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Post by pjotr on Jun 10, 2011 1:17:37 GMT 1
Dark Girls: A Documentary As much as Black people love being black, they can’t pretend that they are a people without flaws. One of the deepest, nastiest burdens they carry is their attitude about skin color. The dismissal or downright distaste for darker skin tones is an attitude that’s been a part of their culture since the days of slavery, if not before. While this belief is certainly not representative of all black people, there are still several women and men with darker skin tones who have felt and experienced pain because of these sentiments. Actor and director Bill Duke, decided to tackle this issue, as it relates specifically to black women. He interviews several dark skinned women, both in and outside of the African American culture, who describe their painful memories and detail their hurtful experiences. Hopefully his work will provoke discussion, change mindsets and lead toward the healing black people so desperately need.  American actor and director Bill Dukemadamenoire.com/54843/dark-girls-a-documentary/
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Post by pjotr on Jun 10, 2011 1:37:02 GMT 1
Dear friends,
I often had discussions in my family about race, religions and peoples, because we in our family have differant backgrounds or mixed heritages (Dutch and Polish), live in differant continents than Europe (the South-African and American family). Due to the melting pot and multi-cultural society of the Netherlands we are confronted and dragged into the matter of race relations, intercultural exchanges or rejections (the isolation or seperatism of ethnic groups) and in the same time the relationships, coexistance and cooperation within the group or culture one is a member of. I saw this documentry Dark Girls: A Documentary, and thought about Surinamese and Carebian people of the Dutch Antilles in my country. They like the Afro-Americans in the USA are descendants of the Slaves that were brought to the America's in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. I talked with Surinames people at my job a lot and they told me the same story about Suriname like the black women and girls tell in this documentry. That there is discrimination on skin color within the black and colored Creole community in Suriname. The lighter the skin of a Black person is the better. Brown Indian (Hundistanian) or Javanese (Indonesian) is better than black creole. And a whiter light brown creole is better than a black Maroons ( runaway slaves in the West Indies, Central America, South America, and North America, who formed independent settlements together.) A lighter skinned Surinamese Creole (negroïd person) has a higher status in the Netherlands too than a pitch black African.
In Russia and some other Slav states there is an agressive violent xenophobia towards darker skinned people from the Caucacus (Chechenia, Georgia, Armenia and etc.)
My mother told me that there are no particular Polish types of people, because the Poles are very divers in their appearance, from the blue eyed blond hair to the Mediteranian Brunette types and the darker hair and dark eyes of the Eastern slav type people (Bulgarians). Poles are maybe less xenophobic, discriminatory and racist then their neighbours. (Why do I make this last remark, because I read about the tolerant climate in Poland and that black and asian people can be politicians, priests and normal Poles in Poland. Maybe this tolerance comes from the world religion Roman-Catholicism, which has believers in many colors and ethnicities, and so people from many continents and cultures)
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by sheilaz on Jun 18, 2011 13:07:19 GMT 1
I would argue that Polish people are racially tolerant - in fact I believe the opposite is true. I lived in the USA for the first 55 years of my life before moving to Poland and I have lined here for 5+ years. Polish people hold strong, negative beliefs about various ethnic groups, particularly Romas, Blacks, and Jews. Poland is basically a mono-culture based upon white Catholicism. The church and government functions highly inter-mingle. Perhaps the young people who have grown up in a modern, non communist Poland are edging more and more towards tolerance.
That said, Poland is still a wonderful place to live. The people on a whole, are friendly and helpful. Nature has endowed this country with the best of her treasure.
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 18, 2011 18:29:10 GMT 1
In Russia and some other Slav states there is an agressive violent xenophobia towards darker skinned people from the Caucacus (Chechenia, Georgia, Armenia and etc.) Ys, a few dozen dark skinned Caucasians and African students are murdered by nationalists and fascists in Russia every year. Yes. Tolerance is spreading. I can say that big cities are completely tolerant, and it is moving to provincial Poland and countryside. I would argue that Polish people are racially tolerant - in fact I believe the opposite is true. I lived in the USA for the first 55 years of my life before moving to Poland and I have lined here for 5+ years. Polish people hold strong, negative beliefs about various ethnic groups, particularly Romas, Blacks, and Jews. Excuse me, but you can`t generalise. There are intolerant (minority which is diminishing) as well as tolerant Poles. Yes. Yes, as a teacher from early 1990s, I can see the evolution of attitudes. Today, I don`t meet students who say they are against any race in particular. Thank you. See the photo thread about Multiracial Poles. polandsite.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=peopleofpland&thread=1891&page=1 |
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