Exposing the Modern Racist Paradigm

By TotalitarianTipToe

In order to effectively address the racist paradigm today, it will have to be divided into 6 parts; this is necessary so as to give the readers a cohesive picture which enables them to connect the dots:

1.) European Imperialism
2.) The White Media (really the Zionist White Media)
3.) Internalized Racism
4.) White Denial Mentality
5.) The Color Labels Must Go
6.) Schematic of the Racist Social Hierarchy

European Imperialism

In order to understand and expose the underlying global social hierarchy today, it's imperative for researchers to trace back its historical roots. Obviously this is an overwhelmingly daunting task to say the least, for the problem of racism is almost as old as Humanity itself. Therefore, we must at least try to trace it back to a more immediate past in order to comprehend the racist quagmire encompassing the world today. Now we can attest to the fact that Historical Global European Imperialism / Expansionism / Colonialism has had the most impact on reshaping the world in the last several centuries. Clearly, it has had the most influence, by far, in the world of politics, economics, education, commercialism, you name it. Furthermore without European Imperialism, "America" as you currently know it would not exist. In addition to that, had it not been for European Imperialism, White institutional control would not be so globally pervasive. Below are some research sources pertaining to Global European Imperialism:

http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm - African Slave Trade and European Imperialism http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/Social_Science/Imperialism/Imperialism.html#anchor425471 - European Imperialism in Cameroon, Egypt, Tunisia, Angola
http://members.aol.com/sniper43/Imperialism.html - An Overview of European Imperialism
http://www.britannia.com/history/euro/2/2_1.html - Europe in Retrospect: Expansion
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/westn/imperialism.html Sunysuffolk.edu - European Imperialism in the 19th Century
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/modern.html#western European Imperialism in China: The Western Powers Arrive
http://www.counterpunch.org/petras11132004.html - a report on Neoliberalism and Class Politics in Latin America
http://www.casahistoria.net/imperialism.htm - links on European Imperialism
http://www.aldridgeshs.eq.edu.au/sose/modrespg/imperial/titlepg.htm - References on European Imperialism
http://www.aldridgeshs.eq.edu.au/sose/modrespg/imperial/group1/settlers.htm - Settler Colonies & White Dominions: South Africa
http://mclane.fresno.k12.ca.us/wilson98/Assigments/ImpCH11.html - Imperialists take Africa, Southeast Asia, and Muslim lands
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html - Age of Imperialism: An Online History of the United States
http://www.sagehistory.net/worldpower/imperialism.htm - America and Imperialism: The Growth of Imperial Ideas
http://www.teacheroz.com/19thcent.htm - 19th Century America | Primary Documents
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/lec.mandest.html - Expansionism and Manifest Destiny
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap5.htm An Outline of American History: Westward Expansion
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/manifest/manif1.htm#coi - A Movement As Old As America Itself
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/manifest/manifxx.htm - Manifest Destiny: The Philosophy That Created a Nation
http://members.aol.com/mrremm/private/USHIST/civilwar.html - Notes on Manifest Destiny
http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/1979/79westwardexp.htm - The Making of The United States: Westward Expansion 1783 to 1890
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/40/index-dca.html - World History Archives: United States Imperialism in Latin America
http://mondediplo.com/1998/09/02schiller - Towards a New Century of American Imperialism
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/World.html#LAIC - European Imperialism in Latin America
http://www.marxists.org/archive/novack/works/1941/oct/01.htm - The Aims of American Imperialism
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0215-22.htm - American Imperialism and the Politics of Fear

European Imperialism is responsible for shifting the balance of power between the cultures - a global shift which gave most power and clout to the White race. This explains why Whites (particularly White men) dominate / control most authoritative power positions in the world today. This control is also highly prevalent in the corporate media.

Most of the decision-makers in North American news and entertainment media are white. Media ownership is mainly concentrated in the hands of white males; white journalists dominate the mainstream media; and white people hold most creative positions in the entertainment media as actors, writers and directors. All these factors contribute to the prevalence of whiteness in media, and help to reinforce white privilege as the norm.

Most mainstream media content also reinforces white privilege by featuring white characters and addressing white interests and experiences. When programming does feature non-white characters, they usually appear in supporting roles.

Obviously this consolidation of media power into the hands of one group will naturally tend to represent itself more (and more positively for that matter) than other groups which it cannot naturally relate or identify with. This is why it is so critical to address and expose this centralization of power. Failure to dissolve this centralization of power will only contribute to the ongoing process of mass indoctrination which involves more and more people subconsciously seeing the world and themselves according to what the media owners want them to. When the masses are constantly fed the same themes in the media, they will begin to internalize those things subconsciously. This is how the Subconscious Mind operates; as the link states:

"The subconscious works simply by expecting that which is most common."

This link reports on a study which finds that the brain is impacted by subliminal images even when the person is unaware of having seen those images:



Experts in the field of propaganda and Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) know that the fundamental means to indoctrinate / brainwash is through the use of repetition and subliminal imagery. They know that the subconscious mind always gravitates around the law of repetition and subliminal messages.

Keeping the above points in mind, the readers should at least, at this point, be aware of how the mind can easily be manipulated by said propaganda tactics. Being able to recognize the process behind mass brainwashing is essential to being immune to it. Unfortunately, most people in today's society are not consciously aware of the pervasive patterns so well hidden in plain view in the media. If people were more keen and circumspect in their observation skills, they will undoubtedly come across a widely pervasive subliminal pattern of Whiteness in the media. Below are some of the many subliminal patterns of Whiteness prevalent in the mass media:

The constant propagation of White Male Sexuality:



Repetitive themes depicting Asian Female Submissiveness to White Men:

http://www.asianmediawatch.net/lax/index.html ("China Doll", the exotic and submissive Filipino Woman | screen captures below)



This link Mahdzan.com states the following:

"These stereotypes of Asians in the American media have been socially constructed by the powerful institution we call Hollywood. Hollywood movies have long been promoting white dominance in its films. It upholds the belief that being white and male and heterosexual is state of being privileged, though many White heterosexual men would not realize this until it is pointed out.

For example, a white man is able to have a sexual relationship with an Asian woman, but an Asian man cannot be seen having an intimate relationship with a white woman. White guys always win the battle against the Asians. White men are always portrayed stronger and more intelligent than Asian men are....

We then asked ourselves, what are the purposes of these negative stereotypes of Asians in popular media in general and how do they reflect the social hierarchy that we are accustomed with here in the United States?"

"Asian porn is a popular genre and female stars such as Asia Carrera, Annabel Chong and Mimi Miyagi are household names to adult video fans. But straight porn is short on Asian-American males and Hamamoto wants to do something about it. For Hamamoto, an Asian-American studies professor at the University of California at Davis, the project is his statement about Asian-American sexuality, and if all goes as he plans, the start of an Asian-American media company.

Hamamoto wants to start a discussion about Asian-American sexuality, which he says has been damaged by years of colonialism and racism that has turned Asian women into a sexual fetish and Asian men into eunuchs. Asian-Americans have internalized these attitudes, Hamamoto says, causing a rift between the genders and perpetuating the stereotypes."

The Asian woman is supposedly sexually active, exotic, overly feminine and eager to please. This character is termed "China Doll," and appears countless times in popular movies. Examples include Return to Paradise. The movie sets itself in Malaysia where three white male Americans spend their time laying on the beach, sniffing cheap cocaine and sleeping with the local girls. Even though the Asian female actors in this movie were not Asian American and only appeared for a few minutes in the beginning portion of the movie, nevertheless it still conveyed the message that Asian women take pride in sexually serving white men because the men are white and rich. When Asians are constantly depicted as one way in movies, it predominantly effects the way people see Asian Americans.

What Hollywood may have failed to portray about these Asian women is that these Asian women are prostitutes merely trying to support their families by offering sexual services to men whom they see rich. Because they come from poor families and lack education, some Asian women earn their living by these means, and preferring to sleep with a man due to his skin color has nothing to do with it: money talks.

Another example of the China Doll character appeared in The Year of the Dragon. The leading actor, a white police chief who is deemed racist towards Chinese in this movie, tries beyond his best to eliminate violence in New York's Chinatown. He befriends an Asian American female news anchor to get his crack-down-on-Chinatown-violence stories on TV broadcast. The police officer is depicted as arrogant and selfish man, and the Asian American woman dislikes him immensely because he makes derogatory remarks about her being Chinese. She refuses to air his story. However, when the police officer swings by the woman's house, he coerces her into having sex with him, and she submits to him, despite giving him rejection slaps on the face prior to engaging in sexual intercourse. This movie not only showed that Asian American women were passive and indecisive, but it also stressed that Asian American women do want to have sex with white men, even if she says no initially.

"Dragon Lady" refers to an Asian woman who is perceived as seductive, desirable but at the time she is untrustworthy. Movies from the early century have been successful in portraying this stereotypical version of the Asian woman. "Daughter of Fu Manchu" is one of them. Scheming, treacherous and dangerous, the Dragon Lady is the female version of the Asian bad guy, only with a slightly different approach to defeat her enemies. She has the power to hypnotize her male rivals, gains trust by seducing them, and when they least expect it, she rids of them through sabotage or backstabbing (Espiritu).

In Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) starring Pierce Brosnan and Michelle Yeoh, the plot centered on James Bond, a white secret detective, who initially had an Asian female reporter interfering with his duties. Tension builds between them until they start cooperating in their operations and predictably fall in love in the end. It has been a common sight seeing a white man paired off with an Asian woman in the movie scene, but seldom do we see an Asian man paired off with a white woman. Asian women are often depicted as easily falling in love with white men, sometimes even at just first sight. This scene has been termed the "unmotivated white-Asian romance" because the woman easily falls in love with a man because he is white (MANAA).

We have also seen news broadcasts on television where the news anchors consist of an Asian female and a white male. An example of an Asian female news anchor that we observed on television paired off with a white male news partner was Juju Chang for ABC news. Anchor team for CBS news, Connie Chung and Dan Rather was also a popular pair on the news broadcast several years ago. We have yet to see an Asian man paired off with a white woman on the news. The only times we observed Asian men in news broadcasts made them appear solo, e.g., the weatherman on the Weather Channel or as Asia-based correspondents on CNN (Interracial).

Asian men are portrayed as passive, old and speak broken English. The term "Yellow Uncle Tom" was coined to describe Asian men of this type. The Karate Kid (1984) was a movie we saw that depicted the Asian actor as such a man. In Karate Kid, Pat Morita plays Mr. Miyagi, an old Japanese American World War II veteran who calmly trains an enthusiastic white teenage male the Japanese martial arts of karate. Despite the fact that Mr. Miyagi was an American WWII veteran, he was still portrayed speaking English with a foreign accent (Wong).

The myth that all Asian men know some form of martial arts was also stressed in this movie when Mr. Miyagi surprises Daniel (the white male leading actor) with his karate moves after appearing passive and bashful during the first portions of the film. It reminds people to be aware of Asian men in general because passivity may not appear to be what it seems.

Asian men are depicted as men who do not have the capability of being ideal partners to women of their own racial groups. This is emphasized when movie producers start pairing Asian women off with white men instead of men of their own races. These women supposedly prefer to be with white men.

In the family-oriented movie based on Amy Tan's book, the Joy Luck Club portrayed Asian men as undesirable male partners. Joy Luck Club was a story of the relationships of first generation Asian American mothers and their grown-up daughters. Out of the four daughters that appeared in the movie, only one married another Asian man while the rest of the daughters married white men. Even at that, the Asian man turned out to be a stingy, selfish man with little regard for his wife. On top of that, the husbands of the mothers in this story were abusive and promiscuous Asian men. In other words, Asian men were seen as irresponsible and do not value their families.

In an article entitled "Portrait of White Racism" by David Wellman and Howard Pinderburghes, they mention that the creation of self requires the social construction of another. "Self implies other; without Other, there can be can be no Self." To put this assertion in congruence with our findings, without the appearance of malicious Asians in these popular movies, white appearances have no identity, no power and no privilege. The Asian male character is portrayed as being less adequate than the White male leading actor to emphasize that there is discrepancy between the two characters, and for the White man to uphold his position in the American society, the Asian character must lose the battle against his White rival.

As shown in our analysis, Asian men are constantly being depicted as evil because being evil is unfavorable, socially unacceptable and deserves to either be isolated from the rest of society or just die out of existence.

The Asian man must also display no competition to the White man in terms of courtship with women, especially Asian women. Out of irony, the Asian man is not allowed to have an intimate relationship with a white woman because the white woman cannot be subjected to the Asian patriarchal system, which is seen as inferior and potentially degrading. Asian men are portrayed as weak and less masculine to emphasize that they do not have the ability to attract women into entering companionship, unlike the white men who always successfully grab the attention of the Asian women.

"The media have and will continue to portray a self-serving negative stereotype of the African-American community. The societal and economic factors of racism have become more than just a bias. They are also a profitable industry, in which the elite will continue to suppress the lower class in order to maximize profits. According to Harvard professor Cornell West, 1 percent of the elite holds some 48 percent of America's wealth. This means that media, racism, and stereotypes will continue to be employed so that those elite can be sure of their continuing economic stability."

So who exactly are those "elites" which Yale briefly mentions? Answer: they are the Zionists who control the global corporate media:

Zionist control of the media:

http://zionismexplained.org/media/media.html
http://www.the7thfire.com/9-11/Pastore_Investigation_of_%209-11/chapter_7--Zionist_power_structure_in_America.htm (Zionist power structure in the United States)

Related research:

http://www.serendipity.li/zionism.htm
http://www.wrmea.com/html/focus.htm

Media Awareness http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/ethnics_and_minorities/index.cfm states the following about the negative portrayals of Non-White people in the White Media:

Anyone who examines North American entertainment and news media will notice that members of ethnic and visible minorities are inadequately represented in entertainment and news media, and that portrayals of minorities are often stereotypical and demeaning.
This tendency is particularly problematic in a multicultural country like Canada, where 15 per cent of the population are immigrants and visible minorities comprise 25 to 51 per cent of the larger urban centres. Toronto is the first city in the Western world in which the majority of inhabitants are people of colour. "Without much fuss," says historian Gwyn Dyer, "We’ve become the most spectacularly diverse country in the world." Why, then, have the media not kept pace?

When asked, in a 2002 poll, whether the government should preserve and enhance multiculturalism, 82 per cent of Canadians said yes. So why, asks Lionel Lumb, from Carleton University’s School of Journalism, "are the millions of minorities that are so visible on our streets and in shopping malls, our offices and health care centres, so invisible on our television screens?"

Seventy per cent of the dramas, sitcoms and series that Canadians watch are produced in the U.S. Images of minorities are lacking on those screens and they’re lacking on Canadian screens as well.

The "White-Washing" of Entertainment

Back in 1993, the American Screen Actors Guild (SAG) began to collect statistics on the number of ethnic and minority actors appearing in American television and films. The results were grim. Members of visible and ethnic minorities were significantly under-represented across the whole range of entertainment media. The face of North American entertainment was overwhelmingly white, mostly male and young.

Critics and advocacy groups began to pressure the industry to produce shows and films that adequately reflect the racial and ethnic diversity we find in our communities and there have been significant gains. In its 2000 report, SAG announced a seven per cent increase in industry jobs and record numbers of roles for performers of colour, with African Americans accounting for 15 per cent of all characters in television and film. However, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) pointed out that of the four major networks’ 26 new prime-time shows for the 2000 season, none featured people of colour in lead roles.

Canadian television—both public and private—is well known for creating programming for children and young people that reflects our multicultural society. But critics of our adult programming echo concerns voiced in the U.S. A 1994 study by Magali Dupont and Fo Niemi found that minorities in Quebec-based dramas were cast in secondary roles, usually in poorly paid occupations and unstable domestic situations, and non-white men tended to be less heroic and virile than their white counterparts.

A small study released in 2002 by researchers at B.C.’s Simon Fraser University shows similar patterns. In the nearly 70 hours of Canadian programming examined, visible minorities made up 12 per cent of 1,200 characters—not far below the actual percentage of visible minorities in the national population. But again, it’s the way these minorities are represented that comes under fire.

"What we’re seeing is a very superficial level of inclusion, says researcher Shane Halasz. These characters aren’t too central to the story line," he points out; and the workplace "seems to be a convenient place to include a person of colour for cosmetic purposes—without being obliged to look at their culture or what happens in their homes."

According to Canadian actor Dhirendra, the problem of treating minorities like props is rooted in the producers’ discomfort, behind-the-scenes, with challenging the status quo. Nor, he adds, do writers like to write about things they don’t understand.

Misrepresentation in Video Games

Though television has established a learning curve with respect to fair minority portrayals, the video games industry seems not yet to have got the message. A 2001 study by the U.S. organization Children Now, entitled Fair Play -- Violence, Gender and Race in Video Games examined some of the most popular games to assess the extent of stereotyping. It found that:

-most protagonists (86 per cent) were white males

-non-white males were portrayed in stereotypical ways—seven out of ten Asian characters as fighters, and eight out of ten African-Americans as sports competitors

-nearly nine out of ten African-American females were victims of violence (twice the rate of white females)

-79 per cent of African-American males were shown as verbally and physically aggressive, compared to 57 per cent of white males

The Impact on Viewers

Entertainment media say a lot to their viewers about who counts in society. Temple University professor George Gerbner is concerned that portrayals of minority characters in entertainment media affect the ways children see themselves and others. Children Now’s 1998 study A Different World: Children’s Perceptions of Race and Class in Media supports that conclusion. Their research found that children associate white characters with various attributes: having lots of money, being well educated, being a leader, doing well in school, and being intelligent. Conversely, they associate minority characters with breaking the law, having a hard time financially, being lazy, and acting goofy.

"The lack of diversity in Friends is also destructive to its viewers. Cultural diversity is what makes our country the most beautiful and powerful nation in the world. Without tolerance for all cultures, this powerful nation will tear at the seams. Friends, comprised almost totally of Caucasian characters, is not representative of our nation. Children Now, a child policy and advocacy organization, asked viewers to “Imagine an America where Latinos are a mere 2% of the population, and where mostly persons of color occupy lower-rung occupations.” Children Now states that this is the America that prime-time network television is showing you. Friends is supporting that illusion. Throughout an entire season of the show, characters of ethnic backgrounds other than Caucasian are rarely given even a minor role. One African-American character lives in an alley outside of the main characters’ apartment building. He was only seen for one episode, in which he begged Ross for money, and when turned away, began to mildly harass him. Another example is a Hispanic character that steals a car outside of the coffee shop where Rachel works. Are we to accept that all African-Americans and Hispanics behave in a criminal manner? This type of ignorance breeds hatred and discrimination. How can people learn to respect each other when shows like Friends preach that no respect is necessary? The lack of culture in Friends is unrealistic, and it will do nothing but harm the minds of its viewers."

"In the visual media, whites and non-whites are portrayed in different ways: By using the type of movie lighting which originated in Hollywood, or the narrative of a story, differences between whites and non-whites are created. Whites are usually standard. The American sitcom SEX AND THE CITY with its all-white cast sets an example for the standardization of whiteness. In its episode “No Ifs, Ands, Or Buts”, the audience is made aware of the usually unnoticed norm of whiteness when African Americans enter the scene. Whiteness and blackness are set in contrast with each other not only aesthetically through the use of lighting but also narratively through discussions on racism."

"Sex sells and heatthrobs get paid. So what's behind the film industry's reluctance to cast Black men in romantic lead roles? And can the trickle of Black love stories just beginning to flow from Hollywood finally turn the tide?

...MORRIS CHESTNUT SITS IN THE CORNER OF A CROWDED, dimly lit cafe on Sunset Boulevard, head deep in his Los Angeles Times. Ensconced in his reading, Chestnut, 30, who sizzled in last fall's romantic fable The Best Man, barely notices the eyes all around him squinting, glancing, peering, sure they recognize that finely chiseled face. Tall, dark, lithe and swooningly handsome, Chestnut epitomizes the romantic ideal for many women--and he's Hollywood's idea of a leading man as well. With a glide reminiscent of Billy Dee's and sex appeal that rivals Denzel's, Chestnut is part of a growing cadre of young Black actors, brothers who have the looks, talent and sexual charisma to make hearts flutter at the box office. But will they get their chance? Considering love stories are the most tried and true formula in Tinseltown--and given that sexy, sensuous men who can draw top-spending female audiences into the theater are the most coveted species in Hollywood--the contrast between roles assigned to White actors and Black actors is stark.

The fact is, despite figures showing that women account for a huge share of box-office receipts, and that Blacks, though only 13 percent of the population, represent an estimated 30 percent of moviegoers, studios have never been interested in portraying Black men as fully realized sexual beings. That's why studios failed to capitalize on the huge appeal of leading men like Harry Belafonte in Carmen Jones, Billy Dee Williams in Lady Sings the Blues and Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Instead, the movie industry turned the careers of these potential superstar heartthrobs in an action-adventure direction, casting Billy Dee in The Empire Strikes Back and Sidney Poitier in Shoot to Kill.

...Even Denzel Washington, 45, the ultimate crossover matinee idol for most of the last two decades, repeatedly plays characters who are as chaste as monks, getting hot and bothered on-screen only four times--as the trumpet-playing Bleek in Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues, as the sensuous Demetrius in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala, as the fictional private eye Easy Rawlins in Washington's self-produced Devil in a Blue Dress, and as the brooding convict Jake in Lee's He Got Game. It's no coincidence that all four characters were conceived and brought to the big screen by people of color, challenging the oft-repeated refrain in Hollywood--that Washington doesn't want to do love scenes. "I've heard so many times that I don't want to do a love story, and that is just not true," Washington confirms. "The truth is, a good love story has not come my way in all these years. But I'm dedicated to doing one soon. Really, at this point in my career, a love story, a good romantic piece, is what I want to do."

Now, you know Denzel in love would be box-office gold. So why isn't anybody asking him?.....Okay. So maybe nobody actually sat down in a big meeting and said, "Let's figure a way to keep the Black guy away from a woman." But again and again in popular films, the roles played by African-American actors are as predictable as the White leading character--one with a fully developed romantic life--saving the day. Even in so-called crossover movies, top-billed Black actors rarely have a love interest, rarely win the girl and are lucky if they even get a kiss."

Issue Area: Advertiser Influence

"Most of the income of for-profit media outlets comes not from their audiences, but from commercial advertisers who are interested in selling products to that audience. Although people sometimes defend commercial media by arguing that the market gives people what they want, the fact is that the most important transaction in the media marketplace--the only transaction, in the case of broadcast television and radio--does not involve media companies selling content to audiences, but rather media companies selling audiences to sponsors.

This gives corporate sponsors a disproportionate influence over what people get to see or read. Most obviously, they don't want to support media that regularly criticizes their products or discusses corporate wrongdoing. More generally, they would rather support media that puts audiences in a passive, non-critical state of mind-making them easier to sell things to. Advertisers typically find affluent audiences more attractive than poorer ones, and pay a premium for young, white, male consumers-factors that end up skewing the range of content offered to the public.

It is becoming harder and harder to escape from the propagandistic effects of advertising..."

Below is list of research material containing many examples of how the White Media consistently lowers the image of Non-Whites while it consistently elevates the image of Whites:

- http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/Racial/racial_1960.html Movies from the 1960's to the 1980's:









- http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/Racial/racial_1990.html Movies from the 1990's:









- http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/Racial/racial_2000.html Movies from 2000 to the present day:









As we can see, these patterns are too consistent to be that of chance. It is highly unlikely that these subliminal patterns are propagated by accident. In my opinion, these patterns are clearly part of an elaborate and deliberate attempt by the media owners to condition society into perceiving Whiteness as the standard for society. As more and more of these patterns are repeated over and over again, the subconscious minds of the audience members become increasingly conditioned by those images. Remember what I said earlier; the subconscious mind always tends to gravitate around that which is most common. In other words, repetition is the most basic form of propaganda for it is the one brainwashing method which the subconscious mind is most susceptible to.

Research done by the University of Miami states the following:

Besides acknowledging the fact that television media often offers negative stereotypical portrayals of individuals belonging to certain racial and/or ethnic groups such as African-Americans and homosexuals, social psychology goes further by examining the direct implications of these mostly negative images. One of these implications is the notion of stereotype threat, the risk of confirming a negative stereotype about one’s group as self characteristic. As an individual is constantly exposed to negative images of his/her racial or ethnic group, this person begins to internalize the same social and personal characteristics of these images.

The Hollywood lens has shifted stereotypes of blacks from the shiftless or brutal characters of yesteryear to that of second-string players whose roles only boost those of whites in modern movies, a new book by University of Florida researchers finds...

Unchanged are portrayals of white characters, who are depicted as noble, wise or heroic folks no matter whether they encounter rampaging blacks in old, silent flicks or oppressed blacks in color features almost a century later, said Andrew Gordon, a UF professor of English and one of the authors of the book published this month...

There have been many studies of minority images in film - African Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos - but most ignore the obvious: About 95 percent of Hollywood movies are made by, for and about white people...

The portrayal of leader-like whites and backup blacks has a powerful influence on the world’s image of the United States, Gordon said. “We tend to dismiss cinema as mere entertainment, yet it has profound effects in shaping our thinking and behavior."

Defining Whiteness and White Privilege:

Biology alone does not determine racial identity. Our concept of race is equally shaped by social norms and expectations, which are based on historical events and current practices. In North American society, being white is perceived as the norm. Often the fact that whiteness is also a race is not acknowledged. As a result, researchers have begun to examine whiteness and to define it in terms of social impact. Such research concentrates on "white privilege" - the differences in power between whites and non-whites, and the advantages white people automatically take for granted.

The advantages of being white include learning the history of one's own race in school, to seeing members of one's own ethnic group widely represented in the media, to being confident that job refusals are not based on one's race.

Internalized racism occurs when people targeted by racism are, against their will, coerced and pressured to agree with the distortions of racism. Each of us targeted by racism fights, from childhood on, as long and as hard as we dare, to maintain a sense of ourselves as good, smart, strong, important, and powerful. However, in our societies, racist attitudes are so harsh, so pervasive, and so damaging that each of us is forced at times to turn racism in upon ourselves and seemingly agree with some of the conditioning, internalizing the messages of racism. We come to mistreat ourselves and other members of our group in the same ways that we have been mistreated as the targets of racism.

Internalized Racism that is very evident in many Non-White people often involves the urge to be "White". Michael Jackson for example, is an extreme case of Internalized Racism. He literally wanted to (and did) change his appearance from Black to White (more like Skeletor actually ). Just look at the following picture:



To a lesser extent, many Non-White people are increasingly coloring their hair blonde. Now some say that this is about "fashion". While that is sometimes true, the consistency of said pattern in relation with the overwhelming research already provided in this thread indicates that Internalized Racism is at play:

Shakira:



Blonde Asians:



This site exposes the White Media's direct influence on Asian perceptions and how many Asian women prefer Blonde hair over their natural hair colors because they are "fascinated" with Caucasian idols. Take a look http://www.mynippon.com/women/blond.htm. It reads as follows:

How come so many women are now trying to look like blondes? While no one will never admit it openly, everyone is, of course fascinated by Caucasian bodies of both men and women. Asian men can do nothing much about their appearance other than using Armani suits that are popular in the West (since businesses in Asia still expect men to dress and look very conservative) but women have been not only more adventurous but also creative. For example, nothing is more fascinating than to see an Asian woman in a traditional dress, with her hair dyed some shade of brown....

Traditionally, a large number of Asian women have considered Caucasian women as more attractive. The general impression is that Caucasians are taller, have more proportionate bodies (especially larger chests and butts), and the blonde hair color makes them more attractive. While something can be done about the height or breast size (cosmetic surgery, which appear to be a growing industry in many parts of Asia too), it is easy to change hair or skin color and that is the main reason for so many blonde look-alikes.

Speaking of cosmetic surgery, many Asians nowadays are so obsessed with Whiteness that many of them are experimenting with Asian Double Eye-Lid Surgery (Blepharosplasty) in order to have "White eye-lids": http://www.drmccurdy.com/double.htm. Photos below:

"It's evidence of internalized racism," says Mura. "It really indicates something about the way in which Asians in America are indoctrinated by white standards of beauty. They feel less beautiful than those who fit the Caucasian standard of beauty."
The main reason for that, Mura says, is the low representation of Asians in the media.

"People grow up watching the media, which is where people are beautiful and powerful. You see very few Asian faces. The message is: the way you look is not beautiful, or doesn't count, or doesn't even exist," he says. He believes the American media also account for much of the surgery's popularity in Asia.

"The power of the American media and American culture stretches all over the globe, and can cause people to devalue their own culture," says Mura.

Parents are taking children as young as three to plastic surgeons in China as part of a trend that is seeing the country's young generation increasingly putting themselves under the knife...Most want their noses enlarged and a fold cut onto their eyelids to make them bigger -- to make them look more like the Westerners they see in Hollywood films and the ubiquitous advertisements on billboards and magazines in China. China has become the world's eighth-largest and Asia's second-biggest cosmetics market as disposable incomes jump in an increasingly wealthy society.

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but who is the beholder? Despite the ever-changing cultural, ethnic, and racial landscape of the United States, the beholder is, and historically always has been, the white male. The white male, at the apex of the social stratosphere, has defined beauty for women of all races, resulting in a gender dynamic in which women try to perfect themselves in the eyes of men. This has meant that women of color have attempted to downplay the physical attributes normally associated with their respective races, while white women seek to enhance themselves in order to resemble the fethishized woman of color.

Because of the conflicting and seemingly authoritative ideals white men espouse for how women should look, women are increasingly obsessed with enhancing their own beauty. As a result, women of all colors are told to change themselves to something they are not. This paradox is precisely how beauty is used to keep an entire gender and entire races subjugated

Why are black women looking to plastic surgery to “whiten” certain physical features? It is without a doubt a result of the images with which they are bombarded daily and the messages sent to them by white America. In some cases, plastic surgeons themselves recommend rhinoplasty to black patients. In The Guardian, Tania Branigan writes of a white plastic surgeon who tells his patients that he thinks that “European noses are much nicer.” The perception of beauty is consistently defined in a white context. The definition of beauty in America is often tall, blonde, and skinny. This definition allows for the continued subjugation of the black population. As Cornel West, Professor of Religion at Princeton University, notes, “White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them.” Convincing black women that they are undesirable causes them to internalize negative images of themselves and serves to keep them subordinate to whites.

When Vanessa Williams became the first black woman to win the Miss America Pageant in 1984, many black women rejoiced, for her victory hinted that “black womanhood could indeed represent the national identity of America.” 2 But Williams was lighter-skinned than most blacks, with few “black” features. While the black race as a whole represents a wide spectrum of beauty and body types, white America rarely bestows the label of beautiful upon any woman darker than a paper bag......

Skin bleaching is not merely an issue of beauty, but one of race. The phenomenon has crossed borders into other countries ravaged by racism. Skin bleaching in South Africa has become so popular — and so dangerous — that the products have been banned from the country. These unsafe creams have been known to cause cancer, blotching on the skin, and other severe problems, yet African women continue to reach for them. Steeped in the history of apartheid in that country, Khany Dhlomo-Mkhize, editor of True Love magazine, observes that skin bleaching “is part of making yourself less black, ripping away at your roots ... [P]eople of mixed race, the colored community, were lighter-skinned and treated somewhat better.” Skin bleaching is becoming a popular trend in other areas too, including the Caribbean, demonstrating that it is not simply an issue of beauty, but an effort to advance socio-economically. One Jamaican girl who uses skin-bleaching creams notes that “white people get the better things in life, yes. You have a lot of advantages when you are white.”

It is as if the White media has become so enamored with the truth of its propaganda and so confident of its effectiveness on the psyches of other races and ethnic groups that it does not hesitate to make these ridiculous and arrogant declarations. And it does so over and over again. Periodically, magazines and periodicals will announce in bold headlines that some White woman is the "World’s Most Beautiful" or that some White man is "The Sexiest Man Alive" thereby insinuating that Whites alone occupy the precipice of unrivaled beauty and desirability.

"Racial identity in the United States is not shaped in a neutral environment. The identities of People of Color form in response to racial oppression, and the identities of Whites form in response to racial superiority. These two identity dynamics manifest in a complex range of attitudes and behaviors that support and perpetuate the racist paradigm in this country. In order to work together to dismantle individual, institutional, and cultural racism, People of Color and Whites must understand how these identity dynamics operate in specific institutional settings, and devise strategies to overcome the barriers and oppression that are created by them."

And with identities that form in response to racial superiority, come denial mentalities. The denial mentality most common in many White people is called White Denial.

White Denial Mentality

Indeed, one of the most sensitive subjects today is the topic of Racism. It has emerged to become one of the most fiercely debated subjects in the internet. Consequently, it has also become one of the most downplayed subjects as well. What's most revealing about this subject is the concentration of particular behavioral patterns which are prevalent in certain racial groups (particularly Whites). You see, in the general White society the tendency to downplay the subject of Racism is extremely common. This psychological phenomenon is identified as White Denial. In fact there was a CNN Poll which clearly shows that many White people tend to downplay the existence and impact of Racism in general society. Take a look below:



Additional research on White Denial Mentality:

http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/whatcard.html (The Absurdity (and Consistency) of White Denial)

This source http://www.trinicenter.com/WorldNews/denial.htm talks about White Denial:

Those who mention the poll from the National Opinion Research Center, indicating that between 50% and 75% of whites believe Blacks and Latinos are lazier, more violent, and prefer welfare to work, are called "fear-mongers," who see racists behind every personnel directors door....

The cry of "I'm not a racist, but..." could be a new stanza in the national anthem. It is America's collective cliche. No one is a racist. Black and Latino poverty couldn't possibly be the consequence of economic decline, wage stagnation, or discrimination. Everybody gets a fair shot so if they can't cut it, the fault lies not in our institutions, but with theirs: their ghettoes, their penchant for Malt Liquor and crack cocaine, their lack of a work ethic, and now perhaps their defective, intellect-starved DNA.

What will it take to make white folks believe that racism is still a persistent social phenomenon, albeit more subtle and concealed than in years past? When Rodney King was beaten, the voices of denial told us it was just a few bad cops, and anyway, he was speeding and "lunging around like some animal." When police in Virginia Beach assaulted African-American collegians during spring break a few years back, the voices of denial said "it wasn't racial, and anyway, a lot of those kids were looting." Indeed, whenever white cops kill or assault people of color, or even other "minority" cops, it's never racial. It was an accident. Bad judgment. And anyway, it's a jungle out there. The police are under a lot of pressure. But isn't it strange how we never hear about Black officers "accidentally" blowing away white teenagers during routine traffic stops? Are they somehow immune to the pressure which seemingly sends so many of their white colleagues over the edge?

Even when David Duke got nearly 60% of the white vote for U.S. Senate and almost 55% of the white vote for Louisiana Governor one year later, the voices of denial assured us Duke's supporters weren't racists. They were just "tired of business as usual," and wanted to "send Washington a message." That the message they had in mind might have been a bit more sinister than "gee whiz, here's a great guy who supports term limits," was entirely overlooked as a possibility.

Sometimes the denial gets downright silly. In 1989 (during my senior year of college) when a cross was burned on the lawn of a Tulane University fraternity, the very night that fraternity had issued its first-ever bid to a Black student, many white students and administrators said they didn't think the incident was racially-motivated, especially since "it was only a two-foot cross"(?) Four months later, when members of another fraternity burned a cross in their backyard, after nailing a Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard sign to the structure, the perpetrators actually claimed that the two pieces of wood had "just kinda' fallen into the bonfire in a cross-like position." As for the street sign? Nobody knew how that had gotten in there. Some even claimed, as proof of their innocence that they would have been forced to go to the black part of town had they wanted to steal an MLK Boulevard sign, and that, after all would have been too dangerous! No sir, no racism in these here parts."

"Blacks should stop victimizing themselves. They should quit whining."
"The media gives people what they want. It's a business. It's not racist. It only reflects the real world. It doesn't shape it."
"So what? Get over yourselves. There is no more slavery. Stop crying."
"If it had not been for Imperialism, the African Americans today would not exist."
"Stop being paranoid. Do you still see the KKK marching all over the streets? No. So stop whining."
"Blacks are too sensitive and they are solely responsible for their own failures."
"Stop playing the race card. Let's move on and stop talking about race issues."
"Blaming whitey won't pay the bills...And it won't put food on your table. "

All of the above are examples of downplaying tactics. They are most commonly used by White people who wish to remain oblivious to the subject of Racism and Race issues in general. The only way to expose and deconstruct the global racist paradigm in our world today is to first address the subject of Racism with honesty and courage. The lies need to stop now.

The Color Labels Must Go

I'd like to include in this thread a point about the idea of discarding fraudulent race labels such as "Black" or "White". In my opinion I believe said labels are not only false, but are also loaded with a myriad of psychological conditioning mechanics. You see these words come with very powerful stigmata that go way back into history; certainly much earlier than the time when races became associated with the color spectrum (which is completely preposterous in my opinion).

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-13-2005-64166.asp - (The Power of Colors and Their Meanings)
http://goinside.com/98/4/colors.html - (Significance of Colors)
http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/colormeaningindreams.html (Colors in Dreams and Their Meanings)
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0769383.html (What Colors Mean)
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/color/a/symbolism_2.htm (The Colors of Calm)
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html (Color Psychology)
http://people.smu.edu/bbnelson/colors.htm (Colors)
http://www.crystal-cure.com/white.html (Color White Meaning)
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~mgwt/KKwebcourse/colourscience/coloursignificance.html (Secrets of Color Revealed)
http://bolokids.com/2006/0339.htm (White: The Color of the "Gods")

It's important to note as well that since different cultures throughout history have given different meanings for the colors, that it is through Global European Expansionism / Imperialism during recent centuries that has brought about a dominant subconscious view of the word "White" in modern times. We know that in European Culture, the word "White" is associated with positivity and goodness. For example, the word "White" is usually associated with cleanliness, truth, peace, joy, bliss, angelic themes, heavenly settings, marriage, purity, innocence, etc., whereas the word "Black" is usually associated with evil, death, pain, sadness, devilish themes, hellish settings, corruption, submissiveness, etc. These are the color associations which subconsciously pervade the world today.

The images below reflect the globally pervasive theme of positivity associated with the word "White" in modern times. Brides wear white to symbolize virginity, purity, happiness, and innocence -- http://www.gagirl.com/wedding/wedding2.html



In Chess, the lighter color (by rule) has the privilege of the first move -- http://chess.about.com/od/beginners/ss/ble12set_6.htm

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	White always moves first. The players alternate moves : White moves, then Black, then White, and so on. Each player must move in turn; it is not allowed to pass or to skip a move.

In the United States, the white stars in the Flag represent the states in the union -- http://www.office.xerox.com/small-business/resources/international-color-guide-united-states/enus.html (International Color Guide | U.S.):



In Christianity, the White Dove represents the "Holy Spirit" -- http://www.dovereleases.com/desktopdefault.aspx?tabid=74

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	Dove - An important symbolic animal in Christianity representing the Holy Spirit. The white dove is referred to in the story of baptism of Christ.

The Dove is also used as a symbol of peace (links below):

http://www.greatseal.com/peace/dove.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dove

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	pure white member of this species, used as a symbol of innocence, gentleness, tenderness, and peace.

Picasso also depicted the White Dove as a peace symbol -- http://www.globalgallery.com/enlarge.php?print=sw-70031



White roses symbolize purity and virtue -- http://www.meaning-of-roses.com/white-rose.php

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White has ever been a symbol of innocence, of a world unspoiled and untarnished. The meaning of a bunch of glowing white roses is innocence and spiritual love. The white rose glorifies a love that is unaware of the temptations of the flesh and resides only in the soul. As opposed to the red rose that speaks of passionate promises, the meaning of a white rose is in its simplicity and pristine purity....

They are also widely used in weddings -- http://www.dellsweddings.com/wedding%20album/wedding-album-boquets.htm



Angels are very often depicted with White apparel -- http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html

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White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection. White means safety, purity, and cleanliness. As opposed to black, white usually has a positive connotation. White can represent a successful beginning. In heraldry, white depicts faith and purity. In advertising, white is associated with coolness and cleanliness because it's the color of snow. You can use white to suggest simplicity in high-tech products. White is an appropriate color for charitable organizations; angels are usually imagined wearing white clothes. White is associated with hospitals, doctors, and sterility, so you can use white to suggest safety when promoting medical products. White is often associated with low weight, low-fat food, and dairy products.

(Note: They are also usually depicted with "White" facial features, physical traits, etc):



These ones (below) clearly have racist overtones stamped all over them. In the below pictures, the Christian Archangel St. Michael -- who clearly has "White" physical traits -- stands victorious over "Satan" and other "devils" who appear dark-skinned, with non-"White" physical features. Take a look:



Jesus is very often depicted with "White" physical traits -- http://www.awitness.org/journal/mel_gibson_passion_white_christ.html (Why is Mel Gibson's Jesus A White European? The Passion of the - White - Christ). On a side note, I completely doubt that Jesus even existed. In fact, there is more than enough research to prove that Jesus was a fictional rehash of earlier fictitious messianic characters.

Below are many pictures which depict the Jesus character with "White" physical features:



All of the above pictures are just a few of the many globally pervasive representations associated with the word White. This in effect also plays a significant factor in conditioning society into perceiving the races according to the deeply long-held subliminal beliefs with the color spectrum. It also explains why when Caucasian people continue to be identified as "White", they are frequently subconsciously perceived as superior to other races. We must also recognize that the social construction of Whiteness to represent a race of people is in itself, a global fraud, which came about because of Global European Imperialism / Colonialism:

-- http://www.uwm.edu/%7Egjay/Whiteness/Whitenesstalk.html

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Where did white people come from, anyway? Who invented whiteness? Scholars of race generally agree that the modern meaning of whiteness emerges in the centuries of European colonialism and imperialism that followed the Renaissance. Now granted, human begins have always clustered themselves in groups -- families, clans, tribes, ethnic populations, nation states, etc. -- and these groups have regularly been the source of discrimination and violence. At times it seems that an "us versus them" mentality starts on every playground and extends into every neighborhood, society, and government. Since human beings appear to require a sense of identity, and since identity is constructed by defining whom and what you are different from, it may be that the politics of difference will never be erased from human affairs........ Whiteness, of course, is a delusion -- as the insane Captain Ahab of Moby Dick demonstrates. Scientists today agree that there is no such thing as "race," at least when analyzed in terms of genetics or behavioral variation. Every human population is a mongrel population, full of people descended from various places and with widely differing physical qualities. Racial purity is the most absurd delusion, since intermarriage and miscegenation have been far more the norm than the exception throughout human ethnic history. "Race," then, is what academics like to call a "socially constructed" reality. Race is a reality in the sense that people experience it as real and base much of their behavior on it. Race, however, is only real because certain social institutions and practices make it real. Race is real in the same way that a building or a religion or a political ideology is real, as each is the result of human effort, not a prescription from nature or God. Thus the concept of race can have little or no foundation, yet it can still be the force that makes or breaks someone's life, or the life of a people or a nation.

You see when reading that -- and taking into consideration that the concept of race has been enhanced with the stereotypes connected to the color spectrum -- we can now understand very clearly what the below quote means by "White people":

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For white people, race functions as a large ensemble of practices and rules that give white people all sorts of small and large advantages in life. Whiteness is the source of many privileges, which is one reason people have trouble giving it up. It is important to stress that to criticize whiteness is not necessarily to engage in a massive orchestration of guilt. Guilt is often a distracting and mistaken emotion, especially when it comes to race. White people are fond of pointing out that as individuals they have never practiced discrimination, or that their ancestors never owned slaves. White people tend to cast the question of race in terms of guilt in part because of the American ideology of individualism, by which I mean our tendency to want to believe that individuals determine their own destinies and responsibilities. In this sense it is un-American to insist that white Americans benefit every day from their whiteness, whether or not they intend to do so. But that is the reality. Guilt, then, has nothing to do with whiteness in this sense of benefitting from structural racism and built-in privileges. I may not intend anything racial when I apply for a loan, or walk into a store, or hail a cab, or ask for a job -- but in every circumstance my whiteness will play a role in the outcome, however "liberal" or "anti-racist" I imagine myself to be. White men have enormous economic advantages because of the disadvantages faced by women and minorities, no matter what any individual white men may intend. If discrimination means that fewer qualified applicants compete with you for the job, you benefit. You do not have to be a racist to benefit from being white. You just have to look the part.

You see we must recognize Whiteness for what it really is; a social construct which is attached with certain societal privileges. Caucasians are not White and never were to begin with. They are just the people who are stereotyped with the label "White"; this false association then, plays a poweful role in perpetuating the global White Privilege that Caucasians currently enjoy. Furthermore, we also know that Caucasians themselves, just like any other "race", are really mongrels (mixed breeds); all of which may have originated from Africa:

Studies on Humanity's African Origins:

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/africa/history/hisorigins.html - from Stanford University
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7020&feedId=online-news_rss091 - New Scientist Online
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/aop/olorg2004/ - The Smithsonian Instituion Human Origins Program: Expedition to Kenya | National Museum of Natural History
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eorigins/index.html - Indiana University
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html -Yet another vast resource for African History and the origins of Humanity | archived by Fordham University
http://www.nature.com/nature/ancestor/index.html - Focus on Human Origins
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/ http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa052501a.htm - Humankind's African Origins
http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2001/july/origins.htm - Human Origins -Evidence in the Genes
http://www.trinicenter.com/humanorigins.htm - Human Orign Links
http://www.pmpsa.gov.za/Human%20origin.html - Mapping Human Origin
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/ - Journey of Mankind | The Peopling of the World
http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news255.htm - DNA evidence backs up 'Out-of-Africa' human origin theory

Schematic of the Racist Social Hierarchy




For your information, I might be slightly off when it comes to who is higher up on the racist system; whether it's the Caucasian Jewish Female or the Non-Jewish Caucasian Male. Perhaps the Caucasian Jewish Female is higher up behind the scenes, but the Non-Jewish Caucasian Male is more elevated in the exterior media (meaning in the movies, commercials, etc.). Whatever the case is, it's clear that the Jewish (more specifically Zionist) Caucasian Male seems to be at the apex calling the shots.

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