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Everyone acts like “Model Minority” Syndrome is something shockingly new, when it's been a feature of the United States since its founding; promoted and defended by law, social custom, and wealthy corporate interests for centuries.

Latino Trump Supporters Believe He Won't Deport “Good” Families
#Latinos, #BIPOC, #MAGA, #Trumpism, #Republican, #Centrists, #Eurocentrism
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@pettter yes. Of course it is racism and white supremacy. I should have just said it, like you did. Now wondering why i often stop short of saying that. Like - i’ve been doing a little thread on #Eurocentrism here and actually what i want to say is: eurocentrism is racism and white supremacy and nothing else! But i never use those words. I have to just start doing it.

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- #Eurocentrism is not benign or innocent. I mean, you might think it’s just people who don’t know any better, whose horizons are a bit limited. But let’s at least recognise that this ignorance is deliberately fostered by our education systems and collective moral narratives; and that many of us are complicit in constructing and maintaining these narratives and wilful collective ignorance, ignoring of the suffering of others.

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- #Eurocentrism is living in a “Gilded bubble”, as Naomi Klein puts it here in this briliiant recording, and simultaneously not fully realising that it is a gilded bubble but also doing everything to protect it. Not letting a genocide elsewhere that is actively sponsored by your own government, in which every day more people, more children die, prick your conscience, your sense of moral superiority.

x.com/rulajebreal/status/17687

X (formerly Twitter)Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) on XIsrael’s annihilation of #Gaza is erasing International norms, and killing democracy and human rights globally. Rogue states are exploiting western complicity with Israel as both a license and as inspiration to further their fascism. Kudos to @NaomiAKlein
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- #Eurocentrism is: truly believing that the EU is a genuinely benign project that is about peace, harmony and cooperation, a beacon of goodness in the world; and not knowing or wilfully ignoring that it is also, or even primarily, a project by and for capital interests, and that in general it protects European interests over others (and that its borders, eg #Ceuta, are violent, killing people). And yes, still talking about certain family members

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- #Eurocentrism is being completely comfortable with only reading European/US authors, only listening to European/US music, not realising that there is so much you are missing out on (“world” music doesn’t count - what an awful Eurocentric concept in itself).
-#Eurocentrism is not having any real interest in or knowledge about the rest of the world and thinking that is ok.

(And yes i am writing certain family members. That’s what this is about).

What is #Eurocentrism? A few ways to think about it - not based on specific reading, just my thoughts. Feel free to add!

- #Eurocentrism is talking about “European values” as self-evidently good, without stopping to think where that idea comes from & what it says about you and your knowledge of attitude to the rest of the world

- #Eurocentrism is being a white European living in Europe, never thinking about colonialism and how your comfort & wealth, your morning coffee, derives from it
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@rachelstrohm I appreciate your toots. I really struggle with Mastodon’s #Eurocentrism and lack of news from elsewhere. I used to really enjoy and learn so much from Nigerian twitter; i really miss all that. Just now briefly went in and saw a Twitter space on #Hunger in Nigeria going on right now, and then found countless posts on how bad things are under #Tinubu, real hunger in so many places. Knew far too little about that, too! Trying to find ways to get and share more global news here.

“The moral bankruptcy of Habermas’s statement on Palestine marks a turning point in the colonial relationship between European philosophy and the rest of the world. The world has been awoken from the false slumber of European ethno-philosophy.”

Excellent piece by Hamid Dabashi #Eurocentrism is awful and so over.

middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-

Middle East EyeThanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankruptFrom Heidegger's Nazism to Habermas's Zionism, the suffering of the 'Other' is of little consequence 

Does anyone have any advice here on how to make your Mastodon less eurocentric? I do regular searches, follow people from outside Europe/US whenever I come across them, etc, but it’s quite slow, hard work. I was wondering whether there is a more strategic way - ie is there a list of instances that are not Europe/US based, and from which I could follow one person each or something? Not interested in changing my own instance, just to get more global connections. #Eurocentrism

On the way back from #BeyondGrowth2023 conference I wrote a blog for #EnvironmentalPolitics journal. It's my impressions, so please take it as such. For me it was a mixture of feelings and tension btw. hope and achievement & the opposite. I write about #eurocentrism & #colonial mindset that remains unshaken.

The reflectiond of the panel 3. "Beyond Growth Beyond Europe" is missing from the blog, because I spotted it online only afterwards 😞

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archive.org/details/sounds-lik

Sounds Like Her - Gender, Sound Art and Sonic Cultures by Christine Eyene; Cathy Lane; Salomé Voegelin

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#AinBailey, #SoniaBoyce, #ChristineSunKim, #ElsaMbala, #MadeleineMbida, #LindaOKeeffe, #MagdaStawarskaBeavan, #soundart, #Africanartists, #Africanart, #Africansoundart, #genderinart, #eurocentrism, #antiblackness, #artandcolonialism, #artandimperialism, #artofCameroon, #artofKamerun

Curator Christine Eyene challenges the Eurocentric and patriarchal frameworks that have informed the history of sound art and continue to define current practice.

Sounds Like Her is a challenge to the restrictive social construct of "female voices". The book re-frames how we experience the dynamic of sound as practiced by women from diverse cultures and gender identities.

Internet ArchiveSounds Like Her - Gender, Sound Art and Sonic Cultures : Christine Eyene : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveCurator Christine Eyene challenges the Eurocentric and patriarchal frameworks that have informed the history of sound art and continue to define current...