It is normal. It's also wrong. Everyone sees themselves as normal, therefore whoever writes the book so to speak, defines normal. That said, white males generally won the race gender struggle as far as humanity goes, so our culture places them as default. It's not real though.
For instance I'm a black guy from an inner city and when I was a kid I figured "minority" meant that black people make up about 40% of Americans... Nope.
Your baseline is simply a white male. That's fine, so long as you remember that it's completely arbitrary.
White males are neutral human beings and everyone else is a variation
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It is normal. It's also wrong. Everyone sees themselves as normal, therefore whoever writes the book so to speak, defines normal. That said, white males generally won the race gender struggle as far as humanity goes, so our culture places them as default. It's not real though.
For instance I'm a black guy from an inner city and when I was a kid I figured "minority" meant that black people make up about 40% of Americans... Nope.
Your baseline is simply a white male. That's fine, so long as you remember that it's completely arbitrary.