LogFAQs > #889505582

it's not about "being offended."

many children of non-WASP immigrants grow up thinking of themselves as culturally "mostly white," with maybe some values from the motherland regarding relationships to alcohol, hard work, religion, maybe a second language spoken at home.

it's not choosing to be offended when being treated as a perpetual outsider is clearly not a choice. even if it's not mentioned, it's implicit that you're 'not one of us.'

for many people, that distinction in how others perceive them is their entire racial experience. you can ignore it, but it doesn't make it not true.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness