How do African Americans feel about white American culture?
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ThreePiMatt
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To me, white culture is eating things with mayonnaise on it, listening to Journey, and watching Law & Order.
There is no general consensus...
Some brave souls dare eat pizza with it.
Blackstarhat
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Thats our music.
TwEE-N-Toast
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I've been putting it on my hamburgers the last few years with ketchup. I'm pro mayonnaise, so I thought it was a compliment.
This frightens me.
Salad?
Sickening. Though those dipping sauces seem like they are half mayonaise anyway.
Sandwich, burger, same thing ~
People put mayonaise on salad? Again, sickening.
Stereogatari
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This is how I see it, but then...that's a racist way of thinking right? Seeing white culture as default and everything else as having nuances to it. Perhaps a better way to explain it is that America has a default culture that is race neutral and whites tend to identify with that more so than any unique conception of "white culture". Whereas many ethnic minorities prefer to express themselves through the nuances of their sub-cultures.
Of course the key thing to remember here is (as a poster above points out) that there are white people of ethnic background that have their own sub-cultures and aren't necessarily a part of "white culture" or "default culture".
OrangeGrayBlue
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I think that cultures are really starting to blend in the US. Pop music is an example of this with its heavy hip-hop influence, movies with black casts seem to be defined as "black movies" less often, style and fashion seems to be more uniform across different races than it was just ten years ago, etc. There are definitely limits here, though. You won't see many black people at a Garth Brooks concert or many white people at a Kevin Gates concert, but I think the boundaries of what is "white" or "black" or "hispanic" have become a lot more lenient.
As a black man I sure do hate all this Rock and Roll. Yet white people still make rock music without my or other black people's permission.
TwEE-N-Toast
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Hamburgers are sandwiches are the same thing? Madness!
People make macaroni salad with mayonnaise too. Tangy side dish with my KFC, good eating.
Necromanti
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Mayonnaise, people, not 'mayonaise'. Don't be disrespecting other people's culture.
Japanese people are white Americans, confirmed.
We put it on food so the minorities open up their own ethnic restaurants. We white people don't actually eat food, we consume culture for our nourishment.
Appropriation is good eatin'
Hm, KFC supports all cultures, good on them. So when black people go to KFC they get a bucket of fried chicken and when white people go they get a bucket of macaroni salad? Black American wins.
Sword Familiar
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Used to have a very lucrative monoculture. Now, not as lucrative.
You're talking about Go-Gurt and stuff? That stuff is basically candy. It's all artificial.
You want some Greek or Bulgarian white culture. That's the real stuff.
Of course, with how many of these high quality yogurt brands are making their stuff in upstate New York nowadays, you might have an argument in saying it now belongs to America as well.
Anyway, these white cultures are really healthy and everyone should appreciate them, including African Americans.
Lmao.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Only vote for black politicians?
CrazyDogg77
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Seriously though as a minority it's damn near impossible to not consume any 'white culture' since it is thought of as the default. Anybody on GAF is consuming some form of white media lol.
RatchetWhiteGirls
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molnizzle
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There's not much to it, you just have to allow people of other cultures to demonize your own while you feel guilty and shamefully apologize for stuff your ancestors may or may not have done. Easy-peasy!
Mammoth Jones
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This. It's everywhere. Yeah sometimes I roll my eyes when everything is so centered on the white experience but it is what it is.
I watch movies I like. I read books I find interesting.
Stereogatari
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You want some Greek or Bulgarian white culture. That's the real stuff.
Turkish Yogurt is the ancestor of both. The word itself is Turkish in origin.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
What is white culture?
Whining about demonization while still oppressing other cultures. Now thats as white as it gets.
User 73706
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Jersey Shore, everything by Mike Judge, Full House, Starbucks, Walgreens,
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Defining cultures by skin color is beyond fucked up. I say to this to the people who cry about others appropriating "black culture," too. Bunch of bullshit. Call people out for being pretenders or whatever all you want, but associating someone's skin color with a culture that they may or may not belong to (or saying that culture is off-limits to people not of X skin color) is a pretty ignorant thing to do.
Yeah its off to a hell of a start. I've learned so much already.
I'm curious to know why OP didn't ask what Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, or any other minorities think about "white culture". Does nobody care about us other minorities?
For the last time, no!
Lv99 Slacker
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01) I'm not sure how you are asking us this question here on GAF of all places, where geek culture reigns supreme. It would be pretty hard to be an enthusiast of comics, animation, sci-fi/fantasy, and, of course, video games if you largely or exclusively consumed media that is only produced by black people.
02) Like others have stated, I'm not sure what exactly constitutes "white culture," specifically white American culture other than, I guess, St. Patrick's Day, country music, and NASCAR. In general, I guess I would say classical/opera = white culture.
On the issue of politics, I'm liberal/progressive, therefore, I vote for candidates of that bent; their ethnicity is completely irrelevant.
02) Like others have stated, I'm not sure what exactly constitutes "white culture," specifically white American culture other than, I guess, St. Patrick's Day, country music, and NASCAR. In general, I guess I would say classical/opera = white culture.
On the issue of politics, I'm liberal/progressive, therefore, I vote for candidates of that bent; their ethnicity is completely irrelevant.
I'm curious to know why OP didn't ask what Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, or any other minorities think about "white culture". Does nobody care about us other minorities?
I think you left out some minorities there.
The idea of a particular "white" culture is odd to me, as I am not sure what parameters I would put around it without noticing influences from "non-white" groups. As well, there is the point that "white" is not a monolithic entity, in Chicago alone I see alot of Polish, Germanic, Serbian, and Grecian influence in the food, music, architecture et cetera of the area. There are also the various sub-divisions among those nationalities but I digress.
To answer the thread's question, I embrace "white-american" culture as part of the uniqueness of this world, while paying (or attempting to in a country that is majority "white") equal attention to the contributions of "non-white" groups as well. There is nothing wrong with "white" culture in itself, rather it is its overshadowing of other cultures that needs to be curbed.
To answer the thread's question, I embrace "white-american" culture as part of the uniqueness of this world, while paying (or attempting to in a country that is majority "white") equal attention to the contributions of "non-white" groups as well. There is nothing wrong with "white" culture in itself, rather it is its overshadowing of other cultures that needs to be curbed.
I'm curious to know why OP didn't ask what Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, or any other minorities think about "white culture". Does nobody care about us other minorities?
No one cares.
John Kowalski
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HA! "Caastlevania" reference. That was a good one. Us gamers, huh? Us gamers.
I'm curious to know why OP didn't ask what Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, or any other minorities think about "white culture". Does nobody care about us other minorities?
Quick! Someone make a thread titled "What do Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, or any other minorities think about white American culture?".
User 73706
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EDIT: forgot spring cotillions
crimzonflame
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Has OP ever met a black person?
Stop oppressing yourselves.
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