Calling ethnic people exotic further objectifies us as commodities.
Thank you, I’m happy I excite you in the way that exotic fruit and animals do.
White privilege is believing that you get to name people of color whatever you want to, and then talking them down from believing you don’t recognize their humanity.
If you want to get technical, all people are ethnic. Ethnicity is used to describe things like your biological heritage. But I can assume in this case you are using it to describe someone who is not white or native to the country in question and I therefore have to turn your attention to the definition of exotic, which is something that is not native, foreign or introduced.
So, idk, I’d be more upset about being described with an adjective that is used predominantly to describe plants, but that’s just my
white privilegeintelligence showing.Oh good for you, you can give me the denotation of the word. What about the connotation of the word? The fetishization that comes with the word? The way that contributes to the us v. them dichotomy that is so prevalent in society, white being us, everyone else being them? Using the word exotic to describe say, an animal, is a way you describe an animal at the zoo that you marvel and study and treat as an object.
But thanks! Your
intelligencewhite privilege/ignorance has been so helpful.
