Merf. Thinking is Hard.ordream said: correct me if i’m wrong, but i believe the preference for “white” skin predates Western colonialism in China? the reason is that it means you’re wealthy, you don’t have to work in the field, and therefore you have lighter skin.
Yes, but that’s not what I mean by white-identifying in this case; I feel that this general attitude has been assimilated into a larger white supremacist framework, that it thus no longer is a case of classism and Han ethnocentrism, but becomes complicit in anti-blackness and its other variations as well.
