i couldnt even start to address the amount of ignorance in the comments on this page. its just too much! but heres 2 questions. if you think anti racist means anti white and the tactic is genetic genocide, are these anti racist forcing you to have sex? my second question is, if there were genetic genocide and the country naturally became darker colored, why is it important to stay "white"?
Who is white???? Me and happy to be white. I sure prefer white women-or a mixture of white and Asian. Love the different shades of white, the color of their hair and eyes, slim pretty figures and overall sensualism.
30 years ago, in college, they were teaching this exact same thing, from the 70s on. Students read victim narratives about the sterotypes that other races had of whites. That was what education was. We had to read not just black, but various Asians, and hispanics, too, and how negative white was for them. So I guess it is not a social construct to them, obviously. They made pple question if they were "white" to take away identity, why they call it "identity politics" taking away ID.
Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
"..............RACIAL GROUP............" (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Depriving a racial group of it`s racial identity is an act of genocide!
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
It's just pattern recognition. If you'd have to point out a white guy from group of people consisting from just one white guy, and rest black guys, the color of the skin is in all likelihood the most striking physical quality to point him out from. Even if he's not like über-albino, but has the fairest skin of the bunch, everyone knows who's the one referred to.
ALL light/ whiteskinned, mixed, non-black races, including the mulatto, biracial and creole are caucasoid jentiles, theres NO such thing as a ''white'' race , the caucasoid race is a pre-mixed seed, their mixed at their roots/ origins, light /whiteskin, blonde/ ginger hair or biracial-type hair and green/blue eyes are all the result of miscegenation, thats what a jentile is.
From my observations, most people in the U.S. refer only Scandanavian types as 'Whites'. Many people (usually Nordicist) do not consider Spanish, Greek, Italians, Portuguese, etc. as 'White'.
White = Northern European -- At least that's how it is in the U.S.
@belvedere954 It actually makes sense, Southern Europeans while still showing very visible evidence of "Nordic" ancestry - they still have a presence of non-white blood in their identity. If they were simply white, then it wouldn't even be a matter of discussion. Italians are not white - at least we are not "full".
You just proved my point - You don't have to be 'Nordic' (e.g., blonde hair, blue eyes) to be considered White. Just because one has dark hair or olive/tan skin, doesn't set them as being non-White (blatant oxymoron). The fact remains, Mediterraneans are White, but just a different group of Europeans.
Just look at the Filipinos and Chinese, you can clearly see their differences, but at the end of the day their both Asian.
@gre68 I'm turned off by the tendency to identify oneself with a minority despite being mostly "white." It brings to mind the "one-drop" rule that once exercised by American legal institutions to discriminate against anyone with "one drop" of African blood in them.
@gre68 Yeah, what I'm saying is that the idea that a person can be only 1/4 black but still considered 100% black within society reminds me of the one-drop rule. I consider it a bad effect. However some people that consider themselves black may not see it that way.
The best thing to do is ask a person in which group they place themselves. The point of this video is then to ask why they place themselves within said group.
@flubno There's an element of genetic dominance that applies to dark hair, eyes, and skin color, but in truth it's obvious when a person's background is even mixed a little. It's so unlikely to meet anyone with entirely "ancient dark DNA" as you say, that we've come to group people of varied heredity as a single group.
It's scientifically unfounded, socially unnecessary and ethically wrong.
@CheezInspector If you look like you have black in you, your considered black, even if you have light skin. Alot of people who are considered half breads are actually 90% white.
@flubno, first, you're wrong. Most ppl who are 1/4 Black don't get recognized as Black. They completely fly under society's radar. Secondly, even if someone who is biracial looks Black, if that person is also White, then the person is genetically both. Genetic facts win, not silly social constructs that some in this society have. Finally, it's not "half breads" you half wit. The derogatory phrase you were scrambling for was "half breeds" and it shows a lack of class to use such a term.
@CheezInspector Most people like Holly Berry are comsidered half breeds, even though she's 90% white. Her darky DNA is dominate over honkey DNA. That's a gentic fact , dummy ! You have a silly social construct about being to politcally correct, and ingoring the wierd truth because it's slightly unpleasent.
@flubno, first, "Holly Berry" is a plant that adorns doors at Christmas time, you dolt. Secondly, if you're trying to inarticulately refer to Halle Berry, provide a citation to back your (ignorant) claim that she's "90% White". If you're going to use the word "genetic" in a sentence, first understand the basics of genetic science (which you clearly don't). You clearly don't know what a "social construct" is and you can't even spell "politically" or "weird" correctly. Only on Youtube hahaha.
@flubno, I see you couldn't back up your ridiculous assertions with citations (of course you couldn't, you liar). It's not "thru", it's "through" and it's not "oun lies", you absolute idiot, it's "own lies". Learn how to spell and think. God what a stupid person LOL
@CheezInspector So you are saying gentic dominance of dark skinned people is a lie ? Ok, than than white people have dominate dna , no they don't. You choose to be politically correct rather than scientific. Where did you learn this bullshit, in some social construct. If you are going to ingnore the truth and call people stupid who bring it up, then there no point talking to you. How can you be so blind , it usually takes some thing like religious indoctronation to make a person that dumb.
@flubno, yes genetic (with a middle "e") of dark skinned people (whatever that means means; I think you mean of African heritage) is a lie. And it's a total myth that White people have "dominant DNA". Would you please educate yourself - really actually educate yourself - about genetic science? You really are being ignorant. You've been asked to provide evidence for all your silly memes and have already failed. So just educate yourself. Please.
@flubno, " ... must have went to collage"? First, horrible grammar. It's "must have gone ... ". Secondly, a "collage" is a work of art made from an assemblage of various visual designs. You meant "college", you moron. Holy Christ.
cont- to which I respond, "Is George Prescott Bush (Jeb's son) a 'brown person'?" Is Mel Martinez a "brown person"? Are these people nonwhite? Here we see a profoundly different expression of ethnicity and intersection of ethnicity and caste. The truth is that both George Prescott Bush and Mel Martinez are white, they are ethnic Spanish despite their actual countries of birth. Then we have Americans with 1/8th or less (or none at all) American Indian ancestry identifying as Indian. What a mess.
cont - brouhaha claiming that Lucia Whalen was "not a white woman" based on the fact that Lucia has a Portugese grandfather. Yes, we know that there is considerable Arabic (also Caucasian) and probably Moorish (probably Arabic) and perhaps a touch of Negro which darkens the beautiful Portuguese people, but until last week anyway, they were considered Caucasian , ie white. The Mexica activists like to threaten the white population with a projected minority status in 40 years.. cont-
I think you're a bit off in the premise is it's consistent with the notion of white as the norm that the concept of white crashes the party in the 80's. What I see, is a sort of psychological warfare coming from the other direction, which is to narrow the definition of Caucasian to a tiny subset of its clinical definition. This is being done by some seriously angry nonwhite people and a handful of white comrades. The most ridiculous example of this, was Wendy Whathername in the Henry Gates cont-
The issue is not as simple and flat as you made it see and shows ignorance in the topic.
I hope you have a background in global genetics, as you called another person an idiot, if not, you're dress up as facts your feelings and perceptions.
I've studied Anthropological Molecular Genetics in college and is agreed that the identifiable genetic "islands" in human race do not concur with our social standards of what a "race" is, regardless of the observable phenotypes.
Agreed race is has real as the air even if it can not be seen oxygen is still there. No one may never see DNA chains directly but Technology and Instruments can detect them. They show genetic differences anthropology and other differences amongst the root races.
You're confusing things. How we socially construct race is based on phenotypes, yes. While those phenotypes do biologically exist, the way that we group them into racial categories is PURELY social.
If racial groupings where biological, then racial groupings would be the same throughout cultures across the world. But this is not the case BECAUSE race only exists socially.
i always hate it when you are asking for origins people from latin america will say the country of where there family has come from like that girl said mexican that is as dumb if those other people would have just said american LOL come on if you are white and from latin america find out your damn european country of origin the only people who have origins from the americas are the native peoples.
I've always wondered if white people think about race in the way that minorities often have to: for example.."If I do/eat/listen/wear/etc this or that, this might reflective negatively on me or make me fit in a stereotype in this other person's eyes"
That's a good question. For me, those feelings don't come often. It's not often that I'm in situations where white people are uncommon, and I think being "out-numbered" is what triggers those feelings. However, culture may be much more important than race, here. For most of my friends (non-white included) race is mostly a joke, but if someone does not understand my intentions, I'll want to avoid highlighting our differences.
This video doesn't tackle the definition of race, which is important. One of my parents is Latin American, making me half, but everyone I know considers me white because from my appearance, you wouldn't guess any different. I had a friend when I was younger that was Mexican, spoke Spanish better than he did English, but looked white. His friends called him "Gringo," a slur for Anglo. So does race have to do with your genetics or even your culture? Maybe it's as shallow as only skin color.
We look at a group and based on their looks and seemingly "odd" behavior, we make judgments about them.
Thus, race is a strictly a social construct based on physical characteristics, but has no basis in biological science.
I hope that made since.
So the reason everyone considers you white is b/c you look white. It's not too much about what you are biologically, but what you are perceived to be by the larger culture....which in turn actually ignores your own orginate/ancestorial culture.
I can empathize with your friends plight. Im a pasty mid-eastern girl who freckles and sunburns. My youngest sister looks like a tribeswoman from Lawrence of Arabia. Go figure. The same behavior in me is interpreted as ethnic by my American friends, and deemed Western by my mid-eastern family. Id agree that it essentially comes down to culture, but Id probably add that perception adds shades to everything. People mostly see what they want - or expect - to see
Latin American is not a tag for race. Your friend could have had Spanish, Portuguese, or any other European ancestry. There's this belief in the US that Latin American is a race, or worse even, that countries are races, like "You look Puerto Rican", or "You look Mexican". I really do not understand why, probably in general the US people don't know about the history of Latin America.
@kojakzeed If not Latin American, would you prefer a specific term for each combination of European and indigenous blood throughout the Americas? I don't see the point in continuing semantic arguments over race.
My belief is that no race can be well defined and frankly, I don't understand why one would try to define ones race except to separate oneself from others, which is unnecessary and dangerous.
Even DNA is no basis for race because it still fails to place racially mixed individuals.
Great video idea, BTW. Just remember that this is not Europe. We are not living in a natural extension of Europe. This land was stolen through genocide and extreme violence. Yeah, I know, a total downer. Sometimes the truth just sucks.
From the excellent book "White Reign"...Here is the "White Stereotype": White people are the only people who can think of themselves as "normal", non-ethnic, non-racial, The Yardstick of Humanity. White people never have to be considered "native" or "indigenous." They just are because they say so and have seized other peoples' lands and resources in order to finance this fantasy. A better term is European, or ethnic Europeans.
@TheMexicaMovement But not all whites are European. White extends (according to the US government) to North Africans and Middle Easterners. While you make good points, and I curious how much of this view is shaped by new world colonial mentalities. Perhaps a European/non-western hemisphere resident can comment?
i couldnt even start to address the amount of ignorance in the comments on this page. its just too much! but heres 2 questions. if you think anti racist means anti white and the tactic is genetic genocide, are these anti racist forcing you to have sex? my second question is, if there were genetic genocide and the country naturally became darker colored, why is it important to stay "white"?
YoungTon22 5 months ago
Who is white???? Me and happy to be white. I sure prefer white women-or a mixture of white and Asian. Love the different shades of white, the color of their hair and eyes, slim pretty figures and overall sensualism.
lekkerfiss3 7 months ago
Who is white? The real question what is white? They are stinking pieces of whiteshit.
jackthenigger 7 months ago
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Anti-Racist is a codeword for Anti-White.
4MyNation 8 months ago
White, in it's simplest definition is the equivalent of the word 'Aryan'.
Akarov88 8 months ago
30 years ago, in college, they were teaching this exact same thing, from the 70s on. Students read victim narratives about the sterotypes that other races had of whites. That was what education was. We had to read not just black, but various Asians, and hispanics, too, and how negative white was for them. So I guess it is not a social construct to them, obviously. They made pple question if they were "white" to take away identity, why they call it "identity politics" taking away ID.
westchesterny 8 months ago 2
@Miauriceful
For how much longer will my fellow white citizens put up with you sick anti-white fools telling them they don`t even exist?
Political Correctness is an anti-white religion that demands that white people sacrifice their racial group to the "diversity" God.
Your thinking is:"There`s no white people,so we can`t be guilty of advocating their genocide"
You may SAY you are anti-racist. What you obviously ARE is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
dungeoncrawler55 8 months ago 5
- Define white.
Me. I am white.
Native / indigenous European
A native European like me.
Define Native American.
– What is a white country?
A country founded by Native Europeans.
A country you anti-whites insist needs diversity.
AlexanderDina 8 months ago 5
How to identify if someone is anti-white and is inciting white? genocide:
1) they deny there is such a thing as white people or white countries.
2) they scream about how evil white people are.
3) they justify white genocide using one of a thousand different reasons.
4) they wish for white genocide/celebrate it.
5) they say pro whites should not be allowed to speak, because we are "evil".
AlexanderDina 8 months ago 2
"African-American studies" celebrates blacks
"Asian-American studies" celebrates asians
"Chicano studies" celebrates hispanics
"Whiteness studies" denies that white people even EXIST, and that these white people (who don't exist) have unearned "white privilege"
"Anti-racism" is just a code word for anti-WHITE
JustaSocialConstruct 8 months ago 26
@Miauriceful
The only people anti-whites say don't exist, are white people. Yet strangely anti-whites also blame white people for all that is evil in this world.
And for a non-existent people, anti-whites sure know what a "white" country is:
A “white” country is any country, anti-whites >insist< has an obligation, to import huge numbers of third world immigrants.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
AlexanderDina 8 months ago 22
@AlexanderDina You are 1--% correct. Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white...everyone knows that.
PeteHappee 8 months ago 3
Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
"..............RACIAL GROUP............" (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Depriving a racial group of it`s racial identity is an act of genocide!
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
dungeoncrawler55 8 months ago 3
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Who's White? Ask the neo-Marxists quangos that practice 'affirmative action' or 'positive discrimination'
They don't have any difficulty working that one out...
They say they are 'anti-racist'. What they ARE is anti-White.
Anti-racist is a CODE WORD for anti-White - lesson 1 for the White libtard.
MarkMuses 8 months ago 3
White is a nonsense, nobody is really "white", evryone had a different degree of whitness.
The true term is "European" or "Caucasoid" if you' re prefer the second.
Miauriceful 9 months ago
It's just pattern recognition. If you'd have to point out a white guy from group of people consisting from just one white guy, and rest black guys, the color of the skin is in all likelihood the most striking physical quality to point him out from. Even if he's not like über-albino, but has the fairest skin of the bunch, everyone knows who's the one referred to.
Mornys 9 months ago
ALL light/ whiteskinned, mixed, non-black races, including the mulatto, biracial and creole are caucasoid jentiles, theres NO such thing as a ''white'' race , the caucasoid race is a pre-mixed seed, their mixed at their roots/ origins, light /whiteskin, blonde/ ginger hair or biracial-type hair and green/blue eyes are all the result of miscegenation, thats what a jentile is.
july95211 10 months ago
From my observations, most people in the U.S. refer only Scandanavian types as 'Whites'. Many people (usually Nordicist) do not consider Spanish, Greek, Italians, Portuguese, etc. as 'White'.
White = Northern European -- At least that's how it is in the U.S.
belvedere954 11 months ago
@belvedere954 It actually makes sense, Southern Europeans while still showing very visible evidence of "Nordic" ancestry - they still have a presence of non-white blood in their identity. If they were simply white, then it wouldn't even be a matter of discussion. Italians are not white - at least we are not "full".
Lugial1494 11 months ago
@Lugial1494
You just proved my point - You don't have to be 'Nordic' (e.g., blonde hair, blue eyes) to be considered White. Just because one has dark hair or olive/tan skin, doesn't set them as being non-White (blatant oxymoron). The fact remains, Mediterraneans are White, but just a different group of Europeans.
Just look at the Filipinos and Chinese, you can clearly see their differences, but at the end of the day their both Asian.
belvedere954 11 months ago
Are Middle Eastern people white? Are North Africans white? I though that only people of European descent were considered white.
Thedarksecret1 1 year ago
Adolph Hitler had Jewish and heritige from North Africa.
arklat 1 year ago
White FTW
YetAnthony 1 year ago
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gre68 1 year ago
@gre68 I'm turned off by the tendency to identify oneself with a minority despite being mostly "white." It brings to mind the "one-drop" rule that once exercised by American legal institutions to discriminate against anyone with "one drop" of African blood in them.
Rockytastic 1 year ago
@Rockytastic its a fact..he is 3/4 white and 1/4 black. it is not what he wants, it is what he IS.
gre68 1 year ago
@gre68 Yeah, what I'm saying is that the idea that a person can be only 1/4 black but still considered 100% black within society reminds me of the one-drop rule. I consider it a bad effect. However some people that consider themselves black may not see it that way.
The best thing to do is ask a person in which group they place themselves. The point of this video is then to ask why they place themselves within said group.
Rockytastic 1 year ago
@Rockytastic O yes, of coarse we now look at it thru "white glasses" My friend was born and raised in a white community and considers himself white.
gre68 1 year ago
@Rockytastic For some reason ancient dark DNA seems to over ride newer white DNA. So if some one is 1/4 black , they still look very black.
flubno 1 year ago
@flubno There's an element of genetic dominance that applies to dark hair, eyes, and skin color, but in truth it's obvious when a person's background is even mixed a little. It's so unlikely to meet anyone with entirely "ancient dark DNA" as you say, that we've come to group people of varied heredity as a single group.
It's scientifically unfounded, socially unnecessary and ethically wrong.
Rockytastic 1 year ago
@flubno, what the Hell are you talking about LOL. Most 1/4 Black people easily get confused as mono-racially White.
CheezInspector 1 year ago
@CheezInspector If you look like you have black in you, your considered black, even if you have light skin. Alot of people who are considered half breads are actually 90% white.
flubno 1 year ago
@flubno, first, you're wrong. Most ppl who are 1/4 Black don't get recognized as Black. They completely fly under society's radar. Secondly, even if someone who is biracial looks Black, if that person is also White, then the person is genetically both. Genetic facts win, not silly social constructs that some in this society have. Finally, it's not "half breads" you half wit. The derogatory phrase you were scrambling for was "half breeds" and it shows a lack of class to use such a term.
CheezInspector 1 year ago
@CheezInspector Most people like Holly Berry are comsidered half breeds, even though she's 90% white. Her darky DNA is dominate over honkey DNA. That's a gentic fact , dummy ! You have a silly social construct about being to politcally correct, and ingoring the wierd truth because it's slightly unpleasent.
flubno 1 year ago
@flubno, first, "Holly Berry" is a plant that adorns doors at Christmas time, you dolt. Secondly, if you're trying to inarticulately refer to Halle Berry, provide a citation to back your (ignorant) claim that she's "90% White". If you're going to use the word "genetic" in a sentence, first understand the basics of genetic science (which you clearly don't). You clearly don't know what a "social construct" is and you can't even spell "politically" or "weird" correctly. Only on Youtube hahaha.
CheezInspector 1 year ago
@CheezInspector You cant see the forest thru the trees. Go on and believe your oun lies. If that's the only way you can get over in life.
flubno 1 year ago
@flubno, I see you couldn't back up your ridiculous assertions with citations (of course you couldn't, you liar). It's not "thru", it's "through" and it's not "oun lies", you absolute idiot, it's "own lies". Learn how to spell and think. God what a stupid person LOL
CheezInspector 1 year ago
@CheezInspector So you are saying gentic dominance of dark skinned people is a lie ? Ok, than than white people have dominate dna , no they don't. You choose to be politically correct rather than scientific. Where did you learn this bullshit, in some social construct. If you are going to ingnore the truth and call people stupid who bring it up, then there no point talking to you. How can you be so blind , it usually takes some thing like religious indoctronation to make a person that dumb.
flubno 1 year ago
@flubno, yes genetic (with a middle "e") of dark skinned people (whatever that means means; I think you mean of African heritage) is a lie. And it's a total myth that White people have "dominant DNA". Would you please educate yourself - really actually educate yourself - about genetic science? You really are being ignorant. You've been asked to provide evidence for all your silly memes and have already failed. So just educate yourself. Please.
CheezInspector 1 year ago
@CheezInspector Your the one with the silly memes. I was mocking you . I can see you must have went to collage at wall mart.
flubno 1 year ago
@flubno, " ... must have went to collage"? First, horrible grammar. It's "must have gone ... ". Secondly, a "collage" is a work of art made from an assemblage of various visual designs. You meant "college", you moron. Holy Christ.
CheezInspector 1 year ago
@flubno, and it's "Walmart", not "wall mart". You're the gift that keeps on giving. Hope you keep responding.
CheezInspector 1 year ago
Another self-loathing leftist herd animal.
AnalgesicBalm 1 year ago
cont- to which I respond, "Is George Prescott Bush (Jeb's son) a 'brown person'?" Is Mel Martinez a "brown person"? Are these people nonwhite? Here we see a profoundly different expression of ethnicity and intersection of ethnicity and caste. The truth is that both George Prescott Bush and Mel Martinez are white, they are ethnic Spanish despite their actual countries of birth. Then we have Americans with 1/8th or less (or none at all) American Indian ancestry identifying as Indian. What a mess.
Gulfporter 1 year ago
cont - brouhaha claiming that Lucia Whalen was "not a white woman" based on the fact that Lucia has a Portugese grandfather. Yes, we know that there is considerable Arabic (also Caucasian) and probably Moorish (probably Arabic) and perhaps a touch of Negro which darkens the beautiful Portuguese people, but until last week anyway, they were considered Caucasian , ie white. The Mexica activists like to threaten the white population with a projected minority status in 40 years.. cont-
Gulfporter 1 year ago
I think you're a bit off in the premise is it's consistent with the notion of white as the norm that the concept of white crashes the party in the 80's. What I see, is a sort of psychological warfare coming from the other direction, which is to narrow the definition of Caucasian to a tiny subset of its clinical definition. This is being done by some seriously angry nonwhite people and a handful of white comrades. The most ridiculous example of this, was Wendy Whathername in the Henry Gates cont-
Gulfporter 1 year ago
Yes, MAGIC!
EuropeanDeathSpasm 2 years ago
yes magic continues to make the whites re-appear time after time on this earth, not whites dating whites no the latter is bullshit...lol
IrianWarriorWithin 2 years ago
The issue is not as simple and flat as you made it see and shows ignorance in the topic.
I hope you have a background in global genetics, as you called another person an idiot, if not, you're dress up as facts your feelings and perceptions.
I've studied Anthropological Molecular Genetics in college and is agreed that the identifiable genetic "islands" in human race do not concur with our social standards of what a "race" is, regardless of the observable phenotypes.
Raphaelus13 2 years ago
Race has been proven by biology, genetics etc.
Google: 12 % of the DNA Differs Amongst Human Races and Populations
The scientific truth is silenced by liberals and leftists.
Races vary in DNA up to 12% not 0.1%.
We are nothing alike and have different blood groups,DNA...
AncientPlatonist 2 years ago
Agreed race is has real as the air even if it can not be seen oxygen is still there. No one may never see DNA chains directly but Technology and Instruments can detect them. They show genetic differences anthropology and other differences amongst the root races.
ImperivmAwaites 2 years ago
Are you sure its 12 %? I agree races are different, but isn't 12 % much? i readed somewhere we shared like 90 % of DNA with monkeys.
Lalmix 2 years ago
You're confusing things. How we socially construct race is based on phenotypes, yes. While those phenotypes do biologically exist, the way that we group them into racial categories is PURELY social.
If racial groupings where biological, then racial groupings would be the same throughout cultures across the world. But this is not the case BECAUSE race only exists socially.
Roxie21 2 years ago
no white american ever says they are english or even part english even if there surname is
....even when they speak it
Applebaum 2 years ago 2
ha.. interesting.
Raphaelus13 2 years ago
i always hate it when you are asking for origins people from latin america will say the country of where there family has come from like that girl said mexican that is as dumb if those other people would have just said american LOL come on if you are white and from latin america find out your damn european country of origin the only people who have origins from the americas are the native peoples.
iwillpissinyourmouth 2 years ago
persains/afghans/iranians are from the aryan race so there caucasian or white not to sure but they are one of them for shure
afggurl911 2 years ago
SENSE, "sense". I hope that made "sense"! Gosh.
Roxie21 3 years ago
Good stuff. I'd be interested seeing more.
I've always wondered if white people think about race in the way that minorities often have to: for example.."If I do/eat/listen/wear/etc this or that, this might reflective negatively on me or make me fit in a stereotype in this other person's eyes"
Do white ppl worry about that?
Roxie21 3 years ago
That's a good question. For me, those feelings don't come often. It's not often that I'm in situations where white people are uncommon, and I think being "out-numbered" is what triggers those feelings. However, culture may be much more important than race, here. For most of my friends (non-white included) race is mostly a joke, but if someone does not understand my intentions, I'll want to avoid highlighting our differences.
Rockytastic 3 years ago
This video doesn't tackle the definition of race, which is important. One of my parents is Latin American, making me half, but everyone I know considers me white because from my appearance, you wouldn't guess any different. I had a friend when I was younger that was Mexican, spoke Spanish better than he did English, but looked white. His friends called him "Gringo," a slur for Anglo. So does race have to do with your genetics or even your culture? Maybe it's as shallow as only skin color.
Rockytastic 3 years ago
There are two things (among many others) to keep in mind when trying to pin down the question "what is race?"
Firstly, there is no BIOLOGICAL nor SCIENTIFIC truth to race nor racial stereotypes.
What this means is that race is a social construction, created by society BASED on physical expression of genetics or phenotypes.
It is nothing within in the body nor the DNA. It is in the culture.
Roxie21 3 years ago
We look at a group and based on their looks and seemingly "odd" behavior, we make judgments about them.
Thus, race is a strictly a social construct based on physical characteristics, but has no basis in biological science.
I hope that made since.
So the reason everyone considers you white is b/c you look white. It's not too much about what you are biologically, but what you are perceived to be by the larger culture....which in turn actually ignores your own orginate/ancestorial culture.
Roxie21 3 years ago
I can empathize with your friends plight. Im a pasty mid-eastern girl who freckles and sunburns. My youngest sister looks like a tribeswoman from Lawrence of Arabia. Go figure. The same behavior in me is interpreted as ethnic by my American friends, and deemed Western by my mid-eastern family. Id agree that it essentially comes down to culture, but Id probably add that perception adds shades to everything. People mostly see what they want - or expect - to see
MissSomayeh 3 years ago
Latin American is not a tag for race. Your friend could have had Spanish, Portuguese, or any other European ancestry. There's this belief in the US that Latin American is a race, or worse even, that countries are races, like "You look Puerto Rican", or "You look Mexican". I really do not understand why, probably in general the US people don't know about the history of Latin America.
kojakzeed 2 years ago 3
@kojakzeed If not Latin American, would you prefer a specific term for each combination of European and indigenous blood throughout the Americas? I don't see the point in continuing semantic arguments over race.
My belief is that no race can be well defined and frankly, I don't understand why one would try to define ones race except to separate oneself from others, which is unnecessary and dangerous.
Even DNA is no basis for race because it still fails to place racially mixed individuals.
Rockytastic 1 year ago
THE DUDE IN THE GOGLES LOOKS RETARDED!
crazyjakecuch 3 years ago
@crazyjakecuch You're a real straight shooter, kid.
Rockytastic 1 year ago
i like the doc but should souther Italians Portuguese people Greek Spanish Armenian be consider white
malcolmlhj14 3 years ago
Great video idea, BTW. Just remember that this is not Europe. We are not living in a natural extension of Europe. This land was stolen through genocide and extreme violence. Yeah, I know, a total downer. Sometimes the truth just sucks.
TheMexicaMovement 3 years ago
From the excellent book "White Reign"...Here is the "White Stereotype": White people are the only people who can think of themselves as "normal", non-ethnic, non-racial, The Yardstick of Humanity. White people never have to be considered "native" or "indigenous." They just are because they say so and have seized other peoples' lands and resources in order to finance this fantasy. A better term is European, or ethnic Europeans.
TheMexicaMovement 3 years ago 3
@TheMexicaMovement But not all whites are European. White extends (according to the US government) to North Africans and Middle Easterners. While you make good points, and I curious how much of this view is shaped by new world colonial mentalities. Perhaps a European/non-western hemisphere resident can comment?
KiraWei1 1 year ago