I've done a lot of ancestry work and I picked my forum name from the most distant ancestor I could trace.
Rynold Wynterwade Year of 1066
I joined the forum because,
(I think I have an interesting perspective for how I went from ultra liberal to join this forum).
I grew up in a very multicultural area, and 100% of my best friends are minorities still to this day. After growing up with them I’ve encountered some things that just really started to piss me off. Things that only their best friends would learn. Out of my 5 best friends (who are all eastern Asian) 4 told me, separately, that they only want to date white girls. This really blew my mind because I’d been raised up thinking all races can be equally attractive. So I asked one of them “why do you think like this?” He told me that women from his own race are not attractive, too short, too dark skinned and have a money obsessed, sort of racist- mentality (ironically exactly like himself). I asked the other three (all East Asian), separately, and - shockingly- they told me practically the exact same thing- "eyes are too squinty", "they look too dark", "white girls look the best", "I like blue eyes best". In fact, 2 even told me that they only want to date blondes. (2 told me their parents dyed their skin white when they were babies to look whiter as an adult - sad). My only Asian best friend that didn’t want to date white girls had just recently changed his mind from breaking up with a white girl. As college came 3 of my 4 Asian friends that wanted white girlfriend’s eventually got white girlfriends and after hanging out with them all together, I suspect that their girlfriends have no idea their underlying self hating reasons for dating them. The whole thing simply disgusts me. I suspect that while some minorities will not admit it (at least to people who aren’t their best friends) most do deep down feel this way. And many probably try to hide their sense of self hatred and white attraction by being in denial about it (ahem….Tiger Woods). I remember once my Asian friend told his girlfriend he was attracted to her personality, yet privately behind her back, told me that he hates her and only likes her looks and sleeping with her. And of course, the white girls they are dating will never know this. By hanging out with them I slowly began to grow animosity towards their way of thinking and developed a sort of modest pride in my own ancestry. As time went on I grew to admire the pride in my one Asian friend that changed his mind and now loves his own people.
2) In college, I decided to take a class on Poverty and Inequality. This class changed the whole way I view race and how it fits into society. We studied how immigration decreases the wages of workers. We studied affirmative action, where Mexicans and blacks can take college spots from other higher scoring whites and Asians. We studied the increasingly large amount of illegitimate births- especially the black community where illegitimate births account for 70% of their children and still increasing! That coupled with the amount of single mothers in the black community puts a massive strain on welfare. Blacks score lower on college exams, take easier majors in college which in turn lead to less paying jobs- yet they still argue that there is inequality because they are paid less. (This is the same argument used by feminists). We studied how race is related to IQ, education, illegitimate children, divorce, prison, number of children. I could go on and on, but I guess I’ll save that for later posts. (This class has probably faded from most universities over the years by complaints and a need to concentrate the curriculum on other areas).
The thing about college that really ticked me off was when my very liberal anthropology teacher taught us “no one culture is better than another”. (They wanted me to think that a nomadic polygamist from Somalia is equal in cultural value to a man from Japan that honors respect and modesty). In a quest to find more information I searched the internet for racial differences, cultural differences and came to this site a couple times and finally decided to become a member. I hate that this has become a bit of a taboo subject.
In time, I’ve grown proud of my ancestry (spent 300 hours on my family tree), and developed an interest in old English Literature. While I still think that it’s important to judge by character rather than race- I think it’s also important to preserve your heritage and who you are. I’ll do both.
I hope to post some of what I learned from my class on here and I do think you guys would greatly appreciate it- considering how factual and relevant it is to so many countries in the west today. My teacher wrote a book about race differences and capitalism. (studied it for 50 years and taught us every major point).
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