Racial categories are hierarchical. They position White people as superior, whether White people want to acknowledge this or not.
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Agree! Main reason why I looked at racism and race in UK for dissertation was to get outside UScentric analysis of race and nation.
Ah, how interesting! UK very different race and racism patterns again. There's no comparable category in AUS to BME, for example.
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AUS does use "NESB"/non English speaking background and "CALD"/culturally and linguistically diverse, but mostly these are policy terms.
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And of course these are ethnicity-based not race-based.
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Right. Yea in UK was told by some academics they don't have a race problem like US either and that proved untrue real quick
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[Chortle] Every country thinks their society is better/more progressive than they actually are.
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