Spazzy_D on 06 February 2012
| Onibaka said: I find curious in USA how whites, blacks and other ethnics groups are so separated and often called "races". How different groups have a totally different culture from each other...considering the fact that these groups are in contact if each other for centuries. But I guess that my country is the exception, maybe. In Brazil the miscigenation is really high, and you can see in a common day elements that come from natives, blacks, europeans, turks, japaneses. Actually there are a lot more "pure blacks" in USA than in Brazil. Back in slavery, white men often impregnated dozens of black women. My country had a policy of "whitening" the population. |
America is more of a salad then a melting pot; a lot of ingredients adding to the overall flavor but still remaining distinct and important. White people would be the iceberg lettuce in this analogy....
America is an interesting place due to its geography and position in gloabl politics, and a lot of non-Americans (and Americans that don't really look past their front yards) don't realize just how different Americans are from region to region and state to state. They speak differently, live differently, and beleive different things, yet all are identifiably American. It really goes beyond ethnic groups, Americans are a very diverse bunch. (Not speaking against the diversity of other countries, btw, just to get that out of the way.)
