What is your ethnicity?

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What is your dominant ethnicity?

European	42%	[ 65 ]
European	42%	[ 65 ]
Middle-eastern	0%	[ 0 ]
Middle-eastern	0%	[ 0 ]
African	2%	[ 3 ]
African	2%	[ 3 ]
South Asian	0%	[ 0 ]
South Asian	0%	[ 0 ]
East Asian	1%	[ 2 ]
East Asian	1%	[ 2 ]
Native American	1%	[ 2 ]
Native American	1%	[ 2 ]
Australian Aboriginoid	0%	[ 0 ]
Australian Aboriginoid	0%	[ 0 ]
Polynesian	0%	[ 0 ]
Polynesian	0%	[ 0 ]
Other	4%	[ 6 ]
Other	4%	[ 6 ]

Total votes : 156

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04 Aug 2005, 3:06 pm

NeantHumain wrote:

Even if you were to go by the term WASP as it was used in early twentieth-century America, it still limits what stock you can come from.

Of course, but it was (and is still) mainly used (in a patronizing, condescending manner) as a social-class delineator, to separate the well-to-do white populace from their "great unwashed", "inferior", non-Caucasian brethren.

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04 Aug 2005, 3:11 pm

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Sean wrote:

regular French (unfortunately)

What does that mean?

Oh, montjuic, silly! He doesn't care for those annoying, liberal-minded, highly-sophisticated, cultured Gauls... :wink:

Yay, Freedom Fries! Good grief. :roll:

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04 Aug 2005, 3:13 pm

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Australia isn't part of Europe, it's just that white Australians are of European origin.

I know, it is just that they come from various parts of Europe and have varied ancestries.

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04 Aug 2005, 4:50 pm

200 posts!

there was one time I was going on about my Celtic roots on account of my Irish grandfather and some guy who was there and seemed to know a lot about these things scoffed and said 'you're not a Celt, you're pure Viking'.

'You've got the head shape and the aggression' is what he said.

So I nutted him.*

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04 Aug 2005, 4:54 pm

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Clever.

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04 Aug 2005, 4:55 pm

/me cracks up!

and are we not forgetting the Aborigines, chaps...?

(yes, yes, i KNOW the original poster said about white australians).

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04 Aug 2005, 4:58 pm

vetivert wrote:

/me cracks up!

and are we not forgetting the Aborigines, chaps...?

(yes, yes, i KNOW the original poster said about white australians).

It is there.

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04 Aug 2005, 6:41 pm

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i was wondering that... is there anyone you DO like, sean

Not really.

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04 Aug 2005, 6:45 pm

I don't really know specifically what part of the continent I am from, but my last name is jewish, although my family claims to be german. (we are methoodists)

I have some doubts on this, and I prefer to call myself european/white guy

I mean, it is acurate.

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04 Aug 2005, 7:24 pm

Sophist wrote:

American by birth (unfortunately). English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss, French, and Danish by blood.

i'm proud to be an American..i'm not going to let a few bad decisions of a few people change my mind

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04 Aug 2005, 8:17 pm

I don't like cowboys...

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05 Aug 2005, 12:41 am

I ended up picking other anyways, if your read my post from the top.

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05 Aug 2005, 12:48 am

I tend to think of the word WASP as any white American who doesn't really consider theirself of a European ancestry, nor doesn't live an ethnic Euro lifestyle nowadays. Even if they don't have an English surname.

Weren't ethnic whites (Italian, Irish, Polish, Jewish, Catholics, etc.) considered not to be "white" when they came to this country, according to the standard American white, who was usually of Anglo descent and Protestant?

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05 Aug 2005, 9:04 am

nocturnalowl wrote:

Weren't ethnic whites (Italian, Irish, Polish, Jewish, Catholics, etc.) considered not to be "white" when they came to this country, according to the standard American white, who was usually of Anglo descent and Protestant?

Actually that is true. Until the late 19th century, only people of English, Scandanavian, or German decent were considered white. There was a court case where an African slave was accused of "having relations" with a white woman, but was found not guilty because the woman was Italian and the jury decided that the woman wasn't white.

As to the term WASP, I don't see how it can apply to non-descript Americans of European decent because the term itself: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Although I will admit that lately the term has been applied to people who are not Anglo-Saxon. (In the United States, if you were to ask "who were the Saxons," the answer would be "wasn't Zaxon a video game?")

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05 Aug 2005, 10:25 am

Sean wrote:

vetivert wrote:

i was wondering that... is there anyone you DO like, sean

Not really.

Not even me?

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05 Aug 2005, 10:44 am

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