Whiteness

Whiteness

Whiteness refers to the specific racial identity , and in the context of European countries and America - to the related privileges as well Speaking broadly , white identity is the person 's internal perception of their external features and traits , more precisely - of `physical whiteness and the norms and beliefs imposed by the group with the same physical characteristic . White privilege , in this sense , plays and important role in both national and global contexts , in the first meaning - because whiteness is a prevailing characteristic , so that those who possess it belong to

racial majority in the latter context - because of the social and political history of white population , which had dominated over the world for thousands years

Cultural diversity has today become one of the most prominent sociocultural directions in the United States (Murray , 1991 , because of the two tendencies in the contemporary social policy . First of all multiculturalism was recognized as one of the most important sociopolitical course of America 's development , in addition , immigration regime has become much more lenient over the last two decades , so that the inflow of the members of other nations is increasing from year to year . On the other hand , multicultural or liberal notions of difference are also , at one and the same time , fuel for a rhetoric of dislike or even hate . One always can read a narrative of differentiation either way , depending upon one 's largest political and social sensibilities . And unless one can imagine a world composed of nothing but liberal sensibilities , the result of this virulent whiteness ' and coloredness ' continues (Murray , 1991 ,

. 59 . This means , already existing in the United States white identity affects non-white immigrants , especially South Asian Americans

S .Mazumdar in the article about South Asians in the America provides an in-depth analysis of the conceptual , mythological and philosophical background of whiteness and connects the outburst of racism and discrimination against non-white population with the development of the so-called `neo-Darwinism (Mazumdar , 1989 ) that explained the survival of the fittest from societal position : due to the fact that American and European empires were the strongest and the most influential , white race was viewed as superior . Later in the 19th century , the theory of Aryan race came into being and reinforced the previous notions of white privilege , as the contemporary scholars assumed that white (Aryan people actually , who originated from South Asia , were actually an entity that should have been viewed as separate from indigenous population due to tremendously differing physical characteristics

The scholar also states that because of the white absolutism , South Asians in the United States are often confused with other racial minorities , more importantly , react to such comparisons emotionally , due to the ancient Aryan myth that makes them feel colonized people , who still can assimilate into the `white ' population . Furthermore , due to the caste system the regulates social life in India , South Asian Americans need to distinguish themselves from the other racial minorities : In this process of seeking to reiterate caste and religious identity , which...