Why do some white people insist on not being white? "I'm not white, I'm Italian/Irish/French/etc." I think people in America should just be real and call themselves white, especially when most of them have no culture anymore. I'm mixed blood, with a white dad, and we find nothing wrong with it. So what's the deal?
2007-01-06 18:34:41 · 24 answers · asked by TC 91 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Sorry, I meant I think some of these people in America should just be real and call themselves white, the ones who do not have culture anymore
2007-01-06 18:43:54 · update #1
????...Aren't Italians, Irish, French, etc etc...white??? Are there really such stupid people in the US? It's obvious that depending on the environment you find yourself in, people use different words in order to define you: if your skin is white and you find yourself among all blacks, they'd refer to you as 'white' in order to make clear whom they're talking about; just like as if you're a black in a whites' environment they'd use the word 'black' to define you; in none of the two cases those words are use in a denigratory way! It's like if you're the only blonde in a group they'd refer to you as 'the blonde', just to identify you. I really can't see what the problem is, and I can't believe there are such silly people out there either!
2007-01-06 18:46:40 · answer #1 · answered by Love_my_Cornish_Knight❤️ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow... well I am an American and don't have a problem with being called white. It's when the other names that got thrown into the pot that ticks me off... like "cracker". Maybe the people that you are talking about feel the same way that I do about being called a cracker with being called white. But you know what I have culture... I am 3/4 Italian and 1/4 German; and we still do a lot of the "culture" things that my Grandfather did when he was a child in Italy. But I am American... 100%. And I think some people are just upset that they are not.
2007-01-07 02:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by Jenn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
white power to you then.
:)
I am umpteenth generation american mutt on moms side. michigan farmers they were, fathers side 5th gen irish. pretty simple. ethnically I dont know what the hell I am and dont care. I claim American. Perhaps this is a bad thing? I dont know I come from a military family so we wave flags at everything. And ya, after you have been in some places untouched by us you understand the virtue of this place and why you should love it and be thankful and give, and guide and pay attention to it and do what you can to maintain your liberties here.
But if you grew up here, born here, you can never understand until you go to these places and see for yourself what a beautiful country we come from.
sorry for going off track from skin color, but you see what I mean? Its the last of my personal considerations. dark skin turns me on, so maybe white is a thing thats going away? I swear I am not personally jaded by racial insecurity. I just have acquired taste. Just chase whatever you like, there is no wrong answer other than thinking there is an exclusively right one.
2007-01-07 02:37:50 · answer #3 · answered by jorluke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only people that have ever really insisted on being called white, are usually rednecks, skinheads and some Spaniards. I've never run into any educated Caucasian that lived by their "whiteness." Normal people have more going for them than just race. Anyone obsessed with it, needs to log-off, open a book and get a life.
2007-01-07 02:50:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, why should whites be lumped into one category? I think there is quite a difference in features (usually) between, say Italians and Irish. Some of us have managed to retain our culture by learning the native language and traditions of our countries. What's cool about mixed cultures is that it could give you more opportunities to learn about more cultures in depth.
2007-01-07 02:41:26 · answer #5 · answered by Tina 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What? There is a big difference between nationality, heritidge, and race, bud. I don't know many white people who "Insist on not being called white", I think you're just not asking the right question.
2007-01-07 02:36:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People are so quick to label each other and its easy to be called "white" without attempting to find out more about a person: where they come from; background stuff. Its just easy to label people and frankly, I don't like to be called "black," however, its a quick, easily way to be labeled and the status quo demands it. People do not enjoy being generalized and filed away into a convenient little category.
2007-01-07 02:49:09 · answer #7 · answered by volkgal 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
really ? I don't know what the hell you are even talking about. which planet do you live on where Americans deny being white because it cant possibly be earth. White Americans have never denied being white. Hell we got black people trying to be white in America. What? You don't
believe me? Just look at Michale Jackson. He's light bright and almost white.
2007-01-07 02:43:46 · answer #8 · answered by daizzddre 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as not having a culture...you can't
get away from it. You are what you are.
I'm Scottish, Irish, French and American Indian....White.
If we just have to have labels, why don't they put a box
on those forms that says mutt?? That's what most of us are.
2007-01-07 03:01:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people choose not to be identified by a color because they are much more than a box of crayons, pieces of construction paper or those color slabs at Home Depot that you use to match a color in your room. Just because your skin may be light in color does not define you as white. It just means that you have less melanin in your skin than someone with darker skin. Personally, I think that identification by skin color has gone out of style.
2007-01-07 02:43:04 · answer #10 · answered by Nique T 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋