How did the White race become the token for all other races to be like?

Question

Big homes, expensive cars, straight hair, status, class. This is how we've lived for centuries but now, all other races seem to want this also. Are they just catching up to us or do they really want to act like us? I'm proud to be a WHITE Person

Answer 1

"Big homes, expensive cars, straight hair, status, class."
----And exactly how do you know that all white people possess these things and that all others are striving for them?

And why is it that you think these things are "white"?
Possessions, straight hair, class, culture, etc...- These things are not "white" any more than they are "black" or anything else. They belong to no one.

By the way, those of you who are demeaning white people in response to this question are just as racist as the asker.

****It's easy wrote: "Everybody else wants to bring the
"white man" down TO THEIR LEVEL if they can't be like them."
----Who wants to bring the "white man" down? All other races? You are stereotyping. There are people of other races who do not like white people and make judgements based upon them being white, but entire races of people do not feel this way. Not everyone of any given group thinks, says, does, and feels the same.

"I am so sick of polictical correctness I wanna puke. If you want to be treated like white people, ACT LIKE WHITE PEOPLE otherwise shut up and go sit on your porch."
----I can't speak for everyone, but I could care less about political correctness. What concerns me is equal respect and treatment for all people. What is "acting white"? What do people need to do in order to live up to your code of "whiteness"? Personally, I am happy and content to act however I want- to be MYSELF. Why would people sit on their porch if they don't want to do whatever it is that you think is "acting white"? I like sitting on my porch, especially with a hot cup of coffee when it's cold out side. But it has nothing to do with anything other than me being myself.

"How come the Asians living in the U.S. aren't bitching and moaning about being treated inferior?"
----How do you know what Asians living in the U.S. are/aren't b*tching and moaning about?

"OH WAIT, I KNOW, BECAUSE THEY AREN'T COMMITING CRIMES AND ACTING LIKE DUMBASS'S. THEY GRADUATE FROM SCHOOL, GET JOBS AND DON'T BECOME BABY-DADDY'S"
----And exactly how do you know this? Statistics? Statistics are unreliable. Many crimes are never reported. And there are a great many false police reports filed, false convictions, etc... Statistics can be fudged to reflect positively or negatively in any direction. You also cannot fairly compare statistics of populations that differ in numbers.

"Yeah go ahead and give me a thumbs down all you bigots that pretend that you're so pc."
----We don't need your permission to give you a thumbs down. And you are a hypocrite to call anyone a bigot since you are, indeed, a bigot.

"How many of you 'whites' have blacks as true friends? How many of you 'blacks' have whites as actual friends. I'VE MADE MY POINT."
----I can't speak for anyone else other than myself (and my husband), and neither can you. I grew up in a black neighborhood. Most of my friends were/are black. I've always dated black guys. My husband is black. Before we got together, my husband dated females of several different races. He had friends who were black, white, and latino. He lived in neighborhoods that included all three. So what was your point? However, one need not have friends of all races, or experience other cultures, in order to desire equal respect and treatment for all people. To say otherwise is like saying that you have to have a companion animal (pet) in order to be against cruelty to non-humans. You're contradicting yourself, and I would think it to be rather amusing if this subject wasn't so serious.

Discovery wrote: "If we measured crimes, your "pure race" would win in total due to all of the crimes that they weren't charged for and acquitted for because killing people, burning up their churches, and raping little girls was okay, as long as you were white."
----I'll repeat part of my response to it's easy: Statistics are unreliable. Many crimes are never reported. And there are a great many false police reports filed, false convictions, etc... Statistics can be fudged to reflect positively or negatively in any direction. You also cannot fairly compare statistics of populations that differ in numbers.

"Are you referring to the level of being merciless murderers of innocent black children, women and men? Are you referring to killing and robbing innocent Indians of their land, are you referring to burning crosses in the yard of minorities, being the leaders of serial killers, serial rapists, pedophile. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the white race is not void of it's horrible history"
----I understand your frustration when you read responses given by people like it's easy. However, this constant bickering back and forth regarding who did what to whom gets us absolutely no where. Doing as such is nothing short of running around in circles. There is no end. In order to end racism, and other forms of prejudice, we must stop the blame game. We each have a choice to let our wounds heal and recognize that we are all human beings capable of both good and bad regardless of race, culture, religion, ability, etc...

"The white race is not the race to admire and look up to."
----RACE itself isn't something to admire or look up to. Race doesn't define a person or predetermine what/who a person will become.

"Have quickly do you forget that your race is responsible for countless atrocities that the world has seen globally, stemming from your "elite, innocent, pure" race. You are obviously delusional and have the inability to see clearly. Try again, your point makes absolutely no sense."
----Name one race in which people have not committed atrocities. I doubt that you would be able to do so. People of all races are capable of both positive and negative behavior. So what purpose is served by pointing out the positive or negative behavior of people within any given race? None! The fact that people of all races are capable of both positive and negative behavior is one of the very reasons why this argument cannot be won. For every positive or negative thing you mention about one race, someone else can mention a positive or negative thing about another race. And it's all irrelevant since race has nothing to do with those positives and negatives. Race doesn't predetermine anything. The individual is who matters, and the individual should be the focus.

****It's easy wrote: "TO ANO KISS MY ***"
----I'll pass. Ditto on what I've already said regarding statistics.

Answer 2

Why do white people always think so one wants to be like them?

I think it's only you fostering that idea you head. You people are always on here asking why other races can't be like the white man. maybe it's because you have nothing, people would want to be. so many of you, just can't stand it when people wish to be different from you. so you attempt to demoralise the person's culture.

I don't need your wealth, I have my own. I don't your status, It's nothing, but if you want to be technical I have that too. I have a porsche, I have a maybach, I have 4 homes and yes Saint Tropez, is nice but I perfer Switzerland. I find it funny that you can compose a question, like this, talking about how rich your race is, but you're forgetting middle class families that barely scrape by...hell you're probably broke yourself, in that case I shouldn't even bring up the Maybach, because your probably never driven or rode in one and probably never will!

I don't need your straight hair, I like my curly jet black long hair better and I can do much more then a ponytail and a bun. and my man don't have a problem running his hands through it either, so you can ditch the nappy head and weave notion

You need help, Never in a million years will I ever want to be like you or your people. I have it all, but I didn't have to change the rich tone of my skin, nor did I have to lower myself to others standards. I didn't sell my soul or pride to live the good life and of all I relise money makes or breaks family and friends and it's temporary.

I guess I'm the real winner. money, cars, clothes are not whites alone, so if anyone have those things it doesn't mean they want to be white, it means they want live good.If only you knew people beyond tired with your antics. So why don't you take your superiority and your friend's crime statistics and get lost.

Answer 3

The advantaged in being multi or bi-racial is genetic certainly and in a social point, to procure in the factor of the two worlds. i'm uncertain yet if people did give up to conform yet for specific the full specie could face a clean mutation based circumstances. Our ancestral, human sapiens, did mixture alot around the area, their ancestral too. yet returned in the time, they on no account could comprehend that they could look like adriana lima, wesley snipes or lindsay loran or jake chan.. perchance the people nevertheless did no longer end to conform and a million million years from now we could have an entire different visual allure and organic and organic function.

Answer 4

That's nice and i'm proud to be the sexy azz black chick that's taking all the rich, hot white boys away from you. Ha!

But honestly, I KNOW rich people. I doubt you are. You may THINK you are because you drive a 2007 SOMETHING. But unless it's a Bentley, don't flatter yourself. Ever heard of leases? Hell, I could lease a Beamer no problem. And big houses? Ever heard of foreclosures? Yea, you can buy a million dollar mansion, but let's see if you can keep up with those payments. Because if the current state of the housing industry is any indication, the wealthy are having just as hard a time keeping up with their mortgages because they're so concerned with keeping up appearances.

Luckily I don't need a Bentley. I've got a Bentley face, body and...OK...a Corvette brain..So, i'm totally fine and fabulous!

Answer 5

Im not sure that i would go to the "extreme" as to say ALL other races want to be like you. Thats pretty bold to say the white race is the "token" for ALL races.If you go to Japan, you wont find the Japanese driving in big hummers, and living in tricked out mansions.America has thrived off of putting people into groups to separate them from others.Now many races in America see white people living that lifestyle of fortune and want it for themselves.But only in America will you find people trying to get the most expensive, the biggest, the most in things.I'm happy that your proud to be who you are, i just hope you dont see yourself as being better than anyone else because of the color of your skin.

Answer 6

*** To it's easy***

If we measured crimes, your "pure race" would win in total due to all of the crimes that they weren't charged for and acquitted for because killing people, burning up their churches, and raping little girls was okay, as long as you were white.

Are you referring to the level of being merciless murderers of innocent black children, women and men? Are you referring to killing and robbing innocent Indians of their land, are you referring to burning crosses in the yard of minorities, being the leaders of serial killers, serial rapists, pedophile. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the white race is not void of it's horrible history. The white race is not the race to admire and look up to. How quickly do you forget that your race is responsible for countless atrocities that the world has seen globally, stemming from your "elite, innocent, pure" race. You are obviously delusional and have the inability to see clearly. Try again, your point makes absolutely no sense. LOL

You sure have alot to be proud of.*** WHITE POWER ***

Answer 7

Wow, what's there to be proud about being "white"? That means nothing except a catch all for a bunch of Europeans. Find something interesting to identify with.

Answer 8

Historically speaking:

Would you rather be the oppressed, or the oppressor?

Would you rather be a slave, or a slave owner?

Would you rather be lynched, or do the lynching?

Would you rather be outside elections, or be able to vote?

Would you rather be denied education, or educated?

Would you rather be denied property rights, or own property?

Would you rather be refused entry, or given entrance?

Would you rather be stand on the bus, or be seated?

I think the answer you're looking for is in the answer to those questions. It's not that minorities want to be white, it's that they want to be equal.

Answer 9

because white people are percieved as the ones who control america some of the other races strive to be like white people to be accpeted into the American culture

Answer 10

Everybody else wants to bring the
"white man" down TO THEIR LEVEL if they can't be like them.

I am so sick of polictical correctness I wanna puke. If you want to be treated like white people, ACT LIKE WHITE PEOPLE otherwise shut up and go sit on your porch.
How come the Asians living in the U.S. aren't bitching and moaning about being treated inferior? OH WAIT, I KNOW, BECAUSE THEY AREN'T COMMITING CRIMES AND ACTING LIKE DUMBASS'S. THEY GRADUATE FROM SCHOOL, GET JOBS AND DON'T BECOME BABY-DADDY'S.

Yeah go ahead and give me a thumbs down all you bigots that pretend that you're so pc. How many of you 'whites' have blacks as true friends? How many of you 'blacks' have whites as actual friends. I'VE MADE MY POINT.

TO DISCOVER; IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE WHITE MANN BRINGING YOUR BLACK RELATIVES OVER, YOU AND ALL OTHER BLACKS WOULD BE IN AFRICA STARVING. YOUR WELCOME

TO ANO
KISS MY A$$

HERE IS A STAT FOR YA
"More than 6 in 10 persons in local jails in 2002 were racial or ethnic minorities, unchanged from 1996.
An estimated 40% were black; 19%, Hispanic, 1% American Indian; 1% Asian; and 3% of more than one race/ethnicity." Bureau of Justice Statistics
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

Answer 11

Yawn.