lone_yakuza wrote:Let me put it in perspective for you. You are an Italian male, I presume? And I also presume that you would identify as 'caucasian'?
Ok, then how about we pretend that you wake up one day to find that everybody wears East Asian clothing, mostly Chinese and Japanese style clothing. All hairstyles/fashion/etc. etc. is East Asian, akin to what you see in the martial arts movies.
Ok maybe you think that is cool.
You find that everybody speaks Mandarin or Japanese, and those are the two languages most used around the world and are the "trade languages."
Sometimes Korean.
You are living in the East Asian Union as a caucasian minority, you were born and raised there.
Your homeland of Europe was ravaged by wars and imperialism after East Asia conquered, raped, and pillaged it. And now they are "kind" enough to allow you to live in their lands, which are pollution free and pristine, and where food is plentiful, etc.e tc. etc.
The average white male is extremely small in stature, weak, ugly, and malnourished because of centuries/decades of famines/lack of resources/lack of nutrition in Europe and centuries/decades of famines experienced by white/Caucasian peoples around the world.
You are an exception because you were blessed with good looks from birth and also worked your a** off academically, physically, and mentally/spiritually. Unfortunately you are still height challenged because of genetics.
You look around and realize that 60% of the women of your race (white women) dislike white males and always go for East Asian males, even the ugly, untalented, or extremely mediocre type. Also keep in mind that because in this fictional reverse-of-real-world, East Asia pillaged and raped the rest of the world and colonized America as well, so thus has plenty of foods/excellent nutrition and have had this for generations, and because of that, East Asians are generally much more attractive than most other races (symmetric faces and no defects/flaws), well-built, tall in height, etc. etc. Basically with so many resources, good environment, and for generations, East Asians now have the "advantage" in most things.
You are a height challenged white male who sees that 60% of white women go for East Asian males, because of this world order. There is also active propaganda from East Asian film companies demeaning and emasculating white males, and thus globally cockblocknig white males and making it extremely hard for you to find any girls, as most girls have been brainwashed to be prejudiced against you.
Your homeland of Europe is still very polluted and has only recently "risen," but is still very much behind East Asia in many aspects, such as ethics, quality of living, and corruption.
Even worse, not only do the white females living in the East Asian union hate white males, but the white females from back in Europe also dislike white males and would go with a rich East Asian male if given the chance. All the people in Europe also dress basically like East Asians and have forgotten all of their culture and most are too stupid or do not want to remember how the East Asian union colonized, raped, stole, and stripped the lands of Europe of resources. Self hatred is common and many Europeans want to get plastic surgery to look more East Asian.
You are a citizen of the East Asian Union, grew up there, speak the language flawlessly, but are attacked/demeaned because of your ethnicity or lack of height, and finding employment is very very difficult. The negative images from the media certainly do not help.
You wish you could go "back" to Europe, but Europe is such a polluted shithole full of self hating Europeans and European/white girls who are self hating or status whores, that you are disgusted by it. Going for other races of girls just isn't going to work because of the pervasiveness of the East Asian Film propaganda.
To add insult to injury, Europe would much rather hire an East Asian to teach Mandarin instead of you, even though you speak/read/write Mandarin flawlessly and better than many of your Asian-ethnicity East Asian Union countrymen.
East Asian males also go to Europe and lord it over everyone and have girls all over them.
You have faced nothing but bullying, ostracism, psychological torture, and have gotten a few chronic illnesses because of living in certain bad areas of the East Asian union.
The buildings in Europe are all of East Asian design for the most part. East Asian religions are also very big in certain European countries.
The East Asian Union military wages wars on lesser, weak countries, and takes its resources in the name of the dominant East Asian ideology, which has also affected and become the ideology of many European countries. One European country that dared to stand up to the East Asian Imperialists was defeated in World War II, and its constitution written up by an East Asian general, and the culture purposely perverted and destroyed and the peoples brainwashed by the East Asian film industry into hating itself. Thus taht country has an especially high number of people getting plastic surgery to look East Asian, along with one of its neighboring countries, the current favorite oft he East Asian Union (equivalent of Japan and South Korea in the real world).
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Hopefully you can understand where some East Asian males come from now?
A very insightful post, Lone. This is what you're capable of when you keep your anger at bay, and I'm glad to see your usual self again. Discussing why Europe and its socio-cultural-political-economic model has been imperant in the past two or three centuries may take two or three entire forums like this one.
One of my favourite philosophers, French polymath Paul Valery reasoned about this almost 100 years ago, in the aftermath of WWI. He put down Europe's primacy not in its strenghts, but in its weaknesses - for centuries before its modern rise, Europe had been the source and the sink of everything: great civilisations and barbarians, the Greeks and the Romans and Attila and Genghis Khan, war & famine to philosophical and scientific breakthroughs. Our weakness was in the openness of our borders and our thought system, and our strength came from, well, the miraculous way in which we managed to absorb and synthesize those millennia of ethnical mixing and cultural/intellectual colonisation without losing ourselves into the immensity of Asia.
This was beautifully synthesized in Paul Valery's dilemma...
Will Europe become what it is in reality -- that is, a little promontory on the continent of Asia?
Or will it remain what it seems -- that is, the elect portion of the terrestrial globe, the pearl of the sphere, the brain of a vast body?
Sure, one could mention such cohesive factors as our common roots in Catholicism, or perhaps even the fact that what you call "white Caucasian" traits never were completely diluted into another Mongoloid ethnicity.
My point is though: if you were to reason about the history of Europe like Valery did, you would come to the same conclusion: it's not an ethnical/racial or birthplace cipher that will define a European, and by extension a "white Caucasian". It's his way of thinking, it's his openness, the fluidity of his learning and reasoning process. Much of the success and the greatness of the Roman Empire was predicated not on the superior military strategy, but on the grand, beautiful project of cultural and social inclusion proposed to all subjected cultures and civilisation. None of them actually lost their gods, their customs, their social structures. All of them, though, were made aware that someone in Rome had thought a "bigger picture" for a universal society based on shared intellectual/cultural and political/economical paradigms, and they could be part of it. For centuries, being a Roman Citizen was the greatest honour that could be bestowed upon any decent citizen of the Western emisphere.
In more recent times, the first Asian countries to become leading economies did so by opening up and listening to their neighbours, whether after a post-war trauma (Japan) or by decree (South Korea, more recently China).
You understand what they key point is, now? SYNTHESIS. You have crystallised yourself into the image of something you can't be anymore (a proud Samurai) and use your dialectic katana against anything and anybody that doesn't embrace your mythical system of pure Asian values. What if that system was, well, romanticised by a few historians and writers but, in fact, never really existed in the first place? And even if it were, the kind of extremely porous, globalised society we have today would never allow such a system to exist, let alone prosper.
You are refusing to adapt to reality for fear or losing an artificial identity that only exists in your mind. This is the root cause of your cognitive dissonance, your rage and intolerance being but the effects of it. You know how many short Asians I personally know, who I have seen succeed in life, completely oblivious of their physical limitation and ethnicity, when not leveraging them. My ex-colleague Justin is a top software developer, a rock climber and ex martial artist and stunt. He used to train with Jon Foo, that other rising Asian star and sex symbol, who is certainly not known for being tall (he's 1.72/1.73).
Sure, your chronical illnesses are annoying, yet I have seen amputees and worse forging ahead with a strong spirit. Being bullied isn't a "privilege" reserved to you as an Asian shortie, it happens to white Caucasians, shorts and talls, thicks and thins, blacks and gingers. Who you are physically is and won't be your downfall. Failing to live in the present and adapt to it may well be. You seem to believe that adaptation is a sacrilege, when it's in fact what society requires from you for the very fact that you were born an ethnical minority in a melting pot society, just like Justin and Jon Foo. As I wrote somewhere else, don't remember if to you or David, modern life is not a formal dinner, but a garden buffet - hang around and pick and mix what you like and define your identity accordingly. But, for God's sake, pick from what's available on the table, not from a menu that's only in your mind!