Alienated America

[Dill]

(03-06-2019, 09:39 AM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: There's the Arminians under the Ottoman Empire who were treated as second class citizens. Everything came to a head during the first world war as the Ottoman Empire started to crumble and they tried to wipe the Arminians out. Forced marches and mass murder resulted in 600k to 1.5 million deaths.

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/armenian-genocide

When the Mongol Empire encompassed much of Eastern Europe, all the way up to contemporary Poland, it figures that quite a few "white folks" were oppressed by Asians. And Europe was militarily rather weak compared to the Middle East, South and East Asia.

Back then, though, people were not designating themselves as "races" and what not. People certainly noticed group differences in skin color and other physical features that "others" had, and these differences could mark those others as "inferior," but they were not integrated into a systematic classification, an anthropology. Kievan Rus did not think of themselves as members of some larger set called "the white race" and Mongols did not think of themselves as "Asian."   (These last points are just general FYI for anyone reading--not a response to anything you said, Neb.)