Thread: White Privilege

Originally Posted by Jeff777

You do know that America is "The Great Melting Pot" right? So this "white society" this and "black society" that is an oxymoron if you ask me (presupposing we're being politically correct). Deeming America to be a "white society" undermines the very meaning of what it is to be a melting pot. Or perhaps you're using the term based on who holds the greatest populace in America? At any rate the above post conflicts with your earlier one which states "We are all equal". In this one you get into "white society" this and "whites shouldn't have to adapt to minorities this because they don't do it for us that". Make up your mind dude...seriously, you're flopping worse than John Kerry in the 2004 election. At any rate I digress, so to get back on point...you're still not interpreting the article correctly because you're stating irrelevant cultural lines between two races (as if one culture was exclusive to a set race anyway ). Read the article again (in it's entirety) and then post.

Yes, we are equal. But I will not allow my culture to be lost because they want us to change. By the way I'm not talking about America, I'm talking about west-europe. It's a simple fact that western culture dominates in the west. And that's the way it should be. African culture rule in Africa, asian ones in Asia etc.. And that's fine.

What is it you want? Do you want all of our differences to disappear? I hope this never happens.
Interesting thing to think about: A few years back some nut from palestine came to Belgium and demanded that the goverment made arabic an official language. If that isn't outrageous then I don't know what is.

Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox

Yes, we are equal. But I will not allow my culture to be lost because they want us to change. By the way I'm not talking about America, I'm talking about west-europe. It's a simple fact that western culture dominates in the west. And that's the way it should be. African culture rule in Africa, asian ones in Asia etc.. And that's fine.

I see what you're saying now.

Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox

What is it you want? Do you want all of our differences to disappear? I hope this never happens.

Why do you assume that is what I want? I never made any mention of that. And furthermore why is it about what I want? I think that's irrelevant to the purpose of this thread. Your question is not very specific at all. At any rate...I am still baffled at how you arrived at a presupposition about me wanting all of our racial differences to disappear. How you managed to extract that from my five posts is beyond me.

OK. So I believe people from all cultures should be given equal RIGHTS in countries, especially the US. But complaining about music or haircuts is just ridiculous.

Originally Posted by High Hunter

I think it's weird how other cultures, races, or "colors", never really complain about this kind of stuff. It seems like african americans really want full power. White people forcefully took America from the natives, and you never see them ranting about how they should be equal. I understand and ackowledge the brutal past...african american were brought here as slaves, which is horrible, but now they are at peace. Isn't that enough?

I mean the Whites have privileges here, because they took over the land. If asians took over America back then, would people always hate on yellow privileges? (lol I don't mean that in a racist way at all). It makes sense to me. Asians and all kinds of new cultures are allowed within now, and are just as powerful as whites and blacks nowadays. I mean look at the president-elect.

I think the more we focus on the differences, the longer they will linger around. Let's concentrate on being equal more, no?

Sorry just ranting I love the multi-cultured world of today! Full of fresh and exotic ideas.

Agreed. Racism isn't going away.. It's just changing into racism against whites.