#but america-centrism has done detrimental damage to poc that live out of the us
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it always rubs me the wrong way that when people make fun of the british it is more often than not things that poor people and british people of colour do. like making fun of english breakfast for example i understand, it may not look appetising. but that's because it's a poverty struggle meal LMAO 😭 if you wanna make fun of the british then make fun of the racist xenophobic rich white english tories (because remember that great britain also contains countries that are colonised and to this day are negatively affected by the english, namely the entirety of wales)
"british" includes british poc too, and their status as a person of colour doesn't make them.. not british? so if you don't mean to offend marginalised groups then... don't say british people. say tories. say old white english men. say the royal family. please, have the sensibility and sympathy to acknowledge that the youth of britain are not responsible for colonisation or actions of their government and are in fact harmed by it as well.
#it's just very odd to me how people are very unwilling to learn why what they say is bad#and before anybody says anything i am southeast asian and have never been to britain#im from a country that has been colonised by the english and i still know that british youth#are POWERLESS against their own government#not to mention the cost of living#this isn't to say that americans are free to make fun of or that the british can jest about them all they want#but america-centrism has done detrimental damage to poc that live out of the us#sorry for the serious talk back to being silly#nanaonan :3
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