A Norman peasant in 1300 might see a Lebanese trader and call him 'black'. In 1950, that Lebanese trader could move to America and be 'white'. The 13th century peasant would never, ever see a Bantu or Aztec trader, let alone marry one. 'MedievalPoC' is extremely silly.
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And MY GOD THIS SUBJECT IS SO BORING WHO FUCKING CARES WHY DO PEOPLE WRITE THESE ARTICLES
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Whiteness feels pretty international to me. There are words for it in many languages: gringo, farang, vellaikkaran, gora, gaijin, gweilo, angmoh, mat salleh... I would say fictional rather than fake; it’s invented just like money is
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Those are literally different words in different cultural contexts, though. They may describe overlapping groups of people, but eg 'white' doesn't mean 'gaijin' because one means 'insider in North America' and the other 'outsider in Japan'.
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The key thing about 'white' in USian discourse is it served as a rhetorical excuse to fold different kinds of immigrants (eg Germans early on, Italians and Irish later) into the (originally English) national identity. A word like 'gweilo' serves a very different purpose.
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If whiteness feels international it's because the modern international ruling class is dominated by the American ruling class.
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(There's a parallel line of development in the attempts to forge a pan-European identity. But that's a political-cultural development significantly influenced by post-WWII American hegemony!)
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Calling it "nonwhite people" would be a little less fake, though, which is I think what they mean to say.
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Had to thread my response to thishttps://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1030844534392070144 …
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The other hobbies aren’t being oppressed/kept at disadvantage by a system installed for the benefit of philately. There are real shared interests underneath that broad coalition term of art that is POC.
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