User:Skakkle/white culture


 * For the media tastes of white people, see White culture (pop culture). 
 * Note: this is an early draft about the organic practices of white individuals and groups.
 * Another note: "White culture" as a natural phenomenon has no official wikipedia article. The wikipedia article title "white culture" is a redirect which points to an article about the topic of Critical whiteness studies. That topic is an academic discipline within critical theory, which explores white supremacy from many detailed angles, not the organic practices of white individuals and groups.
 * Another note: "White culture" as a natural phenomenon has no official wikipedia article. The wikipedia article title "white culture" is a redirect which points to an article about the topic of Critical whiteness studies. That topic is an academic discipline within critical theory, which explores white supremacy from many detailed angles, not the organic practices of white individuals and groups.
 * Another note: "White culture" as a natural phenomenon has no official wikipedia article. The wikipedia article title "white culture" is a redirect which points to an article about the topic of Critical whiteness studies. That topic is an academic discipline within critical theory, which explores white supremacy from many detailed angles, not the organic practices of white individuals and groups.

Proto-article proper
White culture includes the cultural practices, beliefs, worldviews, food, and art of individuals and groups composed completely or largely of white people, but is not limited to these areas.

In any nation where white culture is found, it has natural interactions with minority group cultures there. These overlaps can be significant. There is a of cultural give & take between these groups and their effect on one another is dynamic. Their interactions are not cleanly defined, thus drawing a border between them is not always easy. In-group/ out-group separateness happens alongside all their ineter-connections. This all takes place under the national culture where its found, and with the cultures of any minority groups in majority-white nations.

Institutional
White culture also commonly refers to the practices and influence of various powerful institutions in majority-white nations. This has important implications for the study of race itself, particularly in the United States, and for the study of white supremacy.

Definition
Culture, as defined by James P, Carse, "...is not anything persons do, but anything they do with each other". Therefore, white culture, is anything white people do with others (of any race).

In the United States (first person now, even less formal tone, BEWARE!!)
Patriotic tattoos, especially on the neck, may figure prominently, among independent American commentators or others who advocate that white culture simply exists. Even if those commentators' analyses are completely shoot-from-the-hip in tone, provocative, rhetorical, or entertainment-oriented.

While this example observes a commentator, rather than some other non-reflexive cultural practice, there may be a place for this pattern in the analysis here. Or maybe I'm mixing up causation & correlation. I'm open to other input.

Cowboy stuff
Cowboy culture, rodeos, country music, and pick up trucks are heavily oriented towards whites today, though Black folks, non-white Hispanics & others have played a role in their historical development.