Great article! One thing I would question is, what about cross-ethnicity people? Many of us might have to fall back on White, since our European ethnicities married together before we were born.
I'm mainly of Scandinavian and British descent, born in Deseret where my parents were sojourning, raised in my father's nation of Lakelands, in adulthood living in my mother's nation of the Hordelands, with maternal ancestry in Anarcho England and a sense of nostalgia for Appalachia. If I were to marry within ethnicity, that would have to be White, and I couldn't be too choosy about the European ethnic quanta.
Before the earlier part of the last century, most people never went more than 50 miles from where they were born. Today, this still rings true. Most of us stay where we are born, with something like 80% of people in many states being born in that state. The basic structure is that the geography of where you were born has people who knew your parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. This creates a network of humans that are more like you and know you better than any person elsewhere ever could. This is the beginnings of ethnicity. White is a term that makes us all similar for advertising and government purposes. But if you are like me and hate the idea of the government being soveirgn and creating our ethnicity by stripping those bonds you can be white all you want to lol.
I totally like your idea, and would rather be an ethnicity and a nation than a corporate or government classification. "White" or "American" is what we were all swept into during the World Wars period and thereafter, because the managerial government wanted to level us all into one kind that they could work with. But that sweeping was largely successful, and at this point the old European ethnic communities, as far as I can see, are basically gone. In most places, we're left with "White" or "Euro-American" or something bland like that, and have little sense of our ethnic histories.
Great article! One thing I would question is, what about cross-ethnicity people? Many of us might have to fall back on White, since our European ethnicities married together before we were born.
I'm mainly of Scandinavian and British descent, born in Deseret where my parents were sojourning, raised in my father's nation of Lakelands, in adulthood living in my mother's nation of the Hordelands, with maternal ancestry in Anarcho England and a sense of nostalgia for Appalachia. If I were to marry within ethnicity, that would have to be White, and I couldn't be too choosy about the European ethnic quanta.
Before the earlier part of the last century, most people never went more than 50 miles from where they were born. Today, this still rings true. Most of us stay where we are born, with something like 80% of people in many states being born in that state. The basic structure is that the geography of where you were born has people who knew your parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. This creates a network of humans that are more like you and know you better than any person elsewhere ever could. This is the beginnings of ethnicity. White is a term that makes us all similar for advertising and government purposes. But if you are like me and hate the idea of the government being soveirgn and creating our ethnicity by stripping those bonds you can be white all you want to lol.
I totally like your idea, and would rather be an ethnicity and a nation than a corporate or government classification. "White" or "American" is what we were all swept into during the World Wars period and thereafter, because the managerial government wanted to level us all into one kind that they could work with. But that sweeping was largely successful, and at this point the old European ethnic communities, as far as I can see, are basically gone. In most places, we're left with "White" or "Euro-American" or something bland like that, and have little sense of our ethnic histories.
> Advocates against identifying as White
> Uses “we” to refer to Amerindians
> Doesn’t mention the word “Jew” once