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What Race are You?

What's your race

  • Hispanic

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Caucasian

    Votes: 25 67.6%

  • Negroid

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Mongoloid

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • other

    Votes: 12 32.4%
  • Total voters
    37
fallingblood

fallingblood

Agnostic Theist
The Sum of Awe said:
This thread is being more difficult than it needs to be.

I do let humor fly though :p
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Not really. You asked a question that with our modern understandings, many find hard to answer. Not to mention that the "races" you listed really aren't helpful. For instance, hispanic is not used to describe a use. "Mongoloid" has been used to describe many people throughout time, and really is hard to pin point one so called race that it refers to. As for "negroid", how much "negroid" blood does one have to have before being part of that "race?" How do you even define race? I mean if I look far enough back, I can find a mix of "races" in my lineage.

And you're using terms, such as "mongoloid" and "negroid" which really are just offensive words now, and really don't actual necessarily refer to an actual "race." In fact, such terms have been abandoned for quite some time, as they have taken on more of an offensive nature.

So really, it is a difficult question. I can't really tell you want "race" I supposedly am. Looking at me, I could be Asian, Native American, or white (and I have been labeled all three by others). Each one has at a time been deemed a separate race. If I look at my lineage, I trace it back to the Middle East, and I have Turkish blood in me. So would that make me Arab or Middle Eastern? And I can't even trace the lineage on my father's side, but it is very probable that there are mixed "races" there as well. So what race am I? I don't know.

So, why do you even want to know? Does it matter? Is race even something that exists? And if it does exist, at what point does one belong to a race?
 
Me Myself

Me Myself

Back to my username
I´ve just asked.

I mostly seem to have Spanish and German blood, given my last names and those of my grandpas (I didn´t go farer back).

I do look less white because living here in Ecuador all this years makes your skin darker, but I still have the white like in the places the sun shines less :D

If I went away form the sun I would probably still lok like that maybe all my life? I do remember I was completely white as a kid and boy.

edit: This makes me caucasian right?
 
tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
The Sum of Awe said:
What race label do you belong to?

Please if you're going to say "there is no race, just love" or something like that, keep it to yourself, you know what I'm talking about when I say race...
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How about, the choices have no biological validity?


But my skin tone is typical of those descended from the populations of Scandinavia.
 
ChristineES

ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
SageTree said:
I chose 'other' to play along.
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I had to choose other. Native American wasn't a choice and I hate the term "Caucasian" for some reason.
I haven't heard the term "Mongoloid" in more than 30 years and that was what they were calling people with Down Syndrome and not Asian.
 
SageTree

SageTree

Spiritual Friend
Premium Member
My playing along, wasn't just because of my idea of 'race',

I know a LOT about my family tree.... but not ALL of it.

My family name came through Barbados in the late 1600s, and stayed there for a generation and a half.
African Islanders say I look like a mixed man from there, especially with my hair grown out, which looks like an 'Afro', big and full of curls, but more on the Anglo side appearance wise.
And my family name is actually from England.

My Dad's side family-name then settled in Native terr. in the Appalachians well before it became anything more than the edge of the colonies... and my family lived beyond the 'safe zone'.
Historians say it was common to intermarry with Natives for years and years, until it became more 'civilized'.... :rolleyes

I'm mistaken... or not mistaken perhaps, as a Sephardic Jew, on a REALLY regular basis by Jewish and Non-Jewish alike.
I had roots in Southern France/Germany....

I have family from Southeastern Europe in my family tree as well.

My family closest to me is fairly 'pink', but I was thought to be jaundiced when I was born due to the olive hue to my skin and I get really dark in the early spring, with just a little sun.


So yea... I'm olive-ish and tan reddish when I get my full hue on....
Who knows where my family is from in totality and what aspects of that came to light in my own life?

I choose 'other' cause... man.... I can't be sure, for sure.... for sure!

Madhuri said:
Me to, but I think it's because of the pronunciation of 'cauc' ;)
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All that above I said... you can still see my 'Cauc' for sure! Harharhar!!! :eek:
 
Viker

Viker

Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
I choose other because of many different experiences. The moment I tell any one I have Jewish ancestry I am no longer seen as "white/Caucasian/European" and automatically now a Jew, even though Jews are Caucasian and I have no problem with it personally. I view race/ethnicity as shifty and subjective, with this - I feel I can be what ever the hell I want. I often put Pacific Islander on apps because it sounds awesome. I am black right now. Wanna find out?
 
The Sum of Awe

The Sum of Awe

Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Staff member
Premium Member
fallingblood said:
Not really. You asked a question that with our modern understandings, many find hard to answer. Not to mention that the "races" you listed really aren't helpful. For instance, hispanic is not used to describe a use. "Mongoloid" has been used to describe many people throughout time, and really is hard to pin point one so called race that it refers to. As for "negroid", how much "negroid" blood does one have to have before being part of that "race?" How do you even define race? I mean if I look far enough back, I can find a mix of "races" in my lineage.

And you're using terms, such as "mongoloid" and "negroid" which really are just offensive words now, and really don't actual necessarily refer to an actual "race." In fact, such terms have been abandoned for quite some time, as they have taken on more of an offensive nature.

So really, it is a difficult question. I can't really tell you want "race" I supposedly am. Looking at me, I could be Asian, Native American, or white (and I have been labeled all three by others). Each one has at a time been deemed a separate race. If I look at my lineage, I trace it back to the Middle East, and I have Turkish blood in me. So would that make me Arab or Middle Eastern? And I can't even trace the lineage on my father's side, but it is very probable that there are mixed "races" there as well. So what race am I? I don't know.

So, why do you even want to know? Does it matter? Is race even something that exists? And if it does exist, at what point does one belong to a race?
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Well, whatever you believe you identify with.

If your genetics aren't the same as what race's blood you have in you, then go by what blood you have.
 
illykitty

illykitty

RF's pet cat
Caucasian but I think we should start calling everyone Earthlings. I don't like distinctions because it creates differences thus conflict.
 
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