After the lecture on Friday I was thinking about
the term casual racism and new racism and how it is in seen in our contemporary
lives. New racism is one form of racism and is seen as a joke but also includes
the cultural appropriation. It is the underlying, indirect or subtle type of
racism. It is understanding beliefs of racism that have been overcome and the
inequalities of power, politics, economics and society as the consequences of
culture, biology and individual choice. Casual racism is known as hipster
racism. This was found once “racism had stopped” but really it didn't. It is
about the ideas of racism changing and becoming more inferential racism and not
as visible.
I personally I think casual racism relates to
new racism. Both of these terms understand that racism is still “alive” and has
changed over time. An example of casual and new racism is obviously seen in
that statement “not to be racist but ...” this is because it shows that they
are being a racist but in a hidden way. New and casual racism is also seen in
the fashion industry and is further enlarged in social media. Celebrity Vanessa
Hudgens wore bindis to Coachella and this became large fashion trend and was
seen as ‘hip’ or ‘amazing and pretty’ and later on seen on other celebrities. This
is seen as cultural appropriation. Things like this have already been
discovered but are not acknowledged yet once a celebrity does something
interesting with it, it becomes new and different. This can be seen as causal
or new racism because Vanessa had no cultural understand of what the bindi is
used for and what the cultural meaning of it is, she has no relation to it.
The media then shows images of these new fashion
trends and show it as something that is new and different. Social media suggest
to do things like this and sometimes forgets to acknowledge the culture and
forgets about the cultural history behind it. This type of racism is also seen
a lot in music industries with music videos, for example Lean On by Major
Lazer. People don't see this as racism and some believe that it's has stopped.
So I just created this post to understand how
new and casual racism is the new type of racism in present times. Thanks for your
time.
photo retrieved from https://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/whatwewear/files/2015/05/Collage.jpg
I read your blog, and it made some interesting points.... However I disagree with the point about people who say I am not racist but etc etc because I was one of those people that said this alot before sharing my point of view. Now I realise this simple statement can be misinterpreted as being racist (that word has come up alot now in this reply) anyways I myself was not trying to offend people as I was taking into consideration in what some people might think with my opinion. I did not forsee people would consider this racist... So now I tactfully use other words which seem appropriate on a political correctness type of level. I did enjoy the read as it gave me something to think about.
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