Whats is your RL Race?

[aesir]

What is your race?

Hope I covered everybody. Please feel free to be more in depth below.

[Beguiler]

The Boston Marathon!


wait..wut?

[CrystalTears]

Daytona 500

[Drew]

Monaco Grand Prix.

[Martaigne]

What, no option for "Sylvan"? WTF?

[Drew]

I don't see myself as "full white (European)". My maternal line is 18th generation American and my paternal is at least 10th. Along the way I've had lots of Indian and some black mixed in, along with who knows what else. I don't feel that European describes me because genetically I'm much different from a non-mixed European.

[Drew]

The truth is anyone whose family has been in America for long enough almost certainly has mixed ancestory. If you're white you probably have some indian and some black blood. If you're black you probably have indian or white. If you're indian you're probably mostly white. If you're from India, this could be slightly confusing.

[Fallen]

FULL ON FRIENDSHIP...err white.

[Some Rogue]

Indianapolis 500

[Some Rogue]

MONKS

[Beguiler]

MONKS


lolz@S.R.

Seriously though, Drew has a point. I mean, you look at me, you see white. But maternal side in America since Revolutionary War days, and claims British, Scot, Swedish, Chipewa Indian and black. Paternal side were immigrants, came here in 1914, and were German, but had Slavic, Greek, and some Arabic somewhere.

Why isn't there a selection for MUTT?

[CrystalTears]

I don't see myself as "full white (European)". My maternal line is 18th generation American and my paternal is at least 10th. Along the way I've had lots of Indian and some black mixed in, along with who knows what else. I don't feel that European describes me because genetically I'm much different from a non-mixed European.


Seriously though, Drew has a point. I mean, you look at me, you see white. But maternal side in America since Revolutionary War days, and claims British, Scot, Swedish, Chipewa Indian and black. Paternal side were immigrants, came here in 1914, and were German, but had Slavic, Greek, and some Arabic somewhere.

Why isn't there a selection for MUTT?

What's wrong with the half-white option?

What do you people put down on applications?

[g++]

What do you people put down on applications?

Pink on the inside with a heart drawn around it.

[Drew]

What's wrong with the half-white option?




That to me usually means mulatto. I'm fine with selecting "white". But not "full white" or "European".

[Drew]

What do you people put down on applications?

Black.

[Clove]

Tour de France!

[Clove]

Hey! Who let the wetback in?

[Jorddyn]

What do you people put down on applications?

African-American.

I just like seeing people's reaction to my pasty white Irish face...

[TheRunt]

You forgot who the fuck knows. I put down white because that's what I look and to the best of my knowledge that's what I am but my dad was adopted so who the fuck knows. Well there are a couple people that know but their not talking, seriously. There is a friend of the family who knows/knew my paternal grandmother but she won't say a word. Rumor has it that she got married had a shitload of kids and neither her husband or kids know about my dad. And if she's still alive thats the way she wants it kept. Although my Dad did meet her at a funeral but never mentioned that he was her son and my Mom was pretty sure she meet her at a baby shower.

[CrystalTears]

What is your race?

Hope I covered everybody. Please feel free to be more in depth below.
What's up with this fascination with races anyway?

[MotleyCrew]

I put down white because that's what I look

:yeahthat:

I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't have some kind of mixture. My father was Canadian, my mother was born in Holland and it diversifies from there. Black, Canadian, European, American, North American Indian, their all in there somewhere.

[Martaigne]

But seriously: German and Irish with ancestors that came over on the Mayflower and mingled with Cherokees.

So, white.

[Xeromist]

Half white, half Hispanic.

[g++]

:yeahthat:

I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't have some kind of mixture. My father was Canadian, my mother was born in Holland and it diversifies from there. Black, Canadian, European, American, North American Indian, their all in there somewhere.

The last person in my family tree who cant directly link themselves to Ireland were vikings.

[Jorddyn]

What's up with this fascination with races anyway?

It's an intrinsic human need to categorize everything. Same, kind-of-same, kind-of-different, different, OMG WHAT IS THAT?

There was a whole show on National Geographic a few months ago about why/how we do this with everything we see. It was really fascinating. Of course, I don't remember any of the answers to "why", so this post is entirely useless. Feel free to disregard.

[g++]

It's an intrinsic human need to categorize everything. Same, kind-of-same, kind-of-different, different, OMG WHAT IS THAT?

There was a whole show on National Geographic a few months ago about why/how we do this with everything we see. It was really fascinating. Of course, I don't remember any of the answers to "why", so this post is entirely useless. Feel free to disregard.

Pretty much a survival skill to expect similiar outcomes from similiar things. We would not have lasted very long if we sat around pondering if the next lion was going to try to kill us again or if that last lion was just a nasty lion. Same reason animals avoid red berries even though most of them are not poisonous and rats will stop eating cereal if you give them poisoned cheerios.

[Stanley Burrell]

I voted Aboriginal because I once hit a bitch in the face with a boomerang.

[ViridianAsp]

My family came over in the 1920's I know my grandfather's family did (polish). My grandmother's Irish family came over a little before that.

My mother's family came over in the forties and she was born in Ireland and adopted through the Church.

So, I'm pretty damn white. So, I put White (Non-Hispanic) at least that's what's on whatever application or whatever when I have to fill it out for race.

[iJin]

I am Guatemalan and Spanish.

[Solkern]

gook

[Proxy]

iron man triathlon

[diethx]

There's nothing but European in my bloodline as far as I know, so I voted for full white.

But I often have some Cherokee in me. :)

[DCSL]

Eh. Let's see. My father's family came over on the Mayflower of Scots-Irish-English stock. My mother's family came to America through Cuba when Castro came into power, but before that they were from Spain. I've got a great-great-uncle from Greece but that's out of my direct line so... I'll have to go with mutt.

Honestly, though, I identify more with my mother's side culturally and physically (the hips..) so I put down Hispanic on official documents.

[graysun]

Human.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

I am half-Unicorn, half-elf.

[Warriorbird]

American.

[Clove]

I am half-Unicorn, half-elf.That just means she's horny 1/2 the time.

[CrystalTears]

That just means she's horny 1/2 the time.
:rofl:

[mrjrd222]

African-American.

I just like seeing people's reaction to my pasty white Irish face...

I'm white, and have dual citizenship with South Africa and USA. I was born in S.A. so technically I am African American...

But those applications aren't asking for ancestry, they're asking for color, hence the choices of -Caucasian(WHITE)- and -African-American(BLACK)-

So I put white, even though I've never even visited this 'Caucasia' place.

[Jorddyn]

So I put white, even though I've never even visited this 'Caucasia' place.

Caucasus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus).

[Cephalopod]

I am half-Unicorn, half-elf.

Funny, I am a zebra unicorn. We may be related.

[Back]

I’m a mutt. Mainly caucasian but there is american indian and african american in the family line. Like 1/32nd Cherokee and 1/128th african. European blood comes from Wales, the land of football and singing, and german.

[Proxy]

Half-Unicorn

So your only a part time swinger?

Edit: Those that don't won't get it, this is intended

[SHAFT]

Smells like mayonnaise around here.

[Martaigne]

Cawk Asian.

[Androidpk]

IRL I am a Vortigan from the Nebulous sector which is 3 parsecs from Krois VII.

[LMingrone]

I really don't know what to consider myself. My two grandmothers were Polish and English. My two grandfathers were/are Italian and Irish. I guess I'm a mutt.

[diethx]

I really don't know what to consider myself. My two grandmothers were Polish and English. My two grandfathers were/are Italian and Irish. I guess I'm a mutt.

That would be white.

[LMingrone]

That would be white.

It's more of a shade of pink, very light brown, and white. I'll have to look up the RGB/CKMY values. But yes, I'm as "white" as they come.

[Tisket]

Normally I am white. Unless I fall down stairs headfirst. In that case I am a lovely shade of purple:

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w66/Sassy_Photos_2007/zzooowwieeeeeee.jpg

[Mathari]

Normally I am white. Unless I fall down stairs headfirst. In that case I am a lovely shade of purple:

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w66/Sassy_Photos_2007/zzooowwieeeeeee.jpg
:gawk: