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"In those days, those of us from marginal groups who were allowed to enter prestigious, predominantly white colleges were made to feel that we were not there to learn but to prove that we were the equal of whites."

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The emergence of colorism among Black culture. Fair skin being more desirable; silky, straight hair

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"Why do you people do that?...That's so weird."

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"Why do you people do that?...That's so weird."

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The vibrance of culture is made to be taboo. Holidays are appropriated before they are properly celebrated.

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White women seen as the more elegant, wealthy, and from law-abiding homes. If I am white, I must be racist and rich.

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While this used to be the norm, it is almost as if whites want to be a POC because we are constantly trying to curl our hair, get tanned, or do our hair in a way we saw was seen as beautiful in POC. I think we should be able to do our hair anyway we want to, as long as it is being done as a means of expressing the love of the beauty of the hairstyle, not to be a race we are not.

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"You are my only white friend...you are a cool white girl." LITERALLY what a friend from the past used to say to me, when I do not think she has really ever had an open mind to making friends just for friendship, not having a hidden agenda of keeping race in question whilst forming bonds.

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In HS, my Filipino friend referred to herself as "basically white" and we considered her as "basically white" because she was "Just like Us" and she didn't speak Tagalog, so...white.
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My Mexican/Puerto Rican family members in Ohio were encouraged by the older members of the family to date marry white people so their children would benefit from being white.

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It was a symbol of privilege that I was able to go to college without having to pay for anything; my father paid for my Bachelor's degree.

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I had a lot of privilege growing up with my whiteness, one of which being that I went to school under a GI bill with no student loans to get my bachelor's degree.

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My mother was reprimanded every time she spoke Spanish or had a "Mexican accent" when she was in elementary school. That followed her into the workforce because she would develop a "workplace accent" so other people could not discern her race/ethnicity.

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I see it in the way my students act. They are always trying to "act white" in the way they dress and talk and behave.

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Do We Want Our Kids to "Act White" at school?

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Do We Want Our Kids to "Act White" at school?

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Like Tanner, I also am noticing trends in my classroom / school regarding whiteness. Even in my current school where white teachers and students are the minority - whiteness still prevails in the damn dress code (no 'unnatural' hair colors or styles read: no weave) and no sagging pants (read: no 'hip hop' style baggy pants). And, wanting our students to sit down and be quiet and learn from the Teacher who is the expert sage on the stage.

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Saying things like "that's a white people thing or that's what white people would say". Making it better or worse if you do or so those things.

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I pretty much never have my receipt checked when I am leaving the store. One time when not having my receipt checked upon leaving the store, a black man was the next person to leave the store behind me and the worker asked to check their receipt. He followed her question with "why didn't you check her receipt? is it because she's white and you want to check mine because I'm black?" I felt he had a very valid question.

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Because White cultural practices (holidays, art, etc) are the default of society I don't have a sense of a specific cultural connection to any sort of ethnic origins, etc.

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I was never worried about going to college/finding a job because I knew my parents would support me and help me find a way

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When I moved to Oregon Hollister was really popular for middle schoolers who were white. I begged my parents to get me clothes there to fit in and make friends and I only shopped there for 3 years before throwing it all out in HS when I admitted I didn't like most of the clothes.

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Yesterday, I made an interesting observation during my zoo field trip with my class. I noticed a group of preschoolers from the Will Smith Zoo School were attending an outing. I noticed that most of the students in that group were mostly white, blue-eyed and male. This institution is located within the boundaries of the Alamo Heights ISD.

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I think I definitely stand from a point of whiteness in my expectations of those around me and myself. I was blessed with the opportunity to go to college without paying for it and it is almost unspoken to me that my kids will go to college. In fact, I gloss over the military and blue-collar jobs without thinking about it.

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One of my best friends has a VERY fancy lawyer father. They're Venezuelan & when her brother was applying to private schools in NYC he was always interviewed by the school's diversity coordinator... (standpoint of whiteness as the perspective for what is diversity)

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My parents sent me and my sisters to private school because they went to private school and they wanted to be sure we were surrounded by other people who had ambition, not like the "public" school kids ---where non white kids went to school.  KO

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I remember growing up that my maternal grandmother always spoke highly of people with light complexions and light colored eyes. Those who were born brown skin with dark brown eyes were inferior to them.

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One day I was reading the story "Chrysanthemum" and I asked my students to turn-and-talk with an elbow partner and discuss that if they could change their name what would it be. Most of my students responded that they would change their name to Max, Brooklyn, Ian, and Drew. It was interesting that none of my student mentioned and ethnic name that represents their culture. It was an eye-opening class discussion.