Re:Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on globa...
by bryanrasmussen on Monday February 01, 2021 @01:29AM
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>"Whiteness" is a US concept, which doesn't make much sense in a German context.
This is true, unfortunately the supremacy of American culture over the last century means that all of these concepts that do not fit very well into other contexts have been exported, I often run into situations in Denmark that would be horrifyingly racist in the U.S (not to say that Denmark doesn't have it's own racist traditions, but the grafting on of the American viewpoint does not exactly fit).
Of course when the concept is exported it in some way becomes the thing over time, and then people try to import the solutions to the problem.
This is true, unfortunately the supremacy of American culture over the last century means that all of these concepts that do not fit very well into other contexts have been exported, I often run into situations in Denmark that would be horrifyingly racist in the U.S (not to say that Denmark doesn't have it's own racist traditions, but the grafting on of the American viewpoint does not exactly fit).
Of course when the concept is exported it in some way becomes the thing over time, and then people try to import the solutions to the problem.