why are white people white?
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WOW PEPOLE LIKE U THAT ASK  QUESTIONS LIKE THIS AND THEY WANT THE FREEDOMS  OF THE UNITED STATES AND WANT TO WORK IN THE UNITED STATES BUT STILL ASK  QUESTIONS LIKE  THIS WELL WE WERE ALL BORN WHITE YES  ALL OF  US  BLACK WHITE ASIAN MEXICANS ETC WERE ALL BORN  BASICALLY  WHITE  OR PINK ITS NOT UNTILL AFTER WE HAVE  BEEN IN THE AIR THAT R SKIN CHANGES ETC , the longer one is in the sun the darker they get , look at the  palm  of  your hands and the soles  of  your  feet there  not as  brown as your   face neck back legs etc , but we r  whiteer  because  of th meloni  in  our  skin and bodies , and  if i was  u w i would  not say us  mexicans  because not all mexican  think like u act like  u look  like  u  etc  , so speak for  yourself and  not  for others  cause  u r  giving  your race a bad  name  buy saying all  mexicans  think   whites are weird.
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I don't. You met the wrong white people. There are many nice ones. Please don't generalize, thanks.
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What does being white have to do with it?
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Funny question, I thought the same thing until and Asian friend told me that we white people looked all the same to her while she could tell differences among Asians.\n\nBut the real answer to your question is that whites are not pure white either. If you look at full Caucasians, they are all blonde with blue eyes. It's when people started migrating all over and getting mixed that all this diversity started to show up. \nAlso, dark colors tend to be dominant genes so they "stick" more.
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The white people you are refering to do not want to lose their place at the top of the food chain. It goes back to the days of slavery when poor white people who didn't have the money to own slaves still supported slavery because they didn't want to be on the bottom of the ladder. A lot of white people still have a serious problem with increased competition and the possibility that it will be easier for them to be beat out for a change. Let me tell you white people are some of the laziest people you'll meet and it's because things have been so easy for them for so many years. When you've never personally experienced something it's really hard for you to understand how hard it really is.
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1ST OF ALL,SEGREGATION,PREJUDICE,AND DISCRIMINATION ARE JUST IGNORNANT!!! WE ALL ARE HUMAN BEINGS,OF COURSE WE HAVE DIFFERNT CULTURES,VALUES,ETC.BUT SO DO ALL WHITE MEN? WE ALL SHARE THE SAME BLOOD,WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT! SO Y SEGREGATE?
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White things are white because their chemical composition is balanced in such a way that it reflects the full spectrum of colors. The air has oxygen in it. Oxygen is very reactive with a lot of chemicals. As oxygen molecules bond with the chemicals in the white substance, the light is absorbed in different ways. Some wave lengths are reflected and others are absorbed. We commonly see this as a yellowing effect, but fading can result in other colors as well.
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Because the problem is that white is the norm or the standard. Everyone else is alienated. There is no need to specify the 'white community' because everything is about the white community until otherwise specified. If you really want to answer this question for yourself and broaden your horizons, pay attention. There really is merit to what we (as in the black and hispanic community) have been trying to get trough to y'all.
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Because white people are just as racist as every other race!
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Some white gils do... others don't.  It has more to do with personal taste than race.
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By eliminating whites. White people have defined themselves based on recessive characteristics, and to protect these recessive traits they must be racist. Mixing is their ultimate defeat. So the only way to end racism is to get rid of whites, be it by mixing or by war.\n\nNow that some non-white countries are getting modern technology, perhaps the day when we can engineer a virus to kill all whites and exclusively whites is not too far ahead. After all, they're trying to do just that to the rest of us.\n\nUltimately, and because of their characteristic as defined by recessiveness, whites are condemned to extinction. We can help the process, though.
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Racism applys to white people only.
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I think what you meant by your statement about how "white ppl can be so blind" is not that you are calling all white people racist, but rather, you are wondering why white people seem to have a harder time seeing the consequences of racism or identifying their own racism.\n\nI think everyone is racist to some degree.  From my experience, there are two groups who admit it: \n\nThe first are those that are KKK-like extremists.  They admit to it, encourage it, and try to covert people to their belief system.\n\nThe second are people who try to not be racist, but were socialized or conditioned to see differences and attribute generalizations to people possessing those differences.\n\nI find the latter group - people who acknowledge their racism, are embarrassed by it and are trying to overcome it -- to generally be less racist than those who say "I am not racist."  Everyone who I have ever met that said "I am not a racist", I have found to be just that!\n\nTo those that say they are not racist, who do they want to find in a life partner?  Do you have requirements when it comes to specific race, gender, socio economic level, religion, body type, national origin or cultural heritage?  Don't lie.  eveyone does.  Well, that can be construed as racist, homophobic, classist, ethnophobic, etc.  We are all guilty. Admit it.\n\nYes, racism is in almost every skin color - but it's not necessarily racism based on skin color... it is bigtory based on any difference.  It Ruwanda it wasn't white people committing genocide, it was between the Tutsis and the Hutus.  In Germany, it was Aryan people against mostly other Caucasians.  In Germany it is now against the Turks.  In the catholic church it is against the homosexuals - not a race, but a difference in sexual orientation.  In the gay community there is bigotry against Transgendered people.  \n\nBasically, the real issue is not whether Latinos are racist against white people (which for some reason comes up all the time here at Yahoo Answers), but whether people in power and/or with authority are bigoted against a group with less power and/or authority.\n\nThink about it: What has a greater effect?  We have 2 imaginary men: The Senator from North Carolina and a Dishwasher from the local Olive Garden (I am making this up as an example... I don't know anything about the Senator from North Carolina, and I really hate the Olive Garden).  Both think that women don't belong in the workforce.  So, obviously in this scenario, both are sexist.  But, who really cares if the dishwasher is sexist?  What impact does that have on society?  That is not going to impact me, or anyone else for that matter outside of his family.  On the otherhand, if someone who has authority, who can make decisions that impact my life, that can create laws, that has more authority than I do, hates me for my gender, race, creed, weight, or sexual orientation, that is where it become an issue.  \n\nSo, to answer your question, because Caucasians are in a position of power in the United States, they do not directly feel the effects of racism.  They do hear it when it's blatant: when the KKK burns a cross on a lawn or when the Mayor of New Orleans uses the term Chocolate to describe his city, but they don't notice that standardized test questions are targeted toward the white middle class experience.  Math questions about the speed of two roller coaster cars don't make as much sense to someone who has never seen an amusement park.  A rat to a wealthy child might be a pet or a test subject - an animal that can be touched.  A rat to a poor child is more likely viewed as a bearer of disease, a pest.  When test writers don't take these differences into account when writing questions, it is subtle racism and classism that favors those who are of their status. My favorite example is Coco, the gorilla that knew sign language, got an answer wrong on an IQ test because she poi
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Good question.\n\nI'd like to think that it's because the Caucasian race originated to the USA from England, and England ruled them with a pompous and ignorant heavy hand.
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It has something to do with the area they live in. Body types are based on climate, landscape, food, and way of life.  Like Eskimo's for an extreme example, they are short and chubby because their diet consist of mostly fish and to be short and fat gives you a smaller body area to keep you warm.  Where as in Africa the natives are tall and skinny giving them longer body area to keep them cool in hot climates.  These are extreme examples but the same applies to European white people, but it is not as noticeable because American white people come from Europe, but our features have changed over time because of food, climate and living conditions.  It all boils down to where people originated and evolved from.
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Sounds like you hate white people to me.  . Every race on earth has its share of good and bad. I am white and I didn't have my first child until I was 32 so that blows your theory
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I know a lot of people who are not white who are racist and will admit it.\nI just think that so many people automatically assume its white people because of history