{"id":4134,"date":"2020-07-28T17:35:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2020-07-28T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:36:51","slug":"bullied-because-she-is-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/2020\/07\/28\/bullied-because-she-is-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullied because she is white"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blond again: Only after moving to a school in western Oslo did Mari Morken (16) dare be blond again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taken from here<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is it racism is we call them \u2018black\u2019 and not racism if they call us \u2018white\u2019\u201d?<\/p>\n

\u201cI never called anybody \u2018Nigger\u2019 or \u2018Black\u2019 or anything like that. On the other hand, those of us who were White were talked about derogatorily. It was negative to be White, Christianity and Norwegian culture was negative and there were many curses,\u201d says Mari Morken (16) and rattles them off \u201cWhitey, potato and white cheese\u201d
\nThree years ago she couldn\u2019t take it any more. She moved from a school in Groruddalen to a school on the west side. Every morning she takes the subway to the other side of the city to escape the curses and the bad class-environment. Where she goes now, it\u2019s good to have good grades, and she doesn\u2019t stand out because she\u2019s light. Before she made dark stripes in her medium-blond hair. Now she dyes her hair a bit lighter. She\u2019s in the process of \u2018taking back\u2019 her Norwegianity, and is happy to be blond without being branded \u2018whore\u2019 and cheap\u2019.
\n\u201cAh, girl, blond whore!\u201d
\n\u2018Josephine\u2019 was met with these words on the first school day at a high-school in an immigrant-dominated suburb south of Stockholm. Josphine was quite baffled, since aside from her hair color there was nothing about her appearance that would indicate she was promiscuous. She didn\u2019t use makeup and had completely neutral clothing. It was exclusively her hair-color that branded her a \u2018whore\u2019.
\n\u2018Josephine\u2019 is one of the informants for researchers Maria B\u00e4ckman, who did an ethnographic field study in a suburb south of Stockholm, where ethnic Swedes make up about 20% of the population. They\u2019re therefore a minority. Klassekampen met B\u00e4ckman this week when she visited the University in Oslo and the Culcom research program (cultural complexity in the new Norway). She\u2019s the first in Sweden who researched ethnic Swedes as a minority. A similar study was not done in Norway.
\n\u201cIn the suburbs the invisible Swedishness become visible. Ethnic Swedes experience being defined and labeled by their culture and religion, similarly with minorities of a different background,\u201d B\u00e4ckman told Klassekampen.
\nIn her study she focused on ethnic Swedish girls. They experience being linked to the notion of free, Swedish sexuality, which in the densely immigrant suburbs is not necessarily linked with something positive. The strategy for the suburb girls was therefore to play down their Swedish identity.
\n\u201cSeveral dyed their hair. Not necessarily because they wanted to look like immigrants, but because they didn\u2019t want to look so Swedish,\u201d says B\u00e4ckman.
\n\u201cYes, it\u2019s typical, Exactly like that.\u201d Mari Morken nodded vigorously to us from the other side of the cafe table when we repeated some of what Maria B\u00e4ckman has found out. \u201cI was called a whore so many times, I became immune.\u201d
\nWe meet her and her mother, Kristin Pedersen, for a talk about why Mari changed schools. They tell of systematic bullying and harassment since Mari reached puberty when she was 10-11, till she transferred school when she was 13.
\nPedersen is still upset at the school\u2019s lack of handling of the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blond again: Only after moving to a school in western Oslo did Mari Morken (16) dare be blond again. Taken from here \u201cWhy is it racism is we call them \u2018black\u2019 and not racism if they call us \u2018white\u2019\u201d? \u201cI never called anybody \u2018Nigger\u2019 or \u2018Black\u2019 or anything like that. On the other hand, those … Sigue leyendo Bullied because she is white<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}