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  • Question: What is your ethnic background? (NOT country of origin)
  • Pakistani - 22 (18.6%)
  • Bengali - 11 (9.3%)
  • Other South or Central Asian (please specify) - 1 (0.8%)
  • East Asian (please specify) - 1 (0.8%)
  • Arab or Arabized Middle East - 10 (8.5%)
  • Persian - 0 (0%)
  • North African or Arabized North African (please specify) - 9 (7.6%)
  • Sub-saharan African (please specify) - 15 (12.7%)
  • White European - 21 (17.8%)
  • Mixed or Other (please specify) - 16 (13.6%)
  • Indian - 8 (6.8%)
  • Turkish - 3 (2.5%)
  • Kurd - 1 (0.8%)
  • Total Voters: 117

 Topic: What is your ethnic background?

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  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #180 - August 19, 2015, 06:01 AM
    White European, but I'm literally not white. Ethnic Romanian from all sides.
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #181 - August 19, 2015, 07:21 AM
    Je suis syrienne  Tongue
    You are the Universe, Expressing itself as a Human for a little while- Eckhart Tolle
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #182 - August 19, 2015, 11:23 AM
    German Jude-Christian appearance, at some point an ancestor converted but with genetic markers from Europe and the Middle-East. My family goes back as far as the Tribe of Judah supposedly.
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #183 - August 19, 2015, 12:17 PM
    Apparently I polled “other” on this at some point in the past though I don’t remember doing that. Today I was feeling more in tuned with my “sub-Saharan African” side. I really need to do one of those DNA tests. What I remember of family tradition says I’m some sort of mix of black, American Indian, Irish, and Hispanic. I have no idea how that all breaks down.
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #184 - August 19, 2015, 12:20 PM
    I can't find myself caring too much about this, other than having the sort of personal curiosity that you allude to HM. To me it just seems so... pointless. There are more scientific ways, and potentially medically relevant ways to subdivide ourselves than the bullshity ways of "race", "ethnicity", that are almost inevitably used by humans to put an other at disadvantage.
    Quote from: yeezevee on February 11, 2016, 02:05 PM
    how fuck works without shit??


    Let's Play Chess!

    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #185 - August 19, 2015, 12:26 PM
    I'm more so curious from the standpoint of the story my family’s history might lead me to. The story I remember being told as a kid of how my dark-skinned grandfather fell in love with my very fair-skinned grandmother and how they escaped through fields at midnight to marry in another town, pursued by my great-grandfather’s shotgun bullets, has always intrigued me. I know a DNA test wouldn’t tell me everything, but I’d love to at least begin to paint a picture in my mind of how all those backgrounds might have interacted in the deep American south, and further back, where my ancestors might have come from in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It’s more about the story itself than race.
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #186 - August 19, 2015, 01:06 PM
    We are the sum of our stories and our friendships, nothing else.
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #187 - August 19, 2015, 01:41 PM
    I'm Middle African- well, that's what the UN tells me as a black Chadian. My facial shape is diamond; that is to say, equine. My nose appears to have changed its mind halfway to being snub. I blame my mother's possibly Arab ancestors for my ridiculous hair; long (thus, the covet of West Africans), curling and light. I should blame her too for those deep gluteal folds. And since I've started, I would also like to blame my father's side for having a small torso on endless legs. What else was I expecting from belonging to a smaller pastoralist group and their transhumance?
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #188 - August 19, 2015, 02:30 PM
    Quote from: Jesus Christ on November 07, 2011, 07:13 AM
    There's two things most people would never want to be.. Arab and Pakistani. GRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSS.

    Glad to be a dirty stinky bengali!!!!

    *poops on floor.. but doesn't care because bengalis naturally have no sense of hygiene or self-respect*

    i miss u Cry
    "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
    - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #189 - August 19, 2015, 05:00 PM
    Quote from: happymurtad on August 19, 2015, 12:26 PM
    I'm more so curious from the standpoint of the story my family’s history might lead me to. The story I remember being told as a kid of how my dark-skinned grandfather fell in love with my very fair-skinned grandmother and how they escaped through fields at midnight to marry in another town, pursued by my great-grandfather’s shotgun bullets, has always intrigued me. I know a DNA test wouldn’t tell me everything, but I’d love to at least begin to paint a picture in my mind of how all those backgrounds might have interacted in the deep American south, and further back, where my ancestors might have come from in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It’s more about the story itself than race.


    Aye, now that's a story. Although I'm afraid that DNA testing is very unlikely to offer that much insight into it. I'm not sure if you've watched it, but there was a fascinating documentary I saw on youtube on the subject of Black people in America, and truly how much of a mixture there tends to be. I'm sure you'd be likely to find unexpected heritage somewhere along the line. The documentary had some celebrities like Oprah and Chris Rock. I'll find it for you in a bit.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzWnSM7TxNE

    Here it is. Try not to read the comments for the sake of sanity. It's interesting to say the least, although I can't say I've really done much fact checking of it.
    Quote from: yeezevee on February 11, 2016, 02:05 PM
    how fuck works without shit??


    Let's Play Chess!

    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #190 - August 19, 2015, 11:25 PM
    Quote from: David on August 19, 2015, 01:06 PM
    We are the sum of our stories and our friendships, nothing else.


    Naw, genetics and epigenetics can play a role in our personalities. What our parents and grandparents have experienced can play a role in who we are: http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/8/588.full
    Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I have a sonic screwdriver, a tricorder, and a Type 2 phaser.
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #191 - August 19, 2015, 11:40 PM
    While I could not get whiter, I don't think there's anything European left in me. When a man loves his first cousin very very much, and then their kids love their first cousins and so on, and then their kids learn how to make moonshine in mason jars, and then many generations later a large portion of the family begins working with mercury and bringing mercury home for your mother to play with, you wind up with some pretty distinctive specimens, all with slight-to-severe facial indications that something just ain't right.
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #192 - August 19, 2015, 11:41 PM
    And then you married a Saudi.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #193 - August 19, 2015, 11:44 PM
    I swear I saw a picture of a bunch of Saudi men riding in a car and one was reaching out to high-five another Saudi man and it looked like seven of the husband high-fiving my husband.
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #194 - August 20, 2015, 11:37 PM
    Quote from: gal_from_usa on August 19, 2015, 11:25 PM
    Naw, genetics and epigenetics can play a role in our personalities. What our parents and grandparents have experienced can play a role in who we are: http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/8/588.full

    Thank you, once again, for pointing out the error of my ways.

    With luck, and a helping hand, I may yet haul myself out of ignorance.
  • What is your ethnic background?
     Reply #195 - August 21, 2015, 01:49 AM
    Quote from: David on August 20, 2015, 11:37 PM
    Thank you, once again, for pointing out the error of my ways.

    With luck, and a helping hand, I may yet haul myself out of ignorance.




    Either way, I earned (but never bothered to get the diploma for) an associates in mental health and have a degree in social work (psychology for people who for some reason want work out of the office).
    Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I have a sonic screwdriver, a tricorder, and a Type 2 phaser.
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