Dude, "whiteness" is not an ethnic heritage; it's a skintone. Being German or Dutch or Sami is heritage, and European POC can claim that, too; trying to "preserve whiteness" is a racist dogwhistle used by people afraid of miscegenation because they believe in white supremacy.https://twitter.com/karkas132/status/1000950149185589248 …
And there's where you're making your error: their pride is in their CULTURE, not their skin, whereas white pride in white skin is irrevocably founded on white supremacist ideas.
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and you claim that there are not any cultures inherently attached to white skin but there are cultures inherently attached to others? I would venture to say that German Culture, Anglo Culture, French Culture, and Scandinavian Culture are inherently linked to their traditional
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Black pride in diaspora groups developed specifically because slavery tore away all other cultural markers. But beyond that, you are very, very wrong about your views of Anglo/German/French/Scandinavian history and race.
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inhabitants which would be people of a white skin tone. For instance I have never once claimed to be proud of being white, but I do say that i am proud to be of Scandinavian heritage which just so happens lead to me having white skin
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The Sami people are also Scandinavian; they are not white. Populations across Europe and throughout history have had massive regional differences re skin tone - southern France, for ex, was traditionally much darker than the North.
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