It blew my mind the thought that White peoples complete lack of culture and identity is one of the main reasons it both wants to learn from and hate. Ignorance to this is what breeds hate, acceptance of the inherent differences is all people leads to so many more good discussions and discoveries.
When I heard one of the white women in the video say she didn't have a culture or race, or that used to be her perception . . . I had a flash of memory, of being a teenager in HS, and thinking the same. Like, people of color had a race, they had cultures, but my culture was just American, and my race, well, I didn't have one in the same way people of color did. Thank God several decades and some personal evolution have occurred since then. But even now, having married a Black man (West Indian), having a good friend who is a Japanese artist and having lots of her artwork on my walls, having lots of art in my home from Latin America after learning Spanish and living south of the border for almost 2 years . . . I have a lot of love for other cultures, but what do I consider MY culture? It's weird. I feel like my personal culture is an amalgam of Latino and Asian and West Indian and White American but . . . what the hell is White American culture? I'm so embedded in it, and it is so the "norm", and it's self-defined as being categorically NOT like the "others" in the sense that it's not even seen as "culture" in and of itself . . . it's nuts. I feel in this moment like I'm blind, and for all my education and experiences and relative enlightenment, I can't even see my own culture as a culture. WTF.