[pouslytut]

I've noticed many threads about what is considered "white" in America..........The truth is that the term "white" here is an umbrella term with no real definition, it basically means NOT black, and covers everything except east asians and on censuses people choosing the box labeled "hispanic" etc.

So the question is, what does "white" mean in europe?..............

[bebeacc]

I've noticed many threads about what is considered "white" in America..........The truth is that the term "white" here is an umbrella term with no real definition, it basically means NOT black, and covers everything except east asians and on censuses people choosing the box labeled "hispanic" etc.

So the question is, what does "white" mean in europe?..............

It depends on the ideology of the person you ask...

Regards.

[blackjackiisre]

It depends on the country, for example you rarely hear it here, but in England, I don't think so.

[Klorissana]

in Europe white is sort of like a term to define one's skin colour.... I mean no one see it as an ethnicity like americans would see it.

basically europeans dont really see themselves as white people.... people here go by nationality, meaning you're austrian, or german, or hungarian or polish or danish etc. etc.

I have a ukrainian friend who went to the USA and told me she felt weird at first when she first arrived and had to assume a so called white girl ethnicity because to her white girls were always sort of the typical american girls.... she saw herself more as a ukrainian with east european culture.

in my case I think I dont really fit the white woman stereotype, I am austrian I think I fit that stereotype well, in America I'd be a european expat I think.... like white to me sounds like a soccer mom from american suburbia!! (i dont know, it's hard to explain)

[cut sifted ephedra sinica]

in Europe white is sort of like a term to define one's skin colour.... I mean no one see it as an ethnicity like americans would see it.

basically europeans dont really see themselves as white people.... people here go by nationality, meaning you're austrian, or german, or hungarian or polish or danish etc. etc.

I have a ukrainian friend who went to the USA and told me she felt weird at first when she first arrived and had to assume a so called white girl ethnicity because to her white girls were always sort of the typical american girls.... she saw herself more as a ukrainian with east european culture.

in my case I think I dont really fit the white woman stereotype, I am austrian I think I fit that stereotype well, in America I'd be a european expat I think.... like white to me sounds like a soccer mom from american suburbia!! (i dont know, it's hard to explain)

Of course, it's a "weird" term for americans also, considering it has no actual realistic definition. I think "caucasian" is much more accurate and conclusive.

[Gmvkgkmn]

I guess we can agree that white is a simple socio-economical term like latino or asian or black, sort of a generalizing blanket term that doesn't really define culture or ethnicity!!

[actioliGalm]

I think in some places of Europe 'whiteness' (or rather 'paleness') is connected to blue blood and belonging to aristocracy, not specific race.
Pale= relaxing under umbrella, masturbaing under table, powdering skin and bored catchin' lice.
Dark= plowing in the field on knees and falling on back from time to time, getting suntan, and later fire, cheap wine and getting swollen from booze and crap food.

[SpyRemo]

white is an american concept.

[funnyPasds]

I think when Europeans do use the term, it often covers their meta-ethnicity, with eventually a few additions. Swedes only consider Germanics "white", Russians only consider Slavs "white", Italians only consider Latin Europeans "white" etc.

[QqJamxqP]

I think that when such a term is used in Poland, it most often means a person of European ancestry, sometimes 'a civilized person'. It's rather never used as a synononym for caucasoid nor in the way Viking described: for example most people here wouldn't consider Arabs white, just like they would never consider Germanics, Celts, Balts etc. non-white.

[Munccoughe]

From west to east. Britons-Germanics and northern Slavs. These are often considered whites. But the highest place on the throne is often reserved for Germanic people.

[appleiphoneees]

the term white is rarelly used in Europe. for us, every person who is European and looks like one is considered to be white. of course, there are neonazzis in every state, and they are obsessed with whiteness and have their own view on this matter.