It was then that scientists started to divide the world up into groupings of colour. Colour denoted civilisation. At the top were white Europeans, at the bottom black people and all others, graded on a sliding scale.
Keevak says Asians — including the Chinese and Japanese — began to "darken".
What, unmitigated, moronic and outright WRONG - BULLSHIT.
“CoLoUr” never, ever denoted the civilizations and the west never, EVER based it upon people’s “color” (let alone considered China, “white” but on their respective NATIONS.
I suspect this moron gets his beliefs because western painters painted the Chinese as white and Japanese as yellow (but using the same slant eyes) because Chinamen were inlanders and Japanese were tan ISLANDERS.
Of course this moron conveniently ignores the very real racism between the Irish, English, moors and the French!
Yes - The Opium Wars were very real. So’s the Ukrainian Wars and both are just as corrupt.
The level of respect given to a people hinges largely two things: Their wealth, and their military ability to threaten their neighbours.
The status east asians in the eyes of europeans didn't diminish because scientists started thinking about categorizing different lineages of humans. It diminished because europe's economic and military might skyrocketed and made the once awe-inspiring lands of the orient look weak, poor, and pathetic.
Europeans came to view the people of the region as lesser because they had BECOME lesser. It was an accurate assessment of the global power dynamic.
And that, I guess, is what 'Whiteness' is this context - the ability to accurately assess who is weak and who is strong.
What, unmitigated, moronic and outright WRONG - BULLSHIT.
“CoLoUr” never, ever denoted the civilizations and the west never, EVER based it upon people’s “color” (let alone considered China, “white” but on their respective NATIONS.
I suspect this moron gets his beliefs because western painters painted the Chinese as white and Japanese as yellow (but using the same slant eyes) because Chinamen were inlanders and Japanese were tan ISLANDERS.
Of course this moron conveniently ignores the very real racism between the Irish, English, moors and the French!
Yes - The Opium Wars were very real. So’s the Ukrainian Wars and both are just as corrupt.
The level of respect given to a people hinges largely two things: Their wealth, and their military ability to threaten their neighbours.
The status east asians in the eyes of europeans didn't diminish because scientists started thinking about categorizing different lineages of humans. It diminished because europe's economic and military might skyrocketed and made the once awe-inspiring lands of the orient look weak, poor, and pathetic.
Europeans came to view the people of the region as lesser because they had BECOME lesser. It was an accurate assessment of the global power dynamic.
And that, I guess, is what 'Whiteness' is this context - the ability to accurately assess who is weak and who is strong.
This moron gets his beliefs from his college "education," such as it might have been.