What is your race?

[FR7 Baptist]

I thought this might be an interesting question since we've had a lot of racially involved discussions on here lately. I'm white.

 

[ktn4eg]

You forgot to include NASCAR!! :smilewinkgrin:

Some Southerners take things like that quite seriously, right y'all?!!?

 

[Baptist Believer]

Race: Human
Ethnicity: five kinds of white (50% Austrian, then Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Italian, Slav)

My extended family is diverse, with Asians and African-Americans represented.

 

[rbell]

I never answer government questionnaires about race. Not their business.

But...since you ain't gubmint...
I'm a Caucasian mutt.

Confession: If a pollster calls my house, I usually claim to be a 30 year-old Inuit with 12 children. I find out who the pollster's calling for, and I claim the opposite party. Fun times.

Hey, if you're gonna mess up the scientific sample, don't do it halfway...

 

[Salty]

...I'm a Caucasian mutt.

:thumbs: :thumbs:

My race is S-L-O-W :smilewinkgrin:

 

[sag38]

White boy through and through (Welsh origin) although there is some Native American from my mother's side.

 

[Jim1999]

White in winter; much darker in summer, but generally classed as white anglo-saxon, whatever that entails.

I was sent to the back of the bus once and got off from the back doors.

Silly, silly.

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Salty]

... generally classed as white anglo-saxon, ...

Jim

So, Jim do you consider yourself a WASP?

 

[blackbird]

I never answer government questionnaires about race. Not their business.

But...since you ain't gubmint...
I'm a Caucasian mutt.

Quiet opposite of rbell---Blackbird is a pedigreed Cajun from south Louisiana----makes all the difference in the world!!!:laugh::laugh::thumbs:

 

[SaggyWoman]

I was in a race once.

 

[Jim1999]

So, Jim do you consider yourself a WASP?
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No, because I have never been protestant! I was Anglo-Catholic originally and became a Baptist; never a protestant.

I have stung on occasion though.

Cheers,

Jim

 

[billreber]

BaptistBeliever said:

Race: Human

Ethnicity: five kinds of white (50% Austrian, then Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Italian, Slav)

I agree, but with different ethnicity: German, Scottish, English, French, and probably some African blood in me from sometime in the distant past.

Bill :godisgood:

 

[rbell]

Quiet opposite of rbell---Blackbird is a pedigreed Cajun from south Louisiana----makes all the difference in the world!!!

Well, I'm glad you have your papers. Should make you easier to sell. :laugh:

 

[FriendofSpurgeon]

Normally, I just answer "human" race. There are so many different "blends" down here, it really makes this question meaningless. Personally, I'm considered an anglo, but spouse (and children) are hispanic.

 

[Jon-Marc]

I believe there is only one race--human. We are of different nationalities and skin colors, but those shouldn't matter. I am of four nationalities or ethnic groups that I know about.

 

[billwald]

For this question, "race" = "breed?"

 

[FR7 Baptist]

Normally, I just answer "human" race. There are so many different "blends" down here, it really makes this question meaningless. Personally, I'm considered an anglo, but spouse (and children) are hispanic.

What race are your spouse and children?

 

[Alcott]

I believe there is only one race--human.

In that case, when anyone uses the term "racism" they are talkling only about species, not regionally/pigmentationaly classified humans. And 'racial discrimination' only means people discriminating against animals, or animals discriminating against people.

 

[Melanie]

In New Zealand they are always banging on about ethnicity in applications, I find it VERY OFFENSIVE. If I am pushed I write down Homo Sapiens.:1_grouphug:

 

[Baptist Believer]

In that case, when anyone uses the term "racism" they are talkling only about species, not regionally/pigmentationaly classified humans. And 'racial discrimination' only means people discriminating against animals, or animals discriminating against people.

Obviously not.

But the point that many of us are making is that we all come from a single ancestor (both the scripture and the latest biological theories actually agree), so the old theories that some "lessor" races descended from animals while "white people" descended from Adam (yes, I have actually heard these theories expressed in both church and social situations) are complete rubbish.

My ethnically-diverse family is all descended from a common ancestor, so there's no reason to treat someone of a different culture or pigmentation as "other."