White Adjacent?

[Jolly]

@loki said in White Adjacent?:

Don’t forget people from India. They, as a group, have the highest incomes in the US.

They're mentioned in the piece.

I think the Indians and the Asians have one thing in common...Strong family structures that encourage performance in their children.

[Jolly]

Which brings us back to the crux of the article...How can you instill the myth of white privilege into a young black person, when other non-whites are doing so well?

Is there such a thing as white adjacent?

[LuFins Dad]

@loki said in White Adjacent?:

Don’t forget people from India. They, as a group, have the highest incomes in the US.

Indians are Asian.

[Copper]

@lufins-dad said in White Adjacent?:

@loki said in White Adjacent?:

Don’t forget people from India. They, as a group, have the highest incomes in the US.

Indians are Asian.

The problem is that they took away Oriental.

Why?

I don't know, I never thought Oriental was offensive in any way.

Somehow it became offensive.

[taiwan_girl]

@copper said in White Adjacent?:

@lufins-dad said in White Adjacent?:

@loki said in White Adjacent?:

Don’t forget people from India. They, as a group, have the highest incomes in the US.

Indians are Asian.

The problem is that they took away Oriental.

Why?

I don't know, I never thought Oriental was offensive in any way.

Somehow it became offensive.

What does oriental mean anyway? When I was in Chicago, I one time visited the University of Chicago. They have a museum called the "Oriental Institute" (or something like that). But it mostly has things from the Middle East.

[taiwan_girl]

@jolly said in White Adjacent?:

I think the Indians and the Asians have one thing in common...Strong family structures that encourage performance in their children.

Yep, I agree with this.

[Copper]

I think of the Orient as the Far East - Korea, Japan, China, Viet Nam, maybe as far south as Indonesia

Apparently the meaning has changed over time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient

[LuFins Dad]

@copper said in White Adjacent?:

I think of the Orient as the Far East - Korea, Japan, China, Viet Nam, maybe as far south as Indonesia

Apparently the meaning has changed over time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient

Yeah, I think of the Orient, I think of Budapest, Istanbul, et al.

When I think of Oriental, I think of Chinese, Japanese, Korean...

Obviously the word has changed and is a bit odd. It would be as weird as d as one body thinking of England when I say American...

[Mik]

In any event they seem determined to refuse to focus on what really builds success. Hint: It ain't race.

[Copper]

@mik said in White Adjacent?:

In any event they seem determined to refuse to focus on what really builds success. Hint: It ain't race.

Sometimes

It is getting to be the rare tv advertising that doesn't feature a person of color. A person without color seems to get used as half of an interracial couple.