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im white and sometimes i get a little sad that white americans don't have like, a culture in the way others do and then i remember the reason for that is because white people historically in america didn't make any kind of culture, just took from others
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Anonymous 2d

maybe it would help to try connecting to your ancestry before america

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Anonymous 2d

and then i'm not sad for that anymore, i'm sad my ancestors were too bigoted to be creative

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

i don't know it. my ancestors and family seperated us from it so far the only way to know would be to do ancestrydna which, has got some lawsuits lowkey LMAO

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

lmaoooo thats a tough one for sure. have you tried asking any grandparents if they remember anything about their parents/grandparents? that would be around the time most people immigrated to the US

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

(most white people)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

seeing as your family doesn’t know it would make sense that it would have been around that time— they probably tried very hard to assimilate

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

i really have thought abt it, but unfortunately i can't 💔 i live in the south so im not really "cultureless" but it just sucks that the only culture i can say i have has roots in slavery

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

i am not from the south but i can imagine that is difficult to manage emotionally :( but having a complicated or conflicted connection to a culture is still something. maybe you can connect to southern culture by imagining a version that reckons with that history and stands for something better?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

see if you can create something (even something small) that you’d be proud to pass on to another generation to help them make sense of things

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

that's what ive been thinking abt to be productive abt it, bc i do love my culture (the boiled peanuts part not the confederacy part) and i'd hate for the racist parts to be the legacy of southern culture.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

i think that sounds lovely and meaningful

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