Hm. Ok. I can work with that. It brings to mind English speaking
Western Europe --> English speaking USA as well as works come
from other sources that have been so successfully incorporated
into Western learning that they "feel-like" they're English even
if they're really German or Russian (typically). == and thank
you - until this moment, I hadn't thought of what incorporates
what I consider the "construct of whiteness" before but now I
have something concrete I can work with like emoticon I'll give
a title or two in the main thread. like emoticon === You're
right. It gets VERY complicated when speaking of figures from
Spain and the Mediterranean and Latin America and such. I try to
avoid it mostly. I'm ok with "European / Western culture" but to
say "white culture" is, eh... it's got too much baggage and
includes many Africans in the mix via the cradles of Western
civilization for White to be really a useful category for me. ==
Breakdowns by nationality or allegiance is a little more
specific and practical to work with than racial divisions imo
generally. WITHIN a particular society, the black/white division
might be useful. But on the world stage across history, it's too
mixed. == It's contextual, Brett. It's awkward and messy to
extend local issues such as subcultural divisions within the USA
that can be drawn along color lines to the entirety of world
history for example. You can go back a few hundred years, sure.
Maybe to 1600s? But before that, continuing racial divisions is
kinda useless and it's better to go with national or allegiance
(such as religion) lines. ==
