{"id":612364,"date":"2024-04-06T13:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=612364"},"modified":"2024-04-06T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:29:44","slug":"morphology-not-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/06\/morphology-not-race-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphology, Not Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Let us consider technically we are all part of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153human race\u00e2\u20ac\u0153, and also, very much like the ancient Greeks and Romans\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 being Greek or being Roman was a race-nationality thing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d either you were Roman or Greek, or, you were a barbarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In modern daytimes, I think the most productive way we should start thinking about things things is <strong>morphology<\/strong>; that is, the facial structure of your face, what you look like, the pigment or melanin in your skin, or the facial features you got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For example, it is very very obvious that I am of East Asian, Korean, Asian descent. But besides the fact that genetically my parents are from South Korea, from Seoul and Busan, I was born and raised in California San Francisco, from 1988 onwards. I know how to read and write Korean, although not 100%, and certainly I was raised on general Asian Korean Confucian cultural norms, but for the most part, I was raised on Costco corndogs, the American optimism of the 90s, Bill Clinton etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So now, currently at the age of 36, I look Asian but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not Asian. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pure blood American, 100%, Boy Scouts Eagle Scout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Indians, south Asians are the new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153white\u00e2\u20ac\u009d people \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Aryan race<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Very interesting trend that I see in Silicon Valley, the bay area and beyond; all of these very very successful rich and influential south Asian, people from Indian or Pakistani descent are essentially the new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153white\u00e2\u20ac\u009d people. Behold high prestige positions in academia, culturally socially politically, and also technologically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> as a consequence, you see a lot of Asian Asian American women, even Caucasian women marrying these successful men, once again, more followed you wise they look Indian and south Asians; but in fact in terms of their race prestige and their social class, they are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153white\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> if you think and consider about it, technically India was a first place that even had this notion of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Aryan\u00e2\u20ac\u009d race\u00e2\u20ac\u201d not Nazi germany or Hitler. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll Hitler even got the idea from ancient Indian philosophy and manuscripts, and also interestingly enough\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 He also likened and  talked about the Spartans and how they controlled the helot race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How is it that 5000 Spartans can control a helot population of 10 million? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us consider technically we are all part of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153human race\u00e2\u20ac\u0153, and also, very much like the ancient Greeks and Romans\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 being Greek or being Roman was a race-nationality thing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d either you \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612364"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612379,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612364\/revisions\/612379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}