>On January 4, 1908, a trial was held in Minnesota about whether John Svan and several other Finnish immigrants would become naturalized United States citizens or not, as the process only was for "whites" and "blacks" in general, and district prosecutor John Sweet was of the opinion that Finnish immigrants were Mongols.
>en.wikipedia.org
>daring to insult the descendants of Tengri himself
Do you want to get raped again, Ling-Ling?
The memes are true
He's still upset about the hyperwar.
*puts you in an internment camp for looking slanty*
>In certain parts of the South during the Jim Crow era, Southern Italians were "occupied a racial middle ground within the otherwise unforgiving, binary caste system of white-over-black." Though Italians were viewed as white for purposes of naturalization and voting, their social standing was that they represented a "problem at best." Their racial status was impacted by their appearance and that they did not "act" white, engaging in manual labor ordinarily reserved for blacks.
>engaging in manual labor ordinarily reserved for blacks
kek, Dixie dicks are lazy fucks if Sicilians outwork them.
" and from that day on, the law forbade treating Finnish immigrants and Americans of Finnish descent as not white "
The End.
It's like a fairy tale.
Still banned from migrating to US by the Asian Exclusion Act until 1952, though.
How many finns know about that piece of history?
I mean it illustrates pretty good how racist US and world really was at time.
A lot of current kiddos think that euros and americans were always multikulti and suicidally welcoming and that it wasn't that bad in old times.
Everything i know about history i have learned from Sup Forums and Sup Forums
>Still banned from migrating to US by the Asian Exclusion Act until 1952
It went back and forth. There were Finns in America as early as the 1640s (they brought the idea of the log cabin with them). There were definitely plenty of Finnish immigrants and descendants in the Great Lakes region before 1954.
Are Finnish people proud whites?
Where are my reparations you fucking honkies?
what is it with americans and their fucked up view of whiteness?
benjamin franklin literally calls swedes, russians and french of "swarthy races"
wtf
>Definitions of whiteness in the United States
I am
It is literally just a way to pretend being superior.
My family was Finnish and Norwegian and immigrated to south Dakota in the late 1800's.
My grandmother showed me newspaper clippings from the town talking about "those drunken finnish Mongols who would one moment be brawling And the next hugging each other in friendship"
>French
>Russians
>not swarthy
Are you stupid, many Russians have Asian blood and look like churkas. Atleast half the people in France look like brown North Africans and Sicilians
Because the concept of 'wh*Teness' didn't have to lowered standards back then to be meaningful.
Americans are so fucking retarded
The American notion of "whiteness" really is retarded.
en.wikipedia.org
They took it absurdly far at times
>Are you stupid, many Russians have Asian blood and look like churkas.
Check your mirror. That is, of course, if were you able to afford one.
>WASP America hated f*Nnoids and m*Doids
wtf I love america now
>Lynching Italians
Fuck. Why was everyone so racist to Italians back then?
>OBSESSED sw*Doid enters the thread
American was founded by WASPs and Germans. It's no wonder it had "muh superior Aryan genes" - mentality even then.
>A lot of current kiddos think that euros and americans were always multikulti
If they think that for us they should open a history book.
Pic related, my literal ancestor interacting with native.
>and Germans
Kek, Old Ben hated Germans and held them in low regard.
>and Germans
cuz pizzeria mamma mia scared people
Italians........ look different
>[W]hy should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.
t. Ben Franklin, the original "you are not whiteeee" poster
>My grandmother showed me newspaper clippings from the town talking about "those drunken finnish Mongols who would one moment be brawling And the next hugging each other in friendship"
The drunken brawling part may have been accurate.
You know the Finns being Mongols meme was from the Swedish. All of the who is white and who isn't is from Europeans. Do you think we just made it up? My great grandfather from Poland called Italians, "Black people".
tiny dick white bois FEARED the ROMAN GODS
>Kek, Old Ben hated Germans and held them in low regard.
He was cool with ones from NW Germany t.b.h.
>Old Ben hated Germans and held them in low regard.
Really?
en.wikipedia.org
They might have hated *some* Germans, but they certainly didn't hate all of them.