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What does it mean to be white?


Anastasia13

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There are usenet groups I used to participate in where this would degenerate into a 2 month long flamewar on whether the concept of "race" was valid at all.

Thank God, we are not them. :)

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[quote name='toledo_jesus' date='Oct 25 2005, 06:37 PM']race is a social construction.  We're all humans.
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Hoo-rah! Truth!

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[quote name='1337 k4th0l1x0r' date='Oct 25 2005, 10:50 AM']It means if you ever go missing, CNN and Foxnews will keep everyone in America informed of the search for you.

Note: this only applies to the women.  And attractive women at that.
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Jus' sayin'.

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cmotherofpirl

To answer the original question you would have to survey everyone who identifies themselves as white.

Me. I'm just [color=green]irish. [/color]

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[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Oct 25 2005, 05:11 PM']To answer the original question you would have to survey everyone who identifies themselves as white.
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What about what others identify you as?

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[quote name='avemaria40' date='Oct 25 2005, 07:23 PM']Italian, Spanish, Scottish, English, German, and Austrian.  but being white isn't that big of a deal b/c we're all human.
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Why do some people make being something other than white a big deal?

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[quote name='Light and Truth' date='Oct 25 2005, 09:24 PM']Why do some people make being something other than white a big deal?
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because race has been socially programmed as important. Somewhere along the line it had to be made acceptable to subjugate and enslave other humans. so, what better way than to recategorize them as "different"?
so now people have bought into race and use it to perpetuate differences in education, language, yadda yadda yadda.

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