Whitewashing/teaching that paler is purer and better on one side, and unfair representation so the Western audience with fucked education doesn’t get confused on the other. You know I was shocked at the lack of education I had on the region when I discovered that some African populations below Egypt are white. We didn’t get taught this shit
I feel that annoyance. For example when people call middle-easterners “brown,” happens even on lemmy, but I think it’s used as more of a rhetoric device meaning “non-european” here so it’s not as bad.
They think they’re all Muslims so they can’t be white. Which is funny for many reasons but also was true for parts of Europe that weren’t or were Catholic for a period of time.
Whitewashing/teaching that paler is purer and better on one side, and unfair representation so the Western audience with fucked education doesn’t get confused on the other. You know I was shocked at the lack of education I had on the region when I discovered that some African populations below Egypt are white. We didn’t get taught this shit
I feel that annoyance. For example when people call middle-easterners “brown,” happens even on lemmy, but I think it’s used as more of a rhetoric device meaning “non-european” here so it’s not as bad.
They think they’re all Muslims so they can’t be white. Which is funny for many reasons but also was true for parts of Europe that weren’t or were Catholic for a period of time.