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!! Racism against Southeast Asians (especially Indonesians); a thread to retweet
1. Treating our countries as a spiritual getaway - harms our environment and local economy, as well as the preservation of individual cultures by homogenising it into one commercialised monolith. By capitalising on cheap cost of living / housing prices you also disrupt localsâ
accessibility to basic resources https://worldcrunch.com/food-travel/how-mass-tourism-is-destroying-bali-and-its-culture/c6s5949
2. Assuming weâre not POC / Lumping us in with JPN/China/Korea - the Japanese are our colonisers and we are leagues away in economic privilege. https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_10797/mb_quasi.pdf?Expires=1611018848&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJKNBJ4MJBJNC6NLQ&Signature=emifFV2mOvzj8qdFd7JpSsyqCuKkKLHgybzOs2eYZobgzZYmDiniYvetPQZFUMXuMRlsC3xirUIJwlG9vpycxeOTHonN-EmQVFiBVDlAI-BEfN5k2mZrzP6~CSCOWNTSMEB73zwEkSgueTJDcOZJGn~HgiF38lbwriA9taJJejL9g7uIzsXZ-5cm5BYZG5QY0a4FMlilGTvE247RD8GIvSJnx-xn8MtSR5Y-iricrggm8h2Ie0GRFuMzEU2gCGepNAtYYH9fV9PgDpkNjmCOj4UrONeI7c2~kM-4hggvukC7SKl~7Qc8Om7l84n3~l0XitvJSH8TlZ~4IJFzD9eN1Q__
3. Implying our issues (most commonly natural disasters) are insignificant/inevitable due to being third world countries and using it as an âargument pointâ against us. We are worth just as much as any other human life
4. Ignoring or excusing Japanese imperialism - Japan is NOT your weaboo paradise and it has a horrific history of injustices committed against my people during WWII
https://lnkd.in/g2SKS_r https://apjjf.org/2016/01/4-Baird.html
https://lnkd.in/g2SKS_r https://apjjf.org/2016/01/4-Baird.html
5. Using the term âcomfort personâ to refer to real life people. Itâs dehumanising and has a history of being used to refer to women raped by Japanese soldiers during WWII https://twitter.com/signalswaps/status/1350672120179613696?s=20
6. Fetishising our âexoticâ features; itâs linked into white sexpats coming here and siring unwanted, impoverished children that suffer from generational trauma as a result https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229628454_The_Dynamics_of_Sex_Tourism_The_Case_of_Southeast_Asia
7. Generalising us as LGBTphobic / Ignoring our LGBT history - there are many talented trans creatives who go unnoticed. Also we had a thriving LGBT culture before the Dutch came </3
8. Commercialising our culture. Get your fermented cheese hands off our baju kurung and put that money into helping impoverished Malay communities !! ( https://twitter.com/vanjchan/status/1350330887012032512?s=20)
9. Stigmatising our cultural values. We are NOT savages for having beliefs on spiritual cleanliness and it is not something forced upon us. https://twitter.com/soendala/status/1238140544036950016?s=20
More important threads https://twitter.com/KANGAJlS/status/1350839490667970560?s=20
