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White on white: Nation's first ever 'whiteness' survey provides new insight on race
Eureka Alert--U of Minnesota ^ | 9-6-06 | David Ruth

Posted on 09/06/2006 7:09:04 AM PDT by Pharmboy

Survey focuses on what white people think about being white

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (9/6/2006) -- What whites think about their own race is the focus of a first-of-its-kind national survey by researchers in the University of Minnesota's department of sociology. From a telephone survey of more than 2,000 households nationwide, results show that there is more recognition among white people of their own racial identity and the social privileges that come with it than was previously thought.

The assumption behind prior scholarship and diversity training initiatives was that whites overlooked their own race.

"It's sort of like having an accent," said the study's co-author, University of Minnesota associate professor Doug Hartmann. "For some white Americans, racial identity is so fixed, so taken for granted, that 'race' becomes something other people have."

In fact, the researchers found that a majority of whites (74 percent) felt that their own racial identity was important to them, and that a similar majority were able to see prejudice and discrimination as important in explaining white advantage. At the same time, minorities are more likely to see their racial identities as important and to see structural reasons for racial disparities.

The research also suggests that awareness of white identity and awareness of white privilege are not the same. "The fact of the matter is that people claim white identity for defensive as well as progressive reasons," said survey co-author Paul Croll, University of Minnesota graduate student.

Age and income have little impact on a white person's awareness of their racial identity, the study found. But Southerners and social conservatives place more emphasis on their racial identity than other white Americans, while those with more education place less. Republican and male respondents most strongly resist claims that discrimination in legal and financial systems can explain white advantage. Additionally, respondents--regardless of their racial identity--believed strongly in the importance of individual effort, hard work and family upbringing in achieving success.

### The study, available upon request, was part of the American Mosaic Project, a three-year project funded by the Minneapolis-based David Edelstein Family Foundation that looks at race, religion and cultural diversity in the contemporary United States.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 95percentcantjump; privilege; race; whitefolks; whites
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To: .cnI redruM
I must have forgot it in my truck that got jacked a couple of years ago. I guess it's my "privilege" to provide you with those basic necessities in life. Enjoy a Jack on the rocks on me. Thanks for the privilege!!

SZ
41 posted on 09/06/2006 7:50:40 AM PDT by SZonian (Fighting Caliphobia one detractor at a time)
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To: absolootezer0
most minorities keep themselves down.

Did you mean that most minorities who are down are keeping themselves down?

42 posted on 09/06/2006 7:53:41 AM PDT by Shade2
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To: Locomotive Breath
Or could it be white cultural values? Like valuing education, a work ethic, and long-term goal seeking. Monogomy, reflex obedience of law, patriotism, teamwork, acknowledgement of ones betters, respect for teachers, preference for problem resolution via dialog, disinclination to violence, community standards of morality, marriage before pregnancy, cultural prohibition on teen motherhood, dislike of gangs, and of course, teaching kids to swim.
43 posted on 09/06/2006 7:53:49 AM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Pharmboy
1) group rights

2) proportional representation

3) protected classes

I've met people who talk about these things as if there is no debate about the rightness or wrongness of them.

44 posted on 09/06/2006 7:55:29 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Pharmboy

This goes beyond "playing the Race card."

Now the universtiy gets to "play the Race study."

"It's part of a study!! Whitey is racist!!!"


45 posted on 09/06/2006 7:56:11 AM PDT by subterfuge (If Liberals hated terrorists like they hate Bush the war would be over by now)
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To: SZonian

Yeah, it's a real shame I missed out on "The Whiteness Survey." They could write a book about the results entitled "The Rice Papers."


46 posted on 09/06/2006 7:57:39 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
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To: RobbyS

Exactly. What I suspect was ignored is that southerners and conservatives are more likely to see the things that are askew, as does Bill Cosby, for example. But the "educated" are less likely to have anything but the Bravo Sierra liberal view that has been spoon fed to them: institutional racism has kept non-whites down and we should feel bad about ourselves for it, provide exclusive advantages to non-whites because of it, and we need to pay reparations.


47 posted on 09/06/2006 7:58:29 AM PDT by 70times7 (Sense... some don't make any, some don't have any - or so the former would appear to the latter.)
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To: stainlessbanner
Southerners and social conservatives place more emphasis on their racial identity

Pish-tosh.

48 posted on 09/06/2006 7:59:26 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Mother of a horde: it's not just an adventure - it's a job!)
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To: Locomotive Breath
Do white people get to complain about "yellow privilege"?

Heard a WSJ reporter Dan Golden (that's GOLDEN not Goldin) promoting a book, "The Price of Admission...".

Asians have to get a 1600 (at the time) on their SATs to be admitted to the "elite" schools. The ones
that get screwed are white males and very-smart-but-not-quite-perfect Asians.

Females have Title IX...

49 posted on 09/06/2006 8:01:06 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: .cnI redruM

My company wouldn't even let me play with their recent "Diversity Maturity Survey". I guess whiteys weren't invited, because I haven't found any other whiteys here who took it.

SZ


50 posted on 09/06/2006 8:04:02 AM PDT by SZonian (Fighting Caliphobia one detractor at a time)
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To: Shade2
Did you mean that most minorities who are down are keeping themselves down?

you're right, i think that would probably be a better way to put it. not all minorities are down, but the ones that aren't, you don't usually hear about. heck, media only really reports on 2 classes of minorities: blacks and hispanics. the only time they report about anyone of arabian descent, its involving terrorism; and native americans usually come with casino stories. there's almost nothing (that i see) about asians.
yanno what i'd like to really see? a study that shows a comparison of percentages of millionaires in the minorities. between all the sports stars, i could almost believe there might be a higher percentage of minorities that are millionaires than whites.
51 posted on 09/06/2006 8:04:45 AM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: Calvin Locke

IOW, the Asians are also punished for being very very good as a group.


52 posted on 09/06/2006 8:05:03 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: Pharmboy

Hello, felicity, goodbye, fecundity.


53 posted on 09/06/2006 8:06:32 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Jack Black

OK - your list is bigger than mine. : )


54 posted on 09/06/2006 8:10:01 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: Hoplite

Homer aint white!


55 posted on 09/06/2006 8:12:01 AM PDT by Bommer
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To: Prime Choice

I'm with you, too...


56 posted on 09/06/2006 8:14:10 AM PDT by Andonius_99 (They [liberals] aren't humans, but rather a species of hairless retarded ape.)
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To: azhenfud

Try the Protestant Work Ethic as a formula for success.


57 posted on 09/06/2006 8:15:39 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: Prime Choice
"I made it here because I had parents who gave a damn about where I was and what I was doing when I was young."

I am of German/Scot extraction, and I did not have what you had. I was raised by a single dad who worked so I spent loooooots of time with idle hands. My mother was a radical feminist; she left when I was eight to go do whatever she wanted. Not all whites have privilege. Not all blacks and browns lack privilege.

For all peoples, the key to doing well is good manners, politeness, working well with others, applying ones self to education and work, thrift, industry, taking care not to waste resources and time, and investing in the next generation by being faithful and staying married, and seeing to the good care of your young, and ensuring their proper introduction into polite society.

A metaphor for families breaking up is a failed business, where all the talent and producers is/are dispersed and unable to focus their energies as a team production of things that bring profits. When a mother leaves, or a father, they take with them all the future beneficence, work, love, teaching, that they can bestow on the current family, and allocate it elsewhere for the benefit of others who have no higher claim on it than the biological children, and who aren't going to be there when there is a real crisis that involves the original family members. It is all wasted.

The strength of the state is in the condition of business, and of families. The weakness of families translates to the weakness of the State. Feminism has served to weaken the state by weakening the family. Feminists are public enemies.

58 posted on 09/06/2006 8:17:21 AM PDT by Jason_b
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To: Incorrigible

Beat me to it. I should have figured that would be on the thread, within 20 or so posts.


59 posted on 09/06/2006 8:18:45 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: edcoil; Pharmboy; Locomotive Breath; TonyRo76; azhenfud; Hoplite; AppyPappy; Prime Choice; ...
Potentially very popular policy change : 1. Eliminate all ethnic/gender legal preference/discrimination. 2.End public subsidy of race/gender-based "sensitivity" indoctrination programs. 3. Uphold constitutional right of 'freedom of association'.

Beyond that, what nations do we support with our 'foreign aid' billions etc.? How are the Rhodesians doing? Are the human/civil rights of Africaaners being upheld?

60 posted on 09/06/2006 8:24:26 AM PDT by ProCivitas ("Well... it ain't exactly a Swiss village, is it?" --- Colin Quinn, Boston Comic,ToughCrowd host.)
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