[bokonist]

I'm saying that one's peer group is almost alway's one's status group. People don't personally compare themselves/compare self-worth versus a random sample of the population. We compare ourselves to friends, neighbors, classmates, and co-workers.

[barrkel]

By TheElder's own admission, some of his co-workers are not white. Why would he then choose to describe his status group as "whites"?

The more I read in this thread, the more I start to believe racism is deeply embedded in the American psyche.