I'd like to preface this with commentary with the simple idea that until we start seeing people as people and not just the color of their skin, flavor of their religion, cut of their jib, etc., then we can never hope to end what appears to be the liberal version of blatant racism. Asian? You're a human being. Muslim? Human too. We try so hard to *appreciate* the differences we forget that in most ways we're all alike -- stupid, self-important, and worthy.

Now that's I've prefaced this with idealism, let me explain that there is no such thing as White America. We have Catholics and Jews, Mormons and Scientologists. We have southerners and northerners -- and if you don't think the culture to be entirely different, then you've never been to both. I grew up as an Irish Jew in Boston, and my culture was so different from the Italians that also lived in the neighborhoods that there were literally race riots in my high school. Between 'whites' and 'whites.' Have you ever met someone who is well and truly rich? Their lifestyle is so different from mine that I can't comprehend their manner of thought. New Jersey is so different from Seattle that the culture shock from one to the other is incredible. The same from South Carolina to Texas to Chicago to San Francisco to San Diego. There is no white culture, and 'white' is not a race. Or if you deem it a race, then you must understand that there are a million and one ethnicities and cultures that make it up. Real life is not the movies of television. American Pop Culture is just as absurd to me as a white American man, as it is to anyone, anywhere. To somehow lump me in with the same race that houses skinheads who hate me for my ethnicity and refuse to acknowledge me as white is absurd. It's all absurd. It's bloody exasperating. Complaining that so-called 'white culture' does not respect 'your' culture is the pot calling the kettle black.

But I digress. Refer back to my first paragraph.