With respect, 'culture of race' can mean both a racist culture but also can mean a strong positive identifier of 'other', depending on the context and where/who you are. For example, wherever I move in the world, peope of colour and skin call me 'sister' or 'brother' and I call them the same. We recognise first of all our 'culture of race' with all its integrated meaning. Discussing different 'races' from my perspective, ensures that I have a platform to tell my stories, as my people have a platform to 'testify'. In that way we can make ourselves 'exist' in history, including left history, in the same way that feminism had to make the 'personal' political in order to have the stories of women, first of all heard, then legitismised through comparing womens stories throughout the world, and finally, as women with our own 'womens' perspective, doing something about the rapes, domestic violence, and many other oppressions that diminished the human race as a whole. These oppressions clearly have not been overcome, but in 'naming' them then women have made them an issue for the human race, if you follow my thinking. Aboriginals have to assert their 'culture of race' as we are dying day by day. U.N. accepts that genocide is being practiced on our people but we haven't got a voice, a 'naming' within our own country and through our own government. We are invisible in the same way we were 'terra nullius'. We ARE of different races and it always puzzles me that here in Åustralia I am constantly told, as are my children and grand-children, that we are all 'Australian'. Of course we are! Isn't that self-evident as the fact that we are all of the human family. However, because of my people's very real history, politics, culture, and so on, and that of other people of colour/skin, we are very much who we are. I think that I have something to contribute and I love it when other races/cultures/identities share their differences as much as I love sharing who I essentially am. We are the same, of course, but think, do you like being called 'all women are the same' or 'all men are the same'. It denies the essence of our uniqueness within humankind. I offer these opinions humbly.