Ahh, interesting patriarch n.n;; My grandmother (Mother's side) is the only *really* interesting one in the family, she was in the US Army during WW2 stationed in Manila ... After the US pulled out she and my grandfather took themselves up into the mountains to lay ambushes and my grandfather was a doctor so he used to patch up soldiers who would get injured.NeutralDrow said:No, but I was half-raised with some (and heard Kurdish and Spanish almost as frequently as English, most days), until I was about 12 and able to get home on my own from middle school. Both my parents worked. We're still close friends with the family.PaulH said:You're a Kurd? n.n Where'd you're parents come from? n.nNeutralDrow said:Well, it would certainly explain my alternate attraction to Kurdish women...PaulH said:Well, supposedly it's gotten better lately. Less diehard catholicism and more .... well less Catholicism. I'll let you know when I go in June for a working holiday ^_^NeutralDrow said:I don't think you could possibly top William Taft's description of them as his "little brown friends." At least he did seem to practice what he preached, unlike US involvement in the Philippines as a whole at the time, from what I understand.PaulH said:Ahh Filos ... salt of the earth if I may indulge my latent racism (atleast it's nice racism?). Mumsy is Filo, nice people ... scarily catholic ... you haven't seen a Stations of the Cross until you go to the Philippines ...NeutralDrow said:Well, my last girlfriend was Filipino.
I've come to find she's actually colored my preferences quite a bit (darker skin tone and darker, fairly straight hair...and low alto voice, B/C-cup, shorter than me, and I should really stop). Anyway, Pacific Islander or European would be my primary interest, East Asian very close behind.
...why are "white" and "European" separate, by the way? Is it because "white" tends to mean different things in different countries?
As for the other...I can imagine. Might not be a coincidence that she was a lapsed Catholic, raised in the US (and Austria, a few years, from what she said), and fairly jaded anyway. And that we were friends a long time before trying dating (and friends afterwards until we kinda dropped contact).
I don't really care about skin colour bujt I quite like the Filo skin complexion. I think it's just that I used to have overt Filo exposure as a kid, and all my cousins on my mother's side spoke tagalog when I don't speak a word of it ;.;
So they used to tease me all the time o.o Plus they were older than me <.< I guess my family turned me off Filo girls o.o
Now with reduced exposure I like them n.n
Criminalisation by association?
As for my parents...my mother's fifth generation Irish immigrant, my dad's a mishmash of European (mainly English, German, and Italian; when he was in the navy, he was apparently occasionally mistaken for Italian by actual Italians), but they're directly from Wisconsin and California, US.
Where do you live? Where I am from, in Los Angeles, you see all races intermingling all the time. Besides, BlAsians are the hottest women I have ever met...SkyeNeko said:Ok, so I'm a black/asian girl (i look more black though), and the first thing id like to point out is that the only guys who think im pretty are black guys. I rarely see any races dating outside of their own race. first of all i think its not fair because i dont think ill find a black/asian guy (and i dont want to), and second of all, why? how many escapists out there like to date men/women from other races?
EDIT: sorry if i missed a race there arent alot of spaces to put answers for the poll =_=
I pretty much spend most my time in los altos. aaassiian college.Spade Lead said:Where do you live? Where I am from, in Los Angeles, you see all races intermingling all the time. Besides, BlAsians are the hottest women I have ever met...SkyeNeko said:Ok, so I'm a black/asian girl (i look more black though), and the first thing id like to point out is that the only guys who think im pretty are black guys. I rarely see any races dating outside of their own race. first of all i think its not fair because i dont think ill find a black/asian guy (and i dont want to), and second of all, why? how many escapists out there like to date men/women from other races?
EDIT: sorry if i missed a race there arent alot of spaces to put answers for the poll =_=
I am white, have only ever dated white women, but not for lack of trying...
it IS formally called an interracial relationship in most books though... although i am aware that most people do share more common genes across "races" than within, making "race" just a meaningless classification. but then again so are most classifications, like the kingdoms. sorry if i offended you with the title to my thread.frostay said:I watched an online lecture by a professor at a university, and would like to share his point: it's absolutely NOT scientifically correct to claim that there are such things as different *races* of humans. Have a look at the genetics- there is only one Homo Sapiens Sapiens. We've really got to change the terminology here because it's really misleading I think. Frankly, I find the terminology offensive. Call it ethnicity, call it nationality or label by continent of origin (i.e. european; african; east/south asian etc.). Just don't call it a "race".