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In the article “WHITE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE ETHNIC” by Pamela Perry. The author said that on the lack of white "culture" is a compelling article about culture, and if you are white, you do not always think about it.The author has been interview two high school students, they both are white.They have cultureless to their own culture. One high school was around white neighborhood lives with them.Another one high school was racially diverse neighborhood there was not that much to white lives in there. The author found that in a white school, white culture naturalizes, that meant is students do not doubt what is that meaning of white was. Of the few student was white in the school, the white student is not the majority, they must ask …show more content…
They are not tradition to follow their past. They will create their own. They have no culture because of they white. I felt same, sometimes I do not feel I need to follow my culture traditionally. Why I need to learn about them. I do not really look like I will follow my own culture person.Sometimes, I do not want to be my Chinese culture. Sometimes you will see some Chinese no education about their culture skill. They will see something news talked about Chinese was pee on the stress. I felt to embrace to be part of being them.I just want to be myself.Some of the people see your culture in the person, they will think all Chinese people would do that. It is good to be itself they do not need to follow the rules from our own culture. I must need to traditional education from school. I do not like to learn Chinese old traditional culture from china. I felt is it not make to sense to me. Also, do not have any freedom when I was in china. I could not speak a bad word about government.The government was spirited people everywhere in china. They found it. They will put you in prison. Sometimes culture good for you own. Sometimes is not good for you to learn about it. It is dependent on their

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