@pixelatedbrat @RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario While I would never say white culture is in any way identical or even similar to black culture there most certainly are overarching similarities. First off they, for the most part, come from the same geographic regions which throughout history have had ever changing borders. Cultures which are physically close almost always have very similar languages, and culture, as well as heritage. Its why a dutch person who has never spoken german can still understand german, and why they have many of the same foods.

The idea that whites have no commonality by which to identify a unified culture is simply untrue.

@pixelatedbrat @RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario For a more concrete example travel around europe and ask them versious questions about their culture things like: What holidays do you celebrate? What are the proper codes of ettiquette when addressing others?etc. You will quickly find that most European nations have very similar answers to these questions.

Then go do the same for black culture, or Native american culture. You will find there are a lot of similarities internal to those cultures as well. But compared to each other the similarities are less the farther the geographical distance the cultures happen to be spaced from each other (usually).

The pattern of shared culture becomes very evident very fast and it comes obvious whites, blacks, or any other group, do in fact have a shared culture among them.

@freemo @RichardDoom @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario No. You need to brush up on your European history. Colonization, war and genocide have had their own impacts on each specific European region, and several historically oppressed ethnic groups/nations have only recently been seen as "white" at all. I mean yeah if you want to say Dutch is basically German, fine. But I promise you won't be able to carry that into the Balkans.

@pixelatedbrat @RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario Well of course each region has its own unique hard ships. That doesnt seem to be a valid counter argument to me.

As for them not identifying as "white"before recently I tend to agree. They had different names for different groups and sub groups throughout history, to various levels of inclusive. Regardless that doesnt change the fact that they have shared heritage and shared culture due to their physical proximity to each other.

@pixelatedbrat @RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario Now if your argument is simply that ht eblack community has a STRONGER cultural bond than white people due to their very sad and difficult history. Then I'd say that is certainly a fair assessment. But to claim that white people lack any sense of culture just because their cultural bond is less than blacks would be untrue.

@freemo @RichardDoom @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario I absolutely didnt say not imply that white people don't have "any sense of culture." I have literally said and reiterated that there is no such thing as "white culture."

@pixelatedbrat @RichardDoom@mastodon.social @Jurassicnps @bluepurplerain @EndlessWario when I said "any sense of culture" I was talking about their collective culture. Their evident shared cultural practices that are due to thousands of years of changing borders and intermingling due to close geographic proximity. Just as asians have a collective culture (as well as more localized cultures), and southern americans have their own as well.

I would even go so far as to say that there are different levels of cultures at every scale. There
is, for example a human culture that is world wide (which wouldnt really be worth mentioning unless aliens visited us one day).

Culture is not limited to borders or even to how you identify. It is developed through shares experiences over time. Put people close to each other over time and a shared culture will emerge with just a few generations. Hell there is even a "south philly italian" culture despite it being just a few generations old in many places.

@pixelatedbrat no way, a german and a european-american automatically become best friends when they meat because White

@skrrt_vonnegut I know, all Europeans love white Americans. It's great. There are never any cultural misunderstandings there.