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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:32:53 PM EDT
[#1]
It's about color of the skin. Thought you would've learned that by now like the rest of us have known since children. Slow discovery for you?
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:32:58 PM EDT
[#2]
Maybe people like being members of a victim group!
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:35:33 PM EDT
[#3]
Because it's a predominantly white society therefore you tag the difference. It's natural. Get used to it. Pretty soon there will be more Hispanics and white will be the minority. Don't worry. Is it right? I don't know. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:35:47 PM EDT
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Hell, I just read this one response, and I've already figured out that you're a retard. Many "black" people have a skin color that's closer to white than black. Sticking with the Powell example, homeboy is pretty pale. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:38:16 PM EDT
[#5]
It happens in non-white society too. Brown + Black = Black. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:39:07 PM EDT
[#6]
Well, is it a brown society that does that? Would make sense... |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:39:22 PM EDT
[#7]
it helps them get into college for free
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:52:36 PM EDT
[#8]
we are all related to each other. it's the only thing that makes sense.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:00:01 PM EDT
[#9]
Yep, know watcha mean. 1/2 white, 1/2 chinese but some how I just get labeled as chinese.
 I wouldn't understand it either if I was labeled as just white. Hell I don't really care if people call me a halfie, halfbreed or mutt. At least it's more accurate than just white or just chinese.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:04:36 PM EDT
[#10]
RACE
check ALL that apply 
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:05:05 PM EDT
[#11]
Hmm... I wonder if that 5% Cherokee/Iriquois ancestry can get me a scholarship...
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:05:47 PM EDT
[#12]
Play your cards right.... |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:06:30 PM EDT
[#13]
in an "ideal" world it wouldn't matter.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:06:51 PM EDT
[#14]
It worked for Ward Churchill 
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:09:06 PM EDT
[#15]
do you look it? can you back it up? If so milk that all you can! You'd be stupid not to take advantage of a free ride through school. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:10:27 PM EDT
[#16]
It is because in addition to color, there are some characteristics that are common to particular races. Often times, those characteristics are dominant, meaning that although the person is 1/2 white, the other half's characteristics show up and are obvious.
With the black race, the flared nostrils, curly hair, and larger lips, tend to show black ancestry. Powell, although light skinned (which tends to show some white ancestry), has curly hair and flared nostrils. With the yellow race, the slanted eyes, flat noses, small stature, and stubborn straight hair, tend to show yellow ancestry. So when a cop for example sees a suspect and is broadcasting the description for other officers to attempt to locate the suspect, he/she will often say HMA, BMA, or AMA, etc. He/she is not going to say that the suspect appears to be of mixed ancestry, he is going to just categorize the person. That's what most people do, they just put people into a category based on their first impression. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:10:59 PM EDT
[#17]
They pull the race card on that 25% ethnicity when it suits them.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:31:33 PM EDT
[#18]
Tradition. Look up the "one drop rule".
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Posted: 8/3/2005 10:45:38 PM EDT
[#19]
It was the opposite for me. I'm half Filipino and half white, and everybody in my high school said I was white. Now, in college, everyone just thinks I'm Hispanic, lol.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 11:32:12 PM EDT
[#20]
Hey so am I. In Texas everyone assumes I'm Mexican. When I went to New Jersey with my mom a few years ago, people started asking me what part of Asia I was from, for the first time ever. I've never been considered white. Sometimes I just throw people for a loop when they ask me what I am, and I say, "I'm white." It's amusing; they usually don't know how to respond to that, even though I have just as much Asian blood as European blood... but whatever. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 11:54:01 PM EDT
[#21]
If you are 1/2 Asian and 1/2 European = Eurasian. Look it up, it's actually in the dictionary.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 11:54:03 PM EDT
[#22]
I'm not really sure what your're on about here. Is it racism? My complexion is generally white so if some one had to describe me I would expect that they would describe me as,.... oh I don't know white. Perhaps....... Now if I were as you say, and I'm not really sure how this works geneticly speaking "7/8 white, and 1/8 black" and my skin color was for the sake of argument black, I would sorta expect that I would be described as..... black person. It's not so much a label as a description. This black guy just suddenly ran up and performed CPR on the child. If I were "7/8 black, and 1/8 white" and my complexion was white should I be upset at being described as white? This white guy just suddenly ran up and performed CPR on the child. Exactly what is the difference? |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 12:04:31 AM EDT
[#23]
What really irks me as that when we go to the beach my pastey white skin gets beet red while my half white/half mexican daughters skin just gets browner!!
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Posted: 8/4/2005 12:06:04 AM EDT
[#24]
there are no races folks, and the comment about "physical characteristics" are blatantly wrong.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 12:06:58 AM EDT
[#25]
1/2 Japanese, 1/2 White here and people seem to lump me in with who I'm hanging out with. Most of my friends are white so most people assume I'm white although there are certainly some that think I'm mexican since I tan easily. Once in a while somebody gets it right that I'm a "hapa haole" (white/asian) because of my eyes. BTW, there are no women more beautiful than half White half Asian women, if in doubt check out the chick in that shitty Smallville show.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 12:43:14 AM EDT
[#26]
Well, um indeed their are differing races in the human species, and we all have different characteristics, appearances etc. Physical Characteristics are not blatantly wrong, they are a fact of life. What is wrong is how an individual deals with these differences. A yellow flower is.... well it's yellow isn't it. A purple flower is....... well it's not yellow is it. That doesn't mean the purple flower is any less pretty, it's just not yellow. Now if love yellow flowers and hate purple flowers it's not the purple flowers fault nor is it the yellow flowers fault. They didn't have any choice in their creation nor should they be offended if someone comes along and calls them yellow or purple. Tweak, I'm not sure what you've been smoking but I think it's only fair that you share...... |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 1:25:05 AM EDT
[#27]
In places like Mexico City, for example, have a large numbers of natural blonde, blue eyed mexican women ... taken from the Spain side of the things and have little or no native indian in them. Just watch a Mexican soap and see (novela) |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 7:51:00 AM EDT
[#28]
A buddy of mine is in the same situation (except he's 1/2 Korean) and his CCW says he's white. My (old) CCW said I was "O" in terms of race, which must mean I'm in the "Other" category. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 7:55:10 AM EDT
[#29]
It is my understanding that there are in fact races. Mongoloid, Africanus, and Caucasian. I'm dark to the point where people have asked if I was from Greece or Mexico or American Indian, but my ancestry is mainly Western European. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 7:59:47 AM EDT
[#30]
The way things are, it seems the farther away you are from "white", the better off you are (the more special treatment you get).
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Posted: 8/4/2005 8:06:12 AM EDT
[#31]
i'm half white/half asian (japanese) but i guess most folks consider me white. i always put "asian" on my gun forms though. i figger it looks better in the stats of folks who buy firearms. i've been mistaken for everything from latino, to jewish, to hawaiian, to arabic...everything but japanese and anglo-saxon... hahahaha i was with a black friend of mine and we went to se dc and these black kids followed us and called me a "sandnigger"! that was hilarious!
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Posted: 8/4/2005 8:08:10 AM EDT
[#32]
As an aside, I prefer being refered to as "European-American" instead of "White." White seems to be indicitive of being blank, or characterless.
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Posted: 8/4/2005 8:15:33 AM EDT
[#33]
What about albino "negroids" (albino black guy is kind of an oxy moron)? They're white as any other cracker. They still have the other "physcial characteristics" such as "flared nostrils" and "curly hair". |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 8:28:05 AM EDT
[#34]
It's written into law. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 8:33:34 AM EDT
[#35]
"Why are bushs....bushy?"
"Why is the sun yellow?" - IT JUST IS! |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 8:49:43 AM EDT
[#36]
Could you explain "hao le" and its connotations for the rest of us? We should all have an awareness of this term and how it's used in the asian / pacific cultures. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 9:06:43 AM EDT
[#37]
My college roomie was from Guam. He said it basically means a mainlander (i.e. a non-islander). I did not ask specifically but I did not believe there is any racial connotation to the word. You do not have to be white to be a "hao le". As an example, because I am from the US continent (PA) I was a "hao le" to him. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 9:11:30 AM EDT
[#38]
Less than 5% for Ward. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 9:17:10 AM EDT
[#39]
shut up you bunch of FLIPS! just kidding! im half filipino myself, my mom's mexican from texas!
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Posted: 8/4/2005 9:22:26 AM EDT
[#40]
I read somewhere about a 'white guy' who always put down 'native american', since he was born and lived his whole life in America (and is thus 'native').
My personal opinion is that we need to stop asking these stupid fucking questions. Racism is Racism, regardless of if the person's a minority or not. Just stop asking these questions, and judge people on their merits, not the color of their skin. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 10:21:23 AM EDT
[#41]
Mongoloid, Australoid, Caucasian, and Negroid, actually. Within those larger groups, things get interesting. Really, looking at Linnean taxonomy, they would actually be species (or subspecies, depending on how picky you were) (for instance, Negroid) with a subcategory like "race" (pygmies and the black people that everyone thinks of as "typical African", the black people in Ethiopia, who aren't actually that closely related to "typical African" black people, and the Bushmen and similar relic populations), and subraces (in the "typical African" group, that would be pygmies, Nilotic black people like Manute Bol, and so on). One of the interesting aspects of the genetic mapping projects going on now is that they are giving us really good graphs of this stuff, so we can start to reconstruct movements of early peoples. There is no good reason not to figure this stuff out. More to the point, I know lots of mixed people, I am allegely part French, Arab, Spanish, and so on, but I look like a Mexican. I would be really surprised to see someone ferret out a 1/8 black or Thai or whatever. How the heck can you tell at that point? And yes, Thai/white chicks are really hot. I don't know why, but whatever it is, I want more of it. Another good argument (besides Jennifer Connelly) for advancing the science of human cloning! |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 10:27:47 AM EDT
[#42]
The thing is he does not have any indian blood. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 10:57:43 AM EDT
[#43]
in hawaii, "howlie" is what kanaka's call whites. it's usually a racial epithet like "cracker" "honkie" etc. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 11:04:30 AM EDT
[#44]
Kinda like old Eldrick (tiger) Woods.
He is half asian and half black but he is always referred to as black. This is simple really, it's because in todays society there are some advantages to being black or another minority, both financially and socially. It's "cooler" in todays media culture to be a minority. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 11:06:09 AM EDT
[#45]
Depends where you are. I'm half korean and half irish. I was born in South Korea, while I was there I was referred to as white or american, come to the USA and I'm considered a chink. Yeah I got in hundreds of fights, never fit in anywhere, but I learned that I can beat the shit out of 99.9% of the the world (actually lost a few of the several hundred fights I've been in). |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 12:21:20 PM EDT
[#46]
Human race.
the so called races are merely a way to easily categorize simiar features. |
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Posted: 8/4/2005 9:51:39 PM EDT
[#47]
FWIW...
 "The one-drop rule was invented by slave masters because they wanted to have more slaves. Today, ironically, the one-drop rule has been embraced by black folks because we want more black folks. After all, greater numbers translate into greater political and social clout." ~ Clarence Page, journalist/editorialist for The Chicago Tribune. Page goes on to discuss the example SPECTRE brought up regarding Tiger Woods. |
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Posted: 8/7/2005 7:26:49 PM EDT
[#48]
That's the way I heard it. |
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