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donnedulac · 8 months ago

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Seeing the news on that Australian senator had me thinking on how “race” is thought by different cultures. I agree that blood quantum is very racist, only losing to the one drop of blood whiteness rule. But being from Brazil, where race isn’t decided by your actual ancestry, but rather by your phenotype (which leads to interesting differences with the rest of the world. Light skinned Arabs are white, for example), it was quite shocking to see the aboriginal communities accepting anyone with ancestry into their identity group, even if they don’t have the look

#i actually think Brazil is an incredibly interesting instance of racial dynamics #how do you classify ppl in a society that is so intrinsically mixed? In the shallowest way possible purely by appearance #but that also helps us to get over the imaginary barrier of race as well - when you’ve got ppl in the same immediate family #belonging to different racial demographics (such as a black mom with a white daughter and grandson)#you start to understand that racial division and delineation is completely baseless #‘there’s only one race - the human race. everything else is ethnicity’ is the message my generation grew up with in school and pop culture #and I think it couldn’t be more right #and I remember this stumping my Japanese friend who said that for them not only is race real but the Japanese people are a specific race #in and of themselves #which she vehemently disagreed with - in her view that is no remarkable difference between East Asians #there is no*#I do not know enough to comment either way

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