deities Radha and her consort Krishna.
Additionally, the day signifies the triumph of good over evil, light over dark, as it commemorates the victory of Vishnu as Narasimha ("Man-Lion") over Hiranyakashipu. Holi originated and is predominantly celebrated on the Indian subcontinent but has spread to other regions of Asia and parts of the Western world through the Indian diaspora. More: Holi
American Edward P. Vining, who lived until 1920, was a writer, railroad executive [1], and author of An Inglorious Columbus (1885), in which he argued that Buddhist monk Hui Shen was originally from Afghanistan (Gandhara), traveled to China and Mexico, and created pre-Columbian Mexican culture and religion. More
It was Buddhist missionaries fromAfghanistan led by Chinese monk Hwui Shan. Vining published his massive text in 1895, yet Americans today are surprised to hear anything about it. Buddhists were in the Grand Canyon from ancient times, along with Hindus or Atlanteans (those from Atzlan?) or followers of a more universalist blended world religion of the past, long before Christian hegemony and the activities of the Catholic Church, its pope, and rapist-priests accompanying soldiers, killers, and slavedrivers to make sure the Vatican got its cut of the booty as it decreed a Doctrine of Discovery to cover them legally in Europe.
Jaw-dropping MEXICAN ancestry and DNA results revealed
These civilizations built great cities and empires that amazed the Spanish, developed sophisticated writing and calendrical systems, and engaged in extensive trade networks.
However, the Spanish onslaught, led by the infamous Conquistador Hernán Cortés, resulted in a dramatic transformation and ruin of the region.
The collision of these two civilizations — indigenous Mesoamerican societies and Old World European imperialists — resulted in the creation of modern Latino identity, a blend of Indigenous and Spanish bloodlines.
Brutal colonization brought a foreign language (Spanish), an odd religion (Catholicism), and customs (mass rape, hegemony, racially based chattel slavery) and a reshaping of political and social structures, often at the expense of Indigenous autonomy.
The conquest nearly wiped out these Native groups, but indigenous cultures proved remarkably resilient, influencing everything from language and cuisine to spirituality and artistic traditions. #mexico #panama #guatemala #centralamerica #mesoamerica
Who are the Udmurts? Russia’s most red haired and musical ethnic group
Gilligan hats of redheaded Udmurtian caps look as distinctive as Scythian/Saka caps.
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(Eli from Russia) Summer 2023: VOTKINSKY DISTRICT. Let's meet the Udmurt people, hear the Udmurt language, try Udmurt food, and see Udmurt customs. Let's do everything the Udmurt way at Udmurt's most important ethnic holiday: Gerber!
TIMECODES
00:00 Let's do everything the Udmurt way today!
00:55 Welcome to the Gerber holiday in Pikhtovka
02:15 The important Udmurt ceremony
07:00 The festival begins!
08:33 Crafts of different districts of Udmurtia
10:10 Homeland of Tchaikovsky - Votkinsk City
13:18 We found Udmurt food and an Udmurt man :)
14:46 The most red-haired ethnic groups of the world
15:36 Let's have fun at the festival
Hi, I'm Eli from Russia. Wisdom Quarterly adopted and elected me as its Russian correspondent. See more of my videos: 👉🏻
Russia seems to be what remains of Tartaria: Who are Russians/Tartars?
After the Mud Flood, few believe there ever was a Tartaria inhabited by Tartars (remnants Tatars of the ancient empire of Great TARTARIA) who ate raw meat, steak tartare, a kind of pastrami (pastirma), after which was named a famous sauce and dish, so where is Udmurtia?
The Empire of Tartaria is seen on maps, or what remained of it after the Mud Flood.
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What and where is Udmurtia?
Wiki edit by Wisdom Quarterly
This hat design is great for Gingers in the sun.
UDMURTIA is officially the Udmurt Republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is administratively part of the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the City of Izhevsk. It was established as the Udmurt (until 1931 Votskaya) Autonomous Region on Nov. 4, 1920 [11].
THE NAME UDMURT comes from odo-mort ("meadow people"), where the first part represents the Permic root od or odo ("meadow, glade, turf, greenery"). This is supported by a document dated 1557, in which the Udmurts [12] are referred to as lugovye lyudi ("meadow people"), alongside the traditional Russian name otyaki [13]. The second part murt means "person" (cf. Komi mort, Mari mari).
It is probably an early borrowing from a Scythian language: mertä or martiya ("person, man," Sanskrit Manus or Manushya), which is thought to have been borrowed from the Indo-Aryan term maryá- ("man, mortal, one who is bound to die," cf. Old Indic márya or "young warrior," and marut, "chariot warrior," both connected specifically with horses and chariots [14].
The Indo-Europeanists T. Gamkrelidze and V. Ivanov associate this word with horse-riding Altaic tribes in the Bronze Age [15, 16].
On the other hand, in the Russian tradition, the name "meadow people" refers to the inhabitants of the left bank of a particular river. Recently, the most relevant is the version of V. V. Napolskikh and S. K. Belykh. They suppose that ethnonym was borrowed either from Indo-Iranian anta or "outside, close, last, edge, limit, boundary," or the Turkic-Altaic anda/ant "oath (in fidelity), comrade, friend" [17].
HISTORY started on Nov. 4, 1920, when the Votyak Autonomous Oblast was formed [3]. On Jan. 1, 1932, it was renamed the Udmurt Autonomous Oblast [18], which was then reorganized into the Udmurt ASSR on Dec. 28, 1934 [3].
During World War II, many industrial factories were evacuated from the Ukrainian SSR and western borderlands to Udmurtia. On Oct. 11, 1991, the Supreme Council of the Udmurt ASSR adopted a law according to which the Udmurt ASSR acquired a new name — the Udmurt Republic [19]. More: Udmurtia
Eli from Russia (YouTube), elinabakunova.com; Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, December 2024
There is a Hollywood legend that actor Keanu Reeves, that guy from The Matrix, Neo the Neophyte, starred in an earlier life in the role of the Buddha Shakyamuni. What was Hollywood thinking? Reeves can hardly speak his lines, which he must have gotten in writing and been given lots of time to memorize. Anyone who saw him in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure will have to wonder how such a skilled thespian would be chosen for the role of a lifetime.
A search of the archives reveals a film from 1993, Little Buddha, about an American tulku (important reincarnation of a rinpoche in Tibetan Hinduism/Mahayana Buddhism). Would Tibetan Vajrayana elites really choose to be reborn in the West (perhaps an interpretation of Amitabha's "Western Paradise") among whites?
They might. There is a long and harsh history (thanks, England) of colorism in and around India (Bharat), which was violently occupied, exploited, and colonized, forced to be a part of Rome II (the United Kingdom of the British colonial power) that set up a Raj (King) System and left behind a lot of DNA.
Suck it, boy, suck my tongue good. I'm Pope.
And the current Dalai Lama (#14), who is thought to be a or the reincarnation of Kwan Yin/Kwannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara), has said that next time he may choose to be reborn as a woman outside of Tibet, in which case he says he wants to be "hot," presumably so more little boys will be willing to suck his tongue in a totally consensual and not at all creepy or perverted act of child grooming. The pontiff in the Vatican probably does the same thing must be the rationalization, and everyone knows the history of the imperial Holy Roman Catholic Church with little boys and erotic priests in sheep's clothing, so there's nothing weird going on.
The History of Colorism in India
(The Emissary) Oct. 1, 2024: Explore the fascinating journey of skin color (shade-ism) perception in India from ancient times to the modern day. This video delves into the genetic migrations that shaped Proto-India's diverse skin tones, ancient Indian (Maha Bharat) scriptures, and their positive views on dark skin, depictions of dark-skinned gods and heroes in Indian mythology, the impact of Islamic imperialism on beauty standards, European (mainly but not exclusively British) colonialism and its role in shaping colorism, the modern Indian perspective on skin color, and the push for change. Let's uncover how a culture that once worshipped dark-skinned (blue black) gods came to idolize fair skin and the ongoing journey toward embracing all shades of beauty in India.
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