have not read this entire thread, but most white people I know don't even think of their skin color. Our skin color is not a big part of our identity. Some might still identify with their ancestry some, like I know a guy who is of Scottish descant and he does the kilt thing now and then. That is why you don't hear terms like the "white community". Some might, but like I said most white people do not actively think about their skin color.

well then we need to ask how white people view themselves in a place where they are the minority. Anything South Africans here?

My point earlier is that white people typically and not taught to act a certain way because of their skin color. 

That is why we bristle at the fact that others hyphenate some other nationality- American. Makes no sense. By doing this they are kinda backwards saying the only Americans are white. Other races are only part American. 

There are really only 3 races. Skin color is a silly way to devided people. I bet alot of you did not know this, but their are 3 different skull types.

Caucasian- 

Negroid-

Mongoloid-

Anything else people call a races is really just a subdivision of these three. 

Do I trust my life with random people? No, but I would trust the Unions to represent me. If certain sectors and jobs don't treat their employees right, you should fight against it, not just call quits.

Well, I hope your unions deserve your thrust... in here they only serve themselves... so no, I preffer to keep my power and decision to myself.

It's not about keeping power to yourself, it's about using power that is in the hands of many for the benifit of many against corporate greed.

Yessss, we had several ton of examples in Brazil of how that don't work. And in the world we also had several examples of similar enthursting to a powerfull entity to get the better for everyone, never really working out.

Just on the union example that you brought... we have over 15.000 union in brazil and under 100 in UK right? Which place have better wages and working environment? And just on a quick look I saw that union membership halved since the 80's in UK and that it keep decreasing and one of the reasons is that workers see that one of the priorities of the union leads is to benefit themselves and get special threatment.

But we are going way off-topic.

I feel great about being white. We have a achieved some of mankind's most amazing feats.

But I like to hold it here. The UK's union membership has been beaten over and over again by the former Thatcher administration and 2 rightist Labour governments didn't help. The social movement is gaining steam again in the UK.

Brazil is an entirely different story. Unions might have nodded in approval at Rousseff's social-democartic'ish policies, but an economic crisis due to overreliance on export and a political coup by a wealthy elite in lightning quick succession might have taken them by surprise. But don't be surprised that, if Temer stays in power, the unions become more militant.

In Belgium, we need the unions. We have a government that continuously tries to ram austerity down our throats while handing ever greater tax cuts to companies. Thanks to the unions, we managed to slow down their policies. Alone, we could not have tried to halt this policy direction.

And if it was not for unions historically, we'd all be working 50 hour weeks at least.

When I look in the mirror, I only see myself. I never even think about being white unless someone brings it up. Honestly, I thought that by 2016 people would be beyond all of of this skin tone crap and judge people based upon their actions. Sadly, I'm way off.