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What is White? Caucasian students inquire.
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| December 8, 2003
| Jose Antonio Vargas
Posted on 12/08/2003 8:28:20 AM PST by SFmom
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:45:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The other students call her "white girl."
Justine Steele is a senior at Independence High School in San Jose, a sprawling campus of 4,054 students where 8 percent are Caucasian. Forget the numbers. "Look around," she says. There are Indians and Vietnamese, Mexicans and Filipinos.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: caucasianclub; diversity; education; europeanamericans; multiculturalism; publicschools; racism; sfbayarea; white
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posted on
12/08/2003 8:28:21 AM PST
by
SFmom
To: SFmom
"They say this school is really ghetto," said the 15-year-old. "They ask, 'Have you been shot? Have you seen people carry guns?' That's just so stupid. It's racist.
Well have you seen people carry guns in the school?
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posted on
12/08/2003 8:34:45 AM PST
by
lelio
To: SFmom
"It's been such a norm that we haven't defined it, and I think white students might feel like they're in a cultural vacuum, whereas other folks -- the Asians and the Latinos, for example -- have something tangible to call their culture." Geez. How can Balkanization ... I'm sorry, I mean diversity truly succeed until every single student can fit in a nice little segregated group? This clearly requires an immediate and sizable government grant to get this resolved.
To: SFmom
What is white? Just another term for can't dance.
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posted on
12/08/2003 8:43:01 AM PST
by
Wheee The People
(If this post doesn't make any sense, then it also doubles as a bump.)
To: Wheee The People
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posted on
12/08/2003 8:44:15 AM PST
by
Howlin
To: SFmom
"the European Ancestry Club had nearly 50 members"
What a great idea....we're not elitists or racists, we're....genealogists !
I lived and worked in the Eastbay for 11 years. I miss it very much, but I could not afford to raise my white kids there. In Piedmont, along with the Lamorinda towns, a million dollars buys you a very ordinary rancher which is falling off the side of a hill.
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posted on
12/08/2003 8:45:37 AM PST
by
Gaetano
(Stairway to Heaven or bikepath to hell)
To: SFmom
She has a great heritage. She can not find it because she has not been taught it. They don't teach those things in school anymore. She has many great leaders in history to hold up. She does not know them. They don't teach about them anymore.
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posted on
12/08/2003 8:54:04 AM PST
by
BJungNan
To: Wheee The People
What is white? Just another term for can't dance."During multicultural rallies, when there are Indian dancers and Chinese dancers,
Strange, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on dancing.
I always looked at dancing as a little primitive. But it's always fun to watch people make absolute fools of themselves.
LOL!
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posted on
12/08/2003 8:54:21 AM PST
by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
To: Gaetano
Caucasians are from Central Asia, unrelated to European ethnicities. In Russia, they are considered non white.
There aren't many real Caucasians in America.
To: SFmom
"Some, like Justine, consciously or unconsciously self-segregate."
MOST people, Asian, Indian, Caucasian (even to the degree of Italian, English, Irish, German, etc), tend to feel more comfortable among others of a similar cultural-ethnic background.
The problem here is that the Government and the Schools encourage Balkanization of the population by ALLOWING race or ethnic limited organizations. ALL OF THEM should be banned. This is AMERICA. We should only have room for Americans.
"A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts 'Native' before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance." - Theodore Roosevelt
What SHOULD be allowed are clubs like an Asian Study Group, or an Irish Study Group, or an Indonesian Study group - open to ALL students REGARDLESS of background, to encourage understanding and knowlege of other socities, rather than to reinforce an agenda of ethnic exclusivity.
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posted on
12/08/2003 8:58:31 AM PST
by
ZULU
To: SFmom
The ethnic makeup of the Bay Area, he adds, demands that "we become conscious" of the role each race, each ethnicity, plays.I think he is quoting Hitler on this one. It was much more melodic in the original German...
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
I agree. To me there are four types of Europeans: Nordics, Mediterraneans, Bo-Hunks, and Slavs. Caucasian describes nothing to me.
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posted on
12/08/2003 9:03:24 AM PST
by
Gaetano
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Hate to break it to you but Caucasian, referring to race, has nothing to do with Azeris and Armenians. It is derived from Caucasoid, which Azeris and Armenians are certainly a part of, just as Negro is related to Negroid and Mongol to Mongoloid(though no one would call an Asian a Mongol these days.)
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posted on
12/08/2003 9:04:04 AM PST
by
Skywalk
To: SFmom
Today whites are a hated majority
In a few decades we'll be the hated minority
Think about the consequences of that
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posted on
12/08/2003 9:06:06 AM PST
by
WackyKat
To: SFmom
Ahhh, cultural marxism........
To: Joe Hadenuf
No, think about it--while culture can be many things, the fact is these kids are generally American as can be. Sure, they eat some different dishes at home, maybe speak the mother tongue with the parents, as well, but that's it.
None of the kids I knew in various ethnic clubs at Michigan walked around in traditional garb. Nor did they regularly dance the old dances.
The reason you see danced at these events is that it is one of the few things "cultural" that can be demonstrated right then and there and is "distinct." Food is another--but that's why these things always devolve into dance and pageantry--because it's harder to show other aspects of culture, particularly when kids probably don't know half of them anyway.
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posted on
12/08/2003 9:07:59 AM PST
by
Skywalk
To: SFmom
What kind of white is she.?.. Julian Bond white, Micheal Jackson white, or Steve Martin white... or even Tony Brown white... course theres Eminem white which is'nt white at all but merely white-washed black...
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posted on
12/08/2003 9:08:22 AM PST
by
hosepipe
To: Skywalk
If everyone else gets to make up a self-descriptive term, I can too, and I don't choose Caucasian, unless blacks go back to Negroid and Asians go back to Mongoloid.
To: WackyKat
In SF it is perfectly OK to be white, as long as you're gay too.
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posted on
12/08/2003 9:08:46 AM PST
by
Gaetano
To: SFmom
""It's been such a norm that we haven't defined it," That's because we haven't had to. Our culture, quite simply, is that which is being stolen, outlawed and politically corrected. Our culture produced great innovators, authors, composers and independent thinkers. Our culture formed the basis of what we think of as American tradition and laid the foundation of a free nation. Our culture has been taken captive by the demagogues of diversity. Welcome to America's future.
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posted on
12/08/2003 9:16:20 AM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.)
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