Things that are so obvious and ingrained that no one even thinks about them.

Here’s a few:

All US americans can go to Mexico EASILY. You’re supposed to have a passport but you don’t even need one (for car/foot crossing). Versus, it’s really hard for Mexicans, who aren’t wealthy, to secure a VISA to enter the US. I’m sure there are corollaries in other geo-regions.

Another one is wealthy countries having access to vaccines far ahead of “poor” countries.

In US, we might pay lip service to equal child-hood education but most of the funding pulls from local taxes so some kids might receive ~$10000 in spending while another receives $2000. I’m not looking it up at the moment, but I’m SURE there are strong racial stratas.

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There’s something kinda gross and wrong when random crackers on the internet will write essays on how Japan is chaste and sexless (lmao) even though it has a higher birthrate than Italy.

    I certainly would be very careful to swing too far the other way and pretend Japan isn’t an extremely backwards oppressive patriachy. Yes they have sex of course, but are you just going to ignore the entire context around where and how that sex happens?

    If there is a valid criticism here its how these criticis usualy have no socialist or even leftist background therefore they turn to BS liberal social/economic analysis and comparisons to the “normal” western cultural habits as if ours is inherently better. In that case yes it falls flat.

    But any Marxist can easily point out it is quite hard to have sex when the corporate culture encourages practices like “not leaving before the boss” or staying as late as possible despite the lack of actual work. These are all blatant issues but they’re of course capitalist issues where instead a lib will point to it just being an “Asian culture” problem.