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Old 02-23-2019, 02:38 AM
 
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Where as an ultra right wing, Republican, gun owning Jew, are my people? Because that's where I want to live
Israel?
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Old 02-23-2019, 02:51 AM
 
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My nephew (white) married a first generation Mexican. Throughout the whole wedding her mother cried because she was marrying a gringo. It was rather insulting to us but we just ignored her. In OC the cities are segregated by ethnicity.... that's just the way it is and won't change soon.
I don't really see the point in your anecdote as that has absolutely nothing to do with segregation other than the fact that bring up the point that 1) interracial marriage is increasing and 2) interracial marriage was illegal less than a century ago.

Your second point is completely false though. And then the fact you even qualified it further is hilarious.















Let me show you what a segregated city in CA looks like:

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Old 02-23-2019, 06:36 AM
 
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The "segregation" is in where they live IN the city, not how many ethnicities there are IN a city.
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Old 02-23-2019, 09:22 AM
 
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Yes, far more than whites. In the US most blacks have a common history, as do many Hispanic Americans who also share a similar culture. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with being white - I'm white, but to claim that there is some kind of shared white culture and history is just dead wrong. We should all be proud of who we are and what we do, it's just outrageous to bandy about how our skin color makes us special, it truly doesn't.
The overwhelmingly majority of non-Hispanic white people living in the United States are Christian, English-speaking, multi-generational Americans who can trace at least one of their ancestors to the British Isles (i.e., Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man), have graduated from high school and would describe themselves as middle class. Christ, I don't know what more you'd need to define a shared history or common culture.
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Old 02-23-2019, 09:36 AM
 
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But in spite of what you think, your whiteness doesn't make you special. In fact there actually is no specific American 'white culture' or identity to maintain. I'm white but I never thought that being a white American gave me bragging rights. There is no unifying 'white history' some of our ancestors came here a generation ago, others have been here for hundreds of years, some of us came from Germany, others from Italy or Russia. A fair number of white Americans can't name their ancestors past two generations. Some of our ancestors were great inventors, others were slave owners. The only trait we share is skin color, we don't all worship the same God or celebrate holidays the same way.
That wasn't the point. I'm writing horizontally, not vertically. Different, not better. Blue is not better than green; it's just different. The point is, mixing leads to elimination of uniqueness.

Totally off topic, but this is a fun (not a trick) question: Say you had a gallon of liquid A and a gallon of liquid B. You take a cup of liquid A and pour it into the container of liquid B. Mix them. Then take a cup of the AB mix and pour it back into the A container. Mix them. Is there more A in the B container or B in the A container?
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Old 02-23-2019, 12:18 PM
 
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The overwhelmingly majority of non-Hispanic white people living in the United States are Christian, English-speaking, multi-generational Americans who can trace at least one of their ancestors to the British Isles (i.e., Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man), have graduated from high school and would describe themselves as middle class. Christ, I don't know what more you'd need to define a shared history or common culture.
Speaking English does not define white culture. Except for recent immigrants everyone in the US speaks English. I'm as white as any other caucasian; fair skin, green eyes and brown hair but I'm not Christian and I have no ancestors from the British Isles. All of my grandparents were 1st generation European immigrants. Now tell me what "white culture" you and I share...
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Old 02-23-2019, 12:20 PM
 
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That wasn't the point. I'm writing horizontally, not vertically. Different, not better. Blue is not better than green; it's just different. The point is, mixing leads to elimination of uniqueness.

Totally off topic, but this is a fun (not a trick) question: Say you had a gallon of liquid A and a gallon of liquid B. You take a cup of liquid A and pour it into the container of liquid B. Mix them. Then take a cup of the AB mix and pour it back into the A container. Mix them. Is there more A in the B container or B in the A container?
Well you got one thing right, it's definitely off topic
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Old 02-23-2019, 01:47 PM
 
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Well you got one thing right, it's definitely off topic
They're the same.
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Old 02-23-2019, 01:47 PM
 
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The "segregation" is in where they live IN the city, not how many ethnicities there are IN a city.
Care to revise your statement?





Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census - NYTimes.com



Keep in mind the ridiculous question of this thread is "Is Orange County the most (self) segregated county in California". So do you care to answer that question? The data can be easily found in the link to the NYTimes I provided above.

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Old 02-23-2019, 01:54 PM
 
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The overwhelmingly majority of non-Hispanic white people living in the United States are Christian, English-speaking, multi-generational Americans who can trace at least one of their ancestors to the British Isles (i.e., Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man), have graduated from high school and would describe themselves as middle class. Christ, I don't know what more you'd need to define a shared history or common culture.
Well that's patently false.

German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 44 million in 2016, German Americans are the largest of the ancestry groups reported by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans
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