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@Bashabez5
there's a natural trend of "fetishising the other" sort of inherent to the mindset of fetishising itself. to have a fetish/fixation on something, that thing must be somehow distinguishable from its surroundings, and this distinction is what's latched onto and fetishised. and so when most of the people who have money, and thus power, happen look a certain way, there is a tendency for them to naturally become "interested" in people who look differently from that way and what they're "used to".
economic/family/community security plays directly into that. i'm not personally qualified to slap numbers on that, of course, but i have heard at some point, i think it was russell means who mentioned at some point that the navajo nation is best off in the nation numbers-wise, and living here in arizona i regularly interact with member of that community who still definitely talk about and exhibit this feeling of being second-class citizens in their own country
so yes, fetishisation is an inherent human thing to do, present in any community, and it's a difference in social influence that allows those fetishes to be acted upon by force (mexican girls being smuggled across the border and sold off in parking lots at malls etc)
as a secondary note, there is, though, some complication that comes from our sort of innate preferences driven by the phenomenon of genetic recognition. that, for example, pairings in the us between white woman and black men are much more common than pairings between black women and white men, which largely has to do with certain physical characteristics, like pronounced skeleture ("strong cheekbones/chins" among other things) which are more common in the "black" genetic lines than in the "white" ones, meaning the people who prefer these "more masculine" traits, usually women, tend to subconsciously select more often for those who have them, and the people who like "less masculine" traits for those. the inverse of this relationship can also be seen in the frequency of pairings between east asian women and white men, and since north american populations share some genetic heritage with east asian popultions, a similar effect may be happening there. i do still see this, though, as more of a modifier rather than a root cause
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@Bashabez5
....eh, i'd think it's more likely tied to their being trapped in ghettos without the means to self-sustain and that they're trapped in a cycle of depressed, alcoholic parents giving birth to soon-disaffected children who are denied work because they're seen as useless because they're depressed and drunk because they're denied work because they're seen as useless and so on, creating resource-poor broken families that can't take care of themselves and thus are exploited in the ways such less-equal classes are always exploited
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@Bashabez5
to tl;dr summarise, i have been the direct subject of a whole lot of fetishisation. and the difference between white me and these native american women is that the black men who have fetishised me in that way did not have the money to pay someone to kidnap me, or else didn't like their chances at no one missing me and coming after them
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