Fight the Whiteness

I have come to despise the term "white". It takes people who come from widely disparate ethnic backgrounds and lumps them into one group.

While it is true that we share a common language and culture, but the smashing of different ethnicity's into a homogenized category. The destruction of ethnic identities is an issue that we as a nation should discuss.American is a nationality, not an ethnicity.

African-Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos, have all fought to maintain their heritage with varying levels of success.That is an example that people with European heritage should follow.

I don't mean in the sense of "white pride" crap.--that is racist garbage--but more as a celebration of the culture of your roots.Italians come from the Boot that gave the world Roman Law, pasta, and the Renaissance. The Germans gave us Beethoven, Mercedes, and Blitzkrieg.The British gave us the Shakespeare, The Beatles, and the Wooded Walls of the Royal Navy. Why shouldn't people who originate from those lands celebrate those cultures?


There is something appealing about exploring your past. How you got here and why. Seeing where you came from in the old country can give you an appreciation of your ancestors and a firmer grasp of the values and beliefs that have been passed down to you. To know your past is to know yourself.

We have as a country decided to categorize people by applying simplistic labels to them.But it doesn't really work. How do you classify someone who is black, but speaks Spanish and is a product of Hispanic culture? How do you classify a person whose father is black and mother is white?How do you label someone with Asian and Asian Indian. They clearly are two separated ethnicity's, but are placed in the same category.

Like Europeans, Asians face a enforced homogenization. Someone of Chinese descent is legally classified as being of the same stripe of someone of Vietnamese or Japanese descent despite physical differences between the two.

The color coded labeling is even more ridiculous when you consider how many African Americans have European ancestry or European Americans have Indian or African ancestry.

This is applicable to those of Arab, African, Chinese, Indian, and every other ethnic group in the US.Investigate your past, cherish your roots, and fight the homogenization that has destroyed the identities of generations of Americans already.

We are a country that is for the most part,a nation of immigrants. That can be to our advantage in an increasingly globalized world because our lives will be impacted by what happens over there and vice versa.If we have a populace that is knowledgeable about a certain culture, then we can expect a better chance at achieving a satisfying conclusion to the issue between the two nations.

I am not white, but of Italian, German, English, Irish, and Scottish extract.A mutt I maybe, but it is still better than being white.