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WOLF TOTEM - 2009-07-03
In response to Re: Racism in China (Andrew Dewitte)

...In addition, in my opinion, Chinese would like to be White.

This quote, as it stands, is ridiculous. You are wrong. Chinese do not want to be White or any other color. However, if you insert some next to Chinese, thus becoming some Chinese, then you would be correct.

There is in any society that is nonwhite, a small percentage of persons that would prefer to be white for social, economical and psychological reasons.

Consider the below quotes from:

The Discourse of Whiteness:
Chinese-American History, Pearl S. Buck, and The Good Earth
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2002/spencer.htm

Even though whiteness, like all racial categories, is not an objective, self-evident entity, it is privileged in a system in which whiteness is constructed as the standard or norm against which all other racial categories are measured. Despite the subjectivity of racial categorization, non-whites are, as Derrick Bell argues, "marked with the caste of color in a society still determinedly white" (75). Thus, being white is to be non-raced, normal, or neutral, and discussions of race have traditionally applied only to those who are perceived as other than white.

The desire of immigrants to be classified as whites intensified as more immigrants from Eastern Europe arrived in greater numbers, and as second and third generations of immigrants assimilated into American culture. The descendants of the first generation of Irish immigrants, for example, were better educated and enjoyed better occupational mobility than their parents. President Abbot Lawrence of Harvard University exemplifies the readiness of dominant culture to accept the Irish as American on the basis of their whiteness. The theory of "universal political equality," Lawrence said, "should not be applied to 'tribal Indians,' 'Chinese,' or 'negroes,' but only to whites who can assimilate rapidly" (qtd. in Takaki 163). The Chinese were among the groups of people in America who were denied the opportunity to assimilate.

Messages In This Thread
Racism in China -- from the Shanghai Star -- 2009-06-30
Re: Racism in China -- Laowai With An Attitude -- 2009-07-01
Re: Racism in China -- Turino -- 2009-07-02
Re: Racism in China -- Laowai With An Attitude -- 2009-07-02
Re: Racism in China -- eng.teacher -- 2009-06-30
Re: Racism in China -- WOLF TOTEM -- 2009-07-01
Re: Racism in China -- buzzoff -- 2009-07-12
Re: Racism in China -- eng.teacher -- 2009-07-04
Re: Racism in China -- Dragon -- 2009-07-06
Re: Racism in China -- Turino -- 2009-07-07
Re: Racism in China -- eng.teacher -- 2009-07-06
Re: Racism in China -- ruserious -- 2009-07-05
Re: Racism in China -- eng.teacher -- 2009-07-27
Re: Racism in China -- eng.teacher -- 2009-07-06
Re: Racism in China -- eng.teacher -- 2009-07-06
Re: Racism in China -- Paladin -- 2009-07-05
Re: Racism in China -- eng.teacher -- 2009-07-06
Re: Racism in China -- Macho Fan -- 2009-06-30
Re: Racism in China -- Andrew Dewitte -- 2009-07-02
Re: Racism in China -- Paladin -- 2009-07-05
Re: Racism in China -- Andrew Dewittr -- 2009-07-05
Re: Racism in China -- WOLF TOTEM -- 2009-07-03
Re: Racism in China Re: wolf totem -- Andrew Dewitte -- 2009-07-04
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