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Where do russians fall on the whiteness scale? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To me Russians seem like white people who reject their whiteness, sort like the Irish but the Irish don’t try to reject it anymore. What’s your opinion?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well as I understand it whiteness isn't an actual ethnicity, but a relation to power in the imperial core. Italians, Irish, Germans, Polish etc. were slowly enveloped into whiteness in the 20th century if they maintained the status quo of the West even though they were the target of varying amounts of discrimination.

I'm sure putin-wink could tell an hour long history of how European nations have always othered Russia and other Eastern European nations but I doubt Russians have ever really been accepted into Whiteness, especially not the ethnic minorities. Russia is just not in the West international-community-1 international-community-2