"What is your ethnic background?"

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by Micjones

Understood.



In my experience minorities have never been interested in obscuring their differences entirely. They simply don't want to be judged by them.

Heh, you mean like finding out how certain ethnic backgrounds vote, earn a living, get a haircut, ect?

Again, I think you're asking an awful lot of ANY group of people who have been stripped of their culture when you suggest they abandon what's left of their heritage to embrace Americana in all its glory (which in many ways has contributed to what they lack culturally).

I never said said it should be abandoned, quite the opposite actually. I just do not see the need to constantly remind everyone, especially when all too often it is rather evident.

The labeling itself doesn't determine equality, but many conditions in American society do. And until those issues have been addressed people will continue to preserve their own culture in whatever ways they deem appropriate and necessary.

Never said it did.

And with all due respect, neither is pretending that there aren't still obstacles threaten the very equality of which you speak.

Where the fuck did I say that people should pretend there are not obstacles? I said set the tone, promote one way of thinking versus another.

[Micjones]

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

Where the fuck did I say that people should pretend there are not obstacles? I said set the tone, promote one way of thinking versus another.

A better question would be where did I accuse you of wearing such blinders?

[BIG_DADDY]

WASP

[StcChief]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

WASP

I'm more of a Hornet...

[go bo]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

WASP

those suckers really hurt when they sting you...

[Redrum_69]

I'm German/Cherokee/Puritan/Christian background but baptized into Catholicism/British and can trace my family tree all the way back to Adam in Genesis.

[Baby Lee]

My background;

4 grandparents

PGF - full Celtic/English
PGM - 1/2 English, 1/2 German
MGF - 1/2 German, 1/2 Choctaw
PGM - full Choctaw

So, I'm 3/8 English, 3/8 Choctaw, 1/4 German, or on other words, a pasty white boy.

Interestingly, my Choctaw side bore the surname Kelley. But that's because, we have learned, that my Choctaw MGGF was wounded in WWI and suffered amnesia. He took the surname of his Irish nurse, married her, divorced her and had my PGF with his German 2nd wife.

[JBucc]

Do people born in America that move to another country say they are "American-British" or "American-Australian" or whatever?

For the record, I'm black. Totally black.

[Extra Point]

I'm an equal opportunity asshole.

[ChiefFripp]

My reply to that question is always " the right one". A lot of telemarketers just hang up after that.

[Extra Point]

Being the only white male in an all-black high school gave me a different perspective on things.

The funniest thing I ever heard was when a teammate told a skeptic why I was a starting TE on the football team: "Good hands."

[Donger]

Other than flying The Jack on Saint Patrick's Day to irritate the Irish, I really don't put much stock in my being born and raised in England. After all, I had nothing to do with it. It's important to know one's history, but some take it a bit too far. There are those in the world who would kill to be "American."

That should be enough.

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by Donger

Other than flying The Jack on Saint Patrick's Day to irritate the Irish, I really don't put much stock in my being born and raised in England. After all, I had nothing to do with it. It's important to know one's history, but some take it a bit too far. There are those in the world who would kill to be "American."

That should be enough.

As usual, someone says in two sentences what I fumble around with and attempt to say in paragraphs. I really need to work on that.

Great post, Donger.

I have a feeling you people do not take me seriously at all. This is an outrage.