It's about perspective. Living high on the hog can make it challenging to look inward at your own faults when you have a bird's eye view of everyone else's.
As far as Euros and American Whites...shit they aren't even close to being the same. European ethnic groups all have very different cultures. By in large, American whites have become their own distinct ethnic group with their last ties to their homeland being their surnames.
It's not where you are from , it's where you are at, and where you are at can define you.
" If we can't learn to live together despite the turmoil of past generations we are doomed." -Stern
"And where today is the stable community that would sustain such a couple, where one can be both poor and diginified and raise one's children with decency and hope... If the answer is education, does our society adequateley provide that tool of self-improvement to the less well off?"-- Sidney Poitier
" I'm not mad 'cus I'm losing! I'm mad 'cus I don't know how to win!" --Kevin Curtis Daniels Jr.
"And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,-all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,-who is good? Not that men are ignorant, -what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men." W.E.B. Dubois
"Slaves got options...cowards aint got shit." --PS "Once upon a time, little need existed for making the distinction between a nigga and a black—at least not in this country, the place where niggas were invented" -- Donnell A