I went to school with dif types of Asians n it was more about features. We had few south East Asians so was nvr categorized. We categorized, south asians as brown ps that’s their choice n middle eastern as Arab some Persian again by choice. East Asian ones got Asian
I’m not surprised that the CCP is bound to take over as the most dominant economy. If these are the cultural critics that are most listened to, don’t expect why everyone seems to be getting dumber.
@@zhrmz Before blaming CCP (Chinese Communist Party), learn history and realize that the British empire and America did and are doing the same thing. It's just that, previously communication wasn't advanced enough for everyone to share and know the truth (BRITISH EMPIRE: Famine in India, Evil Corporisation of East India Company, Architecting the Bengal Famine by the redirection of food resources to Britain's war effort, Contribution to the Middle East Conflict known as Sykes-Pico agreement. America: Native American Laws, Attacking oil-rich countries to reduce the price of oil by each barrel, Puerto Rice as an unincorporated territory, etc. If these are the cultural critics that are not listened to, I'm not surprised that you are not dumber.
I agree some what. It doesn’t make sense that South Asians are considered the same race as Chinese Asians. Do we even look similar? Also South Asians are rarely represented when they say Asian. We are the faceless Asians in this country.
Why is there so little representation of the South Asians. Every time they talk about Asians they only show one type of Asian. South Asians, like myself are always left out, or under represented. They might show one, light skinned, South Asian, and five or six Of the other type of Asian. We South Asians are the faceless Asians. PBS even has an interview with a guy on his book on the stereotypes of Asians, and he mentions and shows Chinese looking Asians. He then says his group is invisible. What about South Asians. Our group is truly invisible, most people in America don’t even know we are Asians. Truth is, that seems to be because we are never represented when the media talks about Asians and It seams deliberate.
You're right! I am glad you brought this up because I never thought of it. Asians that are represented in the media are often Japanese, Korean, or Chinese and have one specific look to them. From Crazy Rich Asians to Shang-Chi they're mostly East Asians. I've never seen Indonesians, Bengalees, or Filipinos being heavily portrayed like this. Even "stop Asian hate" has faces of all East Asian people. We're conditioned to see Asians as one type that we've normalized removing every other Asian from being Asian. I even sometimes forget Central Asians are Asians.
Because we are different and still Asian but of another ethnic mixture which is similar to Black and White mixed. I’m a dark skinned Gujarati guy and in no way shape or form would anyone ever mistake me for another type of Asian.
What does "white" mean? What does "Asian" mean? If Asian is a continent, and white is just a skin color, then Asians are the people of colors that go from white to black! It's never one color - it's a bunch of different colors. Also, people from all over the Asia can have a look that does NOT necessarily include a special skin-rich "Asian" eye-lid. For example, Indians are from an Asian continent and they don't have a stereotypical "asian" eye-lid. Many Russians are from an Asian continent too, and some of them are partially "mixed" with populations like Kazakh, Chinese, and Native Koryak, Buryat, or Bashkir people. And none of those Russians have the "Asian" eye-lid, but some actually do.....So, even they (Russians alone - people from one single country) cannot be defined by only one look! If you can't define particular one look even in a single country, how would you do that with a whole continent that has a bunch of different countries? If you take a white-skinned Chinese and put him next to a black-skinned Uzbek, or a very black Indian and describe them as having the same look, race, and skin color - you are NOT only color-blind, you are delusional. If you take a brown-skinned Tibetan and put him next to white-skinned Chinese and assume they have identical culture, ethnicity, and experience because they are both Asians, then you are dangerously lost in the land of ignorance. No wonder those color/race labels are a mess, thanks to the truly dumb US census.
White is not a skin color white means that you have European DNA . There black people that have pale skin are they white no there not also some have straight hair does that mean there White no .
White means of European decent. Asian for most people means South East Asia (China, Japan and Korea) and South area (Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, ect). There is also the Asian continent, but when people talk about Asian as in a race or people, they mean what I said I said.
The story in the movie " Do The Right Thing", about the asian store, owner, was a true story. In the book "The Autobiography of Malcom X" , he told the story about an asian store owner claiming to be colored during a riot. Spike lee used that story from the book.
@@RexZero91 I grew up in a white town, and both the white and few black people there felt it was wrong to be prejudice towards blacks but perfectly fine to be prejudice towards asians. 🙄
I am from Pittsburgh and found it strange that they couldn't put Franco Hharris or Roy Campanella, Jr. on the wall. In Pittsburgh, Franco Harris holds a place of honor in Italian stores.
I don't understand the title of this video. Why would Asians want to be "next in line to be white?" What is wrong with being Asian and happy that's who you are? As a child, I wished my eyes were less slanted, that I was blonde and blue eyed. I only achieved happiness when I saw myself as beautiful, just as I was. My features were not wrong, nor subpar, they were different. Isn't it alright to not want to be white, and be happy as who you are instead?
Exactly, but the left wants to divide us. They don't want us to see each other as individuals with our own personalities. They want us to believe that one group is automatically an oppressor, while the other is automatically the oppressed. That is a sick, poisonous concept. Just like how I should be happy with being white, you should be happy with being Asian. We are all beautiful, just the way we are, and nobody can change that.
That's the common sense you should never beg acceptance from any groups ever because you have ZERO self respect. The problem is they made it sound like you must be a leftist, only then you can "not claim yourself to be white".
@@andrewyerian214 Clearly you are talking from an emotional point. You are right, we all should be happy with our race, color, etc. But this concept of next in line to be white refers to the privilege that comes with the association of whiteness. You can argue that that privilege does not exist anymore (many people will tell you that's a lie), but the simple fact that the privilege existed and continues to impact minorities even now, it's a fact that cannot be denied. Black people were denied loans to buy properties in certain places (redlining), this act alone created a disparity in wealth. If a black family could afford to buy in a white neighborhood, should they be able to? I say yes, but banks back them said no to those black families and they had to go and buy in neighborhoods the banks would lend them money. After many decades, those white neighborhoods have appreciated far faster than black neighborhoods, this led to white families having more equity, which is money to use in creating businesses, investing or just paying for higher education, etc. which led to even bigger economic disparity. If we look at the asian population, they fought to be categorized to be white to be able to become citizens and have all the rights citizens had, like voting and owning land. As you can see in history, all this attempts were futile back them, eventually they won and were able to become citizens. When they say asians are next in line to be white, they don't talk about how Asians need to forget about their culture and be more white, they talk about the privileges that asians have that are closer to whites than black or hispanics. As we saw during the pandemic, Asians are still suffering from discrimination and racism, but we have focused on the discrimination that we see with the black and brown communities.
It's so strange to center everything on this spectrum of "whiteness" and "blackness", as well as how "whiteness" is about oppression of non-whites. This does not represent the ethnically diverse America I grew up in, nor does it represent the celebration of cultural and ethnic diversity seen in many major US metropolitan areas I've lived in. I'm Asian, if that matters. The only area I can think of where racism is institutionalized today is higher education.
that because CRT is 40s years old. It explains a how things where in 1970s or 1960s America. Once America become more diverse than white and blackness binary explanation no long works.
i have seen institutionalized racism in the police force, federal agency, military (to a degree), everyday living , and in congress/presidential/ and local policies.
@@danielh7451 do you not watch national news? listen to people stories, and watch youtube? there is so much info that sending one or two would not do it justice. Also trust me bro??? forreal!?!?!
Ironically, many enlisted Koreans get to understand black culture through black men on the US military bases I taught a Korean student who’d always ask questions about my culture and to give him a black English name
I wish countries made it easy for their citizens to learn about other cultures (and encouraged it). I'm sure you didn't mind talking about your experience. But our world is getting so connected i think it's more important than ever
black culture? so crime, thuggery, violence, deceit? There are less black people in the US military than black. There is no such thing as black english. What you encountered was a person who liked rap culture.
Don't forget about the Asian store owner in Falling Down. Dfens go on a tirade against the owner about high prices in his convenience store and the fact that he's been in the country for so long that he cannot properly speak English. Dfens: How much is a can of soda Owner: eighty-fi cents Dfens: it's eighty-five cents. What, they don't have V's in China? Owner: I'm Korean
Is it me or is the term used fluidly? Sometimes it means race. Sometimes it means ethnicity *wasps. Sometimes privilege. George Zimmerman is called white, but is he?
He is half German descent , so he is the literal definition DNA-wise . Or at least half of it . Where do you think the name Zimmerman comes frm . . ? Lol . His mother is Peruvian , which is where he gets his "ethnic" look frm . 👍🏼 Native American features are pretty strong in general , which is why many solid Latinos tend to look heavily Indigenous . Some will call him whte , others may refer to him as a "whte Hispanic/Latino" . Either way , they are not incorrect . He has a whte father .
@@sarahdanielle6884 Being half white doesn't qualify him as white. And in the case of being treated with privilege, all you have to do is look white. He doesn't in the least. Not to defend Zimmerman in any way. I take exception with the outcome of his trial, to put it mildly. My point is, white can mean so many things and its use is hardly consistent. I doubt someone who looks like George Zimmerman or Bob Marley whom was also half "white" gets treated like me, looking very much "white". Yet, my mother who has red hair and fair skin isn't considered "white" by her neighbors in Harlem because she is an Italian immigrant and works in retail. This seems to be more in line with the meaning of white by older folks who used to take it as a term for wasps, the ruling class of the time. White seems to sometimes mean race and other times mean ethnicity. Or even privilege and social class. PS I thought the name Zimmerman came from Brighton Beach! ;)
@@williamharding1319 Whn I look up the surname Zimmerman , it states its origin being frm Germany and translating to carpenter in German . So , his father could be of Jewish descent frm Germany , whch you know is pretty common , or jst of German descent . . . Again , Indigenous genes are strong much like African , so it's not uncommon for biracial ppl to look more like their non-white side . The only times they will look more on the whte side is whn the non-white parent has some distant whte admixture . If you look at George Zimmerman's mother , she seems to be a solidly Indigenous Peruvian woman .
@@sarahdanielle6884 Yes, I'm aware of the origins of his name. It was an attempt at humor. Hence the wink ;) I also happen to speak German. That's exactly my point. There is white as a racial identifier then there is white as a personal identity. There is also white as a privileged social class. They can intersect but aren't always the same thing. If the police stop a biracial person who looks black, the outcome is often different than if a person who looks white. Regardless of how the person identifies. Otherwise, black men across America would be able to shout "I feel white!" whenever suffering at the hands of the police. So that's a question of race. White meaning white people. Not as A people. Bosnians and Danes aren't a people. But they're both likely to be white. So the term is used very fluidly and can mean very different things. The same distinction can be made for Asians. In fact, it's even more extreme since asians aren't a race nor are they a people. Asia is made up of very different people. In America people tend to use it to mean East Asian, which is already a broad generalization.
The book "How the Irish Became White" is especially interesting if anyone is interested in further reading. Whiteness and who gets to benefit from white privilege is ever evolving. It once did not extend to the Irish, later the Italians, etc. In order to benefit from white privilege, European groups who were not considered "white" or at least not "white enough" had to align with the perceived white "common man" crowd against another group. For the Irish, it was Black people; for the Italians, it was Latino/Latinx people. While I do think it's theoretically possible for Asian Americans in the future to potentially further adapt the definition of whiteness and access that social privilege, they would have to do it to the detriment of another community, and I don't see that happening at this point in our social consciousness.
So…..Is there a ceremony where whites pass on the title? Do I bring Macaroni and Cheese, or Pork and beans? Will the Macarena be played? And can I still use the word “ Exotic”? Please respond. I don’t want to miss the party. Konichi wa!
You celebrate by doing fentanyl, having $100k in college debt, cutting out every family member from your life, and performing mutilation surgery and becoming a girl.
This was very well done for a possibly uncomfortable and abstract discussion. I can tell there was a lot of thoughtfulness that went into approaching this topic. Good job guys!
asians are not like other people. they are beings who act angry all the time constantly doing things out of spite as if they dont like being human. then they complain about every race behind closed doors and then act woke and appropriate black problems publically. they make technology and copy white boybands while claiming to hate white oppression. they act as if they dont have morals or a brain and only exist to troll other races.
This is a good series and I hope that many immigrants from India and Phiipines in particular see this video to realize that they cannot hold onto the same hierarchal beliefs that they held in their country's of origin.
Regarding that Sikh calling him with Hindu caste 1. That is illogical as he is beliving in Hindu caste but is not following guidelines of hindu religious caste that on leaving religion caste ends 2. Is Hypocritical As if I belive in sikh terms and won't follow Guidelines so he won't like it. 3. Is technically wrong as he had blood of many caste in his body so he can't associate with only one caste. 4. Is against his own religion as in his religion he is not allowed to use Hindu caste.
asians are not like other people. they are beings who act angry all the time constantly doing things out of spite as if they dont like being human. then they complain about every race behind closed doors and then act woke and appropriate black problems publically. they make technology and copy white boybands while claiming to hate white oppression. they act as if they dont have morals or a brain and only exist to troll other races.
Why do we even call a group of people by their skin tone in the first place anyways??? 🤨 I never thought about this before but, now I'm starting to realise how stupid it is. All races and ethnicities can come in different skin tones.
I feel like you're very close to an important revelation here. Is it that races and ethnicities come in different skin tones, or is there something fundamentally irrenconcilable about the notion of 'races and ethnicities' to begin with?
@@emlmm88 The notions or race and ethnicity are basically just putting people groups into categories, nothing innately bad about that. People groups are a real thing.
It's only important to racist people who are looking for issues... It's so dumb you have to feel smart when you get it. Like you invented a new element
According to CRT, whiteness isn't about skin colour, but the legal system. Paraphrasing, it's inscribed into the law, so certain people can own property, at the expense of others. If you look across the globe and back through history, many empires and ethnic groups have done similar things. In modern China, Han Chinese are the dominant ethnic group, who have most of the power. th-cam.com/video/iA566lNkNiU/w-d-xo.html
White people have no more power than anyone else. It is literally federal law. Granted they do have less power even though they are a minority world wide which is illegal but here we are.
The next in line to be white are people of lighter complexion with white features. ie white hispanics, Armenians and other races that can pass. Asians are still very much seen as different. Just because there was one asian guy in get out, doesn’t mean white people see them as the same, it means they know that Asian minorities are just as racist to black people as they are. Yes, some have lighter complexion, but many things about Asians feature wise are very different, and to white people those features are inferior. Genetically speaking, it would take centuries to change these features. But in my opinion, with how mixed the whole world is becoming, why would everyone want to look European, Asians have many beautiful features and they age better, not to mention amazing cultures that are not even comparable to boring American white culture. It sucks that race dysphoria is so prevalent, especially in Asian cultures. It’s important to be proud of your true race or races, and not wish to change or act as if you are better than other minorities, because any race other than white is labeled “minority” for a reason.
Hey i agree with your message but i disagree about how you look down on white culture. Asian culture has bad things about it also, like how asians overwork themselves and become stressed. Also both white and asian people have good features. Redheads and freckles to name a few
I’m not looking down on white culture, it’s the truth. I am white, and I feel that white people in America lack depth. American traditions aren’t as fun and interesting as other cultures.When minorities come to America they keep their culture and practices (most of the time). But white people pretty much forgot those cultures, and don’t speak the native languages to their ancestors. It’s upsetting.
@@negativeiqpoints396 he just want to stick up for white people that’s stop sticking up For them he must be one of them that’s why he disagree lol white don’t like nobody if they not white remember ✊✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Asainsandblacks been together since time dude do your history research
That’s the impact of racism and white supremacy. having lighter skin in any race is viewed as superior, that’s the colorism you’re mentioned. I know it’s extreme in Asian hence the skin bleaching and also in Africa. The egregious moments in history penetrates so deeply and we see how it still affects us today. If folks don’t see it they’re asleep.
i wanna hear from asian Americans in the 1960s youtube is solely lacking on any good documentaries on this...and whiteness maybe a social construct but race/ethnicity is not, they also left out a bunch of jim crow cases that did go in asians "favor"
Nobody cares about ethnicity because that's not tied to power like whiteness is. They should have thought about that when came up with the term. It's just like the nobility back in Europe. It was a élite class so many people tried desperately through various means to become a noble by any mean necessary. So you ended up with bragging about being distantly related too some random Nobel or Royal and some people would be impressed with that then precede to give a form of social currency as a result. That translated to actual currency which translated to money and then political power which is really what people are after.
@@Not-Ap Which is why people tend to want to associate with 'whiteness' e.g. no accent except white american, skin lightening, monolid eye surgery, chinese people renting white people for higher social status
yeah they need to do like Crash Course does. They're doing a 50-part series on Black American History and it's so good. Asian American history will hopefully get that same kind of treatment too. But in the interim, these are still great videos. :)
Irish abc Italian people have faced racial injustice too. Asians will never be white but Asians actively try to be adjacent to whiteness and distance themselves from everything else, subconsciously or consciously. We see where (East) Asians live, who they choose to be around, the fact that many of them so badly want to distance themselves from people or color that they won't even date or marry other East Asians and prefer white partners, etc
I can see how those experiences would make you feel that way. ..I would have also agreed with you to a point as well until I found out how the Italians were treated here jn America before they were included under the white identity…it was kind of shocking tbh…race is a construct so…if it becomes convenient enough, it actually could be possible to include East asian Americans in whiteness in the future if it protects the current status quo…
Unironically yes (South East Asians, Japanese, Korean and Chinese)... But unfortunately for everyone else, South East Asians aren't as empathetic as Europeans. We ended slavery World wide, we created Human rights, Animal rights, Women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, Environmental rights, Workers rights, Democracy, Freedom of Speech and so on. Once we're gone, all that will disappear. Congratz, you're almost there. Hope you like the new future.
EXACTLY!! That's what U.S. citizens think all Asians are while Indians are also Asians because Asia is such a huge diverse continent like Africa. U.S. people think of East Asians of when ever they think of Asians. In fact the most cultural diverse places on earth are Asia and Africa.
From pop culture references to US Supreme court cases..excellent research and writing! Adrian and Dolly are fantastic hosts, too! Thanks, PBS! We need more, please!
"White" seems to be a word of choice in this ideology as they narrate. Let us not continue identifying each other as a skin color first and foremost. These two literally even said themselves that skin color is a social concept but yet they continue to argue that Asian people will "disappear" into "whiteness". But "whiteness" has a new definition apparently : the exploitation of land and people. So Asian people will disappear into exploitation. Now where are they getting exploited? This video FAILS to address that as we relate to TODAY, the here and now, the laws we have in place in the 21st century in AMERICA.
Your absolutely right. They are wasting tax dollars rambling about nonsense. They contradict their own interpretation. They continue to perpetuate division and segregation with their propaganda. It’s a shame what PBS has become. It’s also why their reach and engagement is in the toilet.
Way to misunderstand the point! By "disappear", they mean by becoming considered part of the exploiting class, not the exploited class, the way that the Irish, Italians, Slavs, and Jews went from being considered "coloured" (and discriminated against) to being considered "White" (and able to enjoy the social privilege that comes from being considered part of the dominant social group).
As a so called white person I've been called white trash by the African, Hispanic, and Asian. Racists come in all colors and races. Victims do too. white
i'm old enough to remember how, as world opinion closed in on them, Apartheid South Africa offered to let (south) Asian be "honorary whites." a few years later, Apartheid fell. maybe when whites are finally just another minority we'll finally start healing from our peculiar institution.
Probably not, because whites are important members of society, and have historically created many of the worlds most important innovations. A lot of the conversations, and your comment in particular, come from the fact that whites must have cheated to get where they are, when instead, you fail to look at the fact that many civilizations were not ready to advance into the Industrial Age, and their descendants suffered because they had no standing as the world modernized.
@@iSmellBreakfast they had not standing because of colonization, every ethic group contributed to what we have today.being important and being humble ( meaning not crusading that if you are not in power the system will fail) are too different things.
Reported in September 28, 2015 "Today, immigration to the U.S. is dominated by people born in Asia and Latin America, with immigrants from all of Europe accounting for only 10% of recent arrivals." - Source : Pew Research Center
When you educate yourself about American history from the perspective of non-white people to see how modern racial dynamics were produced, they call you obsessed. That’s because they feel threatened.
What is interesting is that instead of condemning the inherent deficiencies in a racial cast system. The Asian American legal strategy was to seek to join in a corrupt system at or near the same level as its most privileged cast. That is the definition of queuing up to be white. The Irish did the same, as did the Italians and later the Jews, who now not only consider themselves white but are referred to as white by the general public. Whiteness is looking at a system that is patently unfair and not being opposed to it, but wanting to join in on the fun of having privilege that is denied others. So yes Asians are have been queuing up for whiteness for quite some time.
middle eastern people went to court to be classed as white so they could be allowed US citizenship when only white people were allowed citizenship a lot of people now disagree they should be considered white and the hypocrisy that they are classed as white but not treated as white
Which makes absolutely no sense. I'm an American. My race shouldn't be a factor in employment, business loan, home loan, or rental just to determine if I get approved. American should do just fine with proper documentation.
Japan has the longest history of any non white civilization challenging white people status in the colonial era. Looking down Japanese people by white is usually done when going into the hole. But on the surface Japanese people seem like the runner up or in fact already surpassed.
Somehow they blamed the Asian store being attacked by black gangs on white supremacy , while also suggested that black and white in the context of race is a continuum.
Wherever and whenever there is oppression the dominant groups develop categories in ideology, law, and culture to justify their oppressive practices. All of my Greatgrandparents came from Southern Italy but one who came from Northern Italy. As peasants in Italy some of their parents were killed when they tried to occupy the land they farmed. But when my grandfather moved to Florida in 1962 he was refused the vote. My grandfather was quite racist so there was a bit of irony in all of this migration from Italy (1892) to New York and then to Florida. I am now considered "white." But I believe the only real solution is to abolish the category of "whiteness". We can't do that until we abolish imperialism and economic exploitation of people distant and near. It is the oppressive systems themselves that need such categories.
I agree. These videos have made me so angry at the history of race in this country (the usa). Part of me really wants to see all of the oppressed people rise up and forcibly take power. Other, more sensible, parts are just angry because I can't DO anything. But I can. I will no longer put "white" on any documents. Not sure, yet, what I will use instead (maybe Irish American? Unsure) but I will not put white.
@@gildedbear5355 I know you didn’t ask, but to me it seems like your desire to throw away your white label is somewhat self-centered, no? Like, what good does it do me to know that the white person getting promoted ahead of me at work doesn’t call themselves white? They still got the promotion, you know what I mean? What is the point of refusing to name yourself as white if society still grants you every privilege of whiteness? You will always function in society as a white fella. And that’s fine. You’re allowed to be white. And imo it’s generally a really healthy and rewarding experience to explore your cultural heritage and ancestral history, so I hope you enjoy and get something out of that! But it’s probably best that you try to accept that you occupy a position of whiteness in society and really consider how to actively use it to benefit others Have you ever tried being a follower? Like, find a racial movement and just… follow along. Be a grunt. Do the thankless work. That’d be really helpful, I think. And wherever you find yourself in a position of some authority or prestige, maybe take some time to analyze what factors might have caused you to be favored over others based on race, and then try to find ways to change things so that those factors are replaced with more racially equitable ones. All of this requires actively using your whiteness, though, so regardless of what box you choose to check on the next census, I would humbly ask that you never forget that you are white, and also not hate the fact that you are white
@@Gilamath. I do not wish to throw away the white label, I endeavor to abolish "whiteness" as a social category. Why? Because whiteness is only a justification for oppression across a color line. Whiteness must be abolished as a social and ideological category. But whiteness can't be abolished by personal rejection. It can only be abolished by abolishing the social and economic systems of oppression that creates whiteness in the first place. Any white person who affirms whiteness as a social category is by definition racist. Let us be clear, racism creates race as a social category; race as a category does not exist without racism to create it. Race is not a biological category except in racist ideology. The need to justify modern forms of oppression creates racism. Slavery did not exist to produce racism; modern slavery existed to produce sugar, cotton, and tobacco. Racism evolved as a social justification for slavery and imperial appropriation. I also want to make another point... When a dominant group of oppressors affirm their identity they are affirming their reason for oppression. When an oppressed group affirm their identity they are taking a first step to fighting oppression. It is only a first step because one cannot effectively fight racial oppression without fighting for all of the oppressed. This is not about personal identity so it has nothing to do with selfishness. There is much category confusion on the left between social status identity and personal identity. They are of course felt and thought the same by individuals in everyday lived-experience but they are separate analytical categories. More importantly you cannot fight social oppression through individual psychological reform. Social oppression is fought by organizing movements of solidarity of the oppressed. This category confusion was already recognized by Frantz Fanon and the French Existentialists in the 1950s. But their is something about U.S. self-help individualism that insists on substituting social identity with personal identity. Finally, the ideology of "whiteness" is an historical product of Western European Imperialism. Whiteness is not an eternal category. There is no biological category of race among human beings. Every single human being on earth, no matter skin color, is African.
@@Gilamath. If you are of the ruling class in order to fight oppression you must be a traitor to your class. If you are of a dominating group in order to fight for equality you must be a traitor to your group identity. This is true everywhere. Historically it has been true since the rise of civilization, ruling classes, state systems, and empires. I am proud to be a traitor to the ruling classes and the dominant groups I belong to. I for equality, freedom, and solidarity of all the oppressed.
@@monacojerry friend, my comment wasn’t responding to you. And… wow. This is a lot. I was in this phase one upon a time. You’re not wrong, I just wonder if you need this much intellectual trimming around such a modest set of actionable goals
I have friend that grew up in central America digging in landfills to find Food. And you have absolute wastes of resources and mental capacity contributing this abomination. Absolutely insanity.
To label Asian Americans as next in line to be white is wrong. Why would they want that? I certainly haven't seen any of them advocating for such a thing. We are all beautiful, just the way we are, and there is nothing anybody can do to change that.
Are you serious do you realize the plethora of Asian women who do nothing but date white man . Let's not forget about the makeup that they put on dying there hair blonde . and all the plastic surgeries that they have to try and look white
In cities like New York and Los Angeles where police are instructed to target black/brown minorities there have been multiple whistleblower cops that have openly said they've been instructed to leave Asians alone especially if they're light-skinned. There is zero anti-Asian prejudice in the tech and medical fields. There isn't a single real estate market in the USA that avoids Asian home buyers. So yes...they are very much accepted into the white spaces of the world.
What I've noticed in the past couple of years - Afrocentrics and Gen Z Americans claiming peoples of the Horn of Africa to be black. Funnily enough - many Ethiopians/Somalis don't claim to be. 😂
@@nemanjastosic7141 😂 I know. They think race is based off skin tone. They're dark skin Caucasians not the same as black Afro African. From what I heard most Ethopians are more European than Afro African. I don't care what Westerners say because Ethopians in Ethopia bring this up and let Afro Africans know there is a difference between them
@@nemanjastosic7141 No, Ethiopians are bl4ck due to genetics, 90% of Africans have bl4ck dna. Even the Khoisan’s look light skinned but they still are genetically African.
In my opinion, this really fails as an educational video: I came in not knowing which groups of people previously "became white", and left not knowing (Other comments pointed me in the right direction). Surely talking about the disappearance of these groups is crucial to understand the words "next in line to disappear", which are so central to the quote. Worse than that, by including only 1920s attempts and saying that the understanding of race changes over time, this video could very easily give the opposite impression, that Asian Americans can become white, and can do so soon. A proper exploration of this topic would be great, but this video really isn't.
The Irish became white when they were needed to help maintain power over other minorities. That's the only way new groups become white, because whiteness means abandoning your culture to join the in-group and maintain power over the out-group
@@Kemetyu-Centered36 awwww…. Like the “white supremacists” that allegedly kept violently attacking Asian people every day…… but then we all saw the actual footage and learned the truth??
@@nrok113 That's literally not how whiteness works. It just means that you have adopted american middle class values, at this point. Those who refuse to, continually fail as a group. Those who do, succeed. It's incredibly simple and things like "critical race theory" do everything possible but confront the problem directly, because at the end of the day blaming White People for working all day every day to help you leaves nobodys fault but your own.
@@Jay-cp9kd if you are suggesting that the majority of Asian attacks were not white, you are sadly mistaken. Mainstream news outlets highlighted the attacks that involved black assailants. Do your research.
@@midwings00 it wasn't clear to me from this video so I looked it up (in case you're curious) calling the Sikh man "a high caste Hindu" was the strategy of his white American lawyer, rooted in the racist pseudoscience that the British used to construct the hierarchical caste system favoring light skinned Indians.
But somehow this line still somewhat rings true. I have extended relatives that condescend their roots from the east, and behave as if they are more superior than their eastern counterpart. You can’t help but wonder if they are indeed gradually becoming more “white” and just “Asian by name”. You can’t confront them, because they are at least two generations apart. And sometimes they treat us (eastern part of the world) as the “ignorant party”, while they themselves gradually appropriated eastern culture unnecessarily to make it look like they are still well cultured. In fact, what they do, accidentally reversed the “ignorance” with the eastern counterpart wondering “what the heck are they trying to do misrepresenting their roots as a whole.” You can’t tell them that they are becoming “white”, because they are too proud of themselves to even admit it. They often display it on family conversations or once in a blue moon visits, expected to be given treatment or to take their bills in their place. Wished we here could have a more open conversation with them on this topic, but sadly that will never happen given how stuck up they’ve been during the last few decades.
It's sadly because the early appeal of the US was 'success' through cultural discardment and assimilation into 'whiteness' and as they would likely be put under more pressure back then to be very anti-communist they would want to dissassociate themselves maybe from the pride the CCP has in chinese heritage.
@@unnamed7158 , the problem is this has nothing to do with the CCP. Let’s not forget that there are Chinese in places outside mainland China, and to discount them because of views we have that Chinese must belong to the mainland and mainland alone (and are expected to have a bit of roots of the current government there), is to be proven equally as ignorant as the relatives abroad who are overly assimilating with another culture. To be fair, to be Chinese, has nothing to do with communism, as how some people can’t help putting everyone of us in. There have been overseas Chinese that are on neither side of the fence that’s happening in East Asia, but has still remained connected with their relatives and heritage without having politics interfering in between. I am not sure what your assumptions are that the CCP has to be brought into this, given we are talking about Chinese living outside China but still within the region of Asia, especially South East Asia. Our heritage has never been bounded with the communist guys, because our ancestors settled down in SEA before communism even came into China, or even earlier when foreign colonies started taking root around the region. Some living much earlier, before the western colonies came in, probably as old as when a famous Imperial Chinese admiral set sail and establish further trades with the west, or even older if we take a step back even further. The issue has nothing to do with dissociating oneself from the pride of the CCP that is in our heritage. The CCP is only an icing on the cake, given how heritage itself has been extended since ancient times rather than the recent past. It hasn’t changed much, I believe, even when recent developments had taken place for the last century or so. So kindly refrain from bringing the CCP into the topic. This is a problem more with cultural discardment and assimilation, as you had said earlier, and probably best stopped there. You can still be Chinese and anti-communist. Or as some people see it, certain HKies and Taiwanese people (of course, sensitive topic because some do not regard themselves of having ancestry traced to China). Practices have been long established before communism had taken root, but the condescension has somehow partially came from age old beliefs that “no one is more civilised than western civilisations”. The old view goes rather contrary to what history has actually written about many times regarding Chinese knowledge and tech actually getting smuggled to the west instead, and countless accounts dating as far back as during the dark ages of Europe where eastern ancient civilisations had a kingdom and tech that’s more advanced than what has been seen anywhere else in the world at that time. Then again, explaining all these will only make this issue at hand “digress”,even when explained for better context. If I were to look at it once again from some western overseas Chinese, they’ve too been in the west probably preceding the rise of communism to a certain degree. A century preceding the Second World War might’ve been the earliest record. And they still hold fast to their roots, which we in the east can recognise that some of them still preserved well. It’s just some people today, who think they are more Chinese than their eastern counterpart, or occasionally display the “whiteness” in their assimilation (apologies, I’m trying to avoid saying whiteness, because algorithms these days flag us for doing that to a certain degree). But becomes so distinct, they actually begin attacking their eastern counterparts for being ignorant and sorts. I wished this was only a dream, but hey, yours truly here had been personally attacked by other overseas Chinese for views going contrary to theirs. An example of that was a conversation about how filial piety actually works against the misconception western countries have in regards to that at an extreme level that we sometimes see some people here overdoing. They often assume the “one size fits all”, like putting everyone within the same box instead of understanding how nuance the topic really is. But often are quicker to judge and place judgement upon others till they are unfortunately stuck up in their views. Speaking from further experience, they tend to react very negatively towards anyone opposing their views as opposed to the ones still living within Asia. We here in the east have equal struggles, had already found a resolution and balance between the two. Just so you know, while suggesting a balance and context, in the end we get attacked by the “holier than thou art” guys to the point one has to wonder if they overly assimilated or experiencing their own cultural heritage crisis, or they themselves had no idea about their roots as there’s not much emphasis by some folks who went abroad and completely assimilated in another culture as a whole (while holding archaic views). I believe I seen more of the latter, leading to endless disagreements between both sides of the world over what is ok and what isn’t. Before anyone decides to jump and say “it’s wrong and I’m right”, we should have more conversations for cultural exchanges to have a better view of the situation. The thing is, and this is an even greater irony, as I observed. My living relatives, quite distant, in China keeps a steadier record of the family tree than our relatives living in the west. Plus, they have a better life where they reside and still remained humble down to their roots, than the ones living in the west at times. You just can’t help wonder why the western side seems too keen to condescend the other. This has nothing to do with local politics in the east; its just time tested values in the family being brought down and passed on as time goes by. In the west, they discard a lot of the values, and reappropriated whatever that’s left to their advantage. Anyone steeped in the culture itself, ironically will be able to call out their nonsense. But then, we normally don’t confront them out much, given it’s also partly in our culture not to cause unnecessary rifts. On the other side of the world though, when they don’t like it, they voice grievances and condescension, and create further rifts. But pushed the blame of the rift on someone else. What’s more, I know someone that dominate family chat groups with bombastic rules they set but break and twist to suit their narratives. (😂). Like the initial rule that there should not be politics, shortly followed by a political post on the group chat. (🤦♂️) In case you didn’t get too far, and decide to read the last paragraph, let me just wrap it up that dissociating oneself from being anti-communist is a huge misnomer given there are many Chinese outside the mainland who have never been under such rule nor known anything about CCP pride within our heritage. Our heritage has nothing to do with the CCP. Even when comparing our culture now with our eastern counterparts, nothing has really changed at all since the CCP appeared, because our heritage transcends politics. To associate us with CCP pride, is just as nuts as we associate every westerner to be Christians. Something just does not make any sense for those who know. That might be best compared between a mainland Chinese who resettled in a western country when the CCP was in power. But this situation goes way back longer than that.
Love this series. Disappointed that it took a mass shooting and a rise in attacks on our community for PBS to put on this program. And that it only lasts for AANHPI history month.
We weren't until we were. Membership in the club remains provisional; to this day there are some who would throw us out. Some put us on the same little list as Blacks, Hispanics, gender minorities, women, and the poor.
So well written and expressed. Working together was discouraged because of how effective it would be to dismantle a system that was created to hinder our growth as Asian and African Americans. Videos like this really encourage complex conversations, admission of facilitating disparities of other people of color and creates a sense of togetherness between Asians and Blacks that I hope continues long term. Thank you for your thoughtful commentary 💓
Asians are the most prosperous demographic in the country. To put Asians in the same category as black people is misleading on many different levels. Black people are stuck in victim mentality mode. Asians don’t have a victim mentality, they get things done
We don’t have white privilege, we have reverse racism in higher Ed and bamboo ceiling in corporations. Despite all those things working against us, we still over index in schools and corporate roles. However, top jobs are often mainly given to white men or women (more recently to white women to claim diversity) despite Asians stand a much larger percentage of college grads from top schools.
@@caseclosed9342 Asians also have a harder time getting loans for a nice house in the suburbs despite having good jobs and a good credit score. Not gonna lie, Asians might become the future in America if they are this successful
Regarding that Sikh calling him with Hindu caste 1. That is illogical as he is beliving in Hindu caste but is not following guidelines of hindu religious caste that on leaving religion caste ends 2. Is Hypocritical As if I belive in sikh terms and won't follow Guidelines so he won't like it. 3. Is technically wrong as he had blood of many caste in his body so he can't associate with only one caste. 4. Is against his own religion as in his religion he is not allowed to use Hindu caste.
"Never" is hard to prove, and "white" is easy to redefine. The Irish _became_ white, as did the Italians, the Jews, and the Poles. "Whiteness" isn't biological, or even optical; it's a club, one they can beat you with, or let you join. I think it entirely possible for Asian-Americans to be the next in line to be called white, as a way to keep 'whiteness' a majority. If so then it'll be a matter of numbers, not merit. Also, club membership will always be subtly provisional. Ask the Irish, the Italians, the Jews and the Poles for details.
Whte supremacists/nationalists wld disagree w you bc for them , genetics are a major factor . I've read online forum discussions of them questioning whether Greeks & Romans were technically whte due to their look . Why do you think they uphold the Nordics and the Scandinavian ppl ? Bc they are the fairest w the highest percentage for blue eyes and blond hair . I understand the social construct concept everybody talks about , but let's not act like appearance and geographical location doesn't mean anything whn it comes to race . . . Also , there's a reason blck ppl were instantly seen as inferior to the whte man whn they first laid eyes on them . Their very dark skin , much different hair texture , and very different facial features . Bottomline , appearance matters . And East/Southeast/South Asians look very different frm whtes , so I dnt think they cld evr get past tht fact evn if the doors one day open . Just saying .
@@sarahdanielle6884 I'm not a White nationalist, but your comment is spot on. Race is genetic first and foremost. Ethnic and cultural identity comes after. East Asians will never be White unless they completely assimilate into the White/European genepool.
There's a big problem with what you're saying: Poles, Italians, & Jews (Ashkenazim, Sephardic, & Mizrahim) are white! Caucasians are indeed a race as Mongoloids are. It's an anthropological term. In reality, Continental Asians actually already are separated into Caucasian (Iranians, Arabs, etc), Mongoloids (Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Japanese etc). South Asians are considered their own category in many countries because of their distinct features.
@@sarahdanielle6884 This - "blck ppl were instantly seen as inferior to the whte man whn they first laid eyes on them" is untrue. 'Black' and 'white' people didn't even exist until racist structures of supremacy had already been set up, and in the middle-ages there was no real distinction between the two. In fact, several of the most classically protagonist-y characters in Arthurian lore were from east africa. Described as 'dark' or 'black', but only in the technical sense.
@@sarahdanielle6884 There are different kinds of White Supremacists, and they don't all uphold the Nordics as an ideal. Neo-Nazis sure do, but there are Slavic White Supremacists in the world, even though Nazis and Neo-Nazis considered Slavs non-White subhumans who needed to be exterminated.
Here's a question: define "white". How far into Asia must one look to cross the line out of "whiteness" and into "POC-ness"? Europe is not a continent, it's a region of Eurasia, so there is no magic line separating Asia from Europe. So where exactly does whiteness end and Asian-ness begin? Is it Russia? Greece? Turkey? Georgia? Kazakhstan? There are completely white-appearing people in northern Pakistan, and very dark, visually non-whites in some proportion of Southern and Eastern Europeans. Race is not a binary, but a spectrum. We should ask "white/not", but rather "how white" and "in what way white".
This is such a strange and disappointing note to end this series on. You've chosen to ask a deeply provocative question and made the decision to support your points with legal cases nearly a century old. Your most recent examples are from works of fiction. The latter of which, the scene in which Sonny the Korean grocer defends his shop, is uncharitably interpreted as "claiming blackness only when convenient to protect himself", when the movie itself makes it clear that he is not speaking in his mother tongue and is trying desperately to communicate that he and the "mob" have more in common than they think. Even the crowd realizes this quickly, after a moment of confusion. Sonny even offers a handshake to to show camaraderie to them. But this doesn't support your point, so you've chosen to edit it out instead. God forbid if this video goes over 8 minutes. Of course AAPI are never going to pass as white. Please don't let that stop you from having both your hosts wag their fingers at AAPI anyway, in a galling conclusion to a video series that, in the wake of some of the worst hate crimes against Asian Americans in recent memory, chooses to lecture and patronize them about their privilege, as if they weren't fearing for their lives and more copycat attacks. Really appreciate it.
Another thing ppl seem to fail to realize is the difference in culture tht Eastern ppl hve . The fact tht Asians have a culture tht is almost like the direct opposite of Western culture is enough to make them too different to join their hierarchy . Unless those Asian descent ppl are willing to completely wipe themselves of their heritage and solely claim Americanness or British , Canadian , etc then I can see how it would work . After all , thts wht many Hispanic Americans do who vote Republican and share the same conservative views as many whte Americans . They don't identify w their heritage and align themselves w whte views and a whte mentality . Many evn self-identify as whte . 👍🏼~
As an Asian, I do see assians are next in line to be white. Black people are already white, but we don't talk about it. I can't blame them though. History has taught us why. Japanese from the internment camp was transformed as well. They didn't have no choice but to survive in the world that was ever changing in them during that time. People in the States are changed to a "white" culture, because it is what is normal. As the bloodline continues, the loss culture becomes more prevalent. This goes to every race; Black, Hispanic, Asian, etc.
I see a lot people in the comments missed the point. The video was understood and I would say Cheyenne Lin is another person who makes good content a she is Chinese american who was adopted from China as a baby she has a lot of things to share on her TH-cam channel.
This mini series was awesome! Please do some follow up episodes. Wasn't expecting to learn some basic concepts of critical race theory in under 5 minutes
I’m a young Hmong American…folks just remember not all Asians are equal. All this white-talk is nonsense. Why teach such ideologies like this when we can learn more practical/hands on subjects…
I would think white Latinos (not to be confused with mestizo Latinos) and Northeast Asians are already benefited from privilege. White Latinos (they are white people too) avoid their ancestor’s destruction of Amerindian societies and cultures in the Americas, and maintain a Latino minority label. Northeast Asians, especially the Chinese, are involved in neocolonialism where they indebt the Global South as to control raw materials and geography.
The only white Latino are people from Spain and Argentina other then that Latinos are a mix . Am Latino myself and trust me were not seen as white people by them
@@unnamed7158 the global south are the countries which are exploited to maintain global white supremacy. Their people, labor, natural resources etc. Think of the term 3rd world vs 1st world :)
Not to mention Mestizo Latinos who favor their European ancestors phenotype, millions of medium brown Latinos are already intermarried with Anglos/whites and their children are just white
I actually think that people from Spanish speaking countries are given the ability to assimilate into Caucasian culture alot easier than Asian Americans. Look at Jennifer Lopez, she used to be Jenny from the block now she's Jennifer Affleck
@@mdc3148 we do have European dna but lots of Americans still go by the one drop rule and they think we're all short, brown Mexicans. There's even white Mexicans. I'm not Mexican and I also came out looking more European but I'm still not white. And tbh, I'm completely cool with that. I'm happy being who I am ✌
@@dangercat9188 The Anglo or Scandinavian phenotype should not be, and is not, the last word on being white as Europeans from all countries are varied in skin tone. I’m Mexican and my skin was whiter than my friend in high school whose ancestors were Dutch. Also, that is the point, like you said, to be yourself - and people should recognize our European side which in the case of most Hispanics/Latinos is half or more of us. It’s not about being anything other than you are.
japenis and worst koreans are not the only asians. Japan is too westernized already and doesn't count and can 快點沉進太平洋. Korea lose to communists so they need the handicap privilege.
What race makes the most money in the US? Asian Americans Asian Americans, with a population of around 1.8 crore, are the highest-earning ethnic group in the USA. The median household income for Asian-Americans stands at $87,243. However, Indians are the leading ethnic group among Asian-Americans.Jan 15, 2023
FYI, Be wary that they are using intersectional talking points. Please research this and watch debate to clear your mind from it. I am pretty sure these people are racists grifters.
This video's notion of "white" is incredibly racist and prejudicial. Cathy has really sold out to her ethnicity. People are people -- people are not "white" , "black", whatever. Treat people as individuals; spend some time actually getting to know people personally.
@I have no personality outside my sexuality What's your notion of free speech? I wonder how Cathy thinks of her position in 2022 given all the Asian woman hate that been going on. And it's simply outrageous that Asians are "white". This is a racist, prejudicial and ignorant statement that whitewashes 1000's of years of the Asian culture.
Please we live in a cast system just how Irish and Italian become white in the early 1900s so please don’t act like it don’t exist. Asians are closer to reach that milestone then blacks and we build this country and we still the bottom class
I'm so sad this is ending! At least it's going out on a topic I've been wondering about for a long time. This helped me redefine whiteness for myself, but now it makes me wonder: what would you call high-caste brahmins in India? There seems to be a similar scheme where they keep the power and money, based on their identity. Isn't that akin to whiteness? Though whiteness exists globally, too.
It’s… super complicated, obviously. Religion comes into it too. Not to mention that caste takes different forms inside India versus outside in Pakistan, Bangladesh, &c. Those two things are related, of course. Like, I’m rajput, but my family is Muslim, so there’s just no way I can take advantage of my caste as though I were Hindu. Indeed, many folks would say that I don’t count as having a caste at all anymore When it comes to Brahmins, the only ones who I’ve met who aren’t Hindu have been here in the US, but I don’t know what it would be like if they tried to re-base in India and tried to capitalize on their status. Caste definitely determines privilege, but that really does change and depends on a whole bunch of other factors Personally, I wouldn’t call the higher Brahmin castes similar in function to whiteness. I’d say it’s a different system of oppression, though the two systems are not entirely unrelated. Oppression tends to share notes with oppression
It's a class issue and not a white issue. Go to midwestern America and tell me all those poor white people in trailers are living in "whiteness". This color scheme needs to go because it's no longer about color it's about what position you are as an individual in the social ladder.
And it's also not about looking pale or white it's about the work ethics which white Americans envy about Asian Americans n this makes them wanna include Asians as white as they don't want minorities to prosper and this will improve their white hierarchy.
People are really really using the term “Asians” as if it’s just Chinese, Korean, or Japanese 💀
The video gave an example of a Sikh Punjabi though.
@@Rolando_Cueva ayeeee ruth ruth gore
pisses me off so much
I went to school with dif types of Asians n it was more about features. We had few south East Asians so was nvr categorized. We categorized, south asians as brown ps that’s their choice n middle eastern as Arab some Persian again by choice. East Asian ones got Asian
Lol Let’s be honest… don’t kid yourself
Imagine how long it took to go through and delete all the comments they disagreed with
A long time.
I’m not surprised that the CCP is bound to take over as the most dominant economy. If these are the cultural critics that are most listened to, don’t expect why everyone seems to be getting dumber.
@@zhrmz why are you talking about ccp??
@@zhrmz Before blaming CCP (Chinese Communist Party), learn history and realize that the British empire and America did and are doing the same thing. It's just that, previously communication wasn't advanced enough for everyone to share and know the truth (BRITISH EMPIRE: Famine in India, Evil Corporisation of East India Company, Architecting the Bengal Famine by the redirection of food resources to Britain's war effort, Contribution to the Middle East Conflict known as Sykes-Pico agreement. America: Native American Laws, Attacking oil-rich countries to reduce the price of oil by each barrel, Puerto Rice as an unincorporated territory, etc. If these are the cultural critics that are not listened to, I'm not surprised that you are not dumber.
@@zhrmz bruh why does everyone think I am Chinese?
I think we need to understand and acknowledge that Asia is very diverse. Not every group of Asians has the same experience.
Asian is not even a race, you can be fully white and Asian, lebaneses are fully white and fully Asian
I agree some what. It doesn’t make sense that South Asians are considered the same race as Chinese Asians. Do we even look similar? Also South Asians are rarely represented when they say Asian. We are the faceless Asians in this country.
@@inclusiveoutsider6854 imagine west Asians, they are not even considered Asians in the USA xd
@@TheSamuelbest12 thats right in USA they are called Middle Easterners.
dude not everyone have the same experience.. no one have the same experience..
It is WRONG to contain movies in this conversation. They looked at history did not talk about present condition.
Why is there so little representation of the South Asians. Every time they talk about Asians they only show one type of Asian. South Asians, like myself are always left out, or under represented. They might show one, light skinned, South Asian, and five or six Of the other type of Asian. We South Asians are the faceless Asians. PBS even has an interview with a guy on his book on the stereotypes of Asians, and he mentions and shows Chinese looking Asians. He then says his group is invisible. What about South Asians. Our group is truly invisible, most people in America don’t even know we are Asians. Truth is, that seems to be because we are never represented when the media talks about Asians and It seams deliberate.
You're right! I am glad you brought this up because I never thought of it. Asians that are represented in the media are often Japanese, Korean, or Chinese and have one specific look to them. From Crazy Rich Asians to Shang-Chi they're mostly East Asians. I've never seen Indonesians, Bengalees, or Filipinos being heavily portrayed like this. Even "stop Asian hate" has faces of all East Asian people. We're conditioned to see Asians as one type that we've normalized removing every other Asian from being Asian. I even sometimes forget Central Asians are Asians.
Because light skinned Asians dont care about dark skinned Asians lol. Simple as that.
Because we are different and still Asian but of another ethnic mixture which is similar to Black and White mixed. I’m a dark skinned Gujarati guy and in no way shape or form would anyone ever mistake me for another type of Asian.
Nothing wrong with it and I would argue that I’m seen as more masculine but full lips and almost like a straight haired Black.
They tried their best to seem sensitive to these matters, but failed miserably in the end. Do better.
What does "white" mean? What does "Asian" mean?
If Asian is a continent, and white is just a skin color, then Asians are the people of colors that go from white to black! It's never one color - it's a bunch of different colors. Also, people from all over the Asia can have a look that does NOT necessarily include a special skin-rich "Asian" eye-lid. For example, Indians are from an Asian continent and they don't have a stereotypical "asian" eye-lid. Many Russians are from an Asian continent too, and some of them are partially "mixed" with populations like Kazakh, Chinese, and Native Koryak, Buryat, or Bashkir people. And none of those Russians have the "Asian" eye-lid, but some actually do.....So, even they (Russians alone - people from one single country) cannot be defined by only one look! If you can't define particular one look even in a single country, how would you do that with a whole continent that has a bunch of different countries?
If you take a white-skinned Chinese and put him next to a black-skinned Uzbek, or a very black Indian and describe them as having the same look, race, and skin color - you are NOT only color-blind, you are delusional. If you take a brown-skinned Tibetan and put him next to white-skinned Chinese and assume they have identical culture, ethnicity, and experience because they are both Asians, then you are dangerously lost in the land of ignorance. No wonder those color/race labels are a mess, thanks to the truly dumb US census.
White is not a skin color white means that you have European DNA . There black people that have pale skin are they white no there not also some have straight hair does that mean there White no .
White means of European decent.
Asian for most people means South East Asia (China, Japan and Korea) and South area (Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, ect). There is also the Asian continent, but when people talk about Asian as in a race or people, they mean what I said I said.
White means you are pale enough and have some ancestors from Europe so it is ok to mistreat, abuse, and be racist towards.
@@ragejinraverthere’s no black person with pale skin. They are mixed. Same as there is no white person that is black skin.
It means you got slanted eyes with buck teeth or your white and look normal
I actually got bullied for being Asian since I was “white”
I wouldn't have bullied you
I want to be the token white guy around asians
The story in the movie " Do The Right Thing", about the asian store, owner, was a true story. In the book "The Autobiography of Malcom X" , he told the story about an asian store owner claiming to be colored during a riot. Spike lee used that story from the book.
We are coloured.🙄
@@oh_k8
I guess in a sense.
@@RexZero91 I grew up in a white town, and both the white and few black people there felt it was wrong to be prejudice towards blacks but perfectly fine to be prejudice towards asians. 🙄
And Asian people think its ok to be prejudiced against Gweilo.@@oh_k8
I am from Pittsburgh and found it strange that they couldn't put Franco Hharris or Roy Campanella, Jr. on the wall.
In Pittsburgh, Franco Harris holds a place of honor in Italian stores.
I don't understand the title of this video. Why would Asians want to be "next in line to be white?" What is wrong with being Asian and happy that's who you are? As a child, I wished my eyes were less slanted, that I was blonde and blue eyed. I only achieved happiness when I saw myself as beautiful, just as I was. My features were not wrong, nor subpar, they were different. Isn't it alright to not want to be white, and be happy as who you are instead?
Exactly, but the left wants to divide us. They don't want us to see each other as individuals with our own personalities. They want us to believe that one group is automatically an oppressor, while the other is automatically the oppressed. That is a sick, poisonous concept. Just like how I should be happy with being white, you should be happy with being Asian. We are all beautiful, just the way we are, and nobody can change that.
That's the common sense you should never beg acceptance from any groups ever because you have ZERO self respect. The problem is they made it sound like you must be a leftist, only then you can "not claim yourself to be white".
@@andrewyerian214 Clearly you are talking from an emotional point. You are right, we all should be happy with our race, color, etc. But this concept of next in line to be white refers to the privilege that comes with the association of whiteness. You can argue that that privilege does not exist anymore (many people will tell you that's a lie), but the simple fact that the privilege existed and continues to impact minorities even now, it's a fact that cannot be denied. Black people were denied loans to buy properties in certain places (redlining), this act alone created a disparity in wealth. If a black family could afford to buy in a white neighborhood, should they be able to? I say yes, but banks back them said no to those black families and they had to go and buy in neighborhoods the banks would lend them money. After many decades, those white neighborhoods have appreciated far faster than black neighborhoods, this led to white families having more equity, which is money to use in creating businesses, investing or just paying for higher education, etc. which led to even bigger economic disparity.
If we look at the asian population, they fought to be categorized to be white to be able to become citizens and have all the rights citizens had, like voting and owning land. As you can see in history, all this attempts were futile back them, eventually they won and were able to become citizens. When they say asians are next in line to be white, they don't talk about how Asians need to forget about their culture and be more white, they talk about the privileges that asians have that are closer to whites than black or hispanics. As we saw during the pandemic, Asians are still suffering from discrimination and racism, but we have focused on the discrimination that we see with the black and brown communities.
But the only different is the eyes asian had smaller eyes is that makes their skin different than white people ?
@@grandmaster6215 what?
It's so strange to center everything on this spectrum of "whiteness" and "blackness", as well as how "whiteness" is about oppression of non-whites. This does not represent the ethnically diverse America I grew up in, nor does it represent the celebration of cultural and ethnic diversity seen in many major US metropolitan areas I've lived in. I'm Asian, if that matters. The only area I can think of where racism is institutionalized today is higher education.
that because CRT is 40s years old. It explains a how things where in 1970s or 1960s America. Once America become more diverse than white and blackness binary explanation no long works.
i have seen institutionalized racism in the police force, federal agency, military (to a degree), everyday living , and in congress/presidential/ and local policies.
@@komea12 Wanna elaborate? With proof of your claims other than 'trust me bro'?
@@danielh7451 do you not watch national news? listen to people stories, and watch youtube? there is so much info that sending one or two would not do it justice. Also trust me bro??? forreal!?!?!
@@komea12 So you're using unspecified testimonials and TH-cam videos as proof? I don't know about you but that sounds alot like 'trust me bro' to me.
I grew up in Rosemead CA and asians were "racists" towards me, if not racista they were extremely rude
How do you know? different culture norms.
Ironically, many enlisted Koreans get to understand black culture through black men on the US military bases
I taught a Korean student who’d always ask questions about my culture and to give him a black English name
I wish countries made it easy for their citizens to learn about other cultures (and encouraged it). I'm sure you didn't mind talking about your experience. But our world is getting so connected i think it's more important than ever
black culture? so crime, thuggery, violence, deceit? There are less black people in the US military than black. There is no such thing as black english. What you encountered was a person who liked rap culture.
Don't forget about the Asian store owner in Falling Down. Dfens go on a tirade against the owner about high prices in his convenience store and the fact that he's been in the country for so long that he cannot properly speak English.
Dfens: How much is a can of soda
Owner: eighty-fi cents
Dfens: it's eighty-five cents. What, they don't have V's in China?
Owner: I'm Korean
Is it me or is the term used fluidly? Sometimes it means race. Sometimes it means ethnicity *wasps. Sometimes privilege. George Zimmerman is called white, but is he?
He is half German descent , so he is the literal definition DNA-wise . Or at least half of it . Where do you think the name Zimmerman comes frm . . ? Lol . His mother is Peruvian , which is where he gets his "ethnic" look frm . 👍🏼 Native American features are pretty strong in general , which is why many solid Latinos tend to look heavily Indigenous .
Some will call him whte , others may refer to him as a "whte Hispanic/Latino" . Either way , they are not incorrect . He has a whte father .
@@sarahdanielle6884 Being half white doesn't qualify him as white. And in the case of being treated with privilege, all you have to do is look white. He doesn't in the least. Not to defend Zimmerman in any way. I take exception with the outcome of his trial, to put it mildly. My point is, white can mean so many things and its use is hardly consistent. I doubt someone who looks like George Zimmerman or Bob Marley whom was also half "white" gets treated like me, looking very much "white". Yet, my mother who has red hair and fair skin isn't considered "white" by her neighbors in Harlem because she is an Italian immigrant and works in retail. This seems to be more in line with the meaning of white by older folks who used to take it as a term for wasps, the ruling class of the time. White seems to sometimes mean race and other times mean ethnicity. Or even privilege and social class. PS I thought the name Zimmerman came from Brighton Beach! ;)
@@williamharding1319 Whn I look up the surname Zimmerman , it states its origin being frm Germany and translating to carpenter in German . So , his father could be of Jewish descent frm Germany , whch you know is pretty common , or jst of German descent . . .
Again , Indigenous genes are strong much like African , so it's not uncommon for biracial ppl to look more like their non-white side . The only times they will look more on the whte side is whn the non-white parent has some distant whte admixture . If you look at George Zimmerman's mother , she seems to be a solidly Indigenous Peruvian woman .
@@sarahdanielle6884 Yes, I'm aware of the origins of his name. It was an attempt at humor. Hence the wink ;) I also happen to speak German. That's exactly my point. There is white as a racial identifier then there is white as a personal identity. There is also white as a privileged social class. They can intersect but aren't always the same thing. If the police stop a biracial person who looks black, the outcome is often different than if a person who looks white. Regardless of how the person identifies. Otherwise, black men across America would be able to shout "I feel white!" whenever suffering at the hands of the police. So that's a question of race. White meaning white people. Not as A people. Bosnians and Danes aren't a people. But they're both likely to be white. So the term is used very fluidly and can mean very different things. The same distinction can be made for Asians. In fact, it's even more extreme since asians aren't a race nor are they a people. Asia is made up of very different people. In America people tend to use it to mean East Asian, which is already a broad generalization.
@@sarahdanielle6884 his grandfather is part black
No, we are not.
The book "How the Irish Became White" is especially interesting if anyone is interested in further reading. Whiteness and who gets to benefit from white privilege is ever evolving. It once did not extend to the Irish, later the Italians, etc. In order to benefit from white privilege, European groups who were not considered "white" or at least not "white enough" had to align with the perceived white "common man" crowd against another group. For the Irish, it was Black people; for the Italians, it was Latino/Latinx people. While I do think it's theoretically possible for Asian Americans in the future to potentially further adapt the definition of whiteness and access that social privilege, they would have to do it to the detriment of another community, and I don't see that happening at this point in our social consciousness.
@P Ht mmkay, troll.
@P Ht just read the book...
I think it would be east asian guys(japanese, korean, taiwanese and certain chinese types) vs the rest of asians.
@P Ht thank you…. I was hoping there was at least one intelligent comment under this trash
Actually not all asian yellow people are similar to white people so I don't see this happening
So…..Is there a ceremony where whites pass on the title? Do I bring Macaroni and Cheese, or Pork and beans? Will the Macarena be played? And can I still use the word “ Exotic”? Please respond. I don’t want to miss the party. Konichi wa!
You celebrate by doing fentanyl, having $100k in college debt, cutting out every family member from your life, and performing mutilation surgery and becoming a girl.
Some people are only really referring to east Asians when they say Asian
This was very well done for a possibly uncomfortable and abstract discussion. I can tell there was a lot of thoughtfulness that went into approaching this topic. Good job guys!
asians are not like other people. they are beings who act angry all the time constantly doing things out of spite as if they dont like being human. then they complain about every race behind closed doors and then act woke and appropriate black problems publically. they make technology and copy white boybands while claiming to hate white oppression. they act as if they dont have morals or a brain and only exist to troll other races.
This is a good series and I hope that many immigrants from India and Phiipines in particular see this video to realize that they cannot hold onto the same hierarchal beliefs that they held in their country's of origin.
Regarding that Sikh calling him with Hindu caste
1. That is illogical as he is beliving in Hindu caste but is not following guidelines of hindu religious caste that on leaving religion caste ends
2. Is Hypocritical
As if I belive in sikh terms and won't follow Guidelines so he won't like it.
3. Is technically wrong as he had blood of many caste in his body so he can't associate with only one caste.
4. Is against his own religion as in his religion he is not allowed to use Hindu caste.
asians are not like other people. they are beings who act angry all the time constantly doing things out of spite as if they dont like being human. then they complain about every race behind closed doors and then act woke and appropriate black problems publically. they make technology and copy white boybands while claiming to hate white oppression. they act as if they dont have morals or a brain and only exist to troll other races.
Why do we even call a group of people by their skin tone in the first place anyways??? 🤨 I never thought about this before but, now I'm starting to realise how stupid it is. All races and ethnicities can come in different skin tones.
I feel like you're very close to an important revelation here. Is it that races and ethnicities come in different skin tones, or is there something fundamentally irrenconcilable about the notion of 'races and ethnicities' to begin with?
@@emlmm88 The notions or race and ethnicity are basically just putting people groups into categories, nothing innately bad about that. People groups are a real thing.
It's only important to racist people who are looking for issues... It's so dumb you have to feel smart when you get it. Like you invented a new element
We use the same exact same standard for every other form on this planet. Brown bears???? How abusrd!! Pfff, a Red nose??? Get out of here. 😂
According to CRT, whiteness isn't about skin colour, but the legal system. Paraphrasing, it's inscribed into the law, so certain people can own property, at the expense of others. If you look across the globe and back through history, many empires and ethnic groups have done similar things. In modern China, Han Chinese are the dominant ethnic group, who have most of the power.
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White people have no more power than anyone else. It is literally federal law. Granted they do have less power even though they are a minority world wide which is illegal but here we are.
The next in line to be white are people of lighter complexion with white features. ie white hispanics, Armenians and other races that can pass. Asians are still very much seen as different. Just because there was one asian guy in get out, doesn’t mean white people see them as the same, it means they know that Asian minorities are just as racist to black people as they are. Yes, some have lighter complexion, but many things about Asians feature wise are very different, and to white people those features are inferior. Genetically speaking, it would take centuries to change these features. But in my opinion, with how mixed the whole world is becoming, why would everyone want to look European, Asians have many beautiful features and they age better, not to mention amazing cultures that are not even comparable to boring American white culture. It sucks that race dysphoria is so prevalent, especially in Asian cultures. It’s important to be proud of your true race or races, and not wish to change or act as if you are better than other minorities, because any race other than white is labeled “minority” for a reason.
Hey i agree with your message but i disagree about how you look down on white culture. Asian culture has bad things about it also, like how asians overwork themselves and become stressed. Also both white and asian people have good features. Redheads and freckles to name a few
I’m not looking down on white culture, it’s the truth. I am white, and I feel that white people in America lack depth. American traditions aren’t as fun and interesting as other cultures.When minorities come to America they keep their culture and practices (most of the time). But white people pretty much forgot those cultures, and don’t speak the native languages to their ancestors. It’s upsetting.
??? Centuries??? It wouldn't take that long.
@@negativeiqpoints396 he just want to stick up for white people that’s stop sticking up
For them he must be one of them that’s why he disagree lol white don’t like nobody if they not white remember ✊✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Asainsandblacks been together since time dude do your history research
@@negativeiqpoints396 Asains are people of color use your brain 🧠😂☑️
As an asian outside of the us, the us history on colorism is very extreme, no wonder it leaves a scar so deep
It’s mainly racism though
One would think such a supposedly evil, oppressive, racist country wouldn’t incessantly talk about how evil, oppressive, and racist it is.
That’s the impact of racism and white supremacy. having lighter skin in any race is viewed as superior, that’s the colorism you’re mentioned. I know it’s extreme in Asian hence the skin bleaching and also in Africa. The egregious moments in history penetrates so deeply and we see how it still affects us today. If folks don’t see it they’re asleep.
Asia is a lot diverse, not all asians has the same experiences. Sometimes its best to be specific
They meant Asian = Indian. Don't get your head too big non Indian asians
Depends which Indians and social caste they are from.
i wanna hear from asian Americans in the 1960s youtube is solely lacking on any good documentaries on this...and whiteness maybe a social construct but race/ethnicity is not, they also left out a bunch of jim crow cases that did go in asians "favor"
Race is a social construct
Nobody cares about ethnicity because that's not tied to power like whiteness is. They should have thought about that when came up with the term. It's just like the nobility back in Europe. It was a élite class so many people tried desperately through various means to become a noble by any mean necessary. So you ended up with bragging about being distantly related too some random Nobel or Royal and some people would be impressed with that then precede to give a form of social currency as a result. That translated to actual currency which translated to money and then political power which is really what people are after.
@@Not-Ap Which is why people tend to want to associate with 'whiteness' e.g. no accent except white american, skin lightening, monolid eye surgery, chinese people renting white people for higher social status
@@artaquino6388 Indeed. Race is basically America's version of ethnicity, which has always been purely social.
This needs way more than 7 minutes to discuss
yeah they need to do like Crash Course does. They're doing a 50-part series on Black American History and it's so good. Asian American history will hopefully get that same kind of treatment too. But in the interim, these are still great videos. :)
@@cpi23 kimchi and adobo don’t look like they inspire confidence. Just where did these amateurs get their education? Tiktok?
No we aren't. I have had racial injustice happen to me many times as an Asian. Its just insane some people think this.
Irish abc Italian people have faced racial injustice too. Asians will never be white but Asians actively try to be adjacent to whiteness and distance themselves from everything else, subconsciously or consciously.
We see where (East) Asians live, who they choose to be around, the fact that many of them so badly want to distance themselves from people or color that they won't even date or marry other East Asians and prefer white partners, etc
I can see how those experiences would make you feel that way. ..I would have also agreed with you to a point as well until I found out how the Italians were treated here jn America before they were included under the white identity…it was kind of shocking tbh…race is a construct so…if it becomes convenient enough, it actually could be possible to include East asian Americans in whiteness in the future if it protects the current status quo…
Unironically yes (South East Asians, Japanese, Korean and Chinese)... But unfortunately for everyone else, South East Asians aren't as empathetic as Europeans. We ended slavery World wide, we created Human rights, Animal rights, Women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, Environmental rights, Workers rights, Democracy, Freedom of Speech and so on. Once we're gone, all that will disappear.
Congratz, you're almost there. Hope you like the new future.
Can u please say East Asian for godsake 🥱🥱
EXACTLY!! That's what U.S. citizens think all Asians are while Indians are also Asians because Asia is such a huge diverse continent like Africa.
U.S. people think of East Asians of when ever they think of Asians.
In fact the most cultural diverse places on earth are Asia and Africa.
@@Raccon_Detective. yes there are north asia , west asia, south asia, east asia, and south east asia.
she the type of person to say indians aren't asian
Imo north East Asians are white and south Asians are brown period
From pop culture references to US Supreme court cases..excellent research and writing! Adrian and Dolly are fantastic hosts, too! Thanks, PBS! We need more, please!
Wow. Just... WOW. There is so much wrong with this segment I'm not even sure where to start.
"White" seems to be a word of choice in this ideology as they narrate. Let us not continue identifying each other as a skin color first and foremost. These two literally even said themselves that skin color is a social concept but yet they continue to argue that Asian people will "disappear" into "whiteness". But "whiteness" has a new definition apparently : the exploitation of land and people. So Asian people will disappear into exploitation. Now where are they getting exploited? This video FAILS to address that as we relate to TODAY, the here and now, the laws we have in place in the 21st century in AMERICA.
Skin color is not a "social concept" (even though I know you meant social construct), skin color is real. Race and colorism are social constructs.
Your absolutely right. They are wasting tax dollars rambling about nonsense. They contradict their own interpretation. They continue to perpetuate division and segregation with their propaganda. It’s a shame what PBS has become. It’s also why their reach and engagement is in the toilet.
Way to misunderstand the point! By "disappear", they mean by becoming considered part of the exploiting class, not the exploited class, the way that the Irish, Italians, Slavs, and Jews went from being considered "coloured" (and discriminated against) to being considered "White" (and able to enjoy the social privilege that comes from being considered part of the dominant social group).
As a so called white person I've been called white trash by the African, Hispanic, and Asian. Racists come in
all colors and races. Victims do too.
white
i'm old enough to remember how, as world opinion closed in on them, Apartheid South Africa offered to let (south) Asian be "honorary whites." a few years later, Apartheid fell. maybe when whites are finally just another minority we'll finally start healing from our peculiar institution.
Probably not, because whites are important members of society, and have historically created many of the worlds most important innovations.
A lot of the conversations, and your comment in particular, come from the fact that whites must have cheated to get where they are, when instead, you fail to look at the fact that many civilizations were not ready to advance into the Industrial Age, and their descendants suffered because they had no standing as the world modernized.
@@iSmellBreakfast they had not standing because of colonization, every ethic group contributed to what we have today.being important and being humble ( meaning not crusading that if you are not in power the system will fail) are too different things.
No that they made East and Southeast Asians honrary whites not South Asians.
No stop it, your Asian be proud. White people are European.
Reported in September 28, 2015
"Today, immigration to the U.S. is dominated by people born in Asia and Latin America, with immigrants from all of Europe accounting for only 10% of recent arrivals."
- Source : Pew Research Center
You people are obsessed
When you educate yourself about American history from the perspective of non-white people to see how modern racial dynamics were produced, they call you obsessed. That’s because they feel threatened.
ok its really weird , but being in door for 2 months , my skin is more white than white people .
This video gives me 1984 vibes
Yeah I’m sure all the Koreans during the LA riots were thinking about their whiteness when shooting off rioters/looters…
What is interesting is that instead of condemning the inherent deficiencies in a racial cast system. The Asian American legal strategy was to seek to join in a corrupt system at or near the same level as its most privileged cast. That is the definition of queuing up to be white. The Irish did the same, as did the Italians and later the Jews, who now not only consider themselves white but are referred to as white by the general public. Whiteness is looking at a system that is patently unfair and not being opposed to it, but wanting to join in on the fun of having privilege that is denied others. So yes Asians are have been queuing up for whiteness for quite some time.
middle eastern people went to court to be classed as white so they could be allowed US citizenship when only white people were allowed citizenship
a lot of people now disagree they should be considered white
and the hypocrisy that they are classed as white but not treated as white
This is the comment. Just look at their reaction to Peter Liang.
in the United States "White" and "Black" are 2 types of Statuses. where you see it as a Nationality it's actually a status and or a descriptive.
Which makes absolutely no sense. I'm an American. My race shouldn't be a factor in employment, business loan, home loan, or rental just to determine if I get approved. American should do just fine with proper documentation.
Such a complex conversation. Thanks for tackling it.
Japan has the longest history of any non white civilization challenging white people status in the colonial era. Looking down Japanese people by white is usually done when going into the hole. But on the surface Japanese people seem like the runner up or in fact already surpassed.
Somehow they blamed the Asian store being attacked by black gangs on white supremacy , while also suggested that black and white in the context of race is a continuum.
MENA people are currently fighting this very thing
Wherever and whenever there is oppression the dominant groups develop categories in ideology, law, and culture to justify their oppressive practices.
All of my Greatgrandparents came from Southern Italy but one who came from Northern Italy. As peasants in Italy some of their parents were killed when they tried to occupy the land they farmed. But when my grandfather moved to Florida in 1962 he was refused the vote. My grandfather was quite racist so there was a bit of irony in all of this migration from Italy (1892) to New York and then to Florida. I am now considered "white." But I believe the only real solution is to abolish the category of "whiteness". We can't do that until we abolish imperialism and economic exploitation of people distant and near. It is the oppressive systems themselves that need such categories.
I agree. These videos have made me so angry at the history of race in this country (the usa). Part of me really wants to see all of the oppressed people rise up and forcibly take power. Other, more sensible, parts are just angry because I can't DO anything. But I can. I will no longer put "white" on any documents. Not sure, yet, what I will use instead (maybe Irish American? Unsure) but I will not put white.
@@gildedbear5355 I know you didn’t ask, but to me it seems like your desire to throw away your white label is somewhat self-centered, no? Like, what good does it do me to know that the white person getting promoted ahead of me at work doesn’t call themselves white? They still got the promotion, you know what I mean? What is the point of refusing to name yourself as white if society still grants you every privilege of whiteness?
You will always function in society as a white fella. And that’s fine. You’re allowed to be white. And imo it’s generally a really healthy and rewarding experience to explore your cultural heritage and ancestral history, so I hope you enjoy and get something out of that! But it’s probably best that you try to accept that you occupy a position of whiteness in society and really consider how to actively use it to benefit others
Have you ever tried being a follower? Like, find a racial movement and just… follow along. Be a grunt. Do the thankless work. That’d be really helpful, I think. And wherever you find yourself in a position of some authority or prestige, maybe take some time to analyze what factors might have caused you to be favored over others based on race, and then try to find ways to change things so that those factors are replaced with more racially equitable ones. All of this requires actively using your whiteness, though, so regardless of what box you choose to check on the next census, I would humbly ask that you never forget that you are white, and also not hate the fact that you are white
@@Gilamath. I do not wish to throw away the white label, I endeavor to abolish "whiteness" as a social category. Why? Because whiteness is only a justification for oppression across a color line. Whiteness must be abolished as a social and ideological category. But whiteness can't be abolished by personal rejection. It can only be abolished by abolishing the social and economic systems of oppression that creates whiteness in the first place. Any white person who affirms whiteness as a social category is by definition racist.
Let us be clear, racism creates race as a social category; race as a category does not exist without racism to create it. Race is not a biological category except in racist ideology. The need to justify modern forms of oppression creates racism. Slavery did not exist to produce racism; modern slavery existed to produce sugar, cotton, and tobacco. Racism evolved as a social justification for slavery and imperial appropriation.
I also want to make another point... When a dominant group of oppressors affirm their identity they are affirming their reason for oppression. When an oppressed group affirm their identity they are taking a first step to fighting oppression. It is only a first step because one cannot effectively fight racial oppression without fighting for all of the oppressed.
This is not about personal identity so it has nothing to do with selfishness. There is much category confusion on the left between social status identity and personal identity. They are of course felt and thought the same by individuals in everyday lived-experience but they are separate analytical categories. More importantly you cannot fight social oppression through individual psychological reform. Social oppression is fought by organizing movements of solidarity of the oppressed. This category confusion was already recognized by Frantz Fanon and the French Existentialists in the 1950s. But their is something about U.S. self-help individualism that insists on substituting social identity with personal identity.
Finally, the ideology of "whiteness" is an historical product of Western European Imperialism. Whiteness is not an eternal category. There is no biological category of race among human beings. Every single human being on earth, no matter skin color, is African.
@@Gilamath. If you are of the ruling class in order to fight oppression you must be a traitor to your class. If you are of a dominating group in order to fight for equality you must be a traitor to your group identity. This is true everywhere. Historically it has been true since the rise of civilization, ruling classes, state systems, and empires. I am proud to be a traitor to the ruling classes and the dominant groups I belong to. I for equality, freedom, and solidarity of all the oppressed.
@@monacojerry friend, my comment wasn’t responding to you. And… wow. This is a lot. I was in this phase one upon a time. You’re not wrong, I just wonder if you need this much intellectual trimming around such a modest set of actionable goals
I have friend that grew up in central America digging in landfills to find Food. And you have absolute wastes of resources and mental capacity contributing this abomination. Absolutely insanity.
This series is so good I hope PBS greenlights more of it!
What in tf is that title
To label Asian Americans as next in line to be white is wrong. Why would they want that? I certainly haven't seen any of them advocating for such a thing. We are all beautiful, just the way we are, and there is nothing anybody can do to change that.
THANK YOU
Are you serious do you realize the plethora of Asian women who do nothing but date white man . Let's not forget about the makeup that they put on dying there hair blonde . and all the plastic surgeries that they have to try and look white
@@ragejinraver are you seriously perpetuating racism right here right now. fight me.
@@ragejinraver you don't know all asian women. shut your mouth.
@@ragejinraver oh but when asians chill with black people then you be like "asians wannabe black*
In cities like New York and Los Angeles where police are instructed to target black/brown minorities there have been multiple whistleblower cops that have openly said they've been instructed to leave Asians alone especially if they're light-skinned. There is zero anti-Asian prejudice in the tech and medical fields. There isn't a single real estate market in the USA that avoids Asian home buyers. So yes...they are very much accepted into the white spaces of the world.
There are Ethopians who are technically racially white (Caucasian)
Absolutely right.
What I've noticed in the past couple of years - Afrocentrics and Gen Z Americans claiming peoples of the Horn of Africa to be black. Funnily enough - many Ethiopians/Somalis don't claim to be. 😂
@@nemanjastosic7141 😂 I know. They think race is based off skin tone. They're dark skin Caucasians not the same as black Afro African. From what I heard most Ethopians are more European than Afro African. I don't care what Westerners say because Ethopians in Ethopia bring this up and let Afro Africans know there is a difference between them
@@nemanjastosic7141 No, Ethiopians are bl4ck due to genetics, 90% of Africans have bl4ck dna. Even the Khoisan’s look light skinned but they still are genetically African.
@@bryanbradley6871 It’s about genetics and dna, not skin tone.
In my opinion, this really fails as an educational video: I came in not knowing which groups of people previously "became white", and left not knowing (Other comments pointed me in the right direction). Surely talking about the disappearance of these groups is crucial to understand the words "next in line to disappear", which are so central to the quote.
Worse than that, by including only 1920s attempts and saying that the understanding of race changes over time, this video could very easily give the opposite impression, that Asian Americans can become white, and can do so soon.
A proper exploration of this topic would be great, but this video really isn't.
The Irish became white when they were needed to help maintain power over other minorities. That's the only way new groups become white, because whiteness means abandoning your culture to join the in-group and maintain power over the out-group
@@Kemetyu-Centered36 awwww…. Like the “white supremacists” that allegedly kept violently attacking Asian people every day…… but then we all saw the actual footage and learned the truth??
@@nrok113 That's literally not how whiteness works. It just means that you have adopted american middle class values, at this point. Those who refuse to, continually fail as a group. Those who do, succeed. It's incredibly simple and things like "critical race theory" do everything possible but confront the problem directly, because at the end of the day blaming White People for working all day every day to help you leaves nobodys fault but your own.
@@Jay-cp9kd if you are suggesting that the majority of Asian attacks were not white, you are sadly mistaken. Mainstream news outlets highlighted the attacks that involved black assailants. Do your research.
Regarding Thind v. US, you even said the man is Sikh before incorrectly calling him a Hindu
Yeah he is a sikh or hindu not both
@@midwings00 it wasn't clear to me from this video so I looked it up (in case you're curious) calling the Sikh man "a high caste Hindu" was the strategy of his white American lawyer, rooted in the racist pseudoscience that the British used to construct the hierarchical caste system favoring light skinned Indians.
But the problem is; i never saw a "white person" but a white wall. Do white people exist?
But somehow this line still somewhat rings true. I have extended relatives that condescend their roots from the east, and behave as if they are more superior than their eastern counterpart. You can’t help but wonder if they are indeed gradually becoming more “white” and just “Asian by name”.
You can’t confront them, because they are at least two generations apart. And sometimes they treat us (eastern part of the world) as the “ignorant party”, while they themselves gradually appropriated eastern culture unnecessarily to make it look like they are still well cultured. In fact, what they do, accidentally reversed the “ignorance” with the eastern counterpart wondering “what the heck are they trying to do misrepresenting their roots as a whole.” You can’t tell them that they are becoming “white”, because they are too proud of themselves to even admit it. They often display it on family conversations or once in a blue moon visits, expected to be given treatment or to take their bills in their place.
Wished we here could have a more open conversation with them on this topic, but sadly that will never happen given how stuck up they’ve been during the last few decades.
It's sadly because the early appeal of the US was 'success' through cultural discardment and assimilation into 'whiteness' and as they would likely be put under more pressure back then to be very anti-communist they would want to dissassociate themselves maybe from the pride the CCP has in chinese heritage.
@@unnamed7158 , the problem is this has nothing to do with the CCP. Let’s not forget that there are Chinese in places outside mainland China, and to discount them because of views we have that Chinese must belong to the mainland and mainland alone (and are expected to have a bit of roots of the current government there), is to be proven equally as ignorant as the relatives abroad who are overly assimilating with another culture.
To be fair, to be Chinese, has nothing to do with communism, as how some people can’t help putting everyone of us in. There have been overseas Chinese that are on neither side of the fence that’s happening in East Asia, but has still remained connected with their relatives and heritage without having politics interfering in between. I am not sure what your assumptions are that the CCP has to be brought into this, given we are talking about Chinese living outside China but still within the region of Asia, especially South East Asia.
Our heritage has never been bounded with the communist guys, because our ancestors settled down in SEA before communism even came into China, or even earlier when foreign colonies started taking root around the region. Some living much earlier, before the western colonies came in, probably as old as when a famous Imperial Chinese admiral set sail and establish further trades with the west, or even older if we take a step back even further. The issue has nothing to do with dissociating oneself from the pride of the CCP that is in our heritage.
The CCP is only an icing on the cake, given how heritage itself has been extended since ancient times rather than the recent past. It hasn’t changed much, I believe, even when recent developments had taken place for the last century or so. So kindly refrain from bringing the CCP into the topic.
This is a problem more with cultural discardment and assimilation, as you had said earlier, and probably best stopped there. You can still be Chinese and anti-communist. Or as some people see it, certain HKies and Taiwanese people (of course, sensitive topic because some do not regard themselves of having ancestry traced to China). Practices have been long established before communism had taken root, but the condescension has somehow partially came from age old beliefs that “no one is more civilised than western civilisations”. The old view goes rather contrary to what history has actually written about many times regarding Chinese knowledge and tech actually getting smuggled to the west instead, and countless accounts dating as far back as during the dark ages of Europe where eastern ancient civilisations had a kingdom and tech that’s more advanced than what has been seen anywhere else in the world at that time. Then again, explaining all these will only make this issue at hand “digress”,even when explained for better context.
If I were to look at it once again from some western overseas Chinese, they’ve too been in the west probably preceding the rise of communism to a certain degree. A century preceding the Second World War might’ve been the earliest record. And they still hold fast to their roots, which we in the east can recognise that some of them still preserved well.
It’s just some people today, who think they are more Chinese than their eastern counterpart, or occasionally display the “whiteness” in their assimilation (apologies, I’m trying to avoid saying whiteness, because algorithms these days flag us for doing that to a certain degree). But becomes so distinct, they actually begin attacking their eastern counterparts for being ignorant and sorts. I wished this was only a dream, but hey, yours truly here had been personally attacked by other overseas Chinese for views going contrary to theirs. An example of that was a conversation about how filial piety actually works against the misconception western countries have in regards to that at an extreme level that we sometimes see some people here overdoing. They often assume the “one size fits all”, like putting everyone within the same box instead of understanding how nuance the topic really is. But often are quicker to judge and place judgement upon others till they are unfortunately stuck up in their views.
Speaking from further experience, they tend to react very negatively towards anyone opposing their views as opposed to the ones still living within Asia. We here in the east have equal struggles, had already found a resolution and balance between the two. Just so you know, while suggesting a balance and context, in the end we get attacked by the “holier than thou art” guys to the point one has to wonder if they overly assimilated or experiencing their own cultural heritage crisis, or they themselves had no idea about their roots as there’s not much emphasis by some folks who went abroad and completely assimilated in another culture as a whole (while holding archaic views). I believe I seen more of the latter, leading to endless disagreements between both sides of the world over what is ok and what isn’t. Before anyone decides to jump and say “it’s wrong and I’m right”, we should have more conversations for cultural exchanges to have a better view of the situation.
The thing is, and this is an even greater irony, as I observed. My living relatives, quite distant, in China keeps a steadier record of the family tree than our relatives living in the west. Plus, they have a better life where they reside and still remained humble down to their roots, than the ones living in the west at times. You just can’t help wonder why the western side seems too keen to condescend the other. This has nothing to do with local politics in the east; its just time tested values in the family being brought down and passed on as time goes by. In the west, they discard a lot of the values, and reappropriated whatever that’s left to their advantage. Anyone steeped in the culture itself, ironically will be able to call out their nonsense. But then, we normally don’t confront them out much, given it’s also partly in our culture not to cause unnecessary rifts. On the other side of the world though, when they don’t like it, they voice grievances and condescension, and create further rifts. But pushed the blame of the rift on someone else. What’s more, I know someone that dominate family chat groups with bombastic rules they set but break and twist to suit their narratives. (😂). Like the initial rule that there should not be politics, shortly followed by a political post on the group chat. (🤦♂️)
In case you didn’t get too far, and decide to read the last paragraph, let me just wrap it up that dissociating oneself from being anti-communist is a huge misnomer given there are many Chinese outside the mainland who have never been under such rule nor known anything about CCP pride within our heritage. Our heritage has nothing to do with the CCP. Even when comparing our culture now with our eastern counterparts, nothing has really changed at all since the CCP appeared, because our heritage transcends politics. To associate us with CCP pride, is just as nuts as we associate every westerner to be Christians. Something just does not make any sense for those who know. That might be best compared between a mainland Chinese who resettled in a western country when the CCP was in power. But this situation goes way back longer than that.
This is a thing within the black community too.
Love this series. Disappointed that it took a mass shooting and a rise in attacks on our community for PBS to put on this program. And that it only lasts for AANHPI history month.
How were Jewish people looked upon in reference to white?
We weren't until we were. Membership in the club remains provisional; to this day there are some who would throw us out. Some put us on the same little list as Blacks, Hispanics, gender minorities, women, and the poor.
It’s complicated because Jewish people come in all colors. We have Asian Jews, Black Jews, Brown Jews, white-passing Jews.
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Every one from Europe and MENA is officially white. So it is about Jews from these places
Skylar there is no Asian Jew. Just 70 of them. Unless you mean Shanghai Jew but that were from Russia
@@michaelacohen3308 most racist whites don't like jews though and in many cases you can tell visibly who is and who isn't a jew even by just last name
Yeah once they evolve their hair color, eye color, height, hair texture etc.. so dumb..
Topics like these need more unpacking. PBS please produce more of these 😊
Naw, we good.
My dad told my sister if she brought anyone besides a white or Asian home,shes out of the will.
So well written and expressed. Working together was discouraged because of how effective it would be to dismantle a system that was created to hinder our growth as Asian and African Americans. Videos like this really encourage complex conversations, admission of facilitating disparities of other people of color and creates a sense of togetherness between Asians and Blacks that I hope continues long term. Thank you for your thoughtful commentary 💓
Asians are the most prosperous demographic in the country. To put Asians in the same category as black people is misleading on many different levels. Black people are stuck in victim mentality mode. Asians don’t have a victim mentality, they get things done
Asians are actually economically better off the whites.
I wish y’all would have Black Asians speak
We don’t have white privilege, we have reverse racism in higher Ed and bamboo ceiling in corporations. Despite all those things working against us, we still over index in schools and corporate roles. However, top jobs are often mainly given to white men or women (more recently to white women to claim diversity) despite Asians stand a much larger percentage of college grads from top schools.
Prove it. That’s a baseless claim
Google the stats
1/3rd all billionaires are Chinese that's China alone
@@caseclosed9342 Asians also have a harder time getting loans for a nice house in the suburbs despite having good jobs and a good credit score.
Not gonna lie, Asians might become the future in America if they are this successful
That’s an west vs East issue, you would never see some white or black people in higher power
Regarding that Sikh calling him with Hindu caste
1. That is illogical as he is beliving in Hindu caste but is not following guidelines of hindu religious caste that on leaving religion caste ends
2. Is Hypocritical
As if I belive in sikh terms and won't follow Guidelines so he won't like it.
3. Is technically wrong as he had blood of many caste in his body so he can't associate with only one caste.
4. Is against his own religion as in his religion he is not allowed to use Hindu caste.
"Never" is hard to prove, and "white" is easy to redefine. The Irish _became_ white, as did the Italians, the Jews, and the Poles. "Whiteness" isn't biological, or even optical; it's a club, one they can beat you with, or let you join.
I think it entirely possible for Asian-Americans to be the next in line to be called white, as a way to keep 'whiteness' a majority. If so then it'll be a matter of numbers, not merit. Also, club membership will always be subtly provisional. Ask the Irish, the Italians, the Jews and the Poles for details.
Whte supremacists/nationalists wld disagree w you bc for them , genetics are a major factor . I've read online forum discussions of them questioning whether Greeks & Romans were technically whte due to their look . Why do you think they uphold the Nordics and the Scandinavian ppl ? Bc they are the fairest w the highest percentage for blue eyes and blond hair . I understand the social construct concept everybody talks about , but let's not act like appearance and geographical location doesn't mean anything whn it comes to race . . .
Also , there's a reason blck ppl were instantly seen as inferior to the whte man whn they first laid eyes on them . Their very dark skin , much different hair texture , and very different facial features . Bottomline , appearance matters . And East/Southeast/South Asians look very different frm whtes , so I dnt think they cld evr get past tht fact evn if the doors one day open . Just saying .
@@sarahdanielle6884 I'm not a White nationalist, but your comment is spot on. Race is genetic first and foremost. Ethnic and cultural identity comes after. East Asians will never be White unless they completely assimilate into the White/European genepool.
There's a big problem with what you're saying: Poles, Italians, & Jews (Ashkenazim, Sephardic, & Mizrahim) are white! Caucasians are indeed a race as Mongoloids are. It's an anthropological term. In reality, Continental Asians actually already are separated into Caucasian (Iranians, Arabs, etc), Mongoloids (Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Japanese etc). South Asians are considered their own category in many countries because of their distinct features.
@@sarahdanielle6884 This - "blck ppl were instantly seen as inferior to the whte man whn they first laid eyes on them" is untrue. 'Black' and 'white' people didn't even exist until racist structures of supremacy had already been set up, and in the middle-ages there was no real distinction between the two. In fact, several of the most classically protagonist-y characters in Arthurian lore were from east africa. Described as 'dark' or 'black', but only in the technical sense.
@@sarahdanielle6884 There are different kinds of White Supremacists, and they don't all uphold the Nordics as an ideal. Neo-Nazis sure do, but there are Slavic White Supremacists in the world, even though Nazis and Neo-Nazis considered Slavs non-White subhumans who needed to be exterminated.
Here's a question: define "white". How far into Asia must one look to cross the line out of "whiteness" and into "POC-ness"? Europe is not a continent, it's a region of Eurasia, so there is no magic line separating Asia from Europe. So where exactly does whiteness end and Asian-ness begin? Is it Russia? Greece? Turkey? Georgia? Kazakhstan? There are completely white-appearing people in northern Pakistan, and very dark, visually non-whites in some proportion of Southern and Eastern Europeans.
Race is not a binary, but a spectrum. We should ask "white/not", but rather "how white" and "in what way white".
This is such a strange and disappointing note to end this series on. You've chosen to ask a deeply provocative question and made the decision to support your points with legal cases nearly a century old. Your most recent examples are from works of fiction.
The latter of which, the scene in which Sonny the Korean grocer defends his shop, is uncharitably interpreted as "claiming blackness only when convenient to protect himself", when the movie itself makes it clear that he is not speaking in his mother tongue and is trying desperately to communicate that he and the "mob" have more in common than they think. Even the crowd realizes this quickly, after a moment of confusion. Sonny even offers a handshake to to show camaraderie to them. But this doesn't support your point, so you've chosen to edit it out instead. God forbid if this video goes over 8 minutes.
Of course AAPI are never going to pass as white. Please don't let that stop you from having both your hosts wag their fingers at AAPI anyway, in a galling conclusion to a video series that, in the wake of some of the worst hate crimes against Asian Americans in recent memory, chooses to lecture and patronize them about their privilege, as if they weren't fearing for their lives and more copycat attacks. Really appreciate it.
Another thing ppl seem to fail to realize is the difference in culture tht Eastern ppl hve . The fact tht Asians have a culture tht is almost like the direct opposite of Western culture is enough to make them too different to join their hierarchy .
Unless those Asian descent ppl are willing to completely wipe themselves of their heritage and solely claim Americanness or British , Canadian , etc then I can see how it would work . After all , thts wht many Hispanic Americans do who vote Republican and share the same conservative views as many whte Americans . They don't identify w their heritage and align themselves w whte views and a whte mentality . Many evn self-identify as whte . 👍🏼~
Manufacturing discrimination and racism where none exists - this comment is directed towards PBS, not Asian people.
What did I just click on...
As an Asian, I do see assians are next in line to be white. Black people are already white, but we don't talk about it. I can't blame them though. History has taught us why. Japanese from the internment camp was transformed as well. They didn't have no choice but to survive in the world that was ever changing in them during that time. People in the States are changed to a "white" culture, because it is what is normal. As the bloodline continues, the loss culture becomes more prevalent. This goes to every race; Black, Hispanic, Asian, etc.
I see a lot people in the comments missed the point. The video was understood and I would say Cheyenne Lin is another person who makes good content a she is Chinese american who was adopted from China as a baby she has a lot of things to share on her TH-cam channel.
This mini series was awesome! Please do some follow up episodes. Wasn't expecting to learn some basic concepts of critical race theory in under 5 minutes
Model minority is a fallacy.
Yeah, but they're still the best educated, highest paid, least crime committing race. Call that whatever you want.
@@kayflip2233 Highest paid????
@@corysmith4361 Per capita yes. These are statistics that you can google, not an opinion.
@@kayflip2233 Who is to say that those statistics are accurate. What's your race?
@@corysmith4361 Because the US census publishes it? 🤣
I’m a young Hmong American…folks just remember not all Asians are equal. All this white-talk is nonsense. Why teach such ideologies like this when we can learn more practical/hands on subjects…
I would think white Latinos (not to be confused with mestizo Latinos) and Northeast Asians are already benefited from privilege.
White Latinos (they are white people too) avoid their ancestor’s destruction of Amerindian societies and cultures in the Americas, and maintain a Latino minority label.
Northeast Asians, especially the Chinese, are involved in neocolonialism where they indebt the Global South as to control raw materials and geography.
What's the 'Global South'?
The only white Latino are people from Spain and Argentina other then that Latinos are a mix . Am Latino myself and trust me were not seen as white people by them
@@ragejinraver true even Jair Bolsonaro doesn't really look that white
@@unnamed7158 the global south are the countries which are exploited to maintain global white supremacy. Their people, labor, natural resources etc. Think of the term 3rd world vs 1st world :)
Not to mention Mestizo Latinos who favor their European ancestors phenotype, millions of medium brown Latinos are already intermarried with Anglos/whites and their children are just white
We are who we are. Our values are deep within and it is the light that shines on the inside. The goodness of God that He gave us
Amazing series! So happy PBS is doing this series on Asian Americans
The world is not only Black And White, it should colorful, same as Humanity.
at least you aren't claiming colorblindness lol some of them annoy me
I actually think that people from Spanish speaking countries are given the ability to assimilate into Caucasian culture alot easier than Asian Americans. Look at Jennifer Lopez, she used to be Jenny from the block now she's Jennifer Affleck
A significant number of Hispanics are already white
Bro, we're hated lol.
It’s also the fact that Latinos/Hispanics actually have ancestors from Europe, in the largest group’s case, through Mexico
@@mdc3148 we do have European dna but lots of Americans still go by the one drop rule and they think we're all short, brown Mexicans. There's even white Mexicans. I'm not Mexican and I also came out looking more European but I'm still not white. And tbh, I'm completely cool with that. I'm happy being who I am ✌
@@dangercat9188 The Anglo or Scandinavian phenotype should not be, and is not, the last word on being white as Europeans from all countries are varied in skin tone. I’m Mexican and my skin was whiter than my friend in high school whose ancestors were Dutch. Also, that is the point, like you said, to be yourself - and people should recognize our European side which in the case of most Hispanics/Latinos is half or more of us. It’s not about being anything other than you are.
Probably. Japanese and South Koreans were considered 'honorary white' by the Apartheid government in South Africa
japenis and worst koreans are not the only asians. Japan is too westernized already and doesn't count and can 快點沉進太平洋. Korea lose to communists so they need the handicap privilege.
Most of them think they are white already
i'm definitely brown so stop saying "them".
I mean that kinda true.
What race makes the most money in the US?
Asian Americans
Asian Americans, with a population of around 1.8 crore, are the highest-earning ethnic group in the USA. The median household income for Asian-Americans stands at $87,243. However, Indians are the leading ethnic group among Asian-Americans.Jan 15, 2023
We love you two! Keep it coming!
What a strange question...be yourself...
Thank you so much for this series. I've learned a lot, particularly about how the law has been used to oppress.
FYI, Be wary that they are using intersectional talking points. Please research this and watch debate to clear your mind from it. I am pretty sure these people are racists grifters.
@@QManicMailManQ Intersectionality is good, actually. I'll ~clear my mind~ of you right now, I think.
@@QManicMailManQ Yeah this people are just plain crazy
Wow this was a great video. Your perspective is so needed.
This video's notion of "white" is incredibly racist and prejudicial. Cathy has really sold out to her ethnicity. People are people -- people are not "white" , "black", whatever. Treat people as individuals; spend some time actually getting to know people personally.
@I have no personality outside my sexuality What's your notion of free speech? I wonder how Cathy thinks of her position in 2022 given all the Asian woman hate that been going on. And it's simply outrageous that Asians are "white". This is a racist, prejudicial and ignorant statement that whitewashes 1000's of years of the Asian culture.
Wrong. As the Left has taught us all, race is real.
@@genestone4951 So are Asian "white"?? -> Wrong
Whether you like it or not this affects the world you live in people will not interact with each other purely because of this reason.
Exactly, Wesley.
Please we live in a cast system just how Irish and Italian become white in the early 1900s so please don’t act like it don’t exist. Asians are closer to reach that milestone then blacks and we build this country and we still the bottom class
I'm so sad this is ending! At least it's going out on a topic I've been wondering about for a long time. This helped me redefine whiteness for myself, but now it makes me wonder: what would you call high-caste brahmins in India? There seems to be a similar scheme where they keep the power and money, based on their identity. Isn't that akin to whiteness? Though whiteness exists globally, too.
It’s… super complicated, obviously. Religion comes into it too. Not to mention that caste takes different forms inside India versus outside in Pakistan, Bangladesh, &c. Those two things are related, of course. Like, I’m rajput, but my family is Muslim, so there’s just no way I can take advantage of my caste as though I were Hindu. Indeed, many folks would say that I don’t count as having a caste at all anymore
When it comes to Brahmins, the only ones who I’ve met who aren’t Hindu have been here in the US, but I don’t know what it would be like if they tried to re-base in India and tried to capitalize on their status. Caste definitely determines privilege, but that really does change and depends on a whole bunch of other factors
Personally, I wouldn’t call the higher Brahmin castes similar in function to whiteness. I’d say it’s a different system of oppression, though the two systems are not entirely unrelated. Oppression tends to share notes with oppression
don't forget the Crazy Rich Asians! What level are they at?
No because Arabs are rich in Saudi Arabia
@J Fitz yes, yes they are...
It's a class issue and not a white issue. Go to midwestern America and tell me all those poor white people in trailers are living in "whiteness". This color scheme needs to go because it's no longer about color it's about what position you are as an individual in the social ladder.
This video took a turn. Sueing for whiteness?
White is beautiful
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@@nikrose5229 My race has a whole continent to themselves. Yours is being overrun...Cope. 🤣
Not even close in Australia
Make LUNAR NEW YEAR A NATIONAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY
And it's also not about looking pale or white it's about the work ethics which white Americans envy about Asian Americans n this makes them wanna include Asians as white as they don't want minorities to prosper and this will improve their white hierarchy.
Kimchi and adobo don’t look like they inspire confidence!
what are you even saying
Being white (Caucasian) has to do with the skull 😂
In East Asia South East Asians are looked down upon by the the northern country's is that similar?
true