"Old White Men"
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Examples of people other than old white dudes doing shitty things doesn't exempt them of their crimes.
Now are all old white people bad or evil? No. But everyday we are benefitting from it. Be it the corporations run by old white men and women who get us stuff made with cheap labour. Living in a country that we took from the original inhabitants. Working in a social structure where having generic sounding white name on a resume is a benefit.
Being white is pretty awesome. But a lot of people had to get stomped on to achieve it. Now that "awesomeness" is being spilled over and others are now starting to benefit.
Now are all old white people bad or evil? No. But everyday we are benefitting from it. Be it the corporations run by old white men and women who get us stuff made with cheap labour. Living in a country that we took from the original inhabitants. Working in a social structure where having generic sounding white name on a resume is a benefit.
Being white is pretty awesome. But a lot of people had to get stomped on to achieve it. Now that "awesomeness" is being spilled over and others are now starting to benefit.
You paint with a very broad brush and concentrate on really slightly less than the last century of a much longer relationship.
Further even during the period 1850-1947, few British Officers of the (Imperial) Indian Army viewed the world through that lens.
Yeah I grant you that I should have picked more contemporary examples. I heard something about it on NPR recently which is why it was on my mind.
All I'm saying is that if those white dudes who died in WW1 and WW2 were fighting for everyone then why were race relations still a tense issue after the wars and to this day?
canada-man
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canada-man
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True.
Going back thousands of years, pretty much every main country has tried it's luck at world domination politically, military or both. Some fared better than others.
But some reason when it comes to world domination, countries or governments or military powers that are "white guys" typically get labeled as domineering, power hungry and prejudice. But then someone like Genghis Khan who killed millions and took over a big part of Asia and I think even a bit of Europe before contracting back to Eastern Asia is seen as a military genius, with Mongols as a bunch of slick horseback riders.
He did. He took over Eastern Europe. Many Russians, Ukrainians etc have mongol ancestry in their blood resulting from that conquest.
The wars that are well known are ones that are remarkable, it is not about race. Napolean is more or less spoken of highly because of his brilliance in conquering most of europe. Ceasar of Rome is also remembered in the same vein in part because he was a brilliant military commander. Boudica is also well respected for being able to unite his people against rome and put up a great fight. Robert E Lee is also highly regarded.
Now if your problem is that not every war in which white people fight are spoken of so highly, it is because most of those were shitty wars and not interesting, and shitty wars by other nations/race/culture are also not remembered or fondly remembered.
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