african-american

kuulani

kuulani

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i'm rather sick of all this "african-american" talk. that even goes with other minorites. why are there "chinese-americans"? "native americans"?

why isn't obama just an american? my pure japanese grandfather was born in hawaii. why would he be labeled japanese-american, instead of being "american"? why do we persist in using language that divides us?

i mean, whiteys aren't labeled "european-americans".

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i don't really care what people want to be called. if someone prefers to be called "santa christ bob dole chicken fucker" then that's fine with me.

sure, it's easier to say "black" but, then, laziness isn't always polite.

my advice would be... get over it. let people construct their own ethnic identities and labels as they see fit.
 
Then I am a 'part-european, part-native Hawaiian, born-as-a-Marine-brat American'
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at target, where i work, a lady lost her purse, and went off to search for it while i got ahold of an manager-type person and reported it. the manager-type person asked for a description of the lady so she could go find her, since she'd wandered off. so, i described her ... dark brown hair, bob-length... grey shirt with words on it... etc... the manager asked, "was she a number 1 or a number 2?" and i got very confused. apparently, that is code for what race someone is. i'd never heard that in my life. which one's 1 and which one's 2? what if she was neither? or both? or... you know? it was weird.
 
Well you can't call me anything but white. Since I am part european (german, norwegian, greek) and part here (native american).

You know why we're called native americans? Because we have real Indians in america now. :p

One of the best native american/indian jokes I ever heard was on Big Bang Theory.
It was the episode with some girl from india and when sheldon or whoever told her she looked like some indian princess, she asked "Do you mean us indian or come-to-our-casino indian?"
 
BlurOfSerenity said:
at target, where i work, a lady lost her purse, and went off to search for it while i got ahold of an manager-type person and reported it. the manager-type person asked for a description of the lady so she could go find her, since she'd wandered off. so, i described her ... dark brown hair, bob-length... grey shirt with words on it... etc... the manager asked, "was she a number 1 or a number 2?" and i got very confused. apparently, that is code for what race someone is. i'd never heard that in my life. which one's 1 and which one's 2? what if she was neither? or both? or... you know? it was weird.
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There are more than two races... unless there's a pee/poop reference there.
 
2minkey said:
my advice would be... get over it. let people construct their own ethnic identities and labels as they see fit.
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Some goups decide to keep chaging the rules. Are we obligated to follow along?
 
tonksy said:
I have decided today that I shall henceforth be known as a Nomadic American.
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I tried to get people to refer to me as a Polish-Portuguese-Scottish-French Canadian-Yugoslavian-Native American- American, but all I got was weird looks.

(I know Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore. I can never remember the name of the town my Great Grandmother was from.)
 
My children say "the girl with the brown skin" or "the girl with the tan skin" or "the girl with the blonde skin". Descripters are natural it seems, like hair color.
 
I'm a short/fat-american.

As far as I've always been concerned, there's only one race. We're all members of the human race (most of us anyway).
 
There's always new words coming out to try and PC the race issues...usually by members of said 'race'. "Reclaiming the terminology" drives me nuts.

For the record, I'm an Amerindian. French-Canadian Iroquois Mohawk.
 
MrBishop said:
There's always new words coming out to try and PC the race issues...usually by members of said 'race'. "Reclaiming the terminology" drives me nuts.

For the record, I'm an Amerindian. French-Canadian Iroquois Mohawk.
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That makes you a pepper.

I am a kyke-canadian
 
Gonz said:
Some goups decide to keep chaging the rules. Are we obligated to follow along?
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yes. unless you're really too inattentive to follow along with something that may change once every 20 years or so. then you've officially stopped learning and are close to if not at the point of needing adult diapers and a droolcatcher.
 
i would like to take a picture of my skin, and find the average color value for it, and find the hexadecimal code for that, and say that that's what i am.
 
BlurOfSerenity said:
i would like to take a picture of my skin, and find the average color value for it, and find the hexadecimal code for that, and say that that's what i am.
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# FFD8C2
C .25
M 24.25
Y 27.15
K 0

R 255
G 216
B 194

*Based on 4 samples/averaged using a pic of you that I found :D
 
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