Things that are so obvious and ingrained that no one even thinks about them.
Here’s a few:
All US americans can go to Mexico EASILY. You’re supposed to have a passport but you don’t even need one (for car/foot crossing). Versus, it’s really hard for Mexicans, who aren’t wealthy, to secure a VISA to enter the US. I’m sure there are corollaries in other geo-regions.
Another one is wealthy countries having access to vaccines far ahead of “poor” countries.
In US, we might pay lip service to equal child-hood education but most of the funding pulls from local taxes so some kids might receive ~$10000 in spending while another receives $2000. I’m not looking it up at the moment, but I’m SURE there are strong racial stratas.
People seem to be fine with hating Chinese and Indians where I live
Straya (is also an example of a racist/chauvinist thing that is normalised)
Yes this. It sucks here. Xi pls help us.
And those same people are expected to hate on themselves because if you can’t take the piss out of yourself (and by extension let others recycle that ‘humour’) then you’re ‘up yourself’.
Aussies/Anglos: “Hahahah why don’t you go eat dog you chng chng”
Chinese person: “Eh, it’d still taste better than your food.”
Aussies/Anglos: “Wow, that’s uncalled for. That was just banter but this is just racist. How dare you?”
Anglos "Hey we hated on the Italians, then the Greeks, then the Lebanese, then the Vietnamese, then the Japanese, then the Indians, now the Chinese, now we pretend we’re okay with the others so it’s your turn just shut up and take it.
Chinese people “Actually I won’t let you. Fuck daishuguo”
Anglos: “this is offensive to me and the removed, removed and removeds”
Australia’s “happy go lucky” “banter friendly” attitude is extremely selective.
apartheid state says what
Yes
When I found out Australians call telephone Chinese whispers I was surprised to find an instance of another country being even more casually racist than us
what do you call the thing where you twist the skin on someone’s forearm
Oh I didn’t say they were more casually racist then us, just that one instance. But point taken
no it wasn’t necessarily rhetorical, aus calls it the ‘chinese’ burn
Ahh. Its ‘indian’ burn here. About equivalently shitty, I guess. What do you call it when you ‘rig’ up something to work in a temporary and haphazard way?
jerry rig? Or bodge, kludge, but mostly jerry rig
Jerrys the nicer way we do it. The other involves our favorite racial slur
oh
Weird I haven’t heard a racial slur used for that (other than Jerry technically lmao)
bodge job
I call it trying my best.
Don’t worry,
is there too
They call it “arab telephone”
Lol of course they do
It used to be called Chinese Telephone in North America. I was a kid during the transition.