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Originally Posted by ZephyrusX  I don't quite agree with the bold part, but I guess it really depends on what you meant. In terms of race, structural marginalization often boils down to class. If you look at proxies for a person's socioeconomic status (access to post secondary education, degree completion, health) coloured minorities do indeed fair worse than white people, but it is not as if white people do not face structural marginalization. There are plenty of impoverished white people and corresponding racial slurs (i.e white trash).
I think where race becomes an issue is that powerful groups of people, historically, deliberately socially engineered the environment in a way where coloured minorities (i.e Aboriginal people in Canada) would face structural marginalization for no other reason other than the fact that they weren't white. Canadian history towards Aboriginal groups is truly despicable.
The issue becomes a little more complicated than that when you consider the fact that Canadian immigration policy deliberately excluded other nationalities that were white, but were deemed socially undesirable (i.e the Irish, Eastern Europeans). I think our first immigration policy flat out did not accept 'undesirable' whites into the country, and when they did change the immigration policy to include them, they did so with the sole intention of using them as cheap labour. |
I completely agree with this, so I do think maybe I communicated something I didn't quite mean. I mean that our cultural psyche and therefore many unconscious biases are set up in a way that favors white people over other races, and for the most part that's still the case. (This is why I think things like analyzing race or sex or class in pop culture is valuable, because it shows where that cultural psyche stands.)
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Originally Posted by ZephyrusX I wouldn't make the assumption that all Muslims in the UK want Sharia Law, btw. |
As far as I was aware, the main lobbying for any aspect of Sharia law in western countries concerned including an option that could be applied if everyone entering the contract agreed, to handle certain financial matters in a way that lines up with their traditions (marriage, alimony and like), is that not the case? Anyone know?