Re: Does "white privilege" exist? If so, should it be corrected?
Because, I'm showing your how other cultures have influenced the "white" culture that you criticize so heavily.
Who's criticizing white culture? You must be very oversensitive if you think what I am doing is criticizing.
And what do you mean by white? What heritage do you consider white? I'm willing to bet, you'll say Western European.
Terrible bet. I'm
actually referring to American whites. Not white immigrants, or the children of white immigrants, as they are usually members of their ethnic cultures or bi-cultural (ethnic cultures such as Irish or Italian or Russian).
In the past, white culture
used to just be the WASP culture here. Papists like the Micks and Degos were rejected.
It's not a "white" culture, its an "American culture."
White American culture.
Point being, you're criticizing us against a nonexistent standard.
There's your oversensitivity again. If I have a receding hairline, it is not a criticism to point it out while describing me. I'm not criticizing White American culture by describing it.
You're saying that America should remain fragmented with completely separate and different cultures.
No, I'm saying that when one is from the dominant culture they have the privilege of not having to conform to someone else's culture in order to get ahead. They are free to be true to themselves. You are saying that pointing this out somehow makes a value statement, which is patently absurd and sounds more like a result of your own insecurities than anything I have said.
What I'm saying, is that it is an organic process where the "dominant" culture adopts some aspects of the integrating culture, and the integrating culture adopts some aspects of the "dominant" culture.
That
is what happens...
over time. While that is happening, the people in the dominant culture enjoy many privileges that those in the "inferior" culture (the one being "integrated") cannot possibly enjoy by virtue of their inferior position.
the problem that many white people have is that they expect a process to be instantaneous, or to work far more rapidly than it does.
The fact is, America is the most culturally diverse country in the world
I'd say Brazil is more culturally diverse than we are, personally.
even if we aren't 100% perfect.
We do not
have to be. Pointing out that we aren't is not in any way a criticism because there is no expectation of perfection. There's always room for improvement, of course, but,
as I have already said, I don't think this particular issue can be fixed.
Here's the thing that some people need to realize, though:
I'm not criticizing anything.