Have a Kanye Attitude about Your Race

Yeah there are definitely lots of cultural factors. But again, those are just tendencies. There are lots of differences between the average white Texan and the average Hispanic Texan, but the neighborhood I grew up in was about an even split of 50/50, and there were no racial lines within the area. I didn't even realize Mexican kids were Mexican until somebody told me. So for me personally, even though my ancestry is pretty much nothing but northwestern European, there really aren't any differences to me. I feel comfortable and it is easy for me to connect with cultural Hispanics (at least those born or mostly raised in this country.) I don't have any problems with Asians, Blacks, Jews, or any other races, but Hispanic culture just feels normal to me.

Every culture has different norms, but one of the biggest factors for whether people feel comfortable (I think) is whether or not a given culture lives in a segregated or self segregated community. This creates more of an exclusionary feeling both for those without and within the community. People who grew up in these communities, no matter how diluted their culture was, they tend to have a lot of internalized pride about it, which can be a good and a bad thing, and it is reinforced when they are with their group. This goes for people of all races, including whites. People who grew up in fully integrated communities, no matter how strong their cultural upbringing, tend to have a more inclusive attitude, and while they may be proud of their culture, they don't consider others weird for being different, and they don't have as much of an expectation that any given person will be familiar with or respect their culture, and they are generally less confrontational about it.

Probably the worst example of this is white people, in my experience, but that's probably just because there are several wealthy mostly white enclaves around where I live, so their version of culture is more just not empathizing or understanding anyone who didn't grow up with money. That's just an empirical observation which is probably not indicative of all areas though, I don't have any white guilt or any of that bs.

One of the biggest factors is economics, though. There are a disproportionate number of minorities who are poor in my country, and that's a legitimate problem that needs to be corrected, but when you just look at economic status, poor white people and poor black people are in the same boat when it comes to crime, drug use, incarceration rate, baby mama/baby daddy status, etc. There are just way more poor black people. On an individual level though, in economics as in relationships, you are responsible for making the most of what you have. You might have gotten a shitty hand, but you can be a success. Having to work for it more will just make you a better person in the long run.

Man, I really wish my parents had saved some fucking money, though.