I moved from England to Canada. Supermarkets round here use different terms, but one of them has Bri’ish imports in the “ethnic” aisle. Just goes to show how weird the term is, lol.
In the US, that isn’t the case. “White” is treated as the default, and everyone else is “othered.” It is short hand for “not Caucasian.” It has changed now, but even hair products for black hair were labeled with signs as the ‘ethnic hair’ section for the majority of my life.
Again, they’re synonyms in the US context purely because of demographics. Its not shameful to be a minority or offensive to say that someone is a minority. If I go to a yoga class I fully expect that my gender would be “othered” in that context.
Focus on the real issues, like that we’re deporting people based on race to concentration camps without so much as a hearing, not whether or not products formulated for people with uncommon hair are in the uncommon hair section.
That’s easy for you to say from your (obviously) majority position. Being othered in society has real consequences in people’s lives. YOU don’t experience them, but they are there.
I moved from England to Canada. Supermarkets round here use different terms, but one of them has Bri’ish imports in the “ethnic” aisle. Just goes to show how weird the term is, lol.
It’s clearly short for “an ethnicity other than ours/mine.”
In the US, that isn’t the case. “White” is treated as the default, and everyone else is “othered.” It is short hand for “not Caucasian.” It has changed now, but even hair products for black hair were labeled with signs as the ‘ethnic hair’ section for the majority of my life.
Again, they’re synonyms in the US context purely because of demographics. Its not shameful to be a minority or offensive to say that someone is a minority. If I go to a yoga class I fully expect that my gender would be “othered” in that context.
Focus on the real issues, like that we’re deporting people based on race to concentration camps without so much as a hearing, not whether or not products formulated for people with uncommon hair are in the uncommon hair section.
That’s easy for you to say from your (obviously) majority position. Being othered in society has real consequences in people’s lives. YOU don’t experience them, but they are there.