Ayla Stewart "Infuriated" by LDS Church's Condemnation of White Culture

[The Nehor]

5 hours ago, Darren10 said:

Nope, it includes losing all of their wars unless they are bailed out but ther people. The only exception is the French Revolution. Either way, the French won that war all on its own.

Napoleon won a few.

[Gray]

2 hours ago, Darren10 said:

But cannot people of Africa heritage be described as people of a black culture? In other words, one typically uses race to classify subcultures, I ask why one cannot use race to classify a culture? 

Because race is too broad. There is no one culture that encompasses a whole race.

[The Nehor]

5 hours ago, Gray said:

Without the French, there would be no United States. 

"Lafayette, we have come." We paid that back in the First World War. Can we kindly forget that embarrassing fact now? Plus they only get partial credit. They did not come as friends of the Revolutionaries. They came as enemies of the British.

[BlueDreams]

5 hours ago, Darren10 said:

The German / English backgrounds were white so far as race is concerned, correct? How is that not white culture for your white family? The "white culture" Ayla belongs to purports white superiority. She is in the wrong.

Yes the German/english side were white (and jewish a ways back) but I'm not. At least not full white, and depending where I live and when the ability to claim that part drastically shifts. Racial identity is not the same as culture. What you're describing as "white culture" isn't an actual culture, it's an experience within a specific context. For example I'm mixed and can resonate with several other peoples of mixed race background. There's a lot of overlap in experience. BUT that does not make mixed folks a shared culture. I may resonate with a Hapa experience, but I am in no way Hapa myself. Likewise racial identity as "white" is more tied with what it means to look or be received a certain way. It can often entail racial stereotypes to certain preferences, expectations based on race, and perspectives based off of being in a dominate position in the US. So for example, I've been called white a couple of times in my life. When I couldn't dance well, people (and I would joke a little) that it was my white side kicking in. When I learned to latin dance and could dance pretty well people would describe it as my black side coming out. (It wasn't....it was called practice and lots of it). People have stated I "act white" based on dress, accent, and most insultingly my education level. Being "white" wasn't at all about my culture but about the experiences that people attribute to being white tied to acceptance into the mainstream and opportunities disparities among different ethnic/racial groups.  Complicating it further, culture can have nothing to do with actual genetic heritage. So I tell people I'm mexican influenced, even though genetically there's nothing in me that would look like the average mexican mestizo heritage.   

 

2 hours ago, Darren10 said:

But cannot people of Africa heritage be described as people of a black culture? In other words, one typically uses race to classify subcultures, I ask why one cannot use race to classify a culture? 

Black culture in the US is synonymous with African American culture. Google "black culture" and that becomes pretty clear. Anyone who is not African-american but has other black heritage living in the US can attest to that. Race is not an umbrella term to group specific cultures. Culture and race can often overlap.....so it's a safe bet that the majority of people with African heritage in america are AA in culture. BUT it's not a guarantee.  I do not have any meaningful ties to the AA community that would directly influence my culture even though I'm half black (nigerian). But all may experience similar things within the context of an American landscape to being black. My dad's nigerian culture does not innoculate him from being profile by police, for example. 

 

With luv,

BD

Edited August 29, 2017 by BlueDreams

[The Nehor]

2 hours ago, Darren10 said:

But cannot people of Africa heritage be described as people of a black culture? In other words, one typically uses race to classify subcultures, I ask why one cannot use race to classify a culture? 

No, look into how well the freed slaves sent back to Liberia integrated culturally. You could say there is an African American culture in the United States but it varies throughout the country as much as Caucasian culture does.

[Darren10]

6 hours ago, The Nehor said:

Napoleon won a few.

 I was exagerating but, even Napolean went down in flames. But so are we nowadays. 

Edited August 30, 2017 by Darren10

[Darren10]

6 hours ago, Gray said:

Because race is too broad. There is no one culture that encompasses a whole race.

But there are subcultures and subcultures collectively make up culture. That's my metric. And while not 100% 97% of one race is pretty close.

Is there such a thing as Mormon culture? 

[Darren10]

6 hours ago, BlueDreams said:

Yes the German/english side were white (and jewish a ways back) but I'm not. At least not full white, and depending where I live and when the ability to claim that part drastically shifts. Racial identity is not the same as culture. What you're describing as "white culture" isn't an actual culture, it's an experience within a specific context. For example I'm mixed and can resonate with several other peoples of mixed race background. There's a lot of overlap in experience. BUT that does not make mixed folks a shared culture. I may resonate with a Hapa experience, but I am in no way Hapa myself. Likewise racial identity as "white" is more tied with what it means to look or be received a certain way. It can often entail racial stereotypes to certain preferences, expectations based on race, and perspectives based off of being in a dominate position in the US. So for example, I've been called white a couple of times in my life. When I couldn't dance well, people (and I would joke a little) that it was my white side kicking in. When I learned to latin dance and could dance pretty well people would describe it as my black side coming out. (It wasn't....it was called practice and lots of it). People have stated I "act white" based on dress, accent, and most insultingly my education level. Being "white" wasn't at all about my culture but about the experiences that people attribute to being white tied to acceptance into the mainstream and opportunities disparities among different ethnic/racial groups.  Complicating it further, culture can have nothing to do with actual genetic heritage. So I tell people I'm mexican influenced, even though genetically there's nothing in me that would look like the average mexican mestizo heritage.   

 

Black culture in the US is synonymous with African American culture. Google "black culture" and that becomes pretty clear. Anyone who is not African-american but has other black heritage living in the US can attest to that. Race is not an umbrella term to group specific cultures. Culture and race can often overlap.....so it's a safe bet that the majority of people with African heritage in america are AA in culture. BUT it's not a guarantee.  I do not have any meaningful ties to the AA community that would directly influence my culture even though I'm half black (nigerian). But all may experience similar things within the context of an American landscape to being black. My dad's nigerian culture does not innoculate him from being profile by police, for example. 

 

With luv,

BD

Stereo types can be used humorously and that's because they are based some truth. 

Great points. True enough that race and culture are separate but don't they influence outcomes of one another? 

In the end I think that there are specific expectations from races in part from their subcultural backgrounds. There is no reason to exclude any race from any part of culture and likewise there is no reason to exclude any culture from any race. My original question to you about tour white background for part of your ancestry was to point out that part of your family is white and do certain things because of their cultural and subcultural backgrounds. Perhaps from their subcultural background but in the end they are who they are in large part from their past. Same for you and your uniqueness as well. Race genetic anf race-based behavior I think sre very much defined by subcultures. 

So, again, great points. Perhaps I am overextending the term "culture" but I am still not convinced that race does not influence culture and vice versa. 

[Darren10]

6 hours ago, The Nehor said:

No, look into how well the freed slaves sent back to Liberia integrated culturally. You could say there is an African American culture in the United States but it varies throughout the country as much as Caucasian culture does.

I agree african American culture is way too broadly used so yes it does vary but there are there not overall cultural indentities among African Americans? Not that thry have to be defined as such but isn't thst reality? Why does that not form a culture? 

 

 

[Gray]

15 hours ago, The Nehor said:

"Lafayette, we have come." We paid that back in the First World War. Can we kindly forget that embarrassing fact now? Plus they only get partial credit. They did not come as friends of the Revolutionaries. They came as enemies of the British.

Statue of Liberty and  creme brulee. Just sayin.

[Gray]

8 hours ago, Darren10 said:

But there are subcultures and subcultures collectively make up culture. That's my metric. And while not 100% 97% of one race is pretty close.

Is there such a thing as Mormon culture? 

What culture makes up 97% of one race? I can't think of anything.

And most cultures encompass multiple races - Mormon culture does for sure.

[Darren10]

1 hour ago, Gray said:

What culture makes up 97% of one race? I can't think of anything.

And most cultures encompass multiple races - Mormon culture does for sure.

Then why can culture be defined by religion since not allcultures have only one religion but not by race? 

Scottland culture. Here are whites in Scottland as oer the omniscient oracle Wikipedia:

Number.       %.             Number.       %

4,960,334

97.99%

5,084,407

96.02%

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Scotland

[Gray]

20 minutes ago, Darren10 said:

Then why can culture be defined by religion since not allcultures have only one religion but not by race? 

Scottland culture. Here are whites in Scottland as oer the omniscient oracle Wikipedia:

Number.       %.             Number.       %

4,960,334

97.99%

5,084,407

96.02%

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Scotland

Are 97% of white people Scottish?

I have Scottish ancestors, by the way - but that's not my culture.

 

Culture definitely can be defined by religion.

[Darren10]

1 hour ago, Gray said:

Are 97% of white people Scottish?

I have Scottish ancestors, by the way - but that's not my culture.

 

Culture definitely can be defined by religion.

I do too and they are not my culture neither

"Culture definitely can be defined by religion."

Correct.

Edited August 30, 2017 by Darren10

[Darren10]

I think that the argument here is that white" is genetic and "culture" is according to a common set of beliefs and practices. Why one does not influence the other confuses me. Subcultures can be e defined by race but not culture.

I appreciate all the responses. I just need to look into it more I guess.

[Calm]

How are you defining "race"?

add-on:  white is a skin colour...quite superficial, genetics may be showing something not usually connected with white skin colour.

I know "whites" that look like they are from the Middle East, European heritage who claim they are Native American. There was the case a few years ago of a European heritage woman claiming she was "black" and when discovered she was not, said it was her identity and she had a right to be black.

Skin colour, hair treatment, etc. is becoming more and more meaningless as determining "race".

add-on and on:  though technically skin is not white, black, red, or yellow unless something is wrong with it.  We are all shades of brown really.

Edited August 31, 2017 by Calm

[BlueDreams]

14 hours ago, Darren10 said:

Stereo types can be used humorously and that's because they are based some truth. 

Great points. True enough that race and culture are separate but don't they influence outcomes of one another? 

In the end I think that there are specific expectations from races in part from their subcultural backgrounds. There is no reason to exclude any race from any part of culture and likewise there is no reason to exclude any culture from any race. My original question to you about tour white background for part of your ancestry was to point out that part of your family is white and do certain things because of their cultural and subcultural backgrounds. Perhaps from their subcultural background but in the end they are who they are in large part from their past. Same for you and your uniqueness as well. Race genetic anf race-based behavior I think sre very much defined by subcultures. 

So, again, great points. Perhaps I am overextending the term "culture" but I am still not convinced that race does not influence culture and vice versa. 

I'm not sure what you mean by influence outcomes. How race and culture interact varies from region to region and country to country. Race isn't viewed the same or interacted in the same way. So for example in Brazil, being white is similar to being blonde here, in that it isn't a set group of people, but a distinction in color and looks that are attributed as "white." This can effect how they're treated in the society and access to certain privileges, but it doesn't mean there's a white culture in brazil...or that brazilians are part of "white culture". One can say the same thing about pretty people. There's studies that show that beautiful people get better treatment in social circumstances. This doesn't mean there's a beautiful people's culture. Just that specific cultures favor beauty and that cultural treatments may be more positive toward beautiful people. Likewise culture may and do favor whiteness or in-groups (whatever the in-group may be), but that doesn't make the in-group necessarily its own culture. 

Insisting race as culture is definitely and over-extension of the definition of culture.

[Darren10]

2 hours ago, BlueDreams said:

I'm not sure what you mean by influence outcomes. How race and culture interact varies from region to region and country to country. Race isn't viewed the same or interacted in the same way. So for example in Brazil, being white is similar to being blonde here, in that it isn't a set group of people, but a distinction in color and looks that are attributed as "white." This can effect how they're treated in the society and access to certain privileges, but it doesn't mean there's a white culture in brazil...or that brazilians are part of "white culture". One can say the same thing about pretty people. There's studies that show that beautiful people get better treatment in social circumstances. This doesn't mean there's a beautiful people's culture. Just that specific cultures favor beauty and that cultural treatments may be more positive toward beautiful people. Likewise culture may and do favor whiteness or in-groups (whatever the in-group may be), but that doesn't make the in-group necessarily its own culture. 

Insisting race as culture is definitely and over-extension of the definition of culture.

Interesting. The very first time I witnessed a person publically stand up and denounce blacks as demeaned and less than worthy people was in a bus either in Recife or Maceio, Brazil; and both areas are heavily populated by Afro Brazilians. I'd say there's a culture behind him saying that.

What you're telling me is that race and culture do influence each other so I fail to understand the non existence of white culture.

But, I think this dialogue has run  its course. I do appreciate your input as well as from others. I definitely think I do need to learn more on tis subject.

[Darren10]

7 hours ago, Calm said:

How are you defining "race"?

add-on:  white is a skin colour, genetics may be showing something not usually connected with white skin colour.

I know "whites" that look like they are from the Middle East, European heritage who claim they are Native American. There was the case a few years ago of a European heritage woman claiming she was "black" and when discovered she was not, said it was her identity and she had a right to be black.

Skin colour, hair treatment, etc. is becoming more and more meaningless as determining "race".

"How are you defining "race"?" - When you run?  

[BlueDreams]

12 minutes ago, Darren10 said:

Interesting. The very first time I witnessed a person publically stand up and denounce blacks as demeaned and less than worthy people was in a bus either in Recife or Maceio, Brazil; and both areas are heavily populated by Afro Brazilians. I'd say there's a culture behind him saying that.

What you're telling me is that race and culture do influence each other so I fail to understand the non existence of white culture.

But, I think this dialogue has run  its course. I do appreciate your input as well as from others. I definitely think I do need to learn more on tis subject.

Yeah, probably. It makes no sense what you're saying. It's the same as saying there's blonde culture. There's simply not, even though being blonde can have cultural impact and does. That's basically what you're saying, that having a phenotype means having a culture. It doesn't.

 

but disagree as you wish..

with luv,

BD 

[Darren10]

2 hours ago, BlueDreams said:

Yeah, probably. It makes no sense what you're saying. It's the same as saying there's blonde culture. There's simply not, even though being blonde can have cultural impact and does. That's basically what you're saying, that having a phenotype means having a culture. It doesn't.

 

but disagree as you wish..

with luv,

BD 

My youngest daughter is, like totally in the blonde culturrrrree.

[Darren10]

Ok, one more thing unless I think of something else. I am not saying that just because you are of a race, you have a culture within that race. you don't all I am saying is that certain behaviors, practices, even beliefs are influenced by race and thus influence a culture and culture does influence race.

[BlueDreams]

6 minutes ago, Darren10 said:

Ok, one more thing unless I think of something else. I am not saying that just because you are of a race, you have a culture within that race. you don't all I am saying is that certain behaviors, practices, even beliefs are influenced by race and thus influence a culture and culture does influence race.

I would say that culture defines what race even is. We didn't have the racial categories we do now a few centuries back. We don't have the same categories of "race" from country to country. I don't think race specifically influences our behaviors. Ethnic and cultural origins do. CultUre. In essence, is the overarching principle. Race is a sub-category in how cultures may differentiate people.

 

With luv,

BD 

[hagoth7]

On ‎8‎/‎29‎/‎2017 at 11:05 AM, Gray said:

So the French are historically white. Does that mean their culture also includes bagpipe playing, kilt wearing and stone throwing? It must, because that's "white culture", right? 

 

As to stone throwing and the French, I'm guessing you've never seen Asterix and his pals, including the stone-throwing Obelix.

So-called Celtic practices actually used to be much more widely spread.

Wiki: "...bagpipes have been played for a millennium or more throughout large parts of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, including Turkey, the Caucasus, and around the Persian Gulf"

Edited August 31, 2017 by hagoth7

[Darren10]

1 hour ago, BlueDreams said:

I would say that culture defines what race even is. We didn't have the racial categories we do now a few centuries back. We don't have the same categories of "race" from country to country. I don't think race specifically influences our behaviors. Ethnic and cultural origins do. CultUre. In essence, is the overarching principle. Race is a sub-category in how cultures may differentiate people.

 

With luv,

BD 

Makes sense. Thanks. I do need to study this more.