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originally posted by: SomeDumbBroad
White people don't think they have a culture because we are told that our ancestry does not matter...
I indentify as white with strong European/Mediterranean roots (Half Italian, the other half Irish and German.) I can make you a dish from each of those cultures because all 3 are so vastly different it's insane. But I'm not allowed to claim that heritage because I am lumped in as White. My history only matters slightly more than a white male. That video was disgusting.
Consider me triggered
. Well the bbc doesn't call
originally posted by: pfishy
a reply to: ThirdEyeofHorus
Sorry, but that site is basically a clearinghouse for viral 'net garbage.
originally posted by: redhorse
originally posted by: SomeDumbBroad
White people don't think they have a culture because we are told that our ancestry does not matter...
I indentify as white with strong European/Mediterranean roots (Half Italian, the other half Irish and German.) I can make you a dish from each of those cultures because all 3 are so vastly different it's insane. But I'm not allowed to claim that heritage because I am lumped in as White. My history only matters slightly more than a white male. That video was disgusting.
Consider me triggered
I think that part of the problem for many white Americans especially is that our European heritage is so mixed that it can be hard sometimes to identify one, or two or even three or four primary cultures in our backgrounds. At some point it gets kind of silly. My closest immigrant ancestor was my g-grandfather who came from Czechoslovakia and guess what...? He was of Jewish heritage but kept quiet about it. It took DNA testing and some sleuthing to sort that out. All of my other ancestral lines have been in the U.S. for a very long time, and it becomes difficult to sort out the specific European admixtures for me, and I imagine that many Americans are in the same situation.
I have found out that I am not as European as I thought or looked, but my identifying culture is white, rural American, and my phenotype is best defined as Europid. Too mixed and generalized to be anything else. But what do I latch onto for my roots? Italian, Austrian, French, Czech, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Spanish, Welsh, Scottish, British, Irish, Swedish, Finnish, Native American, East Asian, African, West Asian, Jewish? Which one? All of those are strong, distinctly different cultures. Mine is white American. It's how I was raised. It's how I look. It's still a culture even if it's not as old as the ones that have shaped it. I do think our educational institutions, in the mid to lower echelons that is, teach students to dismiss that, or at least devalue it, which is a tried and true necessity toward subjugating a population--destroy their culture. In this case, we're often led to believe that we don't have one. Rich, white kids get to have their white culture, and people that are clearly a minority get to have theirs because they are not enough of a threat... yet, but not the rest of us though. I am at the point where I'm wondering why we can't all just consider ourselves American in the U.S. and drop it.