I mean, now you're getting into the whole bizarre history of weird vintage racism in European countries where everyone hated everyone else and they thought some group of people living like 50km away was a vastly different and inferior race. But that's another story. I'm pretty sure that some anglo or whatever would just consider Lenin or Stalin a filthy slav or "asiatic". It's kind of cheating to consider them a "person of color" because, like, almost everyone was a "person of color" by that standard, according to where they happened to be at that particular moment.
Perhaps yes. But the point, generally speaking, was that during that time period Stalin was in fact regarded as a POC within the context of their cultural attitudes. A half-Georgian leader was a big deal to them of the time period.
Now? Not so much. We all regard them as pretty much the same.
This is the point. Our perception of race itself is arbitrary and heavily affected by whatever the active social currents are that are sweeping through society.
I can imagine that. For instance, I legitimately can't imagine a prime minister of Albanian descent in Greece even today. Some people were pissed at a former prime minister because he was like part American and an eighth Polish.
I mean, now you're getting into the whole bizarre history of weird vintage racism in European countries where everyone hated everyone else and they thought some group of people living like 50km away was a vastly different and inferior race. But that's another story. I'm pretty sure that some anglo or whatever would just consider Lenin or Stalin a filthy slav or "asiatic". It's kind of cheating to consider them a "person of color" because, like, almost everyone was a "person of color" by that standard, according to where they happened to be at that particular moment.
Perhaps yes. But the point, generally speaking, was that during that time period Stalin was in fact regarded as a POC within the context of their cultural attitudes. A half-Georgian leader was a big deal to them of the time period.
Now? Not so much. We all regard them as pretty much the same.
This is the point. Our perception of race itself is arbitrary and heavily affected by whatever the active social currents are that are sweeping through society.
I can imagine that. For instance, I legitimately can't imagine a prime minister of Albanian descent in Greece even today. Some people were pissed at a former prime minister because he was like part American and an eighth Polish.