Your friends. They are holding you back. When parasites such as your friends see someone with skill such as yourself they try to hold you back because they know you are better than them so theyll try and make you mediocre like they are.
Don't listen to them and do what you want. "too white" what kind of sh! T is that?
Find new friends who respect you or atleast try and distant yourself to those who you hang around with usually. Don't get too close to them as youll end up like them - no skills.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.