The effects of colonialism are enormous. And as much as we wanted to see resilient populations cast off their oppressors’ narratives, many have become ingrained and now seen as cultural.
This is one example, as in this article, in Honduras darker skinned people are looked down on. Those who are lighter skinned are more beautiful. It’s especially bad in Puerto Rico where many descendants of African slaves remained. They are not only looked down upon, but actually mistreated.
Another example is queerphobia in Africa, specifically Christian majority nations (Muslim queerphobia is a whole other discussion). We have evidence from archeology and myths that precolonial societies by and large were fine with differently gendered people and with homosexuality. It was the Europeans who forced their fundamentalist views onto the colonized.
Unfortunately, still to this day, that remains among the most bigoted and threatening places to live as a queer person. And they have internalized it. Recently when the Anglican Church installed a woman head bishop who is also queer affirming, they split off into their own group. Though they had been complaining for years about the white nations forcing their depraved views on them.
It’s very sad, and honestly a reminder that we are all susceptible to propaganda and founding myths.
Ok I see you and hear you and you are right, some racism is because of colonialism. But India did have a big problem with race and classes before the British. I’m not educated enough to know if it wasspecifically skin tone as well as region and which caste you were born in, but the idea that racism only comes from colonizers is super false.
It’s also weirdly racist in its own way, supporting the “noble savage” myth.
Oh absolutely. Please do not hear me blaming all bigotry and racism on the West. Far far from it.
There has always been an “othering” of people. I mean in Honduras, the Mayans trampled tons of smaller tribes and subjected them to their ethnocentric views. This is nothing new.
The effects of colonialism are enormous. And as much as we wanted to see resilient populations cast off their oppressors’ narratives, many have become ingrained and now seen as cultural.
This is one example, as in this article, in Honduras darker skinned people are looked down on. Those who are lighter skinned are more beautiful. It’s especially bad in Puerto Rico where many descendants of African slaves remained. They are not only looked down upon, but actually mistreated.
Another example is queerphobia in Africa, specifically Christian majority nations (Muslim queerphobia is a whole other discussion). We have evidence from archeology and myths that precolonial societies by and large were fine with differently gendered people and with homosexuality. It was the Europeans who forced their fundamentalist views onto the colonized.
Unfortunately, still to this day, that remains among the most bigoted and threatening places to live as a queer person. And they have internalized it. Recently when the Anglican Church installed a woman head bishop who is also queer affirming, they split off into their own group. Though they had been complaining for years about the white nations forcing their depraved views on them.
It’s very sad, and honestly a reminder that we are all susceptible to propaganda and founding myths.
Ok I see you and hear you and you are right, some racism is because of colonialism. But India did have a big problem with race and classes before the British. I’m not educated enough to know if it wasspecifically skin tone as well as region and which caste you were born in, but the idea that racism only comes from colonizers is super false.
It’s also weirdly racist in its own way, supporting the “noble savage” myth.
Oh absolutely. Please do not hear me blaming all bigotry and racism on the West. Far far from it.
There has always been an “othering” of people. I mean in Honduras, the Mayans trampled tons of smaller tribes and subjected them to their ethnocentric views. This is nothing new.