I think that the mixup is between race and culture. "White" isn't generally considered a culture. Irish is, Italian is, American is, but not White. Black, in the US at least, is considered to be both a race and a culture. The same thing is true of Latino, Native American, etc. And the large reason that those are considered cultures as well as races in the US is because they are minorities. Since there aren't so many members of those groups, they tend to bond together and culture becomes strongly mixed up with race.
A good portion of the people in Mexico are Hispanic. But they don't think of Hispanic culture there as much as Latino's in the U.S. because they are the majority there. Their cultural divisions along the lines of race deal with those descended from the Spanish and those descended from the native groups. And Americans living down there definitely have an "American" culture that they are proud of (not all of them of course). A race which is a large majority in an area doesn't tend to have a cultural signifier based on their race. Race is kind of background noise there and the cultural groupings come along different lines like religion and ancestral heritage. Minority races, on the other hand, tend to have stronger bonds between race and culture because they are a minority, that's why they bond together. As a race becomes a more significant portion of the population the identification with race as a cultural marker tends to decrease and the cultural divisions grow up along other lines. Nothing really pernicious there about "whiteness". Its just the way cultural groups tend to work and we just happen to have a white majority country here. Cheers, Judah On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Jerry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess I don't get having any pride in your race. > > I have none in mine. > > I have pride in my accomplishments, my actions, my thoughts (not all of > them, of course, but well more than half). But not in my skin color, or my > eye color, or my height, or being right handed, or heterosexual. And the > opposite of pride in my weight. > > Where is the pride or credit in something you had no hand in? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:282585 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
