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Brazil is much like Mexico where the white people who link their background to Europe are the leaders and look down at the dark skinned people. Your status in Brazil is based on how light your skin is. Southern Brazil is full of white people and better off and Northern Brazil is mostly black and poor. I have spent lots of time in Brazil.
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Originally Posted by Trimac20
What about Brazil? A racial melting pot but everyone seems to have the same culture and of course language.
I grew up as a "minority" in California. (I'm white.) Most of the Mexicans were cool, but the blacks were really ghetto. I would not like to be a minority white in a black neighborhood in my hometown. I now live in the Atlanta metro area. I would have no problem being the only white guy in many of the black neighborhoods around here. They are great, middle class hoods with great middle class people. There are also a number of solidly black wealthy neighborhoods here too, which I bet even the most racist white would like to live in.
If the "minorities" live well, work hard and continue to make America great, I would prefer that to an all white trailer park America. It's not "white" that I care about -- it's being a good person of good character. I think I'm like most Americans in that regard.
Good post! I too grew up a white "minority" (in a majority black neighborhood) and would not have a problem being a national "minority". People are people.
Unlike most of the world (where lighter skins brings benefits), being white is quickly becoming out of style in America. Multicultural and multi ethnic is in and hip. The media is turning away from white actors, and news people and replacing them with multi ethnic celebrities. There is an incredible amount of anti white talk on message boards, blogs and news comment sites. If you are anti white, no one complains, but if you are anti Black or Hispanic you are called racist.
By minority I don't mean simply less than 50%, I'm talking more like 20%. This may not happen for say 200 years, but would you be mortified if ever this were to happen? I mean let's say culturally all those Mexicans or Asians or whatever were still as American as apple pie, they just didn't have the stereotypical blonde hair blue eyes. American culture has always changed, really. If you woke up in say, Minneapolis in the year 2150 to find there were as many people of Hmong ancestry as there were Swedish ancestry what would you think?
I don't want to brand anyone as racist or anything, just honest opinions.
Unlike most of the world (where lighter skins brings benefits), being white is quickly becoming out of style in America. Multicultural and multi ethnic is in and hip. The media is turning away from white actors, and news people and replacing them with multi ethnic celebrities. There is an incredible amount of anti white talk on message boards, blogs and news comment sites. If you are anti white, no one complains, but if you are anti Black or Hispanic you are called racist.
i think you're a little paranoid dude. i live in a majority black county and i've yet to ever experience any "anti-white" behavior.
By minority I don't mean simply less than 50%, I'm talking more like 20%. This may not happen for say 200 years, but would you be mortified if ever this were to happen? I mean let's say culturally all those Mexicans or Asians or whatever were still as American as apple pie, they just didn't have the stereotypical blonde hair blue eyes. American culture has always changed, really. If you woke up in say, Minneapolis in the year 2150 to find there were as many people of Hmong ancestry as there were Swedish ancestry what would you think?
I don't want to brand anyone as racist or anything, just honest opinions.
I guess for many it's already a reality lol.
I have ZERO problem with it, in some areas they already are. People are people, they come in all colors and it is no determination of whether someone is good ar bad or if they are Good Americans that love this Nation.
Afrikaners had a pretty good run being in the minority, about 400 years
The Afrikaners had an unwritten social contract with the Anglo South Africans in which the Anglos controlled the private sector while the Afrikaners controlled the public sector. Afrikaners were underrepresented in the private sector and lagged in pretty much every statistical indicator relative to Anglos. They were the main supporters of the Apartheid system since the Apartheid system let them have a welfare system that they mostly benefited from.
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