Is it racist to say that white people's lineage is boring?

Question

Is it racist to say the lineage of white people is very very very boring because they all came from europe. These kids were giving family tree presentations in my class and it was so boring because they were all from europe. you're white i get it whatever anglosaxons. I mean there was this asian girl and this indian girl who presented and i was intrigued but the white kids were so boring. they tried to sound interesting by saying they were french and/or english but who the hell cares. then they tried to break out by saying they were a bit indian, but ***** please thats from the rapings.

Answer 1

lol, you think the rennaisance, medieval ages, dark ages, and the roman empire is boring? i sure dont, and i'm asian

Answer 2

Yes, it's racist. First of all, anglo-saxons are people from Great Britain, and then there are western and eastern and southern European countries, which are not anglo-saxon at all and which have totally different cultures. If you'd listened to these kids' presentations, you would have learned that.

Secondly, Asia and India are just other places that people's ancestors are from. Why is Asia or India a more interesting place for someone's great-grandmother to be from? Sounds like you're being racist in another way as well: classifying Asia as a more interesting place because it's "exotic". Let me tell you, Asians hate to be "exoticised" by people who know nothing about their backgrounds. Just pay attention in class from now on, and get over it.

Answer 3

Sort of. Why is the fact that all caucasians are from Europe boring, when you know that all Asians are from Asia? Same thing.

I think maybe you went into this class with a closed mind. Europe is a large place...it's not just one country. Every country has its own traditions, type of people, heritage, etc. and you probably would have been more interested if you had gone into it with an open mind.

On my dad's side of the family, all my ancestors are from England, and I'm a direct descendent of Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Does this make me boring just because I'm caucasian? What if I told you that one of my white ancestors raped many slaves and as a result of this, I have some black blood in me...does that make me more interesting?

Answer 4

That is your beliefs, but it is not as boring as you may think it is. My ancestors were knights and ladies. They fought in many wars, and they also wrote several books and plays. They invented things and made art that would make you say, "Wow, why couldn't I have that talent?" I have created some history of my own as well and so has my mother. My father left me for reasons I will not get into, but he was an engineer and therapist and was a very smart, yet lost man. His whole family did inspirational, yet stupid things. They have done things that you could never imagine. Boring? Better look at that again. Sure Whites did many things that were bad, but they did a lot of good too. Where would your life be without the airplane and instruments; most of those were invented by the white man. A lot of things in our civilization were from the white man. The toilet, a white man by the name of Crapper invented it. The theater, the stage, plays, architecture, all invented by the Greeks, who are white. Sure the Romans invaded a lot of lands, but they had many things and inventions too. They had the strongest military in the world. No one could have ever had beaten the Roman army. White history. Boring? No it is not.

Answer 5

Anybody's lineage can be boring to somebody, or very interested into somebody else. Just because you don't find Caucasians all that exciting doesn't mean anything other than to indicate your own prejudices against them. I know someone who's distantly related to Catherine the Great. I know someone else with the last name Medici who is directly related to the Florentine Medici's of the Renaissance (sadly, all that money went somewhere else, but she's still a fun gal to be around). If you've got interesting people in your bloodline, your lineage is interesting, even if you come from a long line of pig farmers or Mongolian yak herders or Egyptian brick makers, and it doesn't matter where they came from. It's what people do with their lives that's important in the scope of history, not the color of their skin or their nation of origin.

Answer 6

It's not racist, it's ignorant, although it could be racist depending on what your intentions are. My family tree includes Cherokee indian (no rape), Welsh, British, French, Dutch, and Irish. These are all very different cultures, very different places. And it's not like I know all my ancestors. I have dark skin for a white person, so who knows, maybe I have an African ancestor. If you know anything about culture, you'll know Europe is a big place, and it's not all the same. Also, in my lineage, I have a polygamist (great-great-great grandpa, of British descent), an ax murderer, and two presidents--this is that I know of. My great-grandfather was a personal acquaintance of Clyde (as in Bonnie and Clyde), and I have all his stories about that on tape. My great-grandmother tutored children for wooden nickles during the great depression and opened her own restaurant when her husband returned from WWII with an alcohol addiction. One of my ancestors was in Alabama, running the Indians out of town; another was an Indian, run out of town. This stuff is fascinating, every bit as exciting as ancestors who came to America as slaves. At least two of my ancestors came here as indentured servants, and they were Dutch, so everyone in their area thought they were godless, and shunned them. Quit being so narrowminded.

Answer 7

It might be more interesting in the future to go further in depth about how all us white kids go to where we are now.

My family came to America from Germany after the first World War. I find my family's story of immigration fascinating. You could try suggesting to the teacher making the lineage a little more in depth--why people chose to leave their homes, how they traveled, even any interesting facts that occurred during their trips. It'll make it a lot less boring.

Answer 8

Perhaps you will find this interesting. My grandfather came over here from Germany when he was 16 years old. Upon his arrival to the States he was immediately drafted into WWI and shipped back to Germany to fight against the Germans. What do you think about that? Pretty dang interesting, huh? And yes, it is a true story.

Answer 9

sort of. i'm white, and i think my lineage is super boring, i wish it was more exotic. the only thing i can tell people is that my great x 6 grandfather was a pioneer to australia. and my mum's family is the only family in the world with her last name because he changed it from a german name to make it sound more english, which didn't really succeed. that's kind of interesting.

Answer 10

You sound racist yourself. Anyways Europeans originally came from what is now Central Asia. That is one reason why Europeans, Indians, Iranians, ect,ect all speak a language rooted to one language, sanskrit.

I have relatives that are part native(the fact that you refer to them as indian shows you are ignorant and a moron) and they are that way from white relatives marrying natives.

Answer 11

Yeah, in my college each and all of the white females say they are not white even although they have blonde hair and hate one yet another whilst yet another white female calls them white, yet all of them hate white adult men. Its stupid yet that's the way society and pa way of existence created them, properly a minimum of right here in united states of america i do no longer understand approximately different international places.