It’s a white world after all

    I mean this concerning resources, systems and practices where WHITE IS RIGHT.

    Before colonization people were not defined as other because there was no-one to compare or be compared to. Now we are confronted with everyday systems that encourage privileges and disadvantages different ethnicity. This includes television and film.

"Eurocentrism, like Renaissance perspectives in painting, envisions the world from a single privileged point. . . Eurocentrism bifurcates the world into the "West and the Rest" and organizes everyday language into binaristic heirarchies implicitly flattering to Europe: our 'nations,' their 'tribes'; our 'religions,' their 'superstitions'; our 'culture,' their 'folklore'; our 'art,' their 'artifacts'; our 'demonstrations,' their 'riots'; our 'defense,' their 'terrorism.' "- Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam. "Unthinking Eurocentrism". (Week 3 Orienatalism Lecture)

    We talk about a certain structure of media, this structure favors the white person or the white lifestyle. Film shows such as fresh prince and black-ish all contain black families that live in expensive houses and have adopted this European life style. So in order to be successful you must act white?

    To act white is to be given a whiteboard and a white marker only to find that you cannot embrace the true messages behind what is being written and what is being seen. White is invisible but is an effective tool in erasing colour from paper because any form of colour is radical, any form colour is wrong, any form of colour distracts from perfection or purity. Colour is just graffiti on this wall of justice.

    This is a form of Cultural Assimilation where minorities a forced to adapt to the dominant culture in order to survive the systems. I was once told that being brown gives me so many privileges and opportunities. That at least my culture is a culture. But how can you embrace something that is slowly being taken from you. When media portrays families that look like you but are not going through the same struggles as you or your family. It provides a form of mockery concerning the survival of the other and to embrace ‘white culture’.

 Extreme measures are created in order to fight and maintain the people’s culture and are still affecting the lives of many to this day. We go through life unable to choose our ethnic background or where we belong but are structured in a way where we slowly lose our culture and language for that is common.

    The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is a federal law that seeks to keep American Indian children with American Indian families. In Sancta Clarita, Lexi, a six-year-old with one-and-a-half per cent Choctaw blood was removed from her foster parents of five years (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3503460/Girl-six-taken-away-foster-family-five-years-1-5-cent-Native-American-family-white.html#ixzz448rhgkx5).  

How do we define what is right in order to preserve what is ours?