"What is your ethnic background?"

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois

You certainly have the right to decline to answer a voluntary poll question.

But, if you have chosen to participate, please be kind to the pollster. She didn't make up the questions and hasn't thought about their polictical and social implications. ....and Rain Man will thank you.

I was extremely polite throught the course of the entire episode. Never rude, never raised my voice, never called names, never tried to play games with her head (until the end, but that was not intended as a head game).