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This conversation is obviously a waste of time given people are trying to explain what the West actually constitutes and you're claiming that means those people are racist.
But yes, racism is very much essential to the concept of the West.
You sort of hit the nail on the head there.
This was the portrayal of Germany in WW1, drawing on the 'asiatic hordes' imagery (dating back to and before when Europe was getting wrecked by Eurasian people):
Yes this is how the West defines itself.
I agree entirely.
The point is that "Western" is a changing category (for those outside the five eyes anyway) without any rigorously defined criteria. Russia is a good recent example.
I don't need to imagine that, and they do disagree. And the reason why what a reactionary thinks matters is because they are unfortunately have a great deal of power.
It's not a changing category. It's just Europe.
Within Europe, those borders can change. But nothing outside of Europeans (including European Americans) will ever be treated as "Western"
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this is pretty much how that goes
No we recognize racism exists and are pointing it out to you. You are in denial
thousands of people who look like you, who were US citizens, were illegally deported to Mexico by US police. This would never happen to an indigenous inhabitant of an actual Western country, even if they were here illegally. Illegal immigrants from Poland don't get questioned on the street, while LEGAL US CITIZENS OF MEXICAN DESCENT get illegally deported: does that sound like people who are part of the same bloc to you?
I personally know light skinned US-born Indians, who would "pass" as any Latino ethnicity, perfect US-American accent, who were killed in broad daylight in the rural areas of Missouri and the police purposely ignored it
You are just not western and you never will be. You seem obsessed with being considered part of the west, but the reality is that you just aren't.
Nobody here is obsessed with race, our enemies are obsessed with race (and they know better than to admit it in public). So we learn quickly
As a European I can tell you that Croatia is not considered part of Europe proper. Its where we go for vacations and cheap booze.
It doesn't matter that they're white and Christian. They're Slavic or Balkan which means they're not "european" in the common conception.
Same goes for Slovenia.
The Czech kind of get an on/off perception of wether or not they're European. The Czechs are mad about this, since they are very obviously "culturally" european, however they're also an old east block country, which makes them slabs, which means they cannot possibly be real europeans.