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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone just exposed another academic for doing this same thing -- this time at U of Wisconsin. Great read.

https://medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110[/quote]

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This was an interesting article .

On a related note, could someone explain the concept of “allowing someone into their sacred space”? This has been mentioned repeatedly with respect to Krug and also in the situation above. As a white person, I can only assume but don’t really know for sure. It sounds important for Black people so I would like to understand this concept to be able to respect it. [/quote]
[b]I think what some minority people may not understand is that white people, in general, do not have a “sacred space”. [/b]Not defending her, but maybe Krug wanted to belong to a “sacred space” or part of something bigger. Many “white people” are all just grouped together, and as a result, there is no real culture or sense of belonging at all for them. Minority groups seem to stick together so to speak. [/quote]

Minority person here, I understand that very well--I've always felt that white Americans are a mishmash and don't really have a strong sense of identity.  (My MIL is a white European, and for that reason her son has that sense of identity, but most white Americans don't.)  I think that's why really homogenous white affluent areas, like say North Arlington, always seem to have the most infighting and cattiness.[/quote]
You and the PP make a very good point. We are Greek so our kids have a strong Greek identity. My daughter attends a very affluent school (we moved out of the DMV a few years ago) and her English class had an assignment to write about cultural experiences in their life similar to those in the book Nisei Daughter. The lone Hispanic girl in the class turned to my daughter and whispered, we're lucky, at least we have something to write about. What are the rest of them going to write about - ketchup?[/quote]

Here it is again, this weird idea that Americanness itself is not a culture. White Americans who have no idea where their ancestors came from certainly DO have a culture, they (and others) just often don’t recognize certain practices as cultural because so much of the rest of the world has adopted them.

Random white Americans who move abroad pretty quickly catch on to this, though. From the space between you and the person ahead of you in line, to how often or when to smile at strangers or acquaintances, to more obvious practices like Halloween trick or treating — if you think these aren’t distinctly cultural practices, then you need to go live somewhere else for a while.[/quote]

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