Some traits of Whiteness according to the National Museum for African American History and Culture. - Individual is the primary unit. - Self-reliance. - Nuclear family - Objective, rational linear thinking - Quantitative emphasis - Hard work is the key to success - Plan for future - Delayed gratification - Tomorrow will be better - Follow rigid time schedules - Protect property and entitlements Love being white and my Whiteness. 💪🏻
3:55 - As a white South African, this made me chuckle because I make the exact same point to blacks and sit back and watch them start frothing at the mouth.
The correct term for European Americans is "I'm a Euro-American, like we see for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans etc....vice white Americans.
America is a Continent from Alaska to the Tierra del Fuego Beautiful Paradise and we are descended from the people who cross the Bearing strait and later Europeans: Spaniards, moors Portuguese, Italians, British and they invite people from north and central Africa etc. 😊
Whether its a new concept or not; Groups of different ethnicities from the same continental region often have similar culture, linguistic, religious, ancestral and artistic heritage. This is the idea that is commonly referred to as "race" and this is what the terms 'White' or 'Asian' refer to: Groups of many ethnicities who, while all distinctly unique, share many common characteristics; enough to be generalized together despite longstanding differences and even conflicts between them
But Socrates DOES "belong to" the West, unless we're going to say that a person's cultural and historical milieu don't matter at all. That would be absurd. Imperfect as it was, Socrates was a product of Greek belief in reason (logos) and persuasion. The Zulus didn't have that. They didn't even have a written language. You can say that sub Saharan Africa was an underdeveloped shit hole without being "racist." Who did the Zulus kill and enslave? Other African blacks. So... Sorry, the West does get some credit for producing the great heroes of its history.
@mattisonhale6227 Ancient Athens was a highly multicultural society. The concept of 'Europe' not to mention 'the west' is relatively new and at one point Italy, Greece, and sections of Eastern Europe were not included in that definition. Finally, the Zulu's had many great thinkers and poets but that doesn't seem to matter to you since you imply that the entirety of sub-Saharan Africa was a 'shithole'.
i wish we had time machines just so we could see racists cry when they go on holiday to ancient or medieval europe and find out how many brown people there are
Tolstoy and the Zulus would have been mutually incomprehensible to each other. Tolstoy was a russian author whose work touches on universal themes in a russian context. His work is undeniably russian.
Some traits of Whiteness according to the National Museum for African American History and Culture.
- Individual is the primary unit.
- Self-reliance.
- Nuclear family
- Objective, rational linear thinking
- Quantitative emphasis
- Hard work is the key to success
- Plan for future
- Delayed gratification
- Tomorrow will be better
- Follow rigid time schedules
- Protect property and entitlements
Love being white and my Whiteness. 💪🏻
Except that none of that has anything to do with "whiteness."
@@VesnaVK Hey, those aren't my words. Those are the words of the thought leaders of black people.
3:55 - As a white South African, this made me chuckle because I make the exact same point to blacks and sit back and watch them start frothing at the mouth.
You're a racist Danny.
@@joshuataylor3550 You would be too if you lived in a country where cannibalism is still widely practiced by only one of the four main races, Joshy.
Excellent discussion here, gents
The correct term for European Americans is "I'm a Euro-American, like we see for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans etc....vice white Americans.
America is a Continent from Alaska to the Tierra del Fuego Beautiful Paradise and we are descended from the people who cross the Bearing strait and later Europeans: Spaniards, moors Portuguese, Italians, British and they invite people from north and central Africa etc. 😊
3:48, not me
Whether its a new concept or not; Groups of different ethnicities from the same continental region often have similar culture, linguistic, religious, ancestral and artistic heritage. This is the idea that is commonly referred to as "race" and this is what the terms 'White' or 'Asian' refer to: Groups of many ethnicities who, while all distinctly unique, share many common characteristics; enough to be generalized together despite longstanding differences and even conflicts between them
But Socrates DOES "belong to" the West, unless we're going to say that a person's cultural and historical milieu don't matter at all. That would be absurd. Imperfect as it was, Socrates was a product of Greek belief in reason (logos) and persuasion.
The Zulus didn't have that. They didn't even have a written language. You can say that sub Saharan Africa was an underdeveloped shit hole without being "racist." Who did the Zulus kill and enslave? Other African blacks. So...
Sorry, the West does get some credit for producing the great heroes of its history.
@Free Minds I agree with your reply.
@mattisonhale6227
Ancient Athens was a highly multicultural society. The concept of 'Europe' not to mention 'the west' is relatively new and at one point Italy, Greece, and sections of Eastern Europe were not included in that definition.
Finally, the Zulu's had many great thinkers and poets but that doesn't seem to matter to you since you imply that the entirety of sub-Saharan Africa was a 'shithole'.
I would recommend reading 'Provincializing Europe' by Dipesh Chakrabarty if you would like to gain a more nuanced perspective :)
i wish we had time machines just so we could see racists cry when they go on holiday to ancient or medieval europe and find out how many brown people there are
As a South African, I'm impressed with your knowledge.
Tolstoy and the Zulus would have been mutually incomprehensible to each other. Tolstoy was a russian author whose work touches on universal themes in a russian context. His work is undeniably russian.
Although I appreciate the imagery of it, I, at least partially, reject the horse-shoe analogy.
If someone is a racist, just call them a racist.
Wouldn't Socrates have said I belong to Athens given his arguments in the apology?
Exactly
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