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  • It matters because people that consider themselves white today were only “granted” whiteness recently (to use the term again).

    To say that the concept has existed for 400 years but that somehow it doesn’t matter that the definitions of the concept have changed is to lose the plot.

    I agree that whiteness is a concept. However, I would say it is forced into culture, rather than being a part of it. Bovinos parent’s would not have been considered white in America when they were growing up, and the fact that he considers himself to be white now is proof that it is recent, but also meaningless as a label.

    There is no such thing as white culture, or food, or music, or any other thing that one would call culturally relevant to being white. With one exception, one must and that is white surempisism.