The Real Difference Between Racial Preference And Racial Fetishism
Uncovering and unpacking racial preference and racial fetishism.
Racial Preference: Our backgrounds, and where we grew up and who we surround ourselves with and the media, all play a part in our perceived racial preference. Therefore, you are attracted to a particular person based on factors such as; race, culture, religion, environment and background. However without the elimination of other ethnic groups.
Racial Fetishism: Only acknowledging and fixating on someone's race, making it the only part of their identity you consider. Furthermore, you do not take their personality or opinions into account and your perception of them is based on harmful stereotypes.
Why Does Racial Preference Turn Into A Problem?
Once you being to eliminate different ethnic groups because of their race your preference begins to turn into a problem. When you eliminate people based on their ethnicity without knowing their personality and solely do it based on stereotypes that are attached to their race it immediately becomes racist. Believing that everyone in a race fits a stereotype that has been constructed by society is incredibly dehumanising and it puts them into a box which ends up marginalizing them.
