Ethnicity question

[Lackey]

Why are white people who are born in Africa, not black?

they take pills

 

[Strange]

guess you're going to have to wait for someone from another country to read your thread... good thing we're keeping this thread on the first page for you with our off-topic discussion

Well I know we have people from other countries on here so I guess the question would be for them. And I really don't mind your gay talk, if that's what your into. Not that there is anything wrong with it

 

[Strange]

Why are white people who are born in Africa, not black?

Good question another one might be how long would a white person have to live in Africa before they turned black?

 

[Holly Goodhead]

Omg Karen you cant just ask people why theyre white.

 

[jaguarr]

I've always chuckled at the ethnicity choices on most applications. Particularly the one that says "White/Caucasian". I'm not white, really. I'm pinkish with a tan hue if anything. WTF?

jag

 

[Immortalfire]

I don't say African American...ok, I just typed it..but I don't speak it when referring to a black person.

 

[Abaddon]

and lets not forget "other".

 

[Lackey]

The census bureau uses the term "black" ...I've seen that on Applications or surveys before rather than "african-american"

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/black.html

 

[Mr Sparkle]

and lets not forget "other".

 

[Immortalfire]

and lets not forget "other".

That's what Michael Jackson checks, right?

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

nah! at least here in Tijuana, gay guys are called mayates, for some reason or another. Infact, short of some dude calling some guy "pinche indio taraumara" I have never heard like full on racial slurs, like half my friends where dark, and they where all "el negro" and I was always "el guero" one guy called me "fantomas"

this post sounds like Charlie Brown's parents to me

 

[AmbientFire]

ok, where i come from (sweden) we call black people swedish if they are born and raised in sweden or have a citizenship. many of the ethnicity questions that go on in america are very unique to this country actually... but yea, if you are born and raised in sweden you are swedish no matter the colour of your skin - in fact, ethnicity NEVER appears on swedish applications.

 

[E. Bison]

ok, where i come from (sweden) we call black people swedish if they are born and raised in sweden or have a citizenship. many of the ethnicity questions that go on in america are very unique to this country actually... but yea, if you are born and raised in sweden you are swedish no matter the colour of your skin - in fact, ethnicity NEVER appears on swedish applications.

ReallY?? Wow, so how do you guys tell each apart without any labels or racial terms? In this country it is necessary to have labels so as to judge one another and make sure what groups we belong to.

 

[Strange]

ReallY?? Wow, so how do you guys tell each apart without any labels or racial terms? In this country it is necessary to have labels so as to judge one another and make sure what groups we belong to.

But in this country with enough money you can buy yourself into any group and then your label is only thought of in secret by your new found group.

 

[E. Bison]

But in this country with enough money you can buy yourself into any group and then your label is only thought of in secret by your new found group.

But then people will start mixing up with eachother and destroying racial purity. Shouldn't we have proper labes so as to determine where each of us belong?

 

[C. Lee]

But then people will start mixing up with eachother and destroying racial purity. Shouldn't we have proper labes so as to determine where each of us belong?

All clothing should be banned too.....if everyone's naked...you want be able to tell who is a boy or a girl....so everyone will be treated fairly.

 

[E. Bison]

All clothing should be banned too.....if everyone's naked...you want be able to tell who is a boy or a girl....so everyone will be treated fairly.

That is very silly and sexist of you C. Lee. I'm surprised of all people!! We don't need to be naked to tell sex. You can just look at a man's face and tell that's he's a man. You also just have to look at a girl's boobs and you can tell she's a woman.

I believe we should all wear symbol patches on our upper clothing so we can identify one another and so we can distinguish what group we properly belong in as well. I don't think this has ever been done before so we should try it.

 

[Lackey]

C.Lee is such a hider

 

[Qoèlet]

The census bureau uses the term "black" ...I've seen that on Applications or surveys before rather than "african-american"

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/black.html

Whatever happened to "Negro" anyway?

 

[chaseter]

Here is an ethnicity question. Why are white skinned people that live in America called "caucasions"? I seriously want to know this. The word "caucasia" has nothing to do with my background. MexicanAmericans have a heritage in Mexico, AfricanAmericans have a heritage in Africa, etc... where the hell is Caucasia? Last time I checked Caucasia doesn't exist.

 

[Lackey]

it comes from the Caucasus Mountains between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea

 

[AmbientFire]

Chaseter - you may want to check again, because it does exist

 

[Tangled Web]

I wish the USA had enough unity so we can all just call ourselves Americans instead of labeling people because of ancestory.

 

[Lackey]

it'll never go away, humans have a need a divide themselves into groups... if it's not by race, then it'll be something else

 

[Tangled Web]

wealth.