Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money

Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by ryandrake on Sunday September 08, 2024 @11:35AM (#41481003)

I don't really see how doing a little shopping when the ship comes into port or while staying at a foreign resort equates to being treated like a king because of your skin color.

My wife is from what we might call a developing country. When we go back to her home city to visit family, we'll occasionally go out to a store or eat at a restaurant, and while there, we're served by... brown people! Which makes sense because there are many, many brown people there. Am I supposed to feel bad about "colonizing" her city, just because I'm white? It's not even something I notice.

I guess I just don't get this odd American insistence on framing every interaction in terms of a power dynamic based on people's skin color.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by immibis on Sunday September 08, 2024 @05:20PM (#41483311)

The fact remains that there is a pattern of brown people being made to serve white people's every whim. When brown people take cruises to white people countries as often as white people take cruises to brown people countries, then it's excusable with "of course there are brown people in a brown people country" but when it mostly only happens one way around, that's a sign of how our society operates.

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