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What's up with all the Caucasian (self-)loathing??
Jeez, you "boring white people" need to cut yourself some slack.
Take it from a minority who emigrated to the US a while ago: while foreign cultures/people are by default "exotic" in their newness to and differences from the stereotypical WASP American experience, they really aren't that fascinating once you become acclimatized to them.
And FWIW, from my experiences the "boring" American culture which you natives excoriate can actually be quite fascinating -on levels both explicit and subtle - to a curious outsider.
Finally: self/self-culture-loathing really does not make you a better person or progressive.
Open-mindedness and fairness to everyone - eeeevil, tyrannical middle-class WASP Yanks included - does. That's just my 2 cents.