Do white people have a white racial identity or is that only a few of us?

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I've heard of people talking about how there white or a white racial identity but I feel like its a minority of white people that actually identify with there race. I think thats more of a racial minority thing. I think that in the past white people identified with there race and ethnicity, but not really anymore. I mean like italian, irish, german, kinda thing. Some ethnicities favored with privileges and some oppressed. American culture had a lot of "white racial" cultural elements at its root, lets not lie.

Some people have a racial identity and will talk about how its important to them and stuff and some white people will be like im a white guy or this is a white thing and tehre not joking and of course there's a lot of people that just say that to be funny or a joke

and there's some white supremacist and racist and alt right people that have white racial identity but thats a minority of people

this question wasn't to attack racial minorities or white people and I dont think its wrong to have or not have a racial identity necessarily

Sargentcaptain · Answer

If you think people in Europe care about all of them being white, check out the Irish vs UK battles, French vs Germans, French vs the English, and every individual Balkan country against all other Balkan countries. Just because 2 groups are white doesn't mean they don't wanna genocide each other.

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

The whole identy built based on ethnic is mostly an American thing. Here in germany i never met a single person who is loudly proclaiming his ethnic identity.

Anonymous · Answer

The most racially centered people in USA are as follows.  1. Blacks  2. Whites  3. Asians  4. Hispanics 5. Native Americans  6. Indians  7. All else don’t care

Do white people have a white racial identity or is that only a few of us?

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