“What is white culture, exactly? Here’s what the stats say”
“You don’t notice normalcy; you see the deviations from it. So the word “white” could always be hopped over as an adjective.
Now, “white” still feels like an absence: an absence of color, an absence of food that is “different” and an absence of a mum who pronounces your name differently from the way your friends do. But if my friend can use “white” as an adjective, then what exactly are they describing? What is white culture, exactly?
I decided to find out by asking the questions that I and many other non-white people have been asked over and over again. I looked for answers in data…
Q: What do white people drink?
A: Alcohol.
Almost a third of non-Hispanic whites had at least one heavy drinking day in the past year, according to the CDC. Only 16% of black Americans and 24% of Hispanic Americans said the same.”
