Adelaide Casely-Hayford, born on the 2nd of June in 1868, was a Sierra Leone Creole Pan-African feminist, educator, and author. Hayford established a vocational school for young girls in Sierra Leone that emphasized racial and cultural pride.
Hayford was born into an elite Sierra Leone family in Freetown, British Sierra Leone. She spent much of her youth in England and studying throughout the West, also studying music in Germany at the age of 17.
While in England, Adelaide married West African author and Pan-Africanist J. E. Casely Hayford (also known as Ekra-Agiman). Their marriage may have influenced her transformation into a cultural nationalist.
In May 1914, Hayford returned to Sierra Leone, dedicating the rest of her life to educating African girls. In October 1923, she established the Girls' Vocational School, one of the first educational institutions in Sierra Leone to provide young girls with an African-centered education, according to historian Keisha N. Blain.
Hayford frequently traveled throughout the world, giving a speaking tour in the United States on misconceptions about Africa. Author Brittany Rogers notes that these travels also exposed her to the exploitation of black female labor throughout the world.
Although her educational concept for young girls had a Victorian-influenced, middle class domesticity in mind, Rogers writes that these travels led Hayford to begin writing and speaking on matters of labor as well. Hayford died in her hometown of Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1960.
"Instantly my eyes were opened to the fact that the education meted out to [African people] had...taught us to despise ourselves. Our immediate need was an education which would instill into us a love of country, a pride of race, an enthusiasm for the black man's capabilities, and a genuine admiration for Africa's wonderful art work."
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"White people have no culture" is funny but it's a bad take. White people do have culture, it's just not recognised as white culture because it is the default.
This mainly applies to Anglos, who do recognise European cultures as distinct, but also assume that their own culture is just the default way of living.
I think it might be more accurate to say that white people can have culture, but there is no such thing as "white culture" itself—anything you might think to place in that category can usually be more accurately defined as belonging to a particular ethnic group or nation.
I think most of what is considered "white culture" is just the chopped up remnants of dead cultures than exist only as commodities, they're potemkin edifices so as not to feel left out, but nothing that lives or has any future
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Sounds sort of like the vanilla argument. Like the literal flavor vanilla, not people that burn after 10 minutes in the sun.
Basically vanilla is a strong flavor on its own, but most people have been raised since birth to view it as the boring default flavor. It doesn't help that people usually get the cheap artificial dollar store stuff versus real vanilla right from the bean. Funny enough, now that I've been vegan for several years coconut has become my personal vanilla. It used to be a strong flavor I could taste in everything from sweets to vegan cheeses, but now it's just the normal default flavor unless it's really concentrated. Same with soy unless it's actual tofu. It's incredible how quickly humans can adapt to change.
Individual groups that fall under the white umbrella have culture.
White people as a whole do have some sort of culture but it's exported abroad. Then it just becomes a default part of life for everyone and not inherently a white thing. It's kinda like tea and coffee were both localized cultural things until they became worldwide phenomenons that aren't tied to any one culture.
Yeh. Everyone has culture, it's everything we do and think. Giant trucks are white culture, watching sports or wrestling is white culture, marvel movies, politics as sport, funko pops, hot sauce, tiktok dances, and anything else i missed. White culture might seem banal or be alienating, but it's no less real for that.
There's no more or less authentic culture, there's just culture, everyone has it, and there's no way to escape from it.
This mf has never heard of Turkey or Japan
Pretty much every culture on earth has it's own wrestling styles, practices, and culture. There's plenty of cultural exchange between US, Mexican, and Japanese pro wrestling, for instance, but they each have their own unique practices and traditions.
Show me the white person equivalent of a pow-wow. African peoples have their own ritual dance parties, Aboriginal Australians have Corroboree, Chinese people have dragon dances.
The only culture that white people have is the perverted versions of traditional culture that was illegalized under the tyranny of the church. Post-Christian Europeans have no culture.