What's self-centered and egotistical about taking pride about what you accomplish as an individual? Isn't that supposed to be the root of self-esteem, and the source of motivation to do something with your life other than stroke your face and say 'gee, thank god i'm white'? How about this, you can be proud of your own individual accomplishments and proud of your  people, your race,  at the same time .  But of course if you're Black..what's their to be proud of? That your people still live in mud huts and eat human flesh in the 21st century? That they can't even feed themselves? That they are responsible for the majority of crime in America despite only being 13% of the population? That they're responsible for turning every neighborhood, city and country where they form a majority into a third world slum? So I guess I can understand where you are coming from.   All of my individual accomplishments are also accomplishments of my race, because I am White, I am the product of White genes, therefore everything I do is the product of White genes. The concept of racial or ethnic pride is really not complicated, it's natural. People are proud of their  people by nature,  if you're not you have some mental defect. A good source of motivation to do something with your life, for us... is the fact that we are White, we have the greatest history and culture of any race IMO, and have contributed more to civilization than any other race(absolute fact), what more of a motivational factor to do something with our life could we have than that? We are motivated by our will to keep our race and it's culture and history alive and well, to continue the tradition of excellence. Being born White is a great gift and it can also be a great burden because it gives us alot to live up to! :cool: