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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you by vinay427 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:11AM (#32495880)
As far as I recall, institutional racism in western European colonial powers seems to predate extensive interaction with societies in Asia, and typically stems from the colonization of Africa and subsequent slave trade which depended on a dehumanization, initially at the hands of Portugal. There’s a loose argument in this editorial [1], although not the one I’ve seen before.

[1] https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/08/european-r...

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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you by Balero on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:24AM (#32496022)
Racism isn't just limited to the ones that are accepted as races in the modern day USA (Latino, Black, White, Middle Eastern, Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander). And dehumanization and slavery has happened in many more places and times that the Atlantic Slave Trade. Whilst the current main racism problems in the US all stem from this and colonialism, everywhere in the world has their own unique problems as well.
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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you by vinay427 on Thursday August 18, 2022 @12:28AM (#32505281)
Did you mean to reply to my comment? It’s not clear what this has to do with what I said. I never mentioned the US at all, let alone census-designated ethnicities in the US.
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