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Re: Indian attitudes
« Reply #60 on: February 01, 2023, 07:14:32 pm »
"Boromor Syndrome"

I assume you mean Boromir Syndrome. What you posted is not an example of Boromir Syndrome, however. Boromir Syndrome would be saying it is bad for the British to have those characteristics, but good for Indians to have those exact same characteristics.

"Don't know if this is a Eurocentric attitude tbh."

It is. I explained this here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/msg199/#msg199

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The following is what goes on inside Eurocentric minds. When you tell them to imagine a generic "white" person, they automatically imagine an aesthetically idealized "white" person. Whereas when you tell them to imagine a generic [insert "non-white" ethnicity here] person, they automatically imagine an aesthetically mediocre [insert "non-white" ethnicity here] person. In other words, they let an idealized stereotype represent their image of "whites" in general, and mediocre stereotypes represent their image of "non-whites" in general. Once this double-standard is in place, then when they see average/below-average "white" people in real-life, they perceive merely flawed versions of the idealized "white" stereotype (therefore still fundamentally beautiful in their minds). Whereas when they see above-average "non-white" people in real-life, they perceive either merely upgrades of the mediocre [insert "non-white" ethnicity here] stereotype (therefore still fundamentally ugly in their minds), or - worse - partial resemblance to the idealized "white" stereotype (therefore beautiful in their minds, but only because they "look white"(!!!), instead of realizing that the beauty comes from resemblance to the ideal, not resemblance to the "whiteness", and it is Eurocentrism which spuriously superposed the "whiteness" over the ideal inside their own minds).