actually, i'm tired of pretending that whiteness isn't harmful to white people or that it's entirely frivolous for white people to want to call themselves irish-portuguese or whatever. obviously the line between recuperation and appropriation is quite thin but every regional characteristic that could distinguish between different people was essentially smothered in the name of conformity to "the great american melting pot". you think being a scottish american boils down to kilt cosplay, bagpipes and haggis? that's the problem in action. when black or indigenous people want to look into where they came from we don't see that as frivolous. it's time to admit that america has stolen the cultures of europeans too
