Little thing I wrote on Medium. I’d appreciate some feedback.

Wasn’t sure where to post this so I put it here.

  • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    8 days ago

    It’s crazy to think that a lot of groups (Irish, Italians, Greeks, etc.) weren’t considered White up until very recently. Growing up I never thought of Italians as anything other than White until I learned there was a time when that wasn’t the case and that some of my own family members were alive during that period, including my great grandmother who was originally from Italy.

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      7 days ago

      From my personal experience Greeks and Italiens are not always seen as whites where I live. Its Germany. It can get racist fast if a crime happens and the perpetrator is described “southern looking”. Spaniards, Turks, Italians, Greeks and so on are likely met with racism. It always amazes me how notorious subreddits like r/Europa are behaving like there is some kind of unity. It happened often that I met people who saw people from Poland (They especially) and Greeks as uncultured barbarians.

      Russians are orcs anyway today. However some of them rather see Greeks more friendly, because orthodoxy.