White?

[paynesponies]

Did you notice that there are 7 types of Asian, many types Latin, yet only 1  type of 'white' ?
My father's  heritage is English with a little "black' thrown in for good measure. My Mother's side is German, Russian  , and Prussia ( a country that doesn't exist any more.)
 There are many heritages that can be called 'white' and yet does the surveys offer or want to market to that segment ?? Think even like Jewish white,  Jewish rye, Amish white, Polish white, etc. .. turkey on white?   
Just seeing if your paying attention...lol
Greeks, Italians, ....

[southernhorizons]

I've noticed that. I guess over the years whites from various European countries have mixed together so much, that now we're just all plain white.
BTW, isn't Prussia now a part of Germany?

[paynesponies]

My grandma's dad was a soldier in the Tsar's army.         

[Kay0338]

I get what you're saying. It doesn't make much sense to me either...I guess they just figure "white" is "white" and don't want anymore details.

[patti4me]

If the "whites" were broken down into sub catagories its possible we'd be a bunch of different "minority" groups lol.  Then people would need to be more inclined to listen to our gripes, points of view, etc.  Is this not right maybe?

[ricdsm]

I hate the term white.

[CharmedPhoenix]

My maternal grandparents came from Galicia, Austria, which is now Southern Poland and Western Ukraine.  I'm reading Mitchener's "Poland" because my grandfather spoke Polish.  It's helping me understand the changes that area went through.

My paternal side is like the UN.  However the closest I get to any blood of color is an ancestor who was born in Brazil while her German parents were there, probably as missionaries.

I have noticed the unbalanced racial questions on the surveys and wondered why they have to break it down so much.  When I check Caucasian why do I have to then confirm I'm not anything else?  Do they think we're stupid?

Maybe the lack of breakdown of Caucasian is from prejudicial days.  There ware days when it wasn't good to be slavic, of any nation or Irish.  The immigrants faced many prejudices.  We even closed our ports to certain nations at one time.  My mom and her sisters hated being the daughters of immigrants so much they didn't learn the language, culture, etc.  I couldn't even get my mom to talk about family history.

[vickysue]

I am a mixture also, which most of us are anyway. But I get so tired of being accused of being a racist just because I am not black. We are not the ones rioting and looting or demanding the government pay us for their supposedly relatives being slaves. What a mess. But I am proud of being an American.

[paynesponies]

yes white, is not really white, that's the point...I worked places though, where if you're  a minority, you get advanced, because there is a quota, but if you are 'just white'  they get to treat ya like manure..   

[squirrelgirl44]

I don't think there are any "true" white people anyway. I cannot bring myself to worry, think or care about such things. People. That's all we are... people.

[alice44]

Yup - I'm paying attention    I hadn't thought of "white" in those regards - interesting and true.