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01 May 2016, 8:49 am

You're venturing into sensitive territory, and you're giving us instructions in broken English risking misunderstandings. A dangerous combination. This thread could be headed to the dumpster.

I think you're asking this: name your favorite person in each race/ethnic group.

Darius was Persian (not actually "Arab")
Sulieman the Great was Turkish (also not Arab).

Saint Nick was from what is now Turkey but lived there before the ethnic Turks had invaded from Central Asia in the later middle ages (though St. Nick may have had a similiar racial look to modern Turks in modern Turkey).



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01 May 2016, 10:21 am

This thread has a greater potential to develop into a long string of racist rants than any other currently active thread.

I think it should be locked.


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01 May 2016, 11:43 am

naturalplastic wrote:
You're venturing into sensitive territory, and you're giving us instructions in broken English risking misunderstandings. A dangerous combination.

Fnord wrote:
This thread has a greater potential to develop into a long string of racist rants than any other currently active thread. I think it should be locked.

I agree.

please don't confuse Arabs and Turks, they're completely different racial groups.



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02 May 2016, 1:19 am

I think that this thread's honestly probably well-intentioned, but yeah, I agree. For the person who posted the thread, I really think that there are some language and cultural misunderstandings here. Racist is a very negative term in English, not just anything relating to race. It refers to people like white supremacists or neo-nazis who try to offend or even physically hurt people from other races. Also, it's really not a good idea to ask people who their favorite people from a race or ethnic group are. Case in point, my avatar is from a book by a Japanese author named Junji Ito. I would definitely say that he's one of my favorite authors. Even if it's technically true, I would never say that he's one of my favorite Asians, because that puts the person's ethnic identity before the fact that they're a person. It's incredibly rude.



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02 May 2016, 4:28 am

TudorGothicSerpent wrote:
I think that this thread's honestly probably well-intentioned, but yeah, I agree. For the person who posted the thread, I really think that there are some language and cultural misunderstandings here. Racist is a very negative term in English, not just anything relating to race. It refers to people like white supremacists or neo-nazis who try to offend or even physically hurt people from other races. Also, it's really not a good idea to ask people who their favorite people from a race or ethnic group are. Case in point, my avatar is from a book by a Japanese author named Junji Ito. I would definitely say that he's one of my favorite authors. Even if it's technically true, I would never say that he's one of my favorite Asians, because that puts the person's ethnic identity before the fact that they're a person. It's incredibly rude.


Can indeed quite unfortunate I composed this question, I'm the last person who would as support for the, any racist nonsense.
I have for instance a great respect for Zheng He, who even though he was technically speaking, a man without balls, because he was castrated in his childhood, he was a eunuch in the court of the Chinese emperor Yongle of the Ming dynasty, but he had more courage than any contemporary man. He was appointed Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, and mapped Africa much earlier than Vasco da Gama, and much evidence suggests that it was he and not Christopher Columbus discovered America and reached the East Coast of North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He



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02 May 2016, 7:18 am

pawelk1986 wrote:
TudorGothicSerpent wrote:
I think that this thread's honestly probably well-intentioned, but yeah, I agree. For the person who posted the thread, I really think that there are some language and cultural misunderstandings here. Racist is a very negative term in English, not just anything relating to race. It refers to people like white supremacists or neo-nazis who try to offend or even physically hurt people from other races. Also, it's really not a good idea to ask people who their favorite people from a race or ethnic group are. Case in point, my avatar is from a book by a Japanese author named Junji Ito. I would definitely say that he's one of my favorite authors. Even if it's technically true, I would never say that he's one of my favorite Asians, because that puts the person's ethnic identity before the fact that they're a person. It's incredibly rude.


Can indeed quite unfortunate I composed this question, I'm the last person who would as support for the, any racist nonsense.
I have for instance a great respect for Zheng He, who even though he was technically speaking, a man without balls, because he was castrated in his childhood, he was a eunuch in the court of the Chinese emperor Yongle of the Ming dynasty, but he had more courage than any contemporary man. He was appointed Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, and mapped Africa much earlier than Vasco da Gama, and much evidence suggests that it was he and not Christopher Columbus discovered America and reached the East Coast of North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He


So, he had no balls but he had frickin' huge balls, basically. Pretty awesome to learn about him. Thanks for the link!



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02 May 2016, 8:50 am

TudorGothicSerpent wrote:
pawelk1986 wrote:
TudorGothicSerpent wrote:
I think that this thread's honestly probably well-intentioned, but yeah, I agree. For the person who posted the thread, I really think that there are some language and cultural misunderstandings here. Racist is a very negative term in English, not just anything relating to race. It refers to people like white supremacists or neo-nazis who try to offend or even physically hurt people from other races. Also, it's really not a good idea to ask people who their favorite people from a race or ethnic group are. Case in point, my avatar is from a book by a Japanese author named Junji Ito. I would definitely say that he's one of my favorite authors. Even if it's technically true, I would never say that he's one of my favorite Asians, because that puts the person's ethnic identity before the fact that they're a person. It's incredibly rude.


Can indeed quite unfortunate I composed this question, I'm the last person who would as support for the, any racist nonsense.
I have for instance a great respect for Zheng He, who even though he was technically speaking, a man without balls, because he was castrated in his childhood, he was a eunuch in the court of the Chinese emperor Yongle of the Ming dynasty, but he had more courage than any contemporary man. He was appointed Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, and mapped Africa much earlier than Vasco da Gama, and much evidence suggests that it was he and not Christopher Columbus discovered America and reached the East Coast of North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He


So, he had no balls but he had frickin' huge balls, basically. Pretty awesome to learn about him. Thanks for the link!


I learned about him from very cool French educational cartoon called Once upon times... the explorers
I watched polish edition of it i searched for English version of this episode but i cannot find it :(
I only find this:

This is series dedicated to explorers, but they also made series about inventors, artist, human biology and so on :D
I loved to watch educational cartoons as kid :D Sadly no one making such show today :(



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02 May 2016, 10:12 pm

Sorry OP - we don't want racist threads on WP full stop, the rules make that clear.