Quote: (06-19-2013 02:08 PM)scorpion Wrote:
Racial minority groups in the U.S. find it very unsettling when white people demonstrate racial consciousness. If white people begin to see themselves as a homogenous ethnic and cultural group the way that Jews, American blacks and Mexicans do, the fear is that whites will re-awaken their largely dormant racist feelings. In a society that has become as multicultural and ethnically diverse as the modern United States, any such resurgence of white racial animosity towards minority groups would obviously have the potential to be enormously disruptive to the status quo.
This is the reason that white racial identity is essentially a taboo in American culture, while racial minority groups are encouraged to identify ethnically and form support networks base on their racial background.
The idea is that white people do not need any ethnic or racial solidarity, because they are already the dominant racial group in the country, while other ethnic groups, having smaller numbers and being more vulnerable to discrimination from the white majority have the necessity of falling back on racial and ethnic support.
The fear of white racial consciousness by minority groups is somewhat understandable given the history of the past century and further back into the slave era (After all, the last time a white nation became animated with racial consciousness it took practically the entirety of Europe as well as two superpowers to put them down).
However, just because it is understandable doesn't mean whites will tolerate it forever. I predict the next few decades will see a resurgence of white racial consciousness, as more whites in both the U.S. and Europe wake up to the realization that they are being displaced from their own country by fast-breeding immigrants. When that happens, you'll have decades' worth of simmering racial resentment boiling over all at once. It won't be pretty.
American blacks are not all the same. I don't buy into this thing that all white Americans are the same. My cousins in the states have little in common with African-Americans and aren't delusional in thinking they are the same.
White American culture that was the norm in the old days when America was 90% white is long gone and marginalized to rural and generally poorer parts of the country. SWPLs want nothing to do with it as its low class so instead perpetuate a 'white American' meme they can't define.
Jewish Americas for instance can clearly define cultural and ethnic quirks, rituals, religon, symbols, and stylings that persist within the culture. African-American can still do this as well even though many of the classic thugs have been run into the ground.
This is no dominate cohesive White American culture. There is a classic Ameican culture that was white but that has largey disappeard.
At my school there are to many groups. But a good chunk of them do a good job and basically hold the group to projecting and teaching thier cultural styles and keeping a open pipeline for networking which IMO is the best part of it. The Filipino groups big thing is holding cooking classes to teach people about thier cuisines with the end thing being a big pot luck supper and party. The Black student group since its so large and full of folks from evrey corner where you have anybody whom identifys as Black simply focus on development and networking. Keeping a pipeline of successfully black students in the Rolodex to help out the new crop of students. They just have pub nights and parties they leave culture out of it all because there is really no point in doing so.
This can work in Canada because your expected to keep your cultural quirks instead of leaving them at the door in America (this is a good thing and bad thing in Canada, far from perfect). I have a hard time believing many could give a detailed list of uniquely 'White American' culture.
Americans struggle to pick race and culture apart like that though. You couldn't have either of those groups i detailed be successful in America since Americnans are barley better with race then a toddler in shock from seeing a person of colour for the first time.