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**mtvlover571** · 05-20-2012, 08:45 PM

Nowadays, white society is more tolerant of mixed people and considers them a gray area rather than the black-and-white way things had been previously.

Alfieb. What would you say the rate of change is for this? I mean, are we talking 50 years (for a noticible change in people's attitudes to happen) or just a decade back and forth?

The reason I ask is because to me it seems like the definition of "white" in US standards is already extreamly wide. And with the US - being a country with such a massive cultural export - I think these values and perceptions may be spilling over on Europe. To me, white has always ment "germanic" or WASP, but even on these forums a lot of people will accept 'euro' as "white" even for south-europeans etc (no offense to you being cicilian, lol).

But how is the term "white" gradually morphing over there in the US, would you say?

05-20-2012, 08:45 PM	#17
mtvlover571 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 408 Senior Member	Nowadays, white society is more tolerant of mixed people and considers them a gray area rather than the black-and-white way things had been previously. Alfieb. What would you say the rate of change is for this? I mean, are we talking 50 years (for a noticible change in people's attitudes to happen) or just a decade back and forth? The reason I ask is because to me it seems like the definition of "white" in US standards is already extreamly wide. And with the US - being a country with such a massive cultural export - I think these values and perceptions may be spilling over on Europe. To me, white has always ment "germanic" or WASP, but even on these forums a lot of people will accept 'euro' as "white" even for south-europeans etc (no offense to you being cicilian, lol). But how is the term "white" gradually morphing over there in the US, would you say?
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