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"She calls it the old Thai face vs. the new Thai face. Could that have something to do with white supremacy?" No, unless Richard Spencer and Steve Bannon are over in Thailand telling people that the 'old Thai face' is uglier than the new one. This, and Steve's debater complaining her son drew a self-portrait with blond hair and blue eyes, is a result of American/European cultural exportation. We create content about white people featuring white people, others see it and are influenced by it. Several years ago I Googled "why are Indian men so aggressive/into white women" out of frustration of having been romantically targeted for years in Canada by brown dudes (Middle Easterners too, but Indians are just relentless) and I discovered that they got socialized to respond to white beauty because of pornography, which is produced of course mostly by Europeans and North Americans.

There's a whiteness problem here for sure but calling it 'white supremacy' is inaccurate, since WS is first and foremost about a *conscious commitment to the notion that white skin connotes greater value and that all others are inferior* (Corollary: The same goes for the non-penised). I don't believe Americans or others exported primarily white content to other countries for some sinister white supremacy cause. They made shit about themselves, having not been pushed until recently to diversify, and because it was popular here they exported it elsewhere where it was also popular, esp if it spoke to human values and experiences we all share. The indoctrination to desire white beauty is, AFAIC, a side effect rather than a sinister agenda.

We need a better description for this specific problem than 'white supremacy'. White enculturation? Or better yet, something less racial since it's really not about exporting white values, but, well, simply making money.

Jun 11, 2022
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