Reply #104: I thought about this a little more today [View All]

[Nikia]

It seems that this girl goes to a rather diverse school. She is also of diverse ethnicities herself. Perhaps, she really wishes to discuss what it means to be white while the other groups discuss what it means to be black, Asian, or Latino. We should not assume that just because white culture dominates the U.S. that she is comfortable with what it means to be white. We can say that patriarchy dominates the U.S. but I think it is acceptable for groups like the boy scouts and fraternities to discuss and learn from each other what it means to be a man. At my college there was a course on the anthropology of whiteness (It was called something else but that was its general subject and I did not have a chance to take it) so there is some interest in the subject. There have been some white identity groups like the KKK that have been racist, but a white identity group wouldn't have to be if her purpose really is to explore what it means to be white and not to the exclusion of others. To some it might sound silly, but what does it mean to be of any race?