Your race?

Race?

  • Caucatian

    Votes: 96 77.4%

  • Black

    Votes: 2 1.6%

  • Hispanic

    Votes: 4 3.2%

  • Asian

    Votes: 9 7.3%

  • Middle eastern

    Votes: 6 4.8%

  • Native American\Eiskmo\Slavic\Other

    Votes: 7 5.6%
  • Total voters
    124
h00dlum

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I dont belive we have had a poll about this. So what is your race\ethinicity\skin color?
 
We are all belong to the same race, that idea was abbandonned a long time ago. You talk like someone from the 19th century.
 
The_Monkey said:
We are all belong to the same race, that idea was abbandonned a long time ago. You talk like someone from the 19th century.
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Yeah i know that. But you know what i mean right? I saw some american ID that had Race: Caucatian :)

And i dont know the names of all the "races" in english i only know Caucatian and Hispanic so i put them in to look smart :)
 
h00dlum said:
Yeah i know that. But you know what i mean right? I saw some american ID that had Race: Caucatian :)

And i dont know the names of all the "races" in english i only know Caucatian and Hispanic so i put them in to look smart :)
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Hey, I'm not flamming you.
"Den ariska rasen är överlägsen." ;)
 
Caucasian is very "American English". Its actual meaning includes mane races that are "non-white".

Anyway, we are not all the same race...behold, the power of www.google.com

1.A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2.A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.



I'm white by the way.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Caucasian is very "American English". Its actual meaning includes mane races that are "non-white".

Anyway, we are not all the same race...behold, the power of www.google.com

1.A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2.A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.



I'm white by the way.
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No, there is no such things as races in the human spicies. We, europeans, asians, afrikans, indians, etc, are far too alike to be of different races.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Did you actually read what I posted?
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Yeah sorry, maybe the word race is more widespread and can be used on more ways on english that it is on swedish.
 
legally, i can claim black.. but i'm only about 45% black, and i don't really think of myself as black.. or white for that matter. occasionally i'll tell people that i'm "mixed", but i don't really consider myself to have any allegiance to any particular race.

i voted black btw, cuz i want my forum affirmative action.
 
There are races, it's idiocy to say they don't exist.

Just discriminating based off them is stupid.

The 4 major races are btw - Negroid, Caucasoid, Sinoid and Australoid, which is small diffuse races (such as Native American).

However much of mankind, such as the Portguese (subdivison of Caucasian) race, has been invaded so many times and mixed that races no longer really matter in this case.

Today the more used term is ethnic groups, which are strangely a lot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups
 
Sprafa said:
There are races, it's idiocy to say they don't exist.

Just discriminating based off them is stupid.

The 4 major races are btw - Negroid, Caucasoid, Sinoid and Australoid, which is small diffuse races (such as Native American).

However much of mankind, such as the Portguese (subdivison of Caucasian) race, has been invaded so many times and mixed that races no longer really matter in this case.

Today the more used term is ethnic groups, which are strangely a lot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups
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Strange, very strange. I thought that that the use of races in that meaning was abandoned 50 years ago. I guess I was wrong...
 
The_Monkey said:
Strange, very strange. I thought that that the use of races in that meaning was abandoned 50 years ago. I guess I was wrong...
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Just saying "race" is nearly politically incorrect, but they do exist. Denying it is kind of dumb, but after Hitler most people don't like to think about it.
 
Sprafa said:
Just saying "race" is nearly politically incorrect, but they do exist. Denying it is kind of dumb, but after Hitler most people don't like to think about it.
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This is the exact opposite of what be learned at biology-class, and what is stated in most Swedish dictionary and lexicon. Well, nothing's perfect.
 
The_Monkey said:
This is the exact opposite of what be learned at biology-class, and what is stated in most Swedish dictionary and lexicon. Well, nothing's perfect.
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As I said today people like to think such things as race don't exist.

Wikipedia said:
The term race is used in a wide variety of contexts, with related but often distinct meanings. Its use is often controversial, largely because of the political and sociological implications of different definitions, but also because of disagreements over such issues as whether humans can be meaningfully divided into multiple races.

In biology, some use race to mean a division within a species. Thus, in certain fields it is used as a synonym for subspecies or, in botany, variety. In the case of honeybees, for instance, it stands as a synonym for subspecies. In this usage, race serves to group members of a species that have, for a period of time, become geographically or genetically isolated from other members of that species, and as a result have diverged genetically and developed certain shared characteristics that differentiate them from the others. Although these characteristics rarely appear in all members of the group, they are more marked in or appear more frequently than in the others.

Many biologists feel that in this usage we may justifiably speak of dividing Homo sapiens into races. Many others, however, assert that in humans there is in fact insufficient categorical variation to justify the classification of humans into multiple races in a strictly biological sense. Many social scientists therefore view race as a social construct, and have sought to understand it as such, as explained later in this article. Thus, race is increasingly regarded as a non-biological term that often could be exchanged by population.

The remainder of this article reviews debates over the scientific validity of the concept of race in human beings; the historical construction, social functions, and cultural meanings of racial schemata; and the ethics and politics of the term.
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Read the whole article and you get a picture of the mess.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race

I do agree that race is now nearly meaningless since we are more and more mixed, and therefore the most logical division is ethnic groups. But we humans started and evolve in different ways, or "subdivisions", which in biology means race. Although races inside Homo Sapiens is not so distinct as some people (and then you can call them racist) want you to believe, it's not inexistent. Many physical features do distinct between a Negroid and a Sinoid for example.
 
I don't care what 'race' any of you are, and I don't think any of you should care what 'race' I am. The more you break people down into categories, the more unfair preconceptions you're going to inevitably end up having about the individuals within those categories. Even people I have a great deal of respect for (my parents, for example) occasionally come out with extremely generalised comments about entire populations or ethnic groups. Racism runs rampant.
 
qckbeam said:
I'm white. Very, very, very white.
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Should I fetch the Garlic and Stake?

I'm also White Trash. Wikki.
 
I'm suprised that this thread didn't turn into a flamewar yet. :thumbs: Good job!

I'm Caucacion. Caw-ca-tion. Caucation?

I can't spell it, though :D
 
Sprafa said:
The 4 major races are btw - Negroid, Caucasoid, Sinoid and Australoid, which is small diffuse races (such as Native American).
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err.. the australiod would be aboriginal australians, not native americans. depending on which anthropologist you're reading, native americans would probably be their own race or lumped in with mongoloid (what you term "sinoid").

i'm more of a splitter than a 'lumper', so i like to draw less ancient lines of distinction, so i recognize ~10 races. but it's fairly arbitrary.
 
Lil' Timmy said:
err.. the australiod would be aboriginal australians, not native americans. depending on which anthropologist you're reading, native americans would probably be their own race or lumped in with mongoloid (what you term "sinoid").

i'm more of a splitter than a 'lumper', so i like to draw less ancient lines of distinction, so i recognize ~10 races. but it's fairly arbitrary.
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I wasn't saying Australoid = Native American, I was saying Native Americans are an example of a "small diffuse race".

But it kind of gives that feel doesn't it :eek:
 
Well, in that case I'm a blond, blue-eyed white arian, and we are meant to rule over all other races...seriously, that thing about races are just silly.
 
The_Monkey said:
Well, in that case I'm a blond, blue-eyed white arian, and we are meant to rule over all other races...seriously, that thing about races are just silly.
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:dozey:

What I said was, races exist, but they make no difference in intellectual terms like some people suggest.
 
Brian Damage said:
"Goofy-looking"
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Are you a part of the robot-with-lemon-eyes race? Ya know, the guys that are always on TV.
 
Um... no... I reckon I could be most accurately said to be part of the gangly-dude-with-long-shaggy-hair-and-crooked-nose-and-teeth race...
 
moppe said:
I think I'm the only one here that is lapp/same. :)
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You are? You were the guy living in Kiruna, right? It's getting rather dark, wouldn't you say?
 
The_Monkey said:
You are? You were the guy living in Kiruna, right? It's getting rather dark, wouldn't you say?
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Yep, and proud of it.
Well, my house is there but I've been traveling the world for the past 17 months.
But I'm on the way home. I'm guessing it's quite dark there now. At christmas we only get 1 hour of "light". :)
 
half ogre / half tree-sprite. Albino skin condition.

I don't usually like to explain my mythical geneology, so caucasion will work.
 
moppe said:
Yep, and proud of it.
Well, my house is there but I've been traveling the world for the past 17 months.
But I'm on the way home. I'm guessing it's quite dark there now. At christmas we only get 1 hour of "light". :)
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But Kiruna is north of the polar circel, surely you must have 24 hour night at Chrismas?
 
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