Without thinking, people accept whatever pervades their childhood culture, and accept it as normal and true. Myth #3, the myth of white racelessness, embodies the myth of white sameness. It fails to acknowledge differences in cultures among white people in America, and fails to respect cultural heritages of white people/POC who came fr…
Without thinking, people accept whatever pervades their childhood culture, and accept it as normal and true. Myth #3, the myth of white racelessness, embodies the myth of white sameness. It fails to acknowledge differences in cultures among white people in America, and fails to respect cultural heritages of white people/POC who came from other countries, or whose parents/family came from other countries. It assumes that the "American way of doing things" is the right and only way. For example, the American legal system has an idea of how children should be raised, and it assumes that what are traditionally American beliefs are normal and healthy and should be applied to all white/POC cultures, and anything different from that is "wrong." - - Although every white culture is probably guilty of this.
This tension in the air we all breathe is indeed this dynamic of accepting the racism in our culture, history, family and one’s own life. As soon as I admitted I have a racist view (that ‘others’ are different and less than), I have been able to embrace this and open to loving the other.
Without thinking, people accept whatever pervades their childhood culture, and accept it as normal and true. Myth #3, the myth of white racelessness, embodies the myth of white sameness. It fails to acknowledge differences in cultures among white people in America, and fails to respect cultural heritages of white people/POC who came from other countries, or whose parents/family came from other countries. It assumes that the "American way of doing things" is the right and only way. For example, the American legal system has an idea of how children should be raised, and it assumes that what are traditionally American beliefs are normal and healthy and should be applied to all white/POC cultures, and anything different from that is "wrong." - - Although every white culture is probably guilty of this.
It assumes America IS white, all the rest interlopers.
This tension in the air we all breathe is indeed this dynamic of accepting the racism in our culture, history, family and one’s own life. As soon as I admitted I have a racist view (that ‘others’ are different and less than), I have been able to embrace this and open to loving the other.
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