#cultural white western Christianity that this#Ethiopia has been a culturally Christian country since the 4th century ad#Greek and Russian orthodox Christianity is different again#trying to tell me the way Christianity affect life in Ethiopia Greece and USA are all the same because Christianity is all the same#sounds very US white American
@thesilversunā I donāt entirely understand what you are trying to say with these tags, but I usedĀ āwesternā as a descriptor largely to differentiate between regions where Christianity is the majority religion vs places where itās a minority religion, because I think thatās an important distinction (most of my cousins on the Bengali side of my family are actually Christian, which makes them part of a religious minoritiy, as they live in India, and thus are impacted currently by a rise in right-wing Hindu nationalism).
That being said, there are plenty of Christian-majority countries in the Global South where the same and/or similar issues of Christian hegemony can and do exist, so this is not exclusively a Western or white phenomenon, despite the fact that this particular conversation is largely centring on culture in North America and Europe.Ā
I donāt think anybody is disputing that Christianity has different movements and denominations, nor has anybody said thereās one monolithic form of Christian practice. But thatās not super relevant to what weāre discussing, which is religious and cultural hegemony (which isnātĀ something unique only to Christians, btw! As I mentioned above, thereās Hindu hegemony in India, along with Buddhist hegemony in parts of Southeast Asia, Muslim hegemony in Islamic states, Jewish hegemony is Israel, etc).Ā
You say it sounds veryĀ āUS white Americanā to imply that the way Christianity impacts life in Ethiopia or Russia or Greece isnāt different, and Iām sure thatās very accurate and true when discussing the lives of people in thoseĀ countries who themselves are Christians!Ā But from a Jewish perspective... I mean, you literally just rattled off a list of countries from which very long-standing and sizeable populations of Jews had to flee due Christian antisemitism (well, actually, most Greek Jews werenāt able to flee; the vast of majority of them were deported to Auschwitz and murdered). Iām sure it isĀ true that Christianity affects the daily lives of Christians in both Ethiopia and Russia very differently, but if you look at the how Christianity has impacted the lives of Jews in those countries, the narratives are actually pretty fucking similar: Instances of forced conversions, expulsions, confiscations of property, ghettoisation, loss of rights, pogroms and massacres over the course of centuries. So like... in the context of minorities talking about their broader experiences under hegemony, really how much does that other difference even matter?Ā
For example, England, Wales, and Scotland are all distinct countries, each with their own languages and cultures, and this is generally very important to know. But if you were an Indian person living under the British Raj, then that distinction between British nationalities would likely be fairly meaningless as it pertained to your own situation.
āThereās a British guy out front, says he wants to split Bengal in half again.āĀ
āOh, is he Welsh?āĀ
Like, in the context, it just really wouldnāt have mattered.Ā
Again, hegemony is not specifically a Christian thing at all. Itās a majority rule and influence thing. But [predominantly Western] Christian hegemony is whatās being talked about at the moment, and maybe Iām just missing something, butĀ Iām honestly not sure how those other things are relevant to this specific discussion.Ā
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