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Is there an alcoholism issue in Africa from imported goods?

Yeah! Thank you!

Good trigger warning.

Can you effectively learn Chinese on RedNote? Because my Duolingo is dead. I'm hoping this is an interactive form of language teaching.

Also, lmk if you learn Chinese off certain YouTube channels.

So far do you find the content better in quality than TikTok?

What's that white liquid in the background cup? Some kind of milk?

What's a null pointer error?

Based on comments, I guess since you're talking about one ethnicity's food at a time, it's fine.

"Thus, Whiteness, White supremacy, and White privilege are three interlocking forces that disguise racism so it may allow White people to oppress and harm persons of color while maintaining their individual and collective advantage and innocence. If we are to overcome, or at least minimize the forces of racism, we must make Whiteness visible. As long as Whiteness remains invisible and is equated with normality and superiority, People of Color will continue to suffer from its oppressive qualities."

Okay so not using the word ethnic to say "nonwhite" is about tearing down the curtain on whiteness and its nature.

"The problem lies in otherizing non-white cultures by lumping them together as ethnic."

This makes complete sense. Thanks for getting it across to me.

"Whiteness is implicitly seen as normal, default, and idealized while Blackness is lumped together "over there"."

That's a sad yet kinda funny way to put it, the sinister nature of Whiteness is so dumb. So even though many white people feel they're not racist, many won't acknowledge how they take advantage of their whiteness and how its imposed on people of color. Sneakily, it's in lack of acknowledgement of privilege that Whiteness can thrive. It's in lack of acknowledgememt of the "othering." You won't look at the problems of "othering." Resulting in continuation of white-centric societies.

I was conscious of some of this, but didn't know how to put the pieces together into one picture.

But most culture is "not white."

Edit: I think my mind is latching on to the center of a venn diagram of things that are both "culture belonging to a people" and "culture not belonging to white people" because I've been hearing the colonial perspective far longer than I've asked this question. When it comes to the word, I'm not understanding very well how to seperate the two things without blending them together.

It's hard to let go of the thought that referring to nonwhiteness the point of the word. So ever since hearing that the way I used it implies that white is the default, I've been completely avoiding it like a slur.

It was years ago, so I don't really remember. I think it was something like "ethnic culture."

I mostly remember the person's reaction more than what I said.

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