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Originally posted by JBX
I just think it's time we as a people look forward as a people and quit looking back on things we have not ourselves experienced but the misfortunes of ancestors we've never known.
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Those who don't learn their history are doomed to repeat it.
I don't have a problem with this club, although you might argue that this whole country is more or less a "caucasian" club.
The cast majority of our elected representatives are white and white privelidge is no myth. People speak of black, or chicano culture. What is white culture? Pop culture is the culture of the majority, which just happens to be white- so white culture and pop culture are very closely interwoven.
I used to wonder why i feel like i have no culture, nothing to set me apart from anybody else in terms of customs and traditions. Then i realized that as a american, i have no seperate culture. My culture as a set of beliefs, customs and traditions was what i saw every time i turned on the TV or read the paper. Every time i went to the mall, that was my culture i saw. I don't have to worry about losing my culture, because my culture is everywhere.
On the other hand, there are lots of people in this country who have their own culture completely seperate from pop culture. In fact everybody exists in their own subculture as well as in popular culture. Having a chicano or african american club can be a positive way to keep a nonmajority culture alive. It is very similar to the exclusive social networks that we all have.