The Culture of Whiteness!

Describe your ethnic culture to me and how your ethnicity is important in your life. Find it difficult?

Chances are that means you are White, or more importantly, people treat you as if you are White.  Whiteness is the unmarked marker, the invisible, the taken-for-granted, and it is tied to economic and social privilege.

"A kind of unholy trinity of corporations, the state, and monopolistic media produces and reproduces patterns and practices of whiteness with dreadful predictability...its continued persuasiveness rests upon the pervasive social spatial, occupational, and residential segregation that makes our bifurcated social structure seem like a natural phenomenon."

You could also replace "whiteness" with 'hegemony' or 'heteronormativity'.

"Although the nature of jobs and the racial composition of the labor force have changed along with the industries in the economic core, the mass of the working class is still--or perhaps more accurately, once again--not-white, racially segregated, and occupationally segmented."

"The eagerness to be white is not hard to understand, since whiteness is a state of privilege and belonging."

-Karen Brodkin, from How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America (1998)