Alaysia Assignment 12 (What is White)

I've explained in the past that for the longest I saw the world in black and white. Especially growing up in the city and then going to a suburban school with majority white people. I've always noticed and paid attention to races that weren't mine or weren't white and never really thought about what white was. I asked a couple of people and they weren't able to give me an answer so I finally looked it up. "White is eastern and western European origin." After figuring it out what it was, it made me think about how the people I asked didn't even know, and if they didn't know, who else doesn't? How many people out there are ignorant just as I was and why don't they take the time to figure it out like me? Then it hit me. I never thought to look them up before because I believed white people never needed to look their own culture up and look up their history because then I didn't think their history was as important as the minorities who suffered more of a hardship trying to live a life under the "White man." Others could have thought the same way which explains a lot of things we see in this country. Even how we don't have a month dedicated to the "white" people.