04-01-2005, 06:20 PM
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Funny, how they think that we're the perverts, who are desperately obsessed with the "superior beauty" of white people, and are willing to do anything to be with a white person. <!--emo&
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Rupa, Worshipping the whites(whiteness) is not just Indian phenomenon. Every colonized culture exhibits that behavior. To give a sample of that, here is an extract from Asian American point of view on the same subject.
Opened a new thread. Let this thread be for its original purpose - Races and Rgveda.
Thanks.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Seven generations of suppresssion under legislative racism and euphemised white racist love has left today's Asian-America in a state of self-contempt, self-rejection and disintegration. We have been encouraged to believe that we have no cultural integrity as Chinese and Japanese Americans, that we are either Asian (Chinese or Japanese) or American (white), or are measurably both. This myth of being either/or and the equally goofy concept of the dual personality haunted our lobes while our rejection by both Asia and white America proved we were neither one nor the other. Nor were we half and half or more one than the other. Neither Asian culture nor American culture was equipped to define us except in the most superficial terms; however, American culture was equipped to deny us the legitimacy of our uniqueness as American minorities, did so, and in the process contributed to the effect of stunting self-contempt on the development and expression of our sensibility that in turn has contributed to a mass rejection of Chinese and Japanese America by Chinese and Japanese Americans. The Japanese-American Citizens League (JACL) weekly, the Pacific Citizen , in February 1972 reported that over 50% of Japanese-American women getting marrried, were marrying outside their race, and that the figure was rising annually. Available statistics indicate a similar rising trend among Chinese-American women, though the 50% mark may not have been topped yet. These figures say something about our sensibility, our concept of Chinese and Japanese Americas, our self-esteem, as does our partly real and partly mythic silence in American culture. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Funny, how they think that we're the perverts, who are desperately obsessed with the "superior beauty" of white people, and are willing to do anything to be with a white person. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Rupa, Worshipping the whites(whiteness) is not just Indian phenomenon. Every colonized culture exhibits that behavior. To give a sample of that, here is an extract from Asian American point of view on the same subject.
Opened a new thread. Let this thread be for its original purpose - Races and Rgveda.
Thanks.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Seven generations of suppresssion under legislative racism and euphemised white racist love has left today's Asian-America in a state of self-contempt, self-rejection and disintegration. We have been encouraged to believe that we have no cultural integrity as Chinese and Japanese Americans, that we are either Asian (Chinese or Japanese) or American (white), or are measurably both. This myth of being either/or and the equally goofy concept of the dual personality haunted our lobes while our rejection by both Asia and white America proved we were neither one nor the other. Nor were we half and half or more one than the other. Neither Asian culture nor American culture was equipped to define us except in the most superficial terms; however, American culture was equipped to deny us the legitimacy of our uniqueness as American minorities, did so, and in the process contributed to the effect of stunting self-contempt on the development and expression of our sensibility that in turn has contributed to a mass rejection of Chinese and Japanese America by Chinese and Japanese Americans. The Japanese-American Citizens League (JACL) weekly, the Pacific Citizen , in February 1972 reported that over 50% of Japanese-American women getting marrried, were marrying outside their race, and that the figure was rising annually. Available statistics indicate a similar rising trend among Chinese-American women, though the 50% mark may not have been topped yet. These figures say something about our sensibility, our concept of Chinese and Japanese Americas, our self-esteem, as does our partly real and partly mythic silence in American culture. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->