re: #70 oh_dude

Amen. That’s why people like me can’t stand the whole “cultural-awareness” bullshit that is forced down our throats every day.

It’s African-American heritage week! It’s Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage month, blah blah blah! It’s nice to know where you came from, but someone show me any evidence that having in-depth “cultural awareness” has any effect on a person’s success in this world.

Back in college, I dated a girl who was working on her degree in “Asian Studies” She wanted to do a profile on me (my Mom is Filipino and my dad is from the Ukraine). When she found out that I really didn’t know anything about Filipinos or spoke the language, she got all upset. As if it was a crime that I wasn’t fully immersed in my culture. “You have no culture!” she said.

“I was and born and raised in America. That’s my culture.” I told her. She rolled her eyes. I think we broke up like a week later.

I think that’s pretty representative of multicultural thought in general. If one is in any way ‘not from here’ or a minority, he/she has a culture. If one is ‘from here’ or a member of the majority/plurality, he/she has no culture and is therefore inferior.