Hi, so for context.
My s/o has a habit of being particularly stubborn on matters of moral significance to him. To the level where he’ll claim certain things he believes are absolute or the opposite, impossible.
He was arguing that Caucasians are incapable of ever experiencing systemic racism. We eventually narrowed it down to that same belief, but instead pervading to our current times rather than all possible futures however unlikely.
Even still, my only principle in life is that anything is possible. I told him that if it was in fact impossible, I would stop arguing against it’s possibility.
To discover if this is the case, he tasked me with finding any system in the world which inherently disadvantages white people in structural ways. I’m quite sure even if I find one he’ll attempt to tell me it’s “not a system.” But I still can’t help but wonder for myself.
To make it clear my only beliefs are that systemic racism is possible for any race to experience, even if not in the present, and that those of African lineages suffer the grandest scale of systemic racism in my country. Something him and I very clearly agree on.
I am not in any way asking for relationship or personal life advice, in fact I’m rather past the argument and simply curious for my own sake.
And my only curiosity is if there is any place in the world where a Caucasian could experience systemic racism, regardless of the scale of the system itself, in present times. I’m sure it could be possible one day far in the future, so that’s not what I’m asking about, I’m just asking if there’s any evidence for any places in the world that currently contain systemic racism against Caucasians. Thanks for your responses ahead of time.
If this post somehow violates rule 7 please tell me, but I’ve tried to be careful by just asking the question itself.
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I don’t think so, because colonialism never really ended. white people colonized the majority of the world and set up a system to benefit themselves. this transformed further into the IMF, World bank, UN, and subtle economic imperialism.
even in a country where white people are the minority and may experience hardship, they still live in a global world that privileges them.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2020/11/26/it-is-time-to-decolonise-the-world-bank-and-the-imf
*edit, didn’t expect so many downvotes. if u disagree, id be curious to know why!
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For just three examples:
White people in Japan face so much racial profiling it results in a slew of lawsuits.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-police-racial-profiling-lawsuit-d626a974fa533cc0c8a174ce1795b5b7
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/05/09/japan-sees-an-increase-in-racial-profiling-of-foreigners_6670946_4.html
South Korea can also be unkind to immigrants, with white people being no exception:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666606524002220
https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/gi-wook-shin-racism-south-korea
Malaysia has Malaysian supremacy built into its legal system. No exception is made for white people:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Asia
It is good that there is growing recognition of white privilege. But it is ethnocentric to project the experiences of white people in our culture onto every other culture in the world.
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