Posted on Jun 11, 2016
Should the military hold observances for targeted race/gender/sexual orientation based groups?
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There seems to be a month/day of observance for just about everyone. Everyone, except white men. Why is this? Is there no culture/heritage for young white Americans to be proud of? Everyone's ancestors did something terrible on a large scale, but I'm supposed to be ashamed to be white?
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Those that do not wish to be just American, but instead * -American will say, Every other day is White American day, we get only one, so leave it alone. .
You'll notice my surname is not that of a typical "white" American..The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa," and so is a wider group than European American. Like all official U.S. racial categories, "White" has a "Not Hispanic or Latino" and a "Hispanic or Latino" component,[3] the latter consisting mostly of White Mexican Americans and White.
Yet I chose to self identify as just "American"
Not just because I dislike the * -American identification style...vice just American ...But because Im also a HINO.
Hey maybe I should campaign for a HINO day
You'll notice my surname is not that of a typical "white" American..The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa," and so is a wider group than European American. Like all official U.S. racial categories, "White" has a "Not Hispanic or Latino" and a "Hispanic or Latino" component,[3] the latter consisting mostly of White Mexican Americans and White.
Yet I chose to self identify as just "American"
Not just because I dislike the * -American identification style...vice just American ...But because Im also a HINO.
Hey maybe I should campaign for a HINO day
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SN Greg Wright
And you'll notice that I'm not likely to give a shit what your surname is if I should be passing you, in uniform, and notice that you don't have coffee in hand. I'll right quickly find somewhere else to be!!
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SGM Erik Marquez
Technically, so long as i had just finished a cup, or was on the way to get one, you were safe.
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ABSOLUTELY NOT!
We should have observance days based upon BEING AMERICANS. July 4th, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day...THOSE we should make a Big Deal about..."George Washington's kid took a leak day" should be something that the civilians and the sheeple want to observe, more power to the lemmings.
We should have observance days based upon BEING AMERICANS. July 4th, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day...THOSE we should make a Big Deal about..."George Washington's kid took a leak day" should be something that the civilians and the sheeple want to observe, more power to the lemmings.
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TSgt (Join to see)
As it should be! I simply feel as though singling out racial groups for recognition has no place in the military.
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