Escapist! How do you identify yourself?
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First Hispanic to post in this thread! woo represent!
Well where I live everyone and their mother is hispanic or at least half so I don't have to explain it it's just assumed but when I travel or talk to people online and the question arises I identify with the hispanic side. (I'm actually half Caucasian and half Mexican).
Only reason I identify with the hispanic side more is because even my mother who's white as snow is quite the Mexican at heart so my entire life I grew up with the culture. Not a huge fan of the culture but it is mine and the food is fucking amazing
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Well where I live everyone and their mother is hispanic or at least half so I don't have to explain it it's just assumed but when I travel or talk to people online and the question arises I identify with the hispanic side. (I'm actually half Caucasian and half Mexican).
Only reason I identify with the hispanic side more is because even my mother who's white as snow is quite the Mexican at heart so my entire life I grew up with the culture. Not a huge fan of the culture but it is mine and the food is fucking amazing
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I say I'm an albino black person. B-)
Seriously, though, I typically just say white. Unless they ask which specific nationality, in which case I say Irish.
Our family has had the last name of Sweeney since the 19th century, so we can't not be Irish.
Also, anthropology is one of my favorite words ever. I just like to see all the different funny ways I can mispronounce it.
Seriously, though, I typically just say white. Unless they ask which specific nationality, in which case I say Irish.
Our family has had the last name of Sweeney since the 19th century, so we can't not be Irish.
Also, anthropology is one of my favorite words ever. I just like to see all the different funny ways I can mispronounce it.
Finn.
We don't mention races around here. There's not even proper demographics on that. Unlike the North America, we neither pay attention to heritage (unless you've moved from another country and look more like, say Somalian, or something). It's kind of a different thing when your "people" have been here since the last ice age, some 9 000 - 10 000 years ago, in contrast to being "discovered" less than half a millennium ago and being populated mostly of immigrants of last couple centuries and their descendants.
When digging more into heritage though: judging from my mother's side's family tree, there's a German sounding name at the very top, some six generations up, so that tells something. Also, I've been told by a related genealogist, that my father's side has had the firstborn male to be named something based on the name Niko (Nikodemus, Nikolai), so I'm guessing they come from Russia perhaps. I had the honor of cutting down that tradition, by the way.
We don't mention races around here. There's not even proper demographics on that. Unlike the North America, we neither pay attention to heritage (unless you've moved from another country and look more like, say Somalian, or something). It's kind of a different thing when your "people" have been here since the last ice age, some 9 000 - 10 000 years ago, in contrast to being "discovered" less than half a millennium ago and being populated mostly of immigrants of last couple centuries and their descendants.
When digging more into heritage though: judging from my mother's side's family tree, there's a German sounding name at the very top, some six generations up, so that tells something. Also, I've been told by a related genealogist, that my father's side has had the firstborn male to be named something based on the name Niko (Nikodemus, Nikolai), so I'm guessing they come from Russia perhaps. I had the honor of cutting down that tradition, by the way.
I'm white. I think my family is from England or Wales or something, but honestly, since we've been in America for at least six generations now, I have a hard time acting like that English bit means crap. It just sounds like a strangely uniform attempt to differentiate myself from the herd in the same way everyone else does by saying whereabouts on the map you'd have found the testicles that once grew my great-great-granddaddy.
I have heard that Inuit is more offensive as Inuit only applies to one specific group of Eskimo whereas Eskimo is more of a group term.aba1 said:
Most Eskimos would be insulted if you called them an Inuit.
OT: Welsh-Australian.
English on the forms that let me, I struggle with the whole 'British' label seeing as I've never once set foot in any of the other home countries, and have no links to them.
Italian enough for the mafia connections but not enough for the awesome accent.
A little Irish and Cherokee from my mother's side too I think.
A little Irish and Cherokee from my mother's side too I think.
Finnish.
I'm white, I guess? The definitions of 'race' change over time, and in the 1940's and so it was the common opinion that the Finns were related to Mongolians more than the great Aryan race, and the way I look, I'd fit into that description more than the image a lot of foreigners have of Scandinavians, as I'm dark and stout.
The actual population history of Finland is kinda complicated, but most Finnish people think of themselves as 'white'.
There are branches of my ancestry that stretch to Lapland and Russia, but it's kinda diluted. Also there has been several adoptions in our family, especially after the WW2, so we don't even know much about the biological ancestry there.
I'm most likely to identify myself as HƤmƤlƤinen, I guess, that is, someone coming from HƤme, a part of Finland, mostly since my accent is very thick.
As far as I know I don't have any Romani ancestry, but apparently I look like one, as I've gotten harassed for that on the street several times.
I'm white, I guess? The definitions of 'race' change over time, and in the 1940's and so it was the common opinion that the Finns were related to Mongolians more than the great Aryan race, and the way I look, I'd fit into that description more than the image a lot of foreigners have of Scandinavians, as I'm dark and stout.
The actual population history of Finland is kinda complicated, but most Finnish people think of themselves as 'white'.
There are branches of my ancestry that stretch to Lapland and Russia, but it's kinda diluted. Also there has been several adoptions in our family, especially after the WW2, so we don't even know much about the biological ancestry there.
I'm most likely to identify myself as HƤmƤlƤinen, I guess, that is, someone coming from HƤme, a part of Finland, mostly since my accent is very thick.
Or if you're Romani. (Or Saami, there were some real racial tension in Lapland in the past, like in the 70's)BENZOOKA said:
As far as I know I don't have any Romani ancestry, but apparently I look like one, as I've gotten harassed for that on the street several times.
I'm American born, but my great great grand parents on both sides came during the potato famine in Ireland. Before that they were British, and before that Germanic tribes. As in what I call myself? A sullen hate-filled misanthrope.
Being is my background has a little bit of everything in it[footnote]Anglo-Saxon, Mongolian, Native american, African, an a little Arabic on my dad's side, I think[/footnote] I choose not to identify myself racially, lest I inadvertently anger the wrong ancestors.Andrewtheeviscerator said:
Which, as my government teacher pointed out, is a privileged allotted only to mixed Anglo-Saxons. So take that as you will.
I'm an Australian with the heart of an Englishman but everyone just knows me as the 40 year old from the 1920s. Seriously, ever since I was 16 I've looked old and my interests lie in the joys of the past so, yeah, I'm a time travelling 40 year old Englishman posing as a 20 year old Australian.
White, being a combination of Polish, German, Lithuanian, Irish, English, and European Jew. I'm just a bastard of a good bit of Europe.
catchpa; take it all
Indeed, I took all the Europeans.
catchpa; take it all
Indeed, I took all the Europeans.