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Post by Planet Asia on Jan 7, 2006 6:58:53 GMT -5
www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-asec-prgrowth-033101,0,1902697.story How can an Island like Puerto Rico be 81% white when the Island has been a melting pot of mixing for centuries? If Puerto Ricans really considered themselves a mix of black, white and indio why did most check white while only 4% checked other race? Smells of hypocrisy to me.
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Post by zemelmete on Jan 7, 2006 7:28:27 GMT -5
I don't know how to answer. I have been regarded swedish as well as japanese. Which answer should I choose?
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Post by Glenlivet on Jan 7, 2006 7:41:48 GMT -5
What kind of Swede, one with Finnish or Saami descent? Did a Swede mistake you as a Swede? I don't know how to answer. I have been regarded swedish as well as japanese. Which answer should I choose?
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Post by huzar on Jan 7, 2006 7:45:24 GMT -5
I'm north-Italian, but many confuse me with Austrians or Slovenians, therefore I'm substantially white for whatever standard of whiteness, i suppose.
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Post by zemelmete on Jan 7, 2006 7:48:59 GMT -5
What kind of Swede, one with Finnish or Saami descent? Did a Swede mistake you as a Swede? I have been mistaked as swedish (or dane) in Germany and also somewhere in Southern European countries. Swedes never have mistaked me as swede. They almost always say I look finnish. Latvians and russians usually call me chinese or japanese, though I have heard saying also that I look like scandinavian. English people say I look like chink.
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Post by psychosemitic on Jan 7, 2006 8:56:30 GMT -5
www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-asec-prgrowth-033101,0,1902697.story How can an Island like Puerto Rico be 81% white when the Island has been a melting pot of mixing for centuries? If Puerto Ricans really considered themselves a mix of black, white and indio why did most check white while only 4% checked other race? Smells of hypocrisy to me. are you stupid? how can it be 81% white when its been a "melting pot for centuries" how can their be blacks in america when its been a melting pot for centuries, when u get "blacks" that look like snoop dog(pseudo armenoid) and people who have as much african ancestry as me who call themselves black, fact is my grandma lives in sanjuan as had my father for a long time they are not PRs (they are cuban) but ive been to pr even lived there (in sanjuan) on average NYoricans strike me as more mixed than PR in PR, not that you dont find whites and blacks and mullatos in PR just that 1) u find more Ricky Marti/Chayanneoids and 2) u dont find all those ambiguous Jason Kidd/Derek Jeter looking ricans u find in america remember i dont identify as white, so if im saying they are white they are a hella whiter than me
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Post by crispybacon on Jan 7, 2006 11:34:09 GMT -5
Wow, what a bizarre thread.
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Post by fred on Jan 7, 2006 12:47:28 GMT -5
That's not a stupid question, I always wondered myself what I would be considered like.
I am a Walloon, it never crossed my mind I could be considered anything but White.
But recently I wondered if I would be considered a Wog in Australia for exemple.
Most walloons are quite fair but since I am from the Ardennes forest (akin to the Black forest of Germany) I am a bit darker than my countrymen.
Racially I guess I am a Westid, that is a Dinaro-alpinid with atlanto mediteranean admixture and some negiligible Nordic.
Even though I have that untannable pasty white skin, I have brown hair and brown eyes with marked eyebrows. I am not a northern European, but I am not a southern European. I consider myself an Off-White.
Note that people from Stormfront consider southern europeans as White.
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Post by Ilmatar on Jan 7, 2006 13:04:42 GMT -5
Depends on who you ask about it. An average American or Eueopeanwould probably consider me white, but I have been called "Uralic" here.
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Post by MC anunnaki on Jan 7, 2006 13:24:28 GMT -5
The average European and American focuses almost exclusively on depigmentation. Had I been depigmented they would no doubt have called me white, even if my face was to remain the same.
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Post by atlantis on Jan 7, 2006 13:37:44 GMT -5
I don't consider myself "white" or "off white". I'm just the son of a poor Moroccan immigrant
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Post by stella22 on Jan 7, 2006 13:49:01 GMT -5
I don't consider myself "white" or "off white". I'm just the son of a poor Moroccan immigrant You're refreshing. Most people try to make it seem like they are the descendants of the noble class despite its unlikelihood.
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Jan 7, 2006 15:25:05 GMT -5
Zemelmete if you have been confused for a Chink than your definitly Off White.True Whites like Rutger Hauer and Hilary Clinton would never be confused for one.
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Post by stella22 on Jan 7, 2006 15:36:57 GMT -5
There are pics where Al Pacino for example has very lightskin and there are pics where he looks more oliveskin but he doesen't look any less Italian when he's not tanned because his facial features still look the same do you get it now. LOL you explain so clearly so what ur saying is that if you have dark hair in one pic and the hair looks more light in another pic you still have the same face cool I think I get in now tony thanx
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Jan 7, 2006 15:49:16 GMT -5
Murphee and Jam are one of the few Caucasoid posters here on Dodona who posted their pics and don't look Off White since they are both well within the Northern European average/norm.
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