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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-07-10 04:57 pm

[ SECRET POST #3476 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3476 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2016-07-10 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Interestingly, in the United States, all-white and nearly-all-white communities don't exist naturally. They appear to, and most of the people in them sincerely and innocently believe they just naturally came out that way, but it's not actually so. In every case that's been examined, there's a history of deliberate, often violent segregation that's generally been quietly forgotten about.

http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/sundowntowns.php

I don't say this as a moral judgment on OP or on anyone here, but it's useful to understand the history involved. And again, this is about the U.S.; Oslo's pretty dang white for other reasons.

(Anonymous) 2016-07-10 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
But what if OP isn't talking about the US specifically? People do that sometimes.

(Anonymous) 2016-07-11 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Then I guess that would fall under the acknowledgment I clearly made in the post you replied to without reading.

(Anonymous) 2016-07-11 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I live in a 99% white community in Australia (there's a few people from the Philippines and Uzbekistan). It's because the Aboriginal people were either murdered, died of disease (from 1880-1900, not that long ago) or were moved to "missions". Another town I lived in with similar settlement demographics had about 5% Aboriginal people because by chance settlement was less violent there.

(Anonymous) 2016-07-11 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
It would be useful if people in the US made an effort to understand the history, culture and problems of other countries as well. Many people on the web are very quick to jump on people before properly considering that the person they're attacking maybe didn't mean to be a racist pile shit for not being diversive enough in their writing or art.