Intra-regional racial hierarchies operate among Asian peoples independent of Western imposition

Evidence

Two dominant senses of racial asianization are evident, as much discretely as interactively. There are, first, those operations of orientalisms analyzed most forcefully by Edward Said, notably under the expressive conditions of colonizing Europeans and their lasting legacy. These include imposed conceptions, definitions, practices, and institutions from the imperializing Outside, or from the Outsider inside in the case of settler colonialisms sometimes internalized throughout the region. But second, relatedly and variously, there are those racial articulations that are distinctly if relatedly Asian, that arise from within national configurations of the region – even if perhaps influenced by the circulation of racially fueled derogations from without. Here I think of Japanese articulations in relation to Koreans or Chinese; of Chinese in relation to most everyone else; of the formulations of Aryans and Dravidians in case of India, or the articulation of race with religion by Hindutva nationalists in relation to Dalits, on one hand, and Muslims, on the other; of the “multicultural” tensions, explicitly racially articulated, in contemporary Singapore between demographically differentiated Chinese, Malay, and Indian citizens on the island or across the peninsula. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1911

Categorization

• XREF: Supplies an extra-regional test case the reader’s generalization hypothesis needs: privilege threat dynamics operating among Japanese-Korean, Chinese-other, Aryan-Dravidian, Hindu-Dalit relations absent the West. — connects to: Meme fame location in East Asia subjects subjects to double racial scrutiny — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame…, 182