#Colonized

Priyamvada Gopal

PriyamvadaGopal

So, this is a real question. Do the people who talk about the 'Blitz spirit', 'British resilience' , 'Getting on with it' etc...do they genuinely think that other peoples/lands/cultures don't

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Iingfan

Oh where do I begin here 1. asia is not a monolith! okay i get media does shove a very limited idea of what Asian is to us but please

gino/yael

si6nora

a thread about what Filipinos are since i keep seeing so many people saying we’re someone we are not first of all WE ARE NOT SPANISH. we may have similarities,

Yilan

redxyl

Do people really think Spanish colonizers in Latin America just disappeared lol? They had kids and their descendants still exist If you’re a white af Latino you’re most likely not

India in Pixels

indiainpixels

This is how the West saw the world in 1827. In 1827, American geographer WC Woodbridge published a map called "Moral & political chart of the inhabited World. It classified

tanya tagaq

tagaq

For those in the back re: APPROPRIATIONIt is impossible for a colonized minority to appropriate from mainstream culture. Mainstream culture was literally forced upon us. It’s the baseline of all

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gindaanis

Nell Irvin Painter's History of White People is necessary reading. We think so often of a Black/White binary that we forget all the racism *within* whiteness. We forget how permeable

bean @ haikyuu hell 🌾

vapidsighs

gundam ibo ep 20: so. we're almost finished the first season of ibo and i have some comments to make on what we've watched so far: 1) i dont get

Nadia Shammas

Nadia_Shammas_

hello reminder that it's no one's place to invalidate your ethnicity based on what their personal standard of whether you "look enough of the race you're part of" for their

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gildedvulpine

I know people are wondering why they aren't seeing Egyptians comment on the Cleopatra MAP call, but the thing about speaking out about cultural appropriation in white-dominated communities is that

marxist-leninist perspectives on black liberation!

queersocialism

the “immigrants make america great” is one of the best exemplars of, often well-meaning, liberals just completely missing the point, lol the existence of the sociopolitical position of ‘immigrant’ in

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mythmakerbackup

the ccp MUST tackle the antiblackness problem in china so that shit like what happened in gz can't spiral to the extent it did and since it's just a problem

Michael Roellinghoff

m_roellinghoff

Something that comes up repeatedly in 19th century documents related to Hokkaido is the idea that the colony was a "laboratory" and that colonial policies were "experiments". This was party

✦phoebe

sunprnt

what did japan do to korea? --a threadtw// rape japan colonized korea in 1910 until 1945 through the japan korea annexation treaty. by the late 1930s japan began to mobilize

moses moon: $thotscholar 🍒🚲 🏳️‍🌈

thotscholar

African Americans who are descended from slaves aren't "settlers." end of discussion. we stole nothing. we weren't indentured servants. we ain't emigrate here. our ancestors were forcibly removed from their

नेहा श्रीवास्तव (Nehā S)

neha_aks

Saw this maddening poster in a decolonization group I am part of and almost immediately, my mind made the association with what is often said about the Mughals.Colonizers everywhere are