# Does "White Culture" Exist?

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**Created:** [January 8, 2026, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-white-culture-exist/1026483 "2026-01-08T17:21:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-white-culture-exist/1026483/31 "2026-01-08T20:39:28Z")

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> [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6233):
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> can you find any evidence to the contrary online?

I don’t even want to look, because if I search “white pride” I know exactly the kind of places it will take me.

> [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6234):
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> Nobody will complain if you talk about British culture, or German culture, or French culture, and those are hardly “out-groups

There are lots of ways to pick how you draw your groups. Country, ethnic heritage, ancestral heritage, religion, age group, skin color, political affiliation, economic status, gender, and on and on. All of those things can have their own cultures, which overlap a great deal with other circles created with the same or different classification.

> [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/6236):
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> I think you have it reversed; “white culture” isn’t the base underneath, it’s the blanket that’s been thrown on top of everyone else’s identities

It can be both. White culture can impose itself on other groups, and still exist as a culture.

My argument isn’t whether or not white culture exists. I think it does, but I refuse to define it. My argument is that denying it exists is a (probably unintentionally) racist stance. The same as someone saying, “I don’t want Indian, I just want normal food.”\[1\]

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1. to avoid distraction by the analogy, the point isn’t that someone prefers cream of potato soup over Aloo Gobhi, it’s the normal/abnormal distinction.

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