Recent escapades into electronic music has revealed to me just how white my tastes used to be. I used to look down on Hip Hop, Rap, Pop, Country and EDM and listen to nothing but Rock, Metal and some Jazz.

And it does feel that a lot of it has come from being exposed to and influenced by western sensibilities at an early age. A lot of white people love Rock, they especially love Metal, especially when they can use it as a way to roleplay their imagined Nord, Teuton superiority, and Jazz is only really considered acceptable by white folk when they colonize the Jazz scene and profit off of it while black Jazz musicians usually take a nightstick by bastard cops because they didn't believe that a black person has any place in white dominated spaces.

Meanwhile, the music I was taught to look down upon are genres of music that were invented by, or influenced by people of colour.

And there is a big contrast I see between Rock and Metal fans and fans of EDM, HipHop, Rap and Pop music. In that people of the first camp tend to be indifferent at best, and hostile at worst to your identity if you're queer in any way. I've seen a LOT of acceptance and kindness from the EDM/HipHop/Rap etc community, in contrast.