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>"white" doesn't represent a shared culture and history I think this is pretty objectively false, if it were true, then the white-black dichotomy wouldn't work

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > >"white" doesn't represent a shared culture and history > I think this is pretty objectively false, It’s imprecisely stated, perhaps, but it gets at the real difference. Perhaps more accurately, “‘white’ is not usually the primary ethnic identity of the people to whom it, as a racial label, applies, in the United States.” > if it were true, then the white-black dichotomy wouldn't work. The real difference in the degree to which the two identify a shared culture is central to the dichotomy. The Black American experience of White racism involves the forced erasure of preexisting, more specific historical culture communities, ties, traditions, and identity. The White American experience leaves more specific ethnic identities intact and generally dominant over White identity except among a subset within White supremacists.