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when I think of the word "fetish" I'm thinking about people who are into feet, bdsm, femdom, cuckolding or MDLB. Not someone who just finds X ethnicity more attractive on average than any other ethnicity. Nobody for example is going to say to a white man that he has a white girl fetish simply because he finds white women more attractive on average than any other ethnicity. Because it's completely understandable that most people prefer to date with their own ethnicity. But the minute that white man finds a black women more attractive on average suddenly that's fetishization. It's completely ridiculous.

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[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i think an American whose family came from Ireland and an American whose family came from Finland are both white, in the same way. culture and 'race' are completely separate, Americans fetishise their whiteness.