Are Bulgarians part of the white race?

[Anonymous]

Bulgaria is in Eastern Europe

yea

no

[Anonymous]

Depends. European. White is really an American thing that comes from slavery and the KKK. In the past when they said White they meant WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) and this excluded Catholics, Irish, Mexicans, slavs, Italians, spainish, Mexicans, Jews, Greeks, scillians etc. They weren't considered to be white.

[rigmarole]

Yet somehow a German wrote the first paper that separated humans into races in 1775 for publication and the United States Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776... I guess you think the KKK have time machines being they were founded in 1865...

[Opinion Owner]

@rigmarole exactly a German. A WHITE ANGLO SAXON PROTESTANT. Let's not forget the founding fathers owned slaves.

[rigmarole]

What do you think the USA invented slavery or something? How retarded are you?

[Opinion Owner]

@rigmarole really not sure what your problem is? I merely state facts.

[rigmarole]

You mean racist propaganda?

[rigmarole]

Your problem is anyone can go look up Johann Friedrich Blumenbach paper De Generis Humani Varietate Native Liber" ("On the Natural Varieties of Mankind") at any library...

[Opinion Owner]

@rigmarole what is racist about stating America's history of racism and religious bigotry?

[rigmarole]

So first explain how Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was an American when he wrote the paper on race that predates America. Then explain the Arab slave trade specifically in Africa that again predated America. We can go to endless other forms of slavery thoughout history afterwards, but it's a good enough place to start. It's pretty obvious your entire perception of race revolves around White/Black racial interactions in the USA and you have no understanding of actual history or race theory whatsoever... Your entire programming is racist propaganda specifically engineered to target White Americans. You are attempting to denigrate an ethnic group of people by their skin color with a fabricated narrative built on lies.

[Opinion Owner]

@rigmarole I never mentioned any of that. I merely stated that whiteness is more of an American ideal. Latino for instance is an American thing to, nobody in South or Central America refers to these this way.

[rigmarole]

I know you ignored the reality of history. I'm confronting you with the facts and asking you to explain how your perverted views hold any weight in the face of facts. You can't though. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's ideas permeated many different nations during the colonial era. You know the British were a little bit racist to Indians when the crown had rule over India right? You know Indians were taken as slaves by some British and exported to different parts of the world right? So would you argue that Whiteness and the ideas of races within humans are an Indian concept? Why or why not? If not, is it because White people aren't very common in India any longer and you can't target the race you would like to target with your narrative?

[rigmarole]

These "founding fathers" you speak of... a euphemism as you use it... They were a real diverse group weren't they? They wouldn't happen to be all of a specific race you are trying to target right?

[Opinion Owner]

@rigmarole I never mentioned any of that just merely America's concept of race is different than of Europe. For instance Spainish people in America are considered Hispanic yet in Europe they are considered European. Fact is America's notions of race still come from segregation, Jim crow, the kkk, slavery and so on.

[Opinion Owner]

@rigmarole were the founding fathers WASPs?

[rigmarole]

The European concept of race as laid out by German Johann Friedrich Blumenbach split the human race into Caucasian (White), Mongolian (Asian), Malayan (Pacific Islander), Ethiopian (Black), and American (Native American). This is the exact concept used by the US census. It was taken directly from Europe thus you are wrong. What's even more halarious is that you think ideas like this didn't and don't exist in Latin America when slavery existed in Latin America before settlers even arrived and colonies in the Southern part of the USA, the Caribbean, and Latin America utilized the most slaves in a colonial plantation economy. Latin America wasn't industrialized like the north of the USA and relied on plantation operations/the transatlantic slave trade more heavily and it took them longer to abolish slavery than the USA. Everything you spout is a complete lie.

[rigmarole]

A perfect example of this in Latin America would be the race laws that were enacted by General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez in El Salvador in the 1930s which bannned Blacks, Asians, Arabs, and Gypsies from entering the country. Then in 1932 La Matanza (“The Massacre”) started in El Salvador and over 30,000 minorities were killed in a genocide. Race laws in El Salvador were not brought to an end until the 1980s. It’s crazy how wrong you are about absolutely everything.

[Opinion Owner]

@rigmarole so no racism in America and nobody in America read a book by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

[rigmarole]

What are you a compulsive liar or something?

[rigmarole]

Clearly we know you are a racist. You seem to be in America. Thus racism exists in America.

[Opinion Owner]

@rigmarole not so. Why are arguing. Nothing I've said is a lie.

[rigmarole]

You being in denial doesn't change the facts.

[Opinion Owner]

@rigmarole I've not denied your facts merely stated facts about racial identity in America

[rigmarole]

The haplogroups that make up White Europeans genetically overlap over the territory of Bulgaria 9 times out of 10. They share common genetic lineages...

[KostasKouvalis]

Yes and No. Some Bulgarians are Slavic other Bulgarians are Turkic

[Umripederas]

Bulgarians aren't Turkic we have Turks living in Bulgaria but they aren't bulgarians

[SpaceGalaxy]

Yes, and they have great cheese there