"People of Culture"

[Scootaloo]

105. Uh... bull

Look around you. Turn on the TV. Pick up a paper. Read a book written in english - evne one by a nonwhite author. Pick up a history text. Go to the movies. Turn on the radio.

You are surrounded by white American culture. it is the overwhelmingly dominant culture in the United States. White Americans most certainly do have a culture, it is in fact the basis upon which we- yeah, we white Ameircans - define nonwhite or nonamericna cultures. We're also trained to think of other cultures as small and encyclopaedic, a collection of customs and traits that can be printed out on an 11x7 for all your "multiculturalism" needs - meanwhile white culture is perceived as so expansive that it's not even perceived as such, rather it's "just hte way things are."

This "white people don't have a culture" nonsense is the sort of thing that leads to tokenism. White people are "normal" so we need a colored guy to be "cultural"