I don't think I've ever been "proud" to be white in my life. I've been glad to be white at times when it's helped out, but I've never said "God Damn It its a good day to be white!"
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Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
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I understand what your saying there but for me being brown means so much to me it defines who i am and anybody who has a problem with that can screw themselves in hell.
Yes. But it's much deeper than just race. It's basically history and culture. Am I proud of what the human race? Yes. Do I love what other cultures offer? Yes. But I am proud of my cultures and people because I'll be honest and say I know much more about it than about other cultures. And I enjoy showing others about my culture they may not know and am ecstatic when they know more about something in my culture than I do. I am proud because of it's unique identity. It's not to say I don't love the other cultures/history, but I do love and am proud of my culture/ethnicity at the same time.
It's a skin color, nothing more. I love the human race, even though it sucks hairy ballz.
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I find the concept of being proud that I'm Caucasian somewhat weird. Like inimalist said, I tend to be nation orientated more than 'race' orientated.
I'm not proud generally of the whole human race. It's relative. For example, if I was Mongolian I'd be probably very proud of Genghis Khan, however to me, being who I am, he's worse than Hitler.
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في هذا العالم ثلاثة أشخاص أفسدوا البشرية : راعي غنم , طبيب و راكب الجمال , و راكب الجمال هو أسوأ نشال و أسوأ مشعوذ بين الثلاثة
i never bn proud to be my race. i actually despise ppl who try to appeal to my ethnicity for a favor or reason to stick by one another.
i share an affinity to certain historical moments of my culture as well as others but not claim it as my own..
although, i do have the god symbol of my ancestor's God Savior.
i simply am.
ppl should be proud and thankful for who they are and what they accomplished individually not be thankful nor grateful for their skin color or ancestry history that they themselves played no part in.
only thing i am remotely grateful along these lines is that i am good looking and sociable... i am proud of my own history that i lived in and had a part in Q.E.D. having bn an actual Modern Warrior.
I think that that white people are too scared to be honest about being proud about their race and dont wanna be labelled as racists so i kinda feel sorry for them in a way.
I guess thats because of the legacy of European imperialism and what it did
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Well if looking at the achievements of White and Caucasian people as a whole, in that retrospect, I am very proud.
Equally, the question is sort of lacking because I cannot be 'proud' of Vikings as my ancestors were not station in the Nordic countries. I cannot be proud of Poles either as I have zero connection to them.
Even though we are 'white' mine and Pole's genetics are very different so how can anyone be generally proud to be any 'race' without any genetic and small cultural connection to other people of the same 'race'?
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في هذا العالم ثلاثة أشخاص أفسدوا البشرية : راعي غنم , طبيب و راكب الجمال , و راكب الجمال هو أسوأ نشال و أسوأ مشعوذ بين الثلاثة
exactly.. how can anyone be proud of something they played no part in or is not part of the culture.
i mean if you are from a small group with certain cultural traits then you can be proud of it and its tied history to it.
but, how can any white, brown or black person be proud of another person's accomplishment simply for being of the same skin tone but not part of the culture or history..
its like an irish man being proud of english imperialism and viking life style but isnt even of the same race or culture just shares skin tone.
same for an american black man being proud of all things african culture but not being part of it. he can study and be fascinated by the history but it would be very disengeious to say he is of that tribe or culture and take pride of its accomplishment.
this just goes on and its retarded in my opinion,... when i climbed a small random mountain i am congratulated by a small non athletic guy who tries to claim my feat as his own through shared ethnicity of a race.. its stupid b/c he didnt do it himself and it had nothing to do with race but mental resolve.
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