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Re: Psychological decolonization
« Reply #105 on: October 21, 2022, 09:18:11 pm »
How psychologically colonized is Mexico?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexicos-racial-reckoning-movement-protests-100044402.html

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A few months ago, several employees of an upscale Mexico City steakhouse came forward with a damning allegation: The restaurant had a policy of segregation in which the best tables were reserved for the customers with the lightest skin.
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Monserrat Ramos, a 26-year-old attorney from the state of Oaxaca who founded the group Basta Racismo MX, said reckoning with racism in Mexico requires opening "deep, deep colonial wounds."
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The Spanish conquest of the New World five centuries ago established a caste system in which social standing was largely determined by a person's racial mix. At the top of the ladder were people of European descent, followed by those of mixed colonial and Indigenous heritage. At the bottom were Indigenous people, followed by Black slaves.
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grandparents cajole young people to find a light-skinned partner "to improve the race."
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In films and on television, darker-skinned actors are often relegated to roles as housekeepers and criminals. A casting call for an Aeromexico advertisement in 2013 said “dark-skinned” people need not apply.

Racial inequality is just as visible in many homes, where women employed to cook, clean and nanny are often dark-skinned or Indigenous. It's not uncommon for apartment buildings to bar such laborers from public areas, or for elevators to be designated specifically for the help.
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Several described childhoods in which their mothers sought to change their complexion using skin-lightening products. One young man said that while breaking up with him, an ex-girlfriend had said: "I can't believe I was with an ugly brown person."

We have to break the false link between beauty and "whiteness":

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Aketzaly Verástegui, an actress with the group Poder Prieto, which pushes for diversity in film. "When I was growing up and watching television, I never saw faces that looked like mine."

You should be pushing not for diversity, but for an Aryan standard of facial aesthetics with your own face as the Mexican ideal: