Sounds like an Amerasian kid in Korea in the ’50s. My understanding is them Koreans really REALLY did not (probably still do not) like those half white kids.
The US VS THEM instinct is very old, going back to caveman times. It comes from the survival of the fittest and the different branches of our linage. Think Neanderthals vs Homo Sapiens (aka current day humans).
We know that a lot of the reaction that the different branches of humanity had to one another was to sleep with them. It’s why you can the lineage of them in the modern human genome.
Often, the answer is both hating them AND wanting to have sex with them. Exoticization is very much a thing. Many many racist people fetishize people of their preferred sex from groups that they dislike.
Look up ethnocentrism sometime, if you don’t know the term. Essentially means you think your culture/people/way of life is the best and The Way to Be, and you judge other cultures/peoples/ways of being by that metric and not their own. A lot of the time the rallying cry is because ethnocentric voices felt like their power is threatened by that difference
A caste society is different from ethnocentrism, though, because it acknowledges the necessity of all the castes’ disparate roles for a properly-functioning society, even as it discourages mingling between them.
And sometimes treats certain castes as second-class citizens (although I don’t think that is the case in Sarnoth, or at least wasn’t before Cern took over). It’s really weird when a role is acknowledged as being necessary and yet the people doing it still get no respect.
I don’t believe they are a caste society, but instead are clans.
A member of the raja’s family would not consider marrying an untouchable. A samurai would find the whole idea of a relationship with a eta unthinkable. That’s caste.
They’re somewhat clan-like, but the fact that different clans/castes have clearly-defined occupational stereotypes and are discouraged from entering professions outside them is more like a caste society than how clans tended to work in real life.
The ruling class of India, some decades back, were Rajas. Surely you’ve heard of a Maharaja? Be very lower caste in Indian society – the people that dealt with garbage collection and taking care of the dead – were called The untouchables. “These so-called untouchables are considered the lowest of the low social group that undertakes the lowest of the low occupations such as cleaning, sweeping, skinning, washing, tanning, manual scavenging, fishing, etc. These jobs are generally regarded by upper castes as polluting or dirty activities, thereby leading to untouchables being regarded as polluted and dirty.”. https://arthinkal.substack.com/p/the-curse-of-untouchability-the-dalits
Maharaja… I made a troll character in WoW named that once, but I thought I made it up o.O Aside from her, this is the first time I’m hearing the word/name.
Thanks for educating me!
Raja is a king and Maharaja is an emperor basically. Funny thing is rajas weren’t usually the “highest” caste, but were a warrior caste. It’s the sages and saints who were the “highest”
India with less filth and more lasers.
Sounds like an Amerasian kid in Korea in the ’50s. My understanding is them Koreans really REALLY did not (probably still do not) like those half white kids.
I will never understand why the human race insists on “they’re different, they must be bad!!” has been the rallying cry for centuries >.> Very sad.
The US VS THEM instinct is very old, going back to caveman times. It comes from the survival of the fittest and the different branches of our linage. Think Neanderthals vs Homo Sapiens (aka current day humans).
We know that a lot of the reaction that the different branches of humanity had to one another was to sleep with them. It’s why you can the lineage of them in the modern human genome.
Humans are a horny bunch.
Yeah, it’s honestly a cointoss when we meet someone different if we want to kill them, or sleep with them.
Often, the answer is both hating them AND wanting to have sex with them. Exoticization is very much a thing. Many many racist people fetishize people of their preferred sex from groups that they dislike.
Look up ethnocentrism sometime, if you don’t know the term. Essentially means you think your culture/people/way of life is the best and The Way to Be, and you judge other cultures/peoples/ways of being by that metric and not their own. A lot of the time the rallying cry is because ethnocentric voices felt like their power is threatened by that difference
A caste society is different from ethnocentrism, though, because it acknowledges the necessity of all the castes’ disparate roles for a properly-functioning society, even as it discourages mingling between them.
And sometimes treats certain castes as second-class citizens (although I don’t think that is the case in Sarnoth, or at least wasn’t before Cern took over). It’s really weird when a role is acknowledged as being necessary and yet the people doing it still get no respect.
I don’t believe they are a caste society, but instead are clans.
A member of the raja’s family would not consider marrying an untouchable. A samurai would find the whole idea of a relationship with a eta unthinkable. That’s caste.
What’s a raja/untouchable?
They’re somewhat clan-like, but the fact that different clans/castes have clearly-defined occupational stereotypes and are discouraged from entering professions outside them is more like a caste society than how clans tended to work in real life.
The ruling class of India, some decades back, were Rajas. Surely you’ve heard of a Maharaja? Be very lower caste in Indian society – the people that dealt with garbage collection and taking care of the dead – were called The untouchables. “These so-called untouchables are considered the lowest of the low social group that undertakes the lowest of the low occupations such as cleaning, sweeping, skinning, washing, tanning, manual scavenging, fishing, etc. These jobs are generally regarded by upper castes as polluting or dirty activities, thereby leading to untouchables being regarded as polluted and dirty.”. https://arthinkal.substack.com/p/the-curse-of-untouchability-the-dalits
That third sentence is supposed to say THE VERY LOWER…
I hate autocorrect
I hate people who say they hate autocorrect, but can’t be bothered to switch the damn thing off.
Maharaja… I made a troll character in WoW named that once, but I thought I made it up o.O Aside from her, this is the first time I’m hearing the word/name.
Thanks for educating me!
Raja is a king and Maharaja is an emperor basically. Funny thing is rajas weren’t usually the “highest” caste, but were a warrior caste. It’s the sages and saints who were the “highest”