So when you have “white pride” you’re expressing pride in the structure of oppression we’ve created. No one cares if at some point you want to have Norwegian-descended pride day or whatever.
Like that is why you can’t have “white pride” but you can have like “Scottish-American pride” because that’s actually about your heritage and culture and not about a shitty label that encompasses a huge number of ethnicities that we use to oppress people who don’t fit under it.
Also for the majority of black Americans, they don’t get specifics on their black ancestry because our ancestors fucking kidnapped theirs and forcibly erased most of the language and culture they brought with them (though the amount that was saved, by black people, is amazing and wonderful and something to take immense pride in) so they don’t get to say “Mozambican-American” the way you say “Irish-American” because they had their fucking history stolen.
So being pissed at them for taking pride in the only heritage we left them with makes you an absolute fucking tool.
AKA why I blocked the “Ok no THIS is white culture” shitpost but reblog Vikings stuff all the time
good points in this: ethnicity »> race, 99 and 44/100 per cent of the time. race is a bad zeroth-order approximation of ethnicity. ethnic cohesion, even ethnic pride, is pretty okay (I would say more than pretty okay but whatever). black americans descended from slaves get shafted on ethnicity and so have to fall back on race.
bad points in this: the fuck are you supposed to do if you’re white + adopted or from a really poor family or whatever and you don’t actually know your ethnic background? to a lesser extent, what if you’re an ethnic mongrel — German/Irish/French/English/Norwegian or something? denying ethnic identity to those people seems pretty unfair.
1. If you’re adopted go with your family’s heritage, it’s your cultural heritage in any case. The heritage you were raised with, the culture you grew up in is worth celebrating.
2. If you’re from a family where you don’t know your actual ethnic background, check out your surname and if possible your mother’s maiden name. I hear they have this thing called google these days, check it out, I hear it’s pretty good. You can also look for clues like religious practices to figure out where your family is from.
3. For people of mixed descent, celebrate all the various parts of your heritage. I’m Swedish/Scottish/English/German and I enjoy the cultural heritage I’ve gotten from all of these. There is also regional cultural pride, you don’t need to know where your family is from originally to be proud of where your family is from now, the regional culture is a part of your heritage too.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 