Comments | werewolveriniki: WASPS and discrimination...?

werewolveriniki

WASPS and discrimination...?

Jan 27, 2010 22:54

Can one truly understand or empathize with discrimination if they've never experienced it?

I love my boy, but the one subject that he seems not to understand at all is discrimination. Granted, he's a WASP, so how would he know? But instead of trying to understand he just gets really uncomfortable, changes the subject immediately, and acts like there ( Read more... )

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elfy January 28 2010, 08:15:44 UTC

What is a WASP?

ibid January 28 2010, 10:18:36 UTC

White Anglo Saxon Protestant = the traditional base of middle America/England

Hobbes!!!!

elfy January 28 2010, 10:29:15 UTC

ah, i see, thanks :) i'm not familiar with any english acronym ;)

werewolveriniki January 29 2010, 02:17:01 UTC

Thanks, Ibid!

Technically he's agnostic but his family is protestant.

It's like... top of the food chain (?) where it comes to American social hierarchy. Meaning, he's never been looked down on due to anything beyond his control.

ibid January 28 2010, 10:16:33 UTC

Take him to live in Africa for a few months? Has he ever lived outside his ethnic/cultural milieu ( ... )

werewolveriniki January 29 2010, 02:26:24 UTC

he's lived in South Korea, Belgium, and Germany. On military bases.
I guess bc he was raised not to look down on anyone AND he's never been looked down on that he's oblivious to when it happens.... I don't know.

Oh, the irony that the cultural anthropology dept couldn't understand something that simple
:/

ibid January 29 2010, 08:57:08 UTC

It's good at least that he doesn't look down on people, but he is still coming from the position of a privileged minority.

I thought so too. I decided this was not the department for me.