July 29, 1999 at 12:00 am #27511
Jenn-Y
Participant
Not assuming that white is the default race is a powerful statement, one that I had not understood before. Even when reading or talking about different cultures and ethnicities and nationalities, it is very hard not to look through the lens of “other,” “other” being different from me. It means that there aren’t “whites” and “people of color” because that automatically sets the stage as whites being different from everybody else, instead of every culture being different from (or similar to) all cultures.