How to be proud of being White without being Racist.

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Ok heres how it goes most of the media instantly assumes if your white and proud its instantly racist because its misconstrued with White Supremacy, but lets get real white and or Caucasian culture is diverse as hell and to instantly consider it racist is not only ignorant but making sweeping generalizations and supports white guilt and making many white folks lose their culteral identity. There are Celts there are Francs swedes etc Russians, you have to be specific man. My blood line is Celtic and I am proud of that my bloodline never suppoerted slavery and such and I am proud to have a cool blood line that was a kick ass warrior tribal people that gave the Romans trouble, now for the germanics and such many were Vikings and sometimes they enslaved but most part was other white folks including my ancestors with the Norman invasion of Dublin but we held our ground and a complete conquest of Ireland never happened and the vikings eventually got bred out and became Irish themselves. There were some bad things but many god things and despite some of the bad things people change over time and times change, just dont feel superior over others and respect others just identify who you are before all is lost.

You know, I disagree with just about every post from you I've ever read... but not this one. I pretty much agree, here. If you're going to be proud of your heritage, tie it to an actual cultural entity and not the color of your skin.

Also, don't talk down about other groups. That should be obvious.

Actually the Celts had plenty of slaves in their day, up into the Middle Ages even. Then again so did everyone else, I guess it's well known that there's good and bad in every society, so might as well focus on the positives and remember that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery#Celtic_tribes

Why be proud of something that isn't an accomplishment?

I think '[identity x] pride' is a necessary and good thing when it is a response to a history of being treated as a lesser, of being told that identity is worthless, or sinful, or banned from regular social practises and positions of power.

The occasional lip-service paid to 'gee white people have done terrible things to non-white people' isn't anything like the same.

I don't 'get' needing to be proud of an identity where there is no such history. I don't think you need to feel shame for being white, or a given ethnicity or being from a particular country, but nor do I think pride is necessary.

Do things yourself that you can be proud of. Be someone to be proud of in your actions and character, not your bloodline. If taking pride and shelter in that bloodline acts as training wheels for that, helps you find some resilience on the tough days, that's fine. But don't stop there.

I think taking pride in diversity was a measure taken against our racism in the past. Cultures, while sometimes worthy of praise (and shame), aren't color coded. There is no white or black culture. Pride is a setup for failure too, even if you do something praiseworthy yourself, people who rest on their laurels are the ones who stop achieving.

Don't think being white makes you superior to people who aren't white, since racism is believing that your race is superior.

But honestly I think its kind of silly to be proud of skin color anyways, regardless of race...I mean I could see having some pride in cultural achievements or something of your specific heritage.

I'm only proud if I accomplish something.

I dont feel proud to be white. It's just an arbitrary distinction brought about by light skin color and European origins.

Now.... If I were green......