What race are you?

[Guest Some Guy]

I've got a question.

 

On standardized tests and forms, I ALWAYS see this.

 

Question 1: Do you consider yourself Hispanic? Y/N

Question 2: Please select your race. Caucasian/Afro. American/etc.

 

Why is there a seperate question about Hispanics?

It's because Hispanics are technically Caucasians. Since Caucasian is meant to mean white they try to clarify, or so i've been told.

[Guest Vyce]

Basically, I'm white. Well, mostly.

 

There's a bunch of European blood from my father's side. He basically looks like Hitler's prototypical ubermensche: blonde hair, blue eyes, fair complexion.

 

There's a bunch of Native American blood from my mother's side. She's got a darker complexion, & gets mistaken a lot for Hispanic or Italian, or even Arabic.

 

Me, I get stuck with the fair complexion, so I pretty much look white. Unless I get a good tan, in which case I can probably pass myself off as Spanish if I want to.

 

Of course I don't do that, cause really, being white in this country is still the trump card.

[Guest GenerationNever]

I try not to judge race by skin color. After all, we're all mixed.

[Guest Vyce]

[south Park] They're all pink on the inside. [/south Park]

[Guest Karnage]

I'm Cambodian...if anyone has ever heard of that ethnicity.

[Guest Some Guy]

I've heard of it. Cambodia is in South Eastern Asia, right?

[Guest razazteca]

well I would like to quote Carlos Mensia "I'm brown but everywhere I go I get mistaken for something else, in Florida I'm Cuban or Puerto Rican, in Texas I'm Mexican"

 

Filipino is what I am

[Guest RetroRob215]

Wasn't there ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Cambodia? Or was that a different place.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

That's probably the most bafflingly clueless post I've seen on this board.

 

Albanians. In Cambodia. Huh boy.

[Guest Anubis Puppet]

It's because Hispanics are technically Caucasians. Since Caucasian is meant to mean white they try to clarify, or so i've been told.

 

Actually, I'm pretty sure that blacks can be considered Hispanic as well.

 

If you're from or have strong ties to Latin America, I guess you can be considered Hispanic. I don't really know what the hell the standards are.

[Guest J*ingus]

Cambodia: also called Kampuchea after the winner of a long and bloody civil war tried to rename the country. In Southeast Asia, nestled up right next to Laos and Vietnam. Probably best known in America for being the setting of the movie The Killing Fields.

[Guest RetroRob215]

That's probably the most bafflingly clueless post I've seen on this board.

 

Albanians. In Cambodia. Huh boy.

A simple "No" would have worked just fine.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

It wouldn't have captured my astonishment at discovering that anyone, even an American, could possibly be so fantastically ignorant.

[Guest razazteca]

is there a difference between the White people besides location? Canadian, American, British?

[Guest Spicy McHaggis]

If you're from or have strong ties to Latin America, I guess you can be considered Hispanic. I don't really know what the hell the standards are.

 

Hispanic is a term that relates to all Spanish-speaking peoples. People from Spain, Mexico, and other Spanish-speaking South American countries are all Hispanic.

 

is there a difference between the White people besides location? Canadian, American, British?

 

No, we're all racist bastards

[Guest jimmy no nose]

I'm from England, but moved to the US long ago. My skin is always either very white or very red. There's no tan for me, just pale or horribly burned.

[Guest razazteca]

just curious why 3 choices were white?

 

what about the Other option for mixed peoples?

[Guest RetroRob215]

It wouldn't have captured my astonishment at discovering that anyone, even an American, could possibly be so fantastically ignorant.

I remember very little of Global History. SORRY!

[Guest Cancer Marney]

'k.

[Guest starvenger]

100% Chinese, and proud of it!!

[Guest DARRYLXWF]

AUSTRALIAN?????

 

Um, you do know the State is at war with you right now, correct?

 

Try not to throw the term 'war' out so much, for crying out loud.

[Guest TJH]

I am 50% WCW special forces, and 50% places unknown.

[Guest GenerationNever]

I am 50% WCW special forces, and 50% places unknown.

So, wouldn't your name be something like "The Tank Creature"?

[Guest Dr. Wrestlingphysics]

Some of the people who have posted in this thread have confused nationality with race.

For Example, "American" or "Canadian" are nations and not races. I am of the Celtic race, and my nationality is both British and Irish ( I qualify for dual nationality).

[Guest SupaTaft]

I am 100% Viking in every shape and form. I have officially cleaned my background of everything else but that one shred of Viking in me. I love saying "My people killed your people!" It's good fun.

[Guest gthureson]

Some of the people who have posted in this thread have confused nationality with race.

For Example, "American" or "Canadian" are nations and not races. I am of the Celtic race, and my nationality is both British and Irish ( I qualify for dual nationality).

If you want to get really all technical, the United States and Canada aren't nations. They are countries. In an all technical sense, nation denotes a homogeny of ethnicity that is quite impossible to find in the world these days.

 

Country merely denotes an area within a set of borders.

 

And if I wanted to be real prickish, calling yourself 'Celtic' in this day and age carries about as much water as calling yourself 'Roman'. How many other groups have gone into the British Isles and conquered them since the heydey of the Celts? Lemme see, Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Danes, Norweigians, Normans, plus toss in various other immigration over the past millenia or so.

[Guest Dr. Wrestlingphysics]

And if I wanted to be real prickish, calling yourself 'Celtic' in this day and age carries about as much water as calling yourself 'Roman'. How many other groups have gone into the British Isles and conquered them since the heydey of the Celts? Lemme see, Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Danes, Norweigians, Normans, plus toss in various other immigration over the past millenia or so.

The races you mentioned (Angles, Jutes etc) invaded mainland Britain, mainly England (hence Angle=English) and forced the Celts to the fringes of the British Isles, and indeed, Europe, including areas such as the island of Ireland, and Western Scotland, the areas which most of my ancesters come from.

It is a common misnomer that "white" is a race because all whites share similar characteristics, but that is as racist as saying all blacks are of the same race.

The Celts are generally known for being tall, having ginger, brown, or black hair, having light skin, and being fairly "hard". And, of course, for our legendary drinking capacity (!).

[Guest LesnarLunatic]

I'm a white guy... from Ireland or Scotland and from Germany. Well. I'm not from there, but some guys related to me were.