Do you think it is socially acceptable for to be proud in being white?

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Ephirith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

even though we're the most accomplished collection of cultures in human history

Or, more likely, you just think "white cultures" have done the most because your primary and secondary education, ya know, didn't tell you shit about any other cultures.

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Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Or, more likely, you just think "white cultures" have done the most because your primary and secondary education, ya know, didn't tell you shit about any other cultures.

Chinese and Japanese > Europeans any day.

[Raavak]

What about Indians & Pakistanis? You're obviously not white nor asian. But you're not a negro black. You're basically doomed to work in a croweded call center the rest of your miserable life.

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Originally Posted by quido [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm proud as fuck of being white. HELL YEAH!

[Lexical]

Originally Posted by Triangle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why is it weak and dumb to bring something like this up? I think it matters, a lot more than whatever your stupid video does. Maybe you need to wake the fuck up.

I never meant to be so bad to youuuuuu
One thing I said that I would never do

Originally Posted by Triangle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just to make people think and to see how people feel about this. I was thinking about it the other night and basically my feel is that any mention of pride in being white is frowned upon and looked at as a fringe part of society ala white supremacists. On the other hand I also think that pride in being black / latino is not looked at as fringe, but instead it is looked at as a good thing and supported by the media.

Look at it this way. Being proud you are "white" is dumb because you are just saying "Hey my skin is white and I am god damn proud about that!" But when someone says they are proud they are African American or Latino that is a cultural thing. You are proud of your African American/Latino culture/heritage. There is a lot of "white" cultural pride as well. You have St. Patty's day when everyone who is Irish celebrates being Irish. You have Oktoberfest for Germans. You can go around and say "I am proud to be a gerd damn American!" and you can be white and it is great!

To summarize: Saying being proud you are white is stating you are proud of your skin color while saying you are proud to be Black/Latino is being proud in a culture. It is socially acceptable to be proud in a culture, but being proud of your skin culture is just plain daft.

[Lexical]

Originally Posted by Swampfeet [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

to have an internet discussion for entertainment purposes

U DUM!?

NO U!

[Ephirith]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Or, more likely, you just think "white cultures" have done the most because your primary and secondary education, ya know, didn't tell you shit about any other cultures.

Uh oh it looks like somebody attended an ethnocentrism lecture in intro to college anthropology. Look, I'm well aware of other cultures and the various ways they have handed our shit to us at different points in history. We weren't always on top.

Every culture has merit, but they are not all equally accomplished. Human civilization completely changed in the last 100-200 years, and the collective body of western thought was behind this- for better or worse.

[Lexical]

Originally Posted by Lexical [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I never meant to be so bad to youuuuuu
One thing I said that I would never do



Look at it this way. Being proud you are "white" is dumb because you are just saying "Hey my skin is white and I am god damn proud about that!" But when someone says they are proud they are African American or Latino that is a cultural thing. You are proud of your African American/Latino culture/heritage. There is a lot of "white" cultural pride as well. You have St. Patty's day when everyone who is Irish celebrates being Irish. You have Oktoberfest for Germans. You can go around and say "I am proud to be a gerd damn American!" and you can be white and it is great!

To summarize: Saying being proud you are white is stating you are proud of your skin color while saying you are proud to be Black/Latino is being proud in a culture. It is socially acceptable to be proud in a culture, but being proud of your skin culture is just plain daft.

Ughhh Skin color not skin culture. Sorry I am a bit hungover D:

[Lexical]

Originally Posted by Ephirith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Every culture has merit, but they are not all equally accomplished.

I agree completely. Being part Polish, I can definitely say that I have nothing to be proud of in that regard.

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Originally Posted by Lexical [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree completely. Being part Polish, I can definitely say that I have nothing to be proud of in that regard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_winged_hussars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%...n_Commonwealth

Could have been a lot worse