#they’re either SEVERELY misinformed or a straight up white supremacist

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One thing I think it’s important to point out is that different countries can have wildly different notions of who’s white and who isn’t.

Like, over here (and in other Latin American countries, I believe) “being white” is defined exclusively by someone’s skin color. Heritage doesn’t play a role in it. It doesn’t matter exactly which ethnicities someone has in their genetic makeup: if they’re light skinned enough, they’ll be considered white. Someone who has gone their entire lives being considered white over here might be seen as a completely different ethnicity in another country.

So yeah, whiteness is largely a social construct, and a very recent one at that, starting from the 18th, 19th century onwards. Trying to claim there’s such a thing as “white culture” doesn’t hold water at all. A white person from the US is going to have a very different culture from a white person from Italy who’s going to have a very different culture from a white person from Brazil and so on.

#reporting live #so yeah whenever someone tries to pull that ‘but white culture needs to be preserved! what about the old gods etc etc etc’ #they’re either SEVERELY misinformed or a straight up white supremacist #there’s no such thing as ‘white culture’ and people only pull it to try to one up black culture #which btw is a thing because black people in the americas were stripped off their african roots bc of slavery #and had to build up a different identity from the ground #unlike white immigrants who were allowed to keep and practice the culture and language of their country of origin