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Don't you guys think its kinda racist to identify with "White people"?
For example I feel much more of a connection with non-White countries like Japan/Thailand than White countries like Russia/Iran.
Some people say Arabs and South Asians are White people, i don't.
Due to the thoughtless, ridiculous, terrible, drunken rampages of self-hatred on my part, my company decided they had come to the end of me. I was now no longer the person esteemed protege they had comforted through their ranks. This was now the end of my career.
My actions were admittedly disgusting. Immoral, scandelous and despicable. I had already been demoted from a privileged position of assistant editor to senior journalist from them. This company, with small but powerful links to a more powerful corporation, held the key to my career.
The loss was twofold; I was admittedly their best employee. My writing was popular, my management impeccable, and performance outstanding. My family was of powerful standing, and also held sway over men, particularly in my field, where they eventually offered me my post on a platter. As the only surviving boy, they would tolerate no mistreatment of the last name to their heir.
But this was the last straw. Both the paper and the family had had their fill of my wild insolence; and despite my advantageous upbringing, with all the riches it had brought, I knew, my recklessness would rain pain and suffering on both, if it continued. Or at least it was, until I was to produce one last piece, so they demanded.
(What would I've done, if I'd known, that what they made me do, would make it so much worse. So much, much worse...)
My elderly father had made it clear - shape up or get nothing. He was dying, but perfectly capable of his faculties. He'd known he was going to die, and had had me young; I was only reaching my late twenties. But all the same, he was wealthy beyond understanding. Even most men of my class could only dream of the balls and dances I went to.. the massive wealth I had once enjoyed.
I was hardly accepted in my private school, as my name's wealth appeared to attract distrust. Heads turned away. My nicknames were whispered, and when I was once close to hearing another saying it, another student grabbed their collar and punched him in the ribs twice. He turned to me with a wide smile while a crowded circle backed away. Though one hand held a deadly fist, the other... seemed more like a palm reaching out. For payment. Or maybe that was his eyes?
That's how I learned myself in life. Not from trying myself, but others trying for me. And not for fighting for myself, but others doing that for me. I had had it all done for me. The secret glitz, the secret glamour, brushing upon shoulders I should never really have brushed on, doing things with people I should never really have done. It had all been done for me.
I had no interest in love. Anyone in my most closest inner circle knew about that. My small neice, Samantha... and the way she died. Perhaps that was the incubus to all this. No drugs or drink seemed to placate the memory.
Yet now, it was slipping out of my grasp. I was now going to that town of Home of Home, whether I liked it or not. And I was going to get a story, whether I liked it or not.
A wasteland of mediocrity. And you were supposed to pull a story out of that? It was an impossible task. There was nothing there in that ancient, timeless Norweigen nowhere. I'd been set up to fail. And knew it. This was the end of me.
Sure I relate more to a Russian person than to a Pakistani person.
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Originally Posted by Davy-040
Don't you guys think its kinda racist to identify with "White people"?
For example I feel much more of a connection with non-White countries like Japan/Thailand than White countries like Russia/Iran.
Some people say Arabs and South Asians are White people, i don't.
IDK. The world is a pretty racist place. And yes, I relate more to a Colombian white person than to an Indonesian Asian person.
Don't you guys think its kinda racist to identify with "White people"?
For example I feel much more of a connection with non-White countries like Japan/Thailand than White countries like Russia/Iran.
Some people say Arabs and South Asians are White people, i don't.
It's not racist it is just bizarre. I bet that a white person from england would relate more to an African American from manhattan or an Asian Canadian from Vancouver over someone from Russia, Ukraine, or even Italy.
I don't think it's racist or even weird that some should identify with "white people".
I suspect that most people who are white on here at least unconciously have an "us" grouping that includes white people.
It's only racist if that's your only grouping and that it exists to the exclusion of everything and everyone else.
Beyond that, it's not really any more racist than people identifying as "African-American", which is also racial and implies bloodlines and common ancestry.
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1. Greater Kentucky (includes all of Kentucky plus adjacent parts of southeast Ohio, southern Indiana and southern Illinois that are culturally Southern)
2. Greater Louisville metro area
3. Mid South / Appalachian South
4. Entire South
5. American*
6. World
*For me is mostly about being a part of mainstream American culture rather than race. I don't like extremist subcultures, rather it's a White supremacist that flies Confederate flags or an inner city gang banger that kills people to steal their shoes. Also not a fan of political extremist who force their views on people, left or right. Anyone that lives a decent life and is part of Mainstream American culture I view as one of me.
The white people are the final one I relate to. For example I relate more to a black person from Helsinki than a white person from Estonia.
Exactly.
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