1) My father (Jewish) is "racist" (or at least biased) against Germans. He calls it "racial guilt" - he feels that they are all still guilty of what they perpetrated in the Holocaust, and he feels that the culture of the country today is still the same as it was during WW2. He of course has no evidence for this. I wouldn't be surprised if he interacts differently with Aryan-looking people, though I haven't observed it personally, making the "race" part more noticeable. I do not think he assigns any racial guilt to white Americans for enslaving blacks.
2) various kinds of Europeans, like Italians and Irish and Germans, weren't thought of as actually "white" in some sense
I've heard that too. What are Jews considered? And Arabic/Middle Eastern (whatever's the appropriate PC word) peoples?
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Date: 2008-05-03 01:34 pm (UTC)1) My father (Jewish) is "racist" (or at least biased) against Germans. He calls it "racial guilt" - he feels that they are all still guilty of what they perpetrated in the Holocaust, and he feels that the culture of the country today is still the same as it was during WW2. He of course has no evidence for this. I wouldn't be surprised if he interacts differently with Aryan-looking people, though I haven't observed it personally, making the "race" part more noticeable. I do not think he assigns any racial guilt to white Americans for enslaving blacks.
2) various kinds of Europeans, like Italians and Irish and Germans, weren't thought of as actually "white" in some sense
I've heard that too. What are Jews considered? And Arabic/Middle Eastern (whatever's the appropriate PC word) peoples?