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Poll: Racial makeup of OT

Shuxclams

Shuxclams

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I noticed that its a very mixed bag around the forums and I thought it would be cool if we had our own census of sorts.....

Also LMK if I need to add some....😉


SHUX
 
I never answer these kind of questions. I just hate being categorized. Why isn't there an option for European-American?
 


<< Why isn't there an option for European-American >>



Good question, well there are many ways to define euro-americans, but considering the amount of germanic's, slavic's, latin's scandinavian etc.....its just really easy to clump it all together and say &quot;white&quot;. Which brings up the inter-racial question.......I will add that.



SHUX
 
Another thing I've always wondered about is what defines an Asian-American? When I think of Asian, I think Chinese, Japanese, Korean mostly eastern asia. But wouldn't being from Iraq or Saudi Arabi also be considered Asian-American?
 


<< But wouldn't being from Iraq or Saudi Arabi also be considered Asian-American? >>




I did not know how to approach that exact question, I put &quot;Arab&quot; in because its 2AM on a sunday night and my brain isnt 100% 😀 How would you define that? Middle eastern? Sub-indian? There are alot of people from Pakistan and India in the IT/Computer field and there has to be a proper way to have a catagory for that....any suggestions?


SHUX
 
hmmm, adul will probably ask for a transgendered options, but dont let him get his way.






dam()
 
No black Africans, oriental Africans and white Africans??? What about Bushmen (Khoisan-speaking Africans)?😉

BTW, Arabs are white.

Dance This Mess Around (The B-52s)
 
don't forget, Jewish and Palestinians are Asian too. so is majority of Russia! (or do we go by where the capital of the country is, and categorize all Russians as Europeans?)
 
Russians would be Eurasian, same for folks from bulgaira, Check republik, Poland etc..... Sloviks so to speak. 🙂




SHUX
 
Well, I'm a mix of 'hispanic'... &quot;White hispanic&quot; from northern Spain (great grandfather was from Galecia, which was where the nomadic Gaels settled), and 'darker' hispanic from Cuba (grandfather from there was 1/8 African)....

Does that make me mixed, too?

I definitely don't look white-white, but one of my sisters does.
 
i think that the poll is indicative of the &quot;computer culture&quot; as it is today. mostly whites because they are genneraly privliged and asians because of that cultures enphasis on educaltional excellence (which inevitably leads to computer use) i don't think that you see many of the other races (hispanic being one of them) because they have traditionaly not been readaly introduced to technology due to their lower level of income that doesn't alow for computer &quot;play time&quot;. it all boils down to the socio-economic status of the races i.e. whites have more money so they can buy computers and teach thier children about them, hispanics don't have as much money and would rather spend it on mataining thier quality of life.



that's just my opinon....😀
 
I didn't even look at the poll categories and recommend that EVERYONE NOT PARTICIPATE because it just encourages us to separate into tribes which can then battle each other.

I'm a PERSON, if you want to be picky, an American, but I refuse to be grouped into a tribe that will either be pandered to and discriminated against. (I'm a hybrid, like an ever increasing number of us, and part of me is &quot;oppressor&quot; and the rest is &quot;the oppressed&quot;. What am I supposed to pick? Huh?!?)

&quot;Hyphenated-American&quot; garbage serves no use, don't be part of it.
 
i agree dirk (btw is that from dragon slayer/space ace?) there is no reason to hyphenate it only drives us further apart. we should be Inclusive and spliting everybody up doesn't help that. also in this country we should all consider ourselves AMERICANS before anything else then mabey, with the help of bush in the white house, we can restore some national pride to this great country. 🙂😀🙂😀
 


<< it just encourages us to separate into tribes which can then battle each other. >>



WTF? Talk about reading too much into it. Granted, the question of race or ethnicity has so many facets that we could debate about the particular divisions for years. Fact is, some people are proud of their heritage whether or not they are American (and many people on this board are NOT American -- I can think of half a dozen without even trying).

I have no problem about asserting my ethnicity as Polish. My maternal grandmother was born in Bochnia, Poland; my paternal grandmother's family was from Poznen -- probably some German there; my maternal grandfather's family was likely from eastern Poland -- could be Russian or Ukrainian actually; and I'm not sure about my paternal grandfather's family. It's a link to my past, and I could see the family resemblence in the faces of the Polish people when I visited there in 1993 (Cracow and Warszawa, or Krakow and Warsaw if you want to Anglicize it). We have numerous Polish traditions in my family, and both of my parents spoke some of the language as children.

Everyone in the U.S. is from somewhere. Even the &quot;Native Americans&quot; (a term that I frankly find offensive since I was born here) derive from nomadic Asian tribes though their claim is much earlier. We're all actually eastern Africans if you want to look REALLY far back. It's a harmless question unless you want to make an issue where there is none.

Oh, SHUX? Could you please change that sig? I absolutely despise that &quot;poem&quot;. Try something by Keats. 😀
 
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