I don't think American = white. I phrased that poorly, and for that I'm sorry. I've been talking white privilege with one of my friends all day, and talking about racism and the continued divide between white Americans and non-white Americans, plus the varying forms racism takes among non-white Americans themselves--and some of my train of thought probably crept into this inadvertently and led to some muddled phrasing.
We do have very different personal / family cultures; my only disagreement is with your assumption that the culture I come from drives my current discomfort with guns. (And I mean "culture" as in environment more than anything to do with ethnicity or country of origin.) But otherwise, yeah, we're pretty much agreeing. It's more a "live and let live" thing, anyway.
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Date: 2014-07-11 09:54 pm (UTC)We do have very different personal / family cultures; my only disagreement is with your assumption that the culture I come from drives my current discomfort with guns. (And I mean "culture" as in environment more than anything to do with ethnicity or country of origin.) But otherwise, yeah, we're pretty much agreeing. It's more a "live and let live" thing, anyway.