It's interesting how many racist tropes concern emotions: angry black woman; passionate latinos; unemotional East Asians... Translation: white people feel and display emotions the right way; the rest of us are uncivilized or robot-like.

jackviolet:

Although that is true, there’s also: stoic Nordic people hot-blooded Spaniards passionate Italians lusty, debauched, and romantic French methodical and mechanical Germans drunk and rowdy Irish uncouth Americans repressed Brits The truth is, every people creates an “us” and a “them,” with “them” being whatever closest easily differential population is at the time. And “us” is always measured and “normal” and “them” is always outside the assumed norm in some way. The interesting thing to me is, whichever people creates these stereotypes, almost every time, whoever’s south of them is seen as loud, lazy, and full of uncontrolled passion, while as whoever’s north is seen as cold, unemotional, uptight, and quiet. Just think of the stereotypes of WASPs (northern) in the US and Texans or Mexicans (southern). In France and Britain, that’s Germans, Swedes, etc, vs Italians and Spaniards. In Russia, that’s Germans and Finns vs Ukrainians, Georgians, and people of the Balkans. The only place I know of where the stereotypes are reversed is China, where Northern Chinese are seen as rowdy, loud, and lazy, and Southern Chinese are seen as intellectual, hard-working, sophisticated, and genteel.

biiiiiig sigh

yes, in between white ethnic groups of course not everything is equal and each european ethnic group will view itself to be the most sophisticated, however there is a very clear distinction between how a group of people of color are viewed and how other “white” ethnic groups are viewed. The further from whiteness you get (darker skin, eyes, hair, etc) the worse you are viewed. This is a hierarchy invented by white people and taught to basically whoever europe can reach. Which is nearly everywhere.

So there is a strong distinction in the way people of color’s emotions and self-expressions are viewed compared to others considered within whiteness. This is not universal everywhere, but pretty much anywhere where colonization by white people happened/“the west”. This is a summary, and this subject is complicated, but basically you are implying that white ethnic groups are in the same place as everyone else, and that this is simple xenophobia, when that is just not the case at all. I could go on.

Anyways, please do not derail very important points about white supremacy with this foolery.