I am a white 25 year old woman, and I am proud of who I am. I just want to post that I think everyone should feel proud of who they are and their origins. More than likely someone or society will find a way to discourage you at some point in your life based off of external nonsense.
I am a Latino man who doesn't speak Spanish. That fact has impacted my life in more ways than I care to accept. I am the child of a Norwegian woman and Mexican man, but influenced most by the Norwegian culture. What does that mean? I don't really belong anywhere. I don't speak Spanish, so I don't fit into the Latino culture and I definitely don't look like a Norwegian, so I don't fit there. I've experienced scary situations with cops, but my older and lighter complected brother hasn't. So he doesn't believe me about the racial climate in the world. What do I teach my children that carry my name? Still trying to figure that out.
I can't even begin to count the ways that being white has protected me in my life, but I strongly related to one of the white people who talked about how being white means we don't really have a cultural identity. I experience this as something missing in my life. Maybe that's part of the reason why white people have such a tendency toward cultural appropriation?