I’m An Uncultured White Girl

And it’s no one’s responsibility but mine to change that

Faith Ann
An Injustice!
Published in
7 min readNov 12, 2019

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Two years ago I would not be able to tell you what Boondocks was, who James Baldwin was, or explain any hip hop references. I would have little to no understanding of what it is like for non-white people to live in America.

But I would not have called myself uncultured either.

I would have told you I can quote Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. I would have explained how growing up my dad showed me all of the old musicals. I lived in Brooklyn. Surely, with all of these things, I must be cultured!

But I wasn’t cultured. Despite growing up in primarily non-white neighborhoods, I still clung to “white culture”. I knew little else and I wasn’t aware there was so much more to learn.

Entire catalogs of music, libraries full of rich storytelling, and entirely different perspectives about the world around me (and the world I was oblivious to).

It took dating a black man to understand just how little I actually knew.

I realized very early into my relationship with my current partner that we had many cultural differences. Despite growing up in the same state, only 10 miles apart, we came from different worlds. Perhaps cliche, but true.

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