"I want to suggest that this entire experience (Europeans crossing the Atlantic)
was traumatic though it might not have been understood as such at the time. The bonds of kinship, language, culture, tradition, the sources of a people's strength, were, within a few generations, erased, and replaced with the anemic, synthetic, mass-produced, depression-inducing, misery-making, freedom-addicted, money-loving, control-hungry, spiritually-starving, Earth-hating, de-animating modern excuse for a culture.
Whiteness, that shroud used to smother and then cover the vestiges of European indignity that survived the hellish voyages across the Atlantic, was now wrapped tightly around them as a sense of identity, a toxic mimic of what they had once had.
Whiteness both is and isn't a culture. It's not a culture in any meaningful way we might understand culture in its life affirming function as in the good cultures of bacteria in our guts that keep us alive or as in a deeply rooted indigenous culture. It is a culture in that it has features, patterns and exhibits behaviours that are knowable and predictable (largely to those who are not white).
But, whatever we might call it, it is empty. It is hollow. It has no connection to the Earth. It has no connection to place. It is homeless. It is rooted in privilege. And it is a false god being worshipped. There is a white shroud, wrapped carefully around the mummified corpse of the ones from whom we truly came and we are worshipping the shroud and not those ones within it.
http://healingfromwhiteness.blogspot.ca/2017/05/whiteness-is-deified-trauma.html
And a well-written historical account at the same blogspot
http://healingfromwhiteness.blogspot.ca/2014/03/cultural-amnesia-how-celts-became-white.html
"The Gaels Arrive in America . . . And Become White . . . After Not Being Allowed to Be White"
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