White People

This website is meant to explore and examine the cultural differences and similarities between white
people in the various territories theyve occupied. It will pay special attention to three countries: Israel,
South Africa, and the United States, leaving aside Canada and other settler colonies. To be clear, this is
not an examination of European culture; despite their inevitable similarities, for the purposes of this
website, white people are defined strictly as Europeans and their descendants in settler colonies.
Each of the settler colonies well be taking into consideration has its own unique history, but they all
share some common features. Lets take a brief look at each of them:

Israel
Prior to the establishment of Israel as a
Jewish State by the United Nations in 1948,
Palestinians and Jews shared the Palestinian
territory as neighbors and friends. The
situation rapidly deteriorated as European
Jews, fleeing persecution by other Europeans
for their marginal differences during and after
World War II, began displacing Palestinians
and destroying their homes and villages. From
a territory smaller than Lake Michigan, nearly
1 million Palestinians were displaced in 1948 alone, with ever greater numbers fleeing Israeli apartheid
every year. The displacement, dispossession and dispersal of the Palestinian people is known to
Palestinians as an-Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" or "disaster, and is commemorated on May 15
th
.

South Africa
In 1652, a Dutchman established a settlement in South Africa that would grow to become what is known
today as Cape Town. The British took over the Cape of Good Hope area in 1795, finally annexing the
Cape Colony in 1806. Through a series of bloody wars against Native
South Africans, greater territory was gradually won by the British. It
wasnt until May 31
st
, 1961 that South Africa declared itself an
independent republic.
In the period following the establishment of South Africa as a republic, it
maintained its policy of apartheid, which relegated native South Africans
to an inferior station in society. Through militant opposition to apartheid
by organizations like the African National Congress (ANC) and Communist
Party, apartheid was overthrown in 1993, and after serving 27 years in
prison for his anti-Apartheid activities, including leadership of the ANC and Communist Party, Nelson
Mandela was elected as South Africas first Black president.
Although roughly 80% of the population is Black, the effects of colonialism and apartheid are
unfortunately persistent in modern South Africa, including very unequal living standards for white and
Black South Africans.

Unites States
Europeans first arrived on the American continent in 1492 and began claiming swaths of territory for
their respective monarchies. They immediately set about enslaving, exterminating, and displacing the
native inhabitants of the continent. The 13 British colonies on the east coast of present-day United
States would eventually declare independence in 1776, but not before establishing an economy
completely dependent on the slave labor of millions of kidnapped Africans. In the period following the
arrival of Europeans to the American continent, the Native population declined from around 50 million
to about 1.8 million.
Following the US annexation in 1845 of Texas, a
Mexican territory, which resulted in a war with
Mexico, the United States annexed an additional
territory consisting of present-day California,
Nevada and Utah, most of Arizona, and western
portions of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was supposed to
ensure the inhabitants of those territories maintain
their property rights. Over time, however, that
treaty would be reinterpreted to facilitate the theft
of the Southwest, and by fraud and violence the land owners in those territories were dispossessed.
Those dispossessed people and their descendants would come to constitute the Chicano nation. The
territory stolen from them is known as Aztln.
The American Civil War, which was fought between 1861 and 1865, resulted in the abolition of slavery,
but former slaves and their descendants would go on to face centuries of lynching, segregation, and
persecution under the law in the United States.