Actual Euros routinely mock Americans who pretend to share an ethnic identity with them. And honestly, I don't blame them. If these people were actually serious about it then at least they would put in the effort to learn the language of the group they claim to belong to, because at least that would be something, but they don't even do that. It's just so obviously fake and superficial. It looks idiotic to Europeans and frustrating and cringeworthy to Americans who are able to recognize the true and obvious.
The truth is unconsciously most people understand white identity. Most parents even in liberal cities like NY avoid living in zip codes where schools are black majority. Even in California bay area, white parents avoid areas where Asians are the majority in school district, even though schools are not plagued by discipline and quality issues like ones in black majority areas.
Even interracial marriage data show that most of the interracial marriages are in between whites and Hispanics or whites and Asians. Unconsciously people understand racial identity.
Good to call out goofballs who LARP as niche, obsolete identities like Dutch Reformist. But it may be worth addressing whether Asians and Hispanics are on the same path towards whiteness that Italians, Irish and other ethnic Europeans were on (especially considering intermarriage). Or is the European continent a permanent line on white vs non white?
Hispanics, Turks/Caucus/Armenians, Central Asians , a lot of MENA, and Jews are weird cases because they can have a lot of European DNA depending on the individual basis, but many others do not and look different or have totally different cultures. However, with intermarriage their children and grandchildren look and are effectively white people.
Asians are their own distinct race, and even then, I seriously doubt that groups like the Chinese (East Asian), Indians (South Asian), and Malays/Filipinos (Southeast Asian) would be considered the same race. But they all have high intermarriage rates so many of their kids or grandchildren sort of look or are effectively white?
"ERM, I'm actually Dutch reformed"
Do you speak Dutch?
"No"
Actual Euros routinely mock Americans who pretend to share an ethnic identity with them. And honestly, I don't blame them. If these people were actually serious about it then at least they would put in the effort to learn the language of the group they claim to belong to, because at least that would be something, but they don't even do that. It's just so obviously fake and superficial. It looks idiotic to Europeans and frustrating and cringeworthy to Americans who are able to recognize the true and obvious.
The truth is unconsciously most people understand white identity. Most parents even in liberal cities like NY avoid living in zip codes where schools are black majority. Even in California bay area, white parents avoid areas where Asians are the majority in school district, even though schools are not plagued by discipline and quality issues like ones in black majority areas.
Even interracial marriage data show that most of the interracial marriages are in between whites and Hispanics or whites and Asians. Unconsciously people understand racial identity.
Good to call out goofballs who LARP as niche, obsolete identities like Dutch Reformist. But it may be worth addressing whether Asians and Hispanics are on the same path towards whiteness that Italians, Irish and other ethnic Europeans were on (especially considering intermarriage). Or is the European continent a permanent line on white vs non white?
Yes and no.
Hispanics, Turks/Caucus/Armenians, Central Asians , a lot of MENA, and Jews are weird cases because they can have a lot of European DNA depending on the individual basis, but many others do not and look different or have totally different cultures. However, with intermarriage their children and grandchildren look and are effectively white people.
Asians are their own distinct race, and even then, I seriously doubt that groups like the Chinese (East Asian), Indians (South Asian), and Malays/Filipinos (Southeast Asian) would be considered the same race. But they all have high intermarriage rates so many of their kids or grandchildren sort of look or are effectively white?
I still don’t know what to think of this.