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Re: Purity test time!

[(Anonymous)]

Ack stupid keyboard

That's supposed to say being aware of or stating their own culture. Maybe you just don't get it since you're not from the US, but America is made up of multiple different cultures, and people being aware of which ones make up their background is not bigoted. I don't see how knowing about your own background could possibly be bigoted and it's weird to me that you think it is.

Re: Purity test time!

[(Anonymous)]

DA

It can lead to awkward things like people saying "haha must be Nationality A in me" about supposedly stereotypical things they do. It's a lot of white Americans do, even if they weren't raised in the culture at all and have zero experiences having been to the actual countries they claim ancestry from. Someone's great great great grandparents are from Northern Ireland so they make jokes about drinking and fighting being in 'their' culture or something and think that's fine to do, even though they've never been to the place, are completely unaware of its current politics, and most people from the place they're talking about would be like 'you are a white boy from a suburb in Connecticut, calm down and stop claiming us.'

Is it bigotry? ...is sort of a gray area. Certainly can push the line if they're adopting stereotypes and making jokes about a culture they claim that isn't actually theirs, which lots do. People who are literally from the place don't have this issue since they are from the place and you know, living there and part of the culture right now. The American with the great great great grandparent is doing at least some appropriation there.

Re: Purity test time!

[(Anonymous)]

*It's a thing a lot of white Americans do
*white American boy from a suburb

Haha, my typing is terrible too.

Re: Purity test time!

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Okay, that makes sense. I was thinking it was more that just pointing out "hey, my great grandparents are from X country" was considered bigoted, and that didn't make any sense to me.

Re: Purity test time!

[(Anonymous)]

Comment OP here and YEP, exactly what you said!
It's why I stressed out that a cultural bias is at play with me. It's possibly bigoted of me thinking that the way Americans keep in touch with their origins is bigoted (at this point I don't believe this is not the right word for it, but whatever. Pardon me, I'm exhausted).

I'm also from a country that a lot of American people boast about in their ethnicity claiming lists. It's just strange... the "real country" and what they claim to be the essential traits of their ethnicity (which is stereotypes) are very different most of the time. Also, they don't even know a word of the language! Why boast about it then if it's only a "genetic" thing and nothing else for the vast majority of people? I don't get it.

BTW it's funny you stress that it's a "white American boy from a suburb" thing to do because in my experience it happened from white, latino and black people. Even if yeah, the vast majority of people were white Americans, also because that's the people I interacted the most in my country and the other country I lived it (also females, because I interact predominantly with women so again anecdote bias at play). I guess it depends on what ethnicity you're talking about...

Re: Purity test time!

[(Anonymous)]

You Europeans always defend the bigoted things you do by calling it your culture (eg Dutch people wearing blackface for a Christmas celebration) so calm down and think of Americans referencing their ancestry as part of their American culture.

Re: Purity test time!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm American lol.

Re: Purity test time!

[(Anonymous)]

You people literally have "race" on most of your identifying documents.