So, it is racist for people to want to go and experience different cultures, talk to different people from that culture, understand that culture and see that “different” does not mean “better” or “worse"?
So, student exchange programs are inherently racist? Does that mean that Chinese and Japanese tourists are racist?
Actually, I have another question. Is the Chinese creation of Thames Town also an example of cultural appropriation and therefore racist?
The town, created in 2006, is primarily used for middle-class couples to take “English themed” wedding photographs, so that must also be “problematic” and racist, yes?
I suppose, though, that does not count, since “white people” have never colonised China. Also, since the Chinese are not white, I suppose that somehow, this is not an issue, which would be double-standards, but that is not exactly new.
After a quick glance at OP’s blog, she describes herself as:
½ Arabised Amazigh (1st generation born in the U.S. Moroccan-American immigrant)
¼ Mestiza (Mayan / Spanish)
which I believe is very interesting. It appears that this rant must come from the Moroccan side of her heritage. I also presume that the comment about “converting to certain religions” being racist must be a subtle nod towards Islam, considering the Islam tag on her blog.
Why do I find this interesting?
She speaks of white people colonising different countries, but both Islamic Caliphates and Spain colonised Morocco in its past. Morocco’s Islamic culture will therefore be a result of early Muslim colonisation, the colonisation that she calls “racist.” Since Morocco’s official state religion is Sunni Islam, I would imagine that the earlier Islamic colonisation has had a greater effect on the nation’s history overall.
I would also be very careful when trying to state that people converting to a particular religion are racist, implying that certain religions are for “people of colour” only, and therefore implying that they can be “appropriated.”
It is very, very hypocritical for either Muslims or Christians to say that their religions could be “appropriated,” since Judaism is the first Abrahamic religion and the other two “built” on it. If we were going to go down that route, it is only logical to then go further and say that Islam and Christianity “appropriated” Judaism.
Then again, as religion is personal faith, it would be idiotic to claim that, so it is also idiotic to claim that being a certain religion is “racist.” Or are all Imams etc that happily accept and support white converts somehow “race traitors”? No, they are not. They are religious people that are following their teachings to the best of their ability.
What does strike me, on this site, that people of certain extractions go on and on about “their cultures” and how angry they are about “white people” appropriating them from “white” countries, where they act like they can speak over the indigenous people that actually, currently live there. If a parent is from there, for example, they can listen, but as soon as they travel there or want to explore that country’s culture for themselves, they ironically become the same “Western colonists” that they are so angry about.
US citizens of Irish extraction cannot speak over people that were born or live in Ireland, for example.
And as for the fact that this woman admits that she is “upper middle class” says that she is one of those “classist” people that speaks over people that are actually lower class and poor.
In short: this post is a train wreck.
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