Are you proud of European ancestry but made to feel uncomfortable being white?

Question

I feel people think I'm 'bad' because I'm proud of my European roots and I'm white. People say I don't look it but it's what I am. Why do people want me to change my identity just because I look like Bjork, Natalie kelley, or Vanessa Ann Hudgens?

Answer 1

i am very proud of being english/german and i am white so what i have never been upset about being white and i am too old to start now. so if you all have problems with who you are its sad.

Answer 2

Yes, I am a descendant of the Noble Yorkshire Nortons and Norville who came over with William the Conqueror and became his constable. There are a lot of people in my bloodline who changed many aspects of the world we live in today.

We fought in the crusades, hunted pirates, fought in the revolution, failed during a military coo to take the throne form Elizabeth the first and sailed the seas as the kings captain for his personal ship of the line(after the pirate hunting the great Commodore Norton or just 'The Commodore').

Truly I don't care about race, color, and religion. Our bloodline has come a long way and I remain conscious that I am a Noble from the Old World. I know I use my understanding of that heritage to make a better world here and now.

I know my heritage, and I know my family has a lot of blood on their hands but those hands are the supports that which we learn from for good or for bad.

It is not what they did that makes us decide who we are, it is our ability to learn from them that breaks us from the bonds of our ancestral stains. We are who we decide to be, not from those who can only see where our blood is received. I am proud to be related to them, and invigorated in knowing that I am better because of them.

Answer 3

PROUD BRITISH/ FRENCH :D

i hate it when ppl think im like s****. because im white. so that makes me uncomfortable. and how is vanessa hudgens white? isn't she like... brazillian, mexican or sometihng?? iunno she looks south american  

Answer 4

Don't feel bad about your European roots. They are something to be proud of, or you wouldn't feel proud of them!

Historically Europeans and Asians achieved an awful lot to be proud of. Still trying to work out what the Africans achieved before we colonised and educated them!

Answer 5

I am from Honduras and I am of european descent too. I am scottish, british and of german descent.. I am white but not the typical european kind with blonde hair and blue eyes..You can be european but without looking like the typical european..

Answer 6

Don't feel bad.

I am Argentinian, so I am Spanish/Italian.  

We speak spanish and eat Italian food, lol.

I look like most white people, my mom looks very dark.

Nothing to be ashamed of.  

Answer 7

I would've killed myself if I had straight european ancenstry

Answer 8

It's all political correctness.

Since the 'civil rights' era in the 1960s it's been politically correct to look down on those evil bigot white people.

Being 'proud' of being white is equated to being ethnicentric (white supremacist).  

There's nothing wrong with feeling good about who you are.  

You're just psychologically healthy, and those that aren't are envious.

Answer 9

I am Italian, and really proud of it. But i feel like people don't think it counts, because i'm 'white'. It's like if you're not black or latino, you can't be proud of who you are, you're just another white guy. But i am not white, i'm Italian.