how is it “fetishist” to describe ppl who are half white and half asian as wasian? maybe a little weird/insensivitive but “fetishist” i don’t understand
not meant necessarily sexual, just a preoccupation with a small suite of characteristics that are not exclusively asian nor apply to all asians, due to orientalist constructions of racism in the west.
west-central-south asians are a considerable heap of the actual population of asia but people using a word like “wasian” are excluding most of them
fair, the general term “asian” is of course used with incorrect specificity by different groups of crackkkers (yankkks use it to mean east asian, ukkkoids use it to mean south asian) but that’s a property of the word asian, rather than of the term wasian itself
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how is it “fetishist” to describe ppl who are half white and half asian as wasian? maybe a little weird/insensivitive but “fetishist” i don’t understand
not meant necessarily sexual, just a preoccupation with a small suite of characteristics that are not exclusively asian nor apply to all asians, due to orientalist constructions of racism in the west.
west-central-south asians are a considerable heap of the actual population of asia but people using a word like “wasian” are excluding most of them
fair, the general term “asian” is of course used with incorrect specificity by different groups of crackkkers (yankkks use it to mean east asian, ukkkoids use it to mean south asian) but that’s a property of the word asian, rather than of the term wasian itself