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Nora Charles ([personal profile] noracharles) wrote 2009-12-19 05:20 pm (UTC)

Pretend I didn't just veer off topic like this...

I don't want to derail the discussion either, but you're right, it is an interesting and important topic. I would like to examine to what extent white privilege exists here! The point I was trying to make was not that it doesn't exist here, but that referring to that concept demonstrated a certain perspective.

If you asked one of my xenophobic countrymen who he'd trust, a Pole or a Palestinian, the answer would probably be neither of them. Both of those ethnic groups are treated very poorly here. But if you asked him which he'd rather trust, the answer would probably be the Pole, because of religion and skin color.

On the other hand, he'd trust an African-American over the Pole, and a Dane adopted from South Korea over the African-American. Skin color is important and obvious as an ethnic marker, but Danes value ethnicity over color, and distinguish between ethnicity and color, to a much larger degree than what I have called melting pot societies do.

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