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> But the second or third generation Harvard folks aren’t functionally “white,” regardless of their skin color. Genuine question, does this applies even when t
by NhanH 3y ago
> But the second or third generation Harvard folks aren’t functionally “white,” regardless of their skin color.
Genuine question, does this applies even when they are “white” (Caucasian white)? Why is that or is there a subtext I am missing?
- rayiner 3y agoYes, because race is a social construct. “White” encompasses many unrelated groups, from descendants of people on the Mayflower to Italian immigrants. But when elite Yankees complain about “white” people, they don’t really mean themselves, they mean southern or Midwestern whites. Essentially, they’re “post white.” Post-whites will do fine under the new system, because they have the cultural capital to navigate the new rules. They know how to write a “diversity statement” that gets them credit for some human rights whatever even though they trace their ancestry to Dutch colonists in New York. But the kids in Ohio won’t have that cultural capital and social connections. They are still “white.”