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Eastern Europeans should not be considered white, because they do not carry the white man's burden
There is one massive difference that disqualifies Eastern Europeans from being considered white in the Western sense, and which in my opinion is the most damning. Eastern Europeans did not colonize, enslave or loot any other peoples.
"But the Soviet Union in Central Asia dur dur dur" well guess what? Ethnic Russians lived JUST AS BAD as Kazakhs, Uzbeks and Armenians. They also had oppression towards their religious beliefs and their cultural norms were wiped out in the name of communism. They were not FASCIST IMPERIALISTS.
IN FACT, the Ottomans took over the Balkans and looted much of their wealth. Russia was taken over by communism and suffered IMMENSE poverty as a result. So are we really going to put in Slavs in the same category as Anglos, when in fact their treatment more closely resembles that of POC than it does of Western whites? Eastern European populations also flee their countries in retreat to a luxurious West.
In fact I believe many Eastern Euros are tired of being accused of having "white guilt" when their ethnicities were more likely to be on a the RECEIVING END of Western imperialism.
So, in the social/cultural sense, Eastern Euros are no more white than Arabs or Latinos.
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Originally Posted by Chocolate_Hound
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