Poll: Your Ethnicity
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I'm half Egyptian, quarter Spanish and quarter French.
I found the poll results to be satisfyingly hilarious.
EDIT: I find it insulting to people of African descent how you so clearly assume all of them live in America.
I found the poll results to be satisfyingly hilarious.
EDIT: I find it insulting to people of African descent how you so clearly assume all of them live in America.
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.
EDIT: I would like to clarify as to why I use black instead of African-American with a story.
My aunt, who is as pasty pale as my dad, was teaching a college class on famous black authors in the UK. During the first class someone (a black student) tried to correct her into saying African American because saying black wasn't PC enough for her. When my aunt reminded her that it was black authors in the UK the student apologized for interrupting class and didn't say a word for the remaining time.
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.
EDIT: I would like to clarify as to why I use black instead of African-American with a story.
My aunt, who is as pasty pale as my dad, was teaching a college class on famous black authors in the UK. During the first class someone (a black student) tried to correct her into saying African American because saying black wasn't PC enough for her. When my aunt reminded her that it was black authors in the UK the student apologized for interrupting class and didn't say a word for the remaining time.
White.
Well, according to how my parents and me look (not ethnicity), I can't say really, but my question to them was "how come from a gypsy father and a Norwegian mother I got to be a Chinese girl?"
Srsly, I have a really Asian skin color and eye structure..
Well, according to how my parents and me look (not ethnicity), I can't say really, but my question to them was "how come from a gypsy father and a Norwegian mother I got to be a Chinese girl?"
Srsly, I have a really Asian skin color and eye structure..
Ethnicity? Euro-American (mix of Irish, British, Italian, and French, that I know of), so I guess Caucasian.
Good. Then might I recommend removing the "-American" appellation from "African?" I heard there's a bunch of Africans living on some continent somewhere that isn't the US. Weird, I know.steakheart said:
I always disliked the way Americans distinguish races.
They say "Asian" to refer to people from China, Korea, Japan, etc, you get the point, while excluding Russians, Indians, Iraqis, etc.
They also say "Hispanic" like everyone who speaks Spanish is culturally similar. The Spaniards are nothing like the "hispanics" in Latin America, and even then, the Uruguayans and Argentines are similar to each other, but totally different from everyone else.
African American... is saying "black" somehow bad now? I've heard them call black Englishmen and actual Africans "african-Americans" and it really gets on my nerves. YOUR PARENTS WERE NOT AFRICAN (most likely). I'm an Argentine, but I don't call myself an Spanish-Italo-Argentine, and I'm sure people from Quebec aren't Franco-Canadians.
EDIT: 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.
They say "Asian" to refer to people from China, Korea, Japan, etc, you get the point, while excluding Russians, Indians, Iraqis, etc.
They also say "Hispanic" like everyone who speaks Spanish is culturally similar. The Spaniards are nothing like the "hispanics" in Latin America, and even then, the Uruguayans and Argentines are similar to each other, but totally different from everyone else.
African American... is saying "black" somehow bad now? I've heard them call black Englishmen and actual Africans "african-Americans" and it really gets on my nerves. YOUR PARENTS WERE NOT AFRICAN (most likely). I'm an Argentine, but I don't call myself an Spanish-Italo-Argentine, and I'm sure people from Quebec aren't Franco-Canadians.
EDIT: 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.