Happy White People

Woaw.

Via Sepia Mutiny… They did a study. White folks are happier than brown people who are … “more likely to recover their emotional equilibrium” than the whites. Click on the SM link, they have choice quotes conveniently highlighted. Or you could go directly to the secondary source. Whichever.

I want to however talk about the race angle. This is somewhat of a sticky conundrum. You have to use some definable parameter to measure your responses–an x axis. Making a statement like x = white people = privilege = increased happines; and y = brownies = oppression = less happy. I suppose that would be crazy provocative, no? Probably yes.

The study gives us insight on the state of happiness and basic contentment stemming from an existing condition of happiness or sadness. So whatever. My point is that this insight need not have anything to do with race, but in this case it does because race is a approximation measure for the pre-existing condition…or is that the discovery? That it’s not how we cope with sadness as a race, but how much sadness we have as a race? Woaw.

I have entered into babble-blog. I will stop.

~ by Sonia on October 27, 2007.