Susan, thank you for telling us your own story: the demonizing and Othering of Asian people is a shameful and horrible spect of American culture that very few people address.
Susan, thank you for telling us your own story: the demonizing and Othering of Asian people is a shameful and horrible spect of American culture that very few people address.
Othering is a great word to describe the process of how one group latches onto differences of another targeted group to dehumanize them to promote political and economic dominance, exploitation, and/or genocide. As in against Jews, LGBTQ, Roma, and political dissidents during the Holocaust; the history of European colonization worldwide; the history of European colonists against Indigenous Americans; the history of enslavement and labor exploitation, particularly of Africans as the largest and most systematic of targeted groups; anti-immigrant discrimination, legislation, and terror...
The list is too long and still a work in progress of making it past tense history.
Susan, thank you for telling us your own story: the demonizing and Othering of Asian people is a shameful and horrible spect of American culture that very few people address.
Othering is a great word to describe the process of how one group latches onto differences of another targeted group to dehumanize them to promote political and economic dominance, exploitation, and/or genocide. As in against Jews, LGBTQ, Roma, and political dissidents during the Holocaust; the history of European colonization worldwide; the history of European colonists against Indigenous Americans; the history of enslavement and labor exploitation, particularly of Africans as the largest and most systematic of targeted groups; anti-immigrant discrimination, legislation, and terror...
The list is too long and still a work in progress of making it past tense history.
That is a great word - Othering!