Poll: Your Ethnicity

[Nargleblarg]

Just a white american...nothing really special.

 

[Neurowaste]

I dunno, white/hispanic, half Russian half Venezuelan, i'm dark-ish....Don't ask how that happened, baffles me too.

 

[skyfire_freckles]

German
Aleutian
other trace elements

I look like a fairly dark white person with very slight epicanthic folds.
I always choose other on these.

And I just can't find African America on a map, isn't that odd?

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Caucasian.

"I'm a White male aged between 18 and 45. Everyone listens to me no matter how stupid my opinion is" - Cookie for Reference

 

[badgersprite]

Dude, I'm so white that every time I open a new Word document, my hands fucking blend into the screen. oO

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I'm white.

 

[TheHitcher]

Would you also like a blood/urine sample?

youv got blood in your urine :O

OT: imm Caucasian also ivv always wondered why Caucasian has Asian on the end of it can anyone tell me why

No I don't. Note the / seperating the two words and think next time before you write.

Oh and it's probably because without the "asian" you'd probably just be Caucs. Which would be a little strange.

 

[TheHitcher]

Why specifically African-American, are you saying that aren't any black people anywhere else on the planet?

Nitpicking aside, I'm mixed black and white and appear to have a healthy tan (normally an oxymoron). I hate filling out the "other" option in forms and whatnot, so I just fill in black; because my mom is black. If my dad weren't as white as he is(read: very), I would probably be a lot darker skinned than I am now, but because my dad is such a pasty pale, I just look like I have a great tan.

Snap! I'm mixed race - also a black mother and a white father. But it's just so much easier to call myself black, especially as being mixed race you're naturally closer to being black than white.

And the generalisation of races in America is just silly. The term for blacks being African-American is probably one of the worst. For a start, there are black people living outside the US (e.g. I live in England). Also, being African and Carribean aren't the same thing. And I'm Carribean black rather than African black. >_>


People should think before making polls like this.

Edit: Sorry for the double post!!

 

[Rokar333]

Snap! I'm mixed race - also a black mother and a white father. But it's just so much easier to call myself black, especially as being mixed race you're naturally closer to being black than white.

And the generalisation of races in America is just silly. The term for blacks being African-American is probably one of the worst. For a start, there are black people living outside the US (e.g. I live in England). Also, being African and Carribean aren't the same thing. And I'm Carribean black rather than African black. >_>


People should think before making polls like this.

I sort of understand though if the poster is from the US. There are some black people in the US who seem to get offended being called black. So, in America anyway, African American is just the default thing to say unless the person you're speaking to tells you otherwise. It just bugs me because it's technically incorrect in most uses.

You are African American if you've immigrated to America from Africa. However if you and the past 5 generations of your family have lived in America you're a black American.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Caucasian, it would appear...

 

[Motherload111]

lol I'm the only Pacific Islander

 

[FortheLegion]

I'm a mix Caucasian/Pacific Islander

 

[riskroWe]

Part anglosaxon part mediterranean.

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Australian, Caucasian, proud

 

[jezz8me]

Pacific islander and no jew in the thread? I am pretty sure we are more widespread around the world not that i have anything against Pacific Islanders.

So as you may have guessed Jew. Eurotrash Jew to be specific i have family from all over europe and even some Mongolian.

 

[Racistman3d]

Spanish and Indian from my mums side of the family, and welsh from my Dads...

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

50% English, 50% Italian, 100% White.

I don't call myself an Spanish-Italo-Argentine, and I'm sure people from Quebec aren't Franco-Canadians.

Actually, they do [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French-canadian].

In fact, I was friends with a Russian guy when I was living in the US, and we both hated the ethnicity system. I made sure to check "Caucasian" (if it weren't for my nationality and accent, you wouldn't be able to tell I'm from South America), and he always checked Asian, just to mess with everyone. It was perfectly justifiable, too.

Is your Russian friend actually from Siberia though? Cos if he's from the European part of Russia, then it doesn't sound so justifiable. Still, I'm right with you on the Hispanic thing.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Do you want my mother's maiden name?

I kid. I'm caucasian.