Black and white

[matrixmann]

Critical question towards the intersectionalists and Identity Politics fanatics: What do you actually mean if you talk about "white"? Which kind of people are all included in this?
Is it only Central Europeans? Do people from Asia fall into the same category for you too?
What about Eastern Europeans or Russians? Or about Italians, Spaniards, Greeks?
Does "white" mean "all non-black people" - or is it the title only for a particular group of people (among "whites")?

And, if talking about "black" - what are you thinking of in that point? Does this include only sub-Saharan Africans - or also people with a comparable dark skin tone (like e. g. Cubans)?
Or is everyone automatically "black" if he cannot fit the category "white"? If his skin tone is too dark for that?

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

It is actually a very good question! Especially Hispanics--they are definitely white like hell and not even the different race but why are they included in the different group.

Ha-ha, obviously it must be how dark your skin is. I once got really tan after a vacation at the Black Sea, so I guess at some point I also was black!

[matrixmann]

"Hispanics", if often talked about, actually only means "people from South America", not people from the Mediterranean area. And this, again, is an artificial term from the US... As someone told me around here, people in South America from one nation also don't want to be thrown together in the same pot from other particular nations there. Just - just as Germans don't want to be thrown together with Frenchmen, Poles, Hungarians or people from Belarus.
So... what of a nonsense is all that stuff.

Btw, taking a look at East Asia - Japanese, Chinese and people from the Philippines also don't look the same, except maybe that they got slitted eyes as a body feature.
Sure nobody from Indonesia or so would see himself linked with sub-Saharan Africans just because they have a pretty dark skin color from living in an area around the earth's equator.
Africans would be the same; they don't even regard themselves as "one race, one people" inside all of Africa itself.