Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Dieser Schmerz ist nicht meiner: Wie wir uns mit dem seelischen Erbe unserer Familie aussöhnen by Mark Wolynn

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chimichannika's review against another edition

I couldn’t get past the incredibly fetishistic and racist attitude of the author in the introduction. His description of his journey to “the Far East to find healing” (his words) is some of the most stereotypical, whitewashed, racist exoticism I’ve ever seen. Too many white people, especially privileged Americans and Europeans, exploit cultures unfamiliar to them for their own “”””spiritual healing”””” without taking the time to actually learn respectfully or do any real work to confront why they think they need to spend thousands traveling to a foreign country to “find healing” in the first place, and it’s so gross. His descriptions of disability even in the intro also reek of ableism, which is… really disappointing in a book that’s supposed to be about healing internal trauma and biases. Like, yikes. Then, I read the reviews on here describing its’ pseudoscience, Freudian ideas, and general lack of actual trauma informed data, and decided it wasn’t worth my time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism