Is there such a thing as "white" culture?

Is there any such thing as "white" culture?
I have spent most of my life thinking that there isn't a "white" culture. I remember going to a high school that was pretty divirse with people of all different kinds of backgrounds, religions, and from places all over the world. It seems crazy but I used to with that I had an ethnicity, or a "race" because I felt like I didn't have one. Now that I've listened to the lecture on white privledge I think the reason that I felt like I didn't have a race was becasue white people are taught not to see white priveldge. I has taught (in a subtle was, through enculturation, and other social forces) to believe that I didn't have a race, so that I wouldn't realize the privledge that I had over other races. Privledge can't be changed unless people recognize it exists, which is why it is kept under wraps. Another reason that I felt like I had no race was becasue we are taught to belive that "white" is the defalut race, the natural dominant way of being. All other races are supposedly just in comparison to the "white race," and thus inferior.

The idea of privledge is so heavily denied that the people and social institutions that were teaching me these ideas about my race most likely had no idea they were doing it. My parents always taught to treat people of every skin color the same, and since elementry school I have always had friends of different races and ethnicities. In school we learned that everyone was equal, and in church I learned to "love thy brother (not going to get into that one)." Yet somehow even with all this outward expression of equality, I can still see that there were people in my community that were oppresesed. This could be due to the fact that like Frye's bird cage anaolgy, opression doesn't happen just as one metal bar that a bird can easily fly around. It is an interlocking system that isn't just the sum of its parts. It isn't just each individual act of opression, it is how they all work toegether. So for example, my teacher at the public school I attended may have treated all the kids equally becasue she didn't believe in being racist. However that was just one bar, she couldn't see the entire system of bars that made up the whole cage of some of the students in her class. People who are naturally quite capable of doing well in school may have done poorly in her class, not because she was racist, but becasue of a complicated system of factors that goes far back into history. This can be very disadvantaging to them becasue there is no obvious opression going on, so it will seem like they are just dumb or lazy, when really they were set up for failure from the beginning. The cage is hard to see unless one steps back from it, which is why it often isn't recognized.