• psx_crab@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    Sure, we don’t have the “dark skin as slave fair skin as master” history, but we definitely practice it like we have it. It’s the same mindset.

    In Malaysia, whiteworshipping is very real. The darker you are, the worst you’re being treated, so indian are worst off because they have the darkest skin of all the ethnic in malaysia, they will have lower chance of getting jobs, house rental, and be treated as if they have higher chance of committing crime by the police. We even have derogatory name for them.

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      5 days ago

      Yep that’s a prejudiced mindset alright, but as you are all the same “race” in that system, it’s bigotry based on skin colour, which is similar but different. A racist would put you all in the same bucket.

      To be clear, it’s possible to be racist, ethnocentric, xenophobic, and classist all in the same breath, and each is a different prejudice.

      Caste can be very much like racism sometimes, but it’s still a different system of discrimination.

      edit: removed typo

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        5 days ago

        as you are all the same “races” in that system

        The heck are you talking about

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          5 days ago

          Thanks, fixed, left it plural by accident. Racists believe in human races, breaking down into groups based on continents and general appearance. Asians, Europeans, Africans, Americans, etc. It is superficial and unscientific but the groups of Asians you are referring to as prejudiced towards one another would all be seen as one race and on the same level of their stupid hierarchy, so not racism.