Comments on: #20 Being an expert on YOUR culture

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:08:27 +0000

the ugly 12%

By: Famous

Famous — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:01:00 +0000

To the “Portuguese white girl”, my grandparents are from Portugal, they don’t consider themselves white at all. In fact they identify more with African Americans and Hispanics. As for Portuguese being a white a white language :\ I would double check on that…I have a few African friends who speak Portuguese; it’s the native language in Cape Verde. I think we should do a blog entitled “Races That Other Races Try To Claim”

By: NG

NG — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:15:04 +0000

The northern Europeans don’t consider Portuguese white..they consider them olive skinned Meds..though being one is absolutely not bad at all however, only the Portuguese, Greeks and Spanish, the poorest countries in the “old” EU consider themselves white…unfortunately, the Garlic belt which starts somewhere halfway Belgium is an absolute reality in the EU and the poor southern European countries have always had an inferiority complex – almost all the women on Portuguese and Spanish television will have dyed, blond hair which is 180 degrees in contrast with the reality in their streets where everyone has dark hair with extremely few exceptions. BTW, Portuguese is not a Germanic (white) language, it’s a Latin (southern European, darker skinned Med.) language…

By: KKS

KKS — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:30:07 +0000

I’m white-Malaysian, so I feel like I can fence-sit this issue. Sometimes I meet Pakistanis and go “Hey! Kya hal hei? Acha?” and get scorned looks, and sometimes people come up to me and go “You’re Malaysian? Apa khabar?” and I shoot them some scorned looks myself.

*sigh* What’s a half-white to do? I half-like your list btw, good job.

By: uh.....

uh..... — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:50:13 +0000

you’re surprised by white people not know anything about your country?!!

Well try this: White people don’t know anything about the non-whites that live among them HERE in these United States!

Up until November 5th, 2008, the definition of white america had been self centeredness. Period.

if it ain’t white, it is not needed to be known. Borat was before our presidential election. It seems that after the election that whites are more receptive and curious about people who are not like themselves. And it helped that our president looks like only 12% of all of the american population.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:20:47 +0000

Yes, Portuguese is a European language but spoken in several African countries as well as Brazil. Portugal aside, quite a few non-whites speak it. Spanish is also a European language btw…I speak it and I sure as hell am not white.

By: Ashtankin

Ashtankin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:05:27 +0000

Haha, I am from Kazakhstan, so also central Asia, and they all thought it is part of Russia. But I guess Kazakhs are lucky that our country is not turned into an American restaurant name (I remember seeing Mongolian Barbecue a lot there).

Do you get the question if your country is still part of the Soviet Union? They asked that a lot to me…

I got awkward silence a lot too, except the people who heard about Kazakhstan from the movie Borat and had lots of false assumptions… do not know which one is worse. Why not just ask some question, if they do not know??

By: Ashtankin

Ashtankin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:58:43 +0000

Kazakh opinion here…

I went to university in United States. At first I couldn’t believe how many people had actually heard of Kazakhstan (I had been imagining Americans are not very knowledgeable about foreign countries.)

….. and then I realised it was all from the movie Borat, and that their idea of it is completely wrong. Very often they were surprised that I am not white…. (apparently, Borat was white, although most of our population is central Asian genetic ancestry and look similar to Mongolian). They were surprised also that we speak Russian more than we speak Kazakh. They were also surprised we do not hate Jewish people, do not all live in little villages, that Almaty and Astana are as modernised as their big cities and – have high-rise buildings and nightclubs and fancy advertising too. Almost no one knew where it actually is and had to ask if it is part of Russia…

But the worst part was when they thought my country is, told me how my country should be, and criticised the customs and politics based on one or two sentences I told them, when they didn’t even know a thing about it five minutes before. Amazing amount of ignorance…

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:08:39 +0000

Word usage is very important when making a point…

“The south american countries took the portuguese language or spanish when they were colonized.”

“took” is incorrect “forced upon” sound about right… along with Catholicism…

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:00:54 +0000

This may be a little off topic but… why isn’t Barnes & Nobles on the list of thing white people like? lol. yeah this is all too true, but then again i must be white too, cause i do the same thing… tbh like most black folks born and raise in the US, idk wth is my genealogical ethnicity. I just know I’m mostly black… i just may have some white in me. thank you cultural discontent and the forced diffusion of many races due to the birth of America!!!