Mary:
        White was a bad choice of words.  I don't want this to become a
question of semantics, since I think we pretty much agree.
 
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On Fri, 3 Jun 1994, Mary Ellin D'Agostino wrote:
 
> What do you mean by "white" anyway? There is no monolithic "white"
> culture/ethnicity. Or do you mean race? Just as "non-whites", people with
> light skin and of general European ancestry come from a wide variety of
> backgrounds. As a person of Irish-Italian ancestry, isn't my excavation
> of a "British" site just as much of a trap? Yes, people of a dominant
> cultural group need to be careful of their biases, but so does everyone
> else. And skin color does not necessarily mean one grew up as a member
> of the dominant group--there are plenty of "white" ethnic "ghettos".
>
> [Please note that this commentary does not mean that I think I am a
> member of some downtrodden minority.]
>