#non-western countries

[hacked-wtsdz]

So tired of jk rowling demonisation. Yeah the woman hates trans people. She also spent amounts most of y’all have never seen on humanitarian causes and charities. She is not a one hundred percent horrible person deserving of shunning. Are people allergic to nuance

#I watched a couple documentaries on her charity lumos’ work #and I can’t hate her #I honestly don’t care what she says about trans people as long as she continues doing the good that she’s doing #people are ambiguous #all of this is further support of my slowly growing conviction that western people are very detached from the harsh realities of life in #non-western countries #even the leftists #and yeah the cancel culture didn’t stop rowling from her charity work but I refuse to hate her #not because I agree with her stances but because she does good for this word #world #it’s just good westerners are so without need for they forget about it #jk rowling #rowling

[boysborntodie]

“I don’t talk about Palestine because I don’t like going into politics : /” fuck you. The existence of Muslims and MENA people has always been political to the West. Their lives and their deaths. Their happiness and anger and sorrow. Their love and hatred. Their sweat and blood and tears. Everything has always been reduced to politics when they are more than you could ever begin to comprehend. Palestine will be free. And so will Sudan and Pakistan and Lebanon and Yemen and Syria and every other country, place and people who suffer only for their pain to be called political by those responsible for and complicit in it

#before anyone starts i fucking know you personally aren’t responsible #that doesn’t change the fact everyone in the west benefits from this system that has historically oppressed and harmed non-western countrie #and it’s your responsibility to acknowledge and understand this #i also have been living in a western (generalised not geographically #and it’s easier and i know why it’s easier #my heart goes out to non-muslim and mena countries and people but i wanted to talk about their very specific plight they experience #pakistan #middle east #north africa #free palestine #palestine #falesteen #lebanon #syria #yemen #sudan #free sudan #non-outsiders

[chaberkowepole]

A post where a Westerner whines about people holding Russian culture accountable for their imperialism saying this is "dehumanising poor babushkas" or some bullshit bad-faith interpretation: 44'000 notes

Posts where Eastern Europeans detail, explain, tediously lay out the impact of imperialism on their lands and their discrimination in the West: 300 notes, mostly from other Eastern Europeans

Maybe it's that imperialist countries understand each other and would rather boost each other's voices :)

#And that is my post to sum up the past year here on tumblr for Eastern Europeans #And tbh other non-western countries affected by imperialism #Eastern Europe #Ukraine #Russian imperialism #Imperialism #western supremacism #west centrism

[genderkoolaid]

also in the same vein as "talking about wanting all men dead is going to be disturbing for marginalized men/people who were amab"... i have no qualms w anyone complaining abt christians. ESPECIALLY western christians. but as someone who has a personal relationship w the 1918 armenian/assyrian genocides, seeing people talk about hunting christians for sport is never not going to upset me on some level. like dont get me wrong, western christians are NOT oppressed, and my pain is not for them. its for the marginalized christians right now who are being actively oppressed and kept from their indigenous lands and murdered and deprived of their human rights. there are people who very much want to continue those genocides right now. so like. idk just keep in mind that there are people at this moment who's families/ancestors actually face/d horrific violence in relation to being christian + they may be justifiably unnerved by people talking about hunting christians for sport! esp when azerbaijan literally had a museum depicting dead wax armenian soldiers specifically designed to be "ugly" ethnic stereotypes. also please pay attention to artsakh and donate if you can, it's being blockaded & there are food & medical shortages

#again im not saying ''dont talk shit abt christians'' #just keep in mind that like. ppl whos families survived these genocides exist #people have lost loved ones in the modern day bc of this! armenophobia is alive and well! #assyrians were promised a country of their own by the british & were never given one & are being driven out of their indigenous lands! #non-western christianity is very complex esp when it comes to indigenous christian groups #& in countries where christians are not the ones with the most power #m. #genocide tw #armenophobia

[watermelinoe]

"women of color aren't qualified to understand feminism or racism" is my favorite transactivist take on radical feminists of color

#runner-up: ''your little mind is too colonized to understand real progress. (unlike my white usamerican mind somehow)'' #ignoring that there are absolutely women of color in non-western countries who've adopted gender ideology #since women globally are not a hive mind believe it or not

[wanderingmind867]

Ever thought about how a team called Justice League International is 80% American? I haven't even read their comics, but I've thought of that before. Besides Fire and Ice (and maybe Doctor Light), the whole team was pretty much all american. "International", huh? But it gets worse to me. Justice League Europe had one European member! One! It was Rocket Red. The rest of the team was not from Europe. DC really blew it. You could have given us some cool global heroes, but instead we get a bunche of Americans with a token foreigner or two. Talk about International, huh? It's no different from the regular justice league of america! They blew it! And that annoys me.

I am remaking this post to add that I don't hate people who like the Justice League International or Justice League Europe. I just think there's something not quite right about giving those teams names like that when they're mostly composed of americans. It seems like it's a bit hypocritical to say a team of 90% americans is really International or European.

#dc critical #dc meta #justice league international critical #justice league #dc comics #what a wasted opportunity #such potential... #dc universe #dcu #justice league of america #justice league international #also notice there was no justice league Asia? #or justice league africa? #I wonder why that is.. #Totally not neglect of non-western countries #no siree

[vogelmeister]

okay i hope this makes sense but one thing i do believe geoguesser has helped me with is challenging my preconceived notions of a country. like okay. take this. this depressing ass looking place.

where would you say it is, on first glance. my first guess was former yugoslavia/ communist bloc based on architecture. you could even say maybe even a middle eastern city. certainly not western europe so, you can imagine my shock when i found signage in dutch and .be everywhere. because this type of area is not what i think of when i think of belgium.

anyways moving on from that, i have just also felt it from being dropped in lower socio economic areas of wealthier countries (aka where i wouldnt instantly go 'oh sweden') or richer areas of countries i wouldnt consider wealthy. and because im shocked that this poorer place is in sweden or this put together city is in ... idk mexico it just has really forced me to not judge where these places could be by how well off it looks. and thats a good thing, its a good thing when you see theres a range of people living here from all backgrounds. just makes me look at places beyond their glossy pamphlet, y'know???

#i think this is what happens though bc geogusser seldom drops you in tourist areas #also @belgium the sky did not help here at all #it just looked really sad and not what i would expect from western europe. #i will say theres like 2 countries in this world i have visited and can confidently say i have seen through a non touristic lens #if you can guess both you get a star #geoguessr

[ciderjacks]

(western) Christians and culturally christian atheists Constantly for some reason: Islam is such a harsh and cruel religion…I’m praying 4 the poor Muslims trapped in this evil cult…be free Muslims of the world, be free from the evil of Islam…

Supposed evil Islam: its haram to force anyone to do something they don’t want to do, its haram to force your beliefs on another person, its haram to discriminate against others, if you find that you’re in an unhappy or abusive marriage you should divorce amicably rather than continue to stay married, helping even just one person holds the same weight as helping all of humanity at once, no one is born with sin it’s unfair to place that kind of thing on a baby.

#islamophobia #islam #Like it’s so weird the way ppl talk about it #Even people critical of Christianity or antitheists never talk about any other religion that way #It’s bc at least in western countries Islam is associated heavily with/seemingly equates to non-whiteness. that’s why. #That’s why it’s considered “barbaric” in a way the other abrahamic religions just aren’t

[art-heap]

not going to watch ms marvel or engage with it at all but i’m definitely curious about Who Exactly decided Kamela’s power should come from Djinn and who decided to have Nakia look like that

Because whoever made those decisions knows exactly what they’re doing. Trying to make Muslim immigrants stomachable for white audiences and in doing so removing the aspects of religion and culture that defined so many characters in this series and moreover define us as people

#only seen the trailer #didn't like what they did with Nakia at all. Not at all #You guys don't understand the awareness of making the choice to wear a hijab especially in a non-muslim country nor the requirement to cover #the neck! Ilhan Omar might do it but she makes a choice and it could be cultural or because the US government would never let her set foot #in the government if she wore a full hijab. Either way I respect her choice but for someone to take what could be either a cultural thing or #a compromise between being a representative of your religion and roots AND your country and to then apply it to a character who #uncompromisingly embraced all aspects of her religion in the comics? and her knowledge and critical thinking of society from an islamic #perspective are her defining features? CHEAP #or nah about ilhan omar it's her personal preference fundamentally but any muslim knows there is a distinction between the 2 ways of wearing #hijab. and for the writers or whoever to apply that nakia is highly dubious #and im assuming that's the link theyre going for. They're going for 'well this muslim woman does it like this so there' THAT'S A HUMAN PERSO #PERSON WHO MADE A CHOICE. BASED ON THEIR VALUES. DO NOT CONFLATE ONE PERSON'S CHOICE WITH ANOTHER'S. #the author of ms marvel made a choice to have Nakia wear her hijab THIS way. Andh for her character to be Like This. Her Values like That #you know what im saying? this is also more insidious than changing plot points or characters for ordinary stories or percy jackson or whatev #because it's about islam. it's about representation or muslim minorities and islam in western media. most of us don't like being represented #in western media because it is NEVER an acceptable representation. here again it's distorted. #anyway i wil stop ranting in the tags #and the thing that bothers me is those are pretty big things already. so what else did they totally change to remove the islamic side

[ryukisgod]

#radical feminist safe #the office #pam beesly #memes #radical feminists please interact #dating #the red pill #both think women from non western countries will be dumb enough to go along with their stupid women hating politics #mail order bride #meme #radfem #radical feminism #they’re the same picture #Owen jones #we’ve seen the domestic violence stats we know white men hate white women

[shotofstress]

choose 5 authors you would invite for dinner (they have to be alive)

tagged by @holmesandwhatson :D!

Sussana Clerk Tracy Chevalier Alice Hoffman Guillermo del Toro (he have books) Robert Kurvitz

tagging: @f--e-u-e-r-t-r-u-n-k-e--n @pompeiianbollockr @lvpercalia @dog-nova @dailykafka @teethingpains

#take sometime coz couldnt remember alive authors that i read #i need to read more non western contemporary #the ones i read are dead lol #bc suicide or illness in the last like 20 years #i dont read ppl from my country coz the nice ones are dead or too poor to publish #and the alive ones are snobs and can publish bc nepotism and contacts with friends coz culture here is made by rich ppl #one of my fav books it hasnt be published bc no one want to publish the author bc he is not part of the upper class and is contactless

[twistedappletree]

wtf is even the point of western medicine fr

#been fighting this stupid ass flu SO hard #and all the crappy otc shit did nothing #until i was finally able to see my chinese medicine doctor #and literally everything he gave me kicked the majority of my symptoms in a few hours #lmAO #LIKE #CHEAPER THAN WESTERN MEDICINE TOO???? #is2g it’s all designed to make you spend more and more fucking money that’s all they care about #fever aches chills sore throat runny nose cough - all gone after 1 dose of herbs #and that’s only 1 of 4 for the day #anyway #go to your preferred trad doctor if you have a flu you’re gonna feel way better than whatever westerners give u #apple babble 🍎 #non fandom #also editing before anyone flips #i’m NOT against modern medicine #just the fucked up system that makes it so inaccessible #and the majority of western otc shit that literally does jack shit #gotta clarify bc there’s always that one person that’s like #‘AcUpUnCtUrE cAnT cUrE cAnCeR’ no shit sherlock #but some trad medicine legitimately works for low tier health conditions #and it’s more affordable in western countries #which some of us need bc we can’t fucking afford a $15000 doctor visit lmAO #exaggeration for dramatic effect so chill tf out thnx

[comradedanipedrosa]

americans when america does american things they don't like: "what are we, ASIANS????"

#wanted to comment on there itself but I like my sanity #lewis did Not mean it like that he was in fact contending the very western centricism redditors here are displaying #what some ppl think lewis said: florida is becoming the same as saudi #what lewis actually said: it doesn't matter Where this is happening it's horrible anywhere #and that you shouldn't just say smth when it's a non western country lol #Islamophobia tw

[mrskywalkers-chanelboots]

ok like one more thing i can’t stop picturing dinluke as the perfect couple for a cowboy au???? like i have songs and E V E R Y T H I N G to go with it so if anyone has any good fics or fanart, send em my way because they are so cowboy

also here are my songs for cowboy dinluke (and please suggest more i love cowboy songs):

cowboy like me - taylor swift | cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other - willie nelson | you don’t mess around with jim - jim croce | dead of night - orville peck

#star wars #dinluke #luke skywalker #din djarin #cowboy au #cowboy #like it’s just so fitting #the mandalorian #din’s show is literally described as a space western #i could break down some of these songs and how they pertain to dinluke #i’m a bit insane #i have more non cowboy songs for dinluke too #also luke is literally a country boy cannot convince me otherwise #tatooine is the equivalent of some remote place in texas in the 80’s to me #SHOULD I WRITE THIS SHIT???