Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"?

• Sylaran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Entirely depends on who the majority is. Racism is just tribalism.

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• Social_Discussion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Exactly what I’m thinking. Imo this whole concept of “white” and “black” people doesn’t make sense and is just an excuse for racism and hate

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The human mind seems to have some sort of built-in tribalism. Throughout history, humans have gravitated towards favoring the in-group and discriminating the out-group. The difference between those groups could be skin color, language, religion, family name or anything. Could be literally anything, no matter how trivial or silly. There have been some interesting studies about this.

    See also: minimal group paradigm, in-group bias.

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• dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes, those groups are all typically considered white by pigmentation except the ones that are Indian brown, including light skinned romani people. Just like light skinned gay people would be generally considered white, or ethnic Jews who are light complected.

  The boundary between black (or brown, yellow, red, purple, or green) and white is not black and white, but the social implications can be pretty cut and dry if you find yourself strongly in one category or another in many parts of the world.

  Trying to assign someone as “Asian” is a somewhat more difficult task with more nuance, skin color though is pretty cut and dry.

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