Africanization 101
A concept I found that explains things better than most.
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Cultural Africanization is the adoption of signifiers of Black culture by whites, namely that often characterized as āghetto cultureā:
Using Black slang, getting dreadlocks or cornrows, wearing bandanas, tight cut-off jeans, and large hoop earrings.
In adopting signifiers of Black culture, white girls are signaling a disdain for our own culture: āThereās something wrong with dressing whiteā is a hop, and a skip, and jump from āThereās something wrong with being whiteā. And thereās something tantalizingly taboo about that.
As a white girl, engaging in Cultural Africanization is very empowering. You canāt choose your race, but you can choose which race you align yourself with. You can stick it to those white nationalists by actively rejecting your own culture and adopting that of the other tribe, the ultimate Other.
As a white guy, seeing white girls becoming Culturally Africanized is the ultimate emasculation. The white guy and everything he stands for is being rejected. Especially when itās the signifiers of āghettoā, lower class Black culture, that itās replaced with. Black culture is better than white culture, the message seems to be.
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Cultural Africanization is the adoption of signifiers of Black culture by whites, namely that often characterized as āghetto cultureā:
Using Black slang, getting dreadlocks or cornrows, wearing bandanas, tight cut-off jeans, and large hoop earrings.
In adopting signifiers of Black culture, white girls are signaling a disdain for our own culture: āThereās something wrong with dressing whiteā is a hop, and a skip, and jump from āThereās something wrong with being whiteā. And thereās something tantalizingly taboo about that.
As a white girl, engaging in Cultural Africanization is very empowering. You canāt choose your race, but you can choose which race you align yourself with. You can stick it to those white nationalists by actively rejecting your own culture and adopting that of the other tribe, the ultimate Other.
As a white guy, seeing white girls becoming Culturally Africanized is the ultimate emasculation. The white guy and everything he stands for is being rejected. Especially when itās the signifiers of āghettoā, lower class Black culture, that itās replaced with. Black culture is better than white culture, the message seems to be.
4 years ago