(07-17-2020, 08:40 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(07-17-2020, 08:27 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I would say yes, you are absolutely wrong to think that.  There is no one who would say that aspects of culture cannot be adopted by anyone regardless of race or national origin.  Just because we say "Germans are hard working people" doesn't mean no one else is hard working, for example.  Or if we say, "Part of American culture is Christianity" does that mean that there are no other Christians in the world than Americans?  

The poster just says these are characteristics of white culture.  Now, you can argue with that.  But what the poster does not say is, there are no other cultures that have these characteristics.

If I accept your standard, that defining white culture means no other cultures have these characteristics, then we can't define anything, because according to that standard, the thing being defined would monopolize every aspect of that definition.  We can't say, "this table is flat" because that would imply that the only flat things are tables.

That’s a valid point but the poster header states that these are characteristics of whiteness that have been “normalized” by other cultures. I take that to mean if not for white people, the world would be inhabited by folks who exhibit few or none of these characteristics.

I think the poster bears discussion, and I hope it was intended that way.  I think the poster is a good jumping off point to discuss what is culture, what is "white culture," how many white people actually have these characteristics, can we actually call this "white culture," etc.   

The poster might be right or wrong, but it is not, in my opinion at least, racist.  And the people who call it that are adopting cancel culture, ironically.  They take someone's statement and accuse them of racism.  That's cancel culture.  And many people who decry cancel culture are doing it right in this thread.

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