[Thanos]

Given the bigotry and hatred aimed at Latins, Jews, and Eastern Europeans by the infamous good ol' boys (American and the European/British versions alike), being 'white' seems more about being from certain acceptable parts of Europe rather than from the apparently unacceptable ones. Read once that the WOG line also ran on a north-south axis somewhere along the old German/Polish border. This makes sense considering some of the atrocities and other evils that were inflicted upon those living on the wrong side off the invisible border, and of the shitty treatment they generally received when immigrating to places like North America.

[martin14]

Thanos wrote:

Read once that the WOG line also ran on a north-south axis somewhere along the old German/Polish border.

From where the Baltic turns North to the top of the Adriatic.

It's another very old line, culturally, linguistically, economically.

[CommanderSock]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

DanSC wrote:

CommanderSock wrote:

66% Non Hispanic White that is. If your Latinos are included, the number is still 80%, as it always has been throughout history (or thereabouts).

Ask those Hispanic whites if they feel White. I'm sure you'll be surprised.

It's funny how people have this definition of what makes someone 'white' rather than just merely caucasian. A friend of mine who got back from Afghanistan commented how surprised he was to see so many Pashtuns with blond hair and blue eyes as well as red hair and green eyes and complexions that would seem
more at home in the Nordic nations than Afghanistan.

It's because no matter how we put it, race is, and always has been a social construct based on the social norms, politics, culture and history of its respective region.

And even as a social construct, race is still trumped by class and culture.

[Tman1]

CommanderSock wrote:

Canada is nothing like a Scandinavian nation. Never has been. Canada has always been multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-religious entity.

Is that why Canada has no identity? We have a multiple personality disorder? Easy way to fix that. Get rid of the 'multi's'.

[fifeboy]

Lemmy wrote:

(there's no fucking "e" in whisky, by the way, lads),