Tolerance In 90 Day Fiance

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Tolerance is strategically employed in the process of depoliticization of socially stigmatized issues on race and gender. In the contemporary liberal democracy, these issues are implicitly hidden in the very private space. Thereby, a gendered issue such as a gender role in a family becomes what each family should discuss respectively within the family. In the same manner, the word, “race” becomes taboo people feel reluctant to reveal their views due to the prevalent notion that racism is morally incorrect. Albeit the very existence of the unequal power structure on race and gender, tolerance seems unnecessary to those who do not belong to the privileged group of the white male since their rights are fully guaranteed as a US citizen and they …show more content…

By bringing the concept of tolerance, the study found how the marriage works as a site where tolerance needs to work and actually operates in the way of quashing the potential threat from the stigmatized other. On the premise of cultural inferiority, the foreign fiancés and fiancées are essentialized with their culture, being debased, and partially welcomed for their supposed innocence and traditionalism. As the culture is blamed for every conflict the participants have, only how much understanding “we” can show to this different culture becomes important. Thereby, the factors involved in postulating the cultural inferiority and enacting tolerance are not articulated. Whiteness can remain privileged by keeping the hegemonic power of the racial, ethnic, and gendered system invisible and by obliging tolerance. As the privileged whiteness is legitimized for the moral attribute of tolerance in such ways, the unequal power structure on race, ethnicity, gender in the post-colonial context within our society can be kept

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