Does anybody hate their own race?

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I am exactly 1/2 Irish (my dad is pure as far back as we have looked) and I LOVE it! I don't like the rest (mostly Italian and a bit Spanish) but that is only because it prevents me from being 100% Irish. I like most kinds of Irish and Celtic music, from bagpipes to drinking songs, and I am considering buying a program to teach me to speak Gaelic (often called Old Irish, what Irish people spoke before English spread).

Iam indian and im proud of my race.

This is interesting. I'm filipino. I feel rather disconnected from the filipino community. It doesn't help that I didn't pick up my native language during my language acquisition years. And being an aspie, I'm very sensitive to the narcisstic natures of people. Within the filipino community there's a double whammy narcissism that usually makes me uncomfortable. The double whammy is this: old-world narcissim (narcissism brought over from the "old country") combined with "American Dream" narcissism (after immigrating and assimilating). Exposed to this double-whammy narcissism from family and filipino friends since I was born, I've developed a defensive aversion towards particular filipinos. I sympathize with my Philippine history and culture (the Philippines has had a traumatic colonial and post-colonial existence), but it's hard for me to connect with a lot of filipino-americans who aren't aware of this "double-whammy" narcissism within our community. So I guess, I don't hate my race, but I find myself still disconnected from it. I'm still trying to heal the wounds.

I wouldn't be a member of any group that would have me as a member! Mark Twain?

I'm a Jew & never meet a Jewish girl I could stand for more then 5 mins

i am not particularly keen on my race to be honest but mainly cos i am disgusted bout the part we took in slave trade

I'll echo what others have already said and also say that I dislike humans as a species; I will not use the word "hate" as that is a strongly toxic feeling I avoid.

As for race, I am ambivalent. Humans mistreat one another; this happens along many boundaries, race, sex, political belief, religion, mentally different - humans will use any excuse they can come up with to strong arm and dominate one another.

I happen to be of light-skinned NW European descent, primarily Scottish; I find the term "white" derogatory, and get angry at people who try to apply it to me.

That said, I refuse to feel shame for any particular "race" crimes that I had absolutely nothing to do with. I feel pity for people who have been duped into being ashamed of their "race" for things they had nothing to do with; I see people like that as simply self-loathing racists.

So I'm light skinned, and people with similar colored skin once enslaved people with darker coloured skin. Am I supposed to feel guilty over this? Should I apologize to then next dark colored person I run into? I think not. If I bore the guilt of all of the atrocities humanity has committed against itself over the millennia, I'd go insane.

I see only humans oppressing humans. And guess what - there've been plenty of "white" slaves throughout history also. My Scottish ancestors were brutally oppressed by English invaders for centuries - "white" on "white". But is it really just a white problem? A glance at Africa and the constant genocides going on there quickly shows "black" on "black" conflict also. And, yes First Nation peoples warred with one another also. I'll leave looking around the rest of the world for the numerous other example, past and present, as an exercise for the reader.

The problem is not "race" - the problem is humans. Don't feel shame - be better.

Good fortune,

- Icarus suffers the sins of our fathers...

Does anybody hate their own race? no.

Well I think the concept of race is pure BS and a sociological concept that will in time dissapear. But aside from that no I don't hate my race because I don't believe in it. People have told me I should do this and that because I am not this race or that race blah blah. Well I am half chinese and half irish, so tell me how should I act??? More and more racial mixing is occuring so identifying people by race will become less and less significant as globilsation increases. This is only a good thing. Genetically speaking it's healthier anyway as it spreads the gene pool.

There are cultural differences that too many people link to race. Culture you aren't born with. It's not genetic. Some people don't seem to understand that. They are called racists. Yes there are groups of genetically similar people but one black person can be more genetically similar to a white person than another black person. An example of this is people of West African descent being more similar to Europeans than East Africans. But ignorant people will lump all black people in together.

I'm white and i tend to find most (although by no means all) white people unattractive in appearance. I tend to be drawn to non-white people in the same way that i'm drawn to anyone who looks or acts "distinctive" - non-white people seem to have some sort of "energy" about them that is more powerful, in a totally illogical and probably totally superficial but, to me, quite noticeable way...

I'm particularly drawn to mixed-race people - most of my close friends have been of ethnically or nationally mixed parentage. I think that probably has something to do with the experience of being alienated in a sense from both sides, which is kind of similar to what autistic or otherwise disabled people experience, and also i think possibly having parents from very different cultures can make someone more open-minded about "difference" (both in appearance and in behaviour) more generally.

I think Aspies might be more likely to dislike their "own" race or cultural background simply because of childhood experiences of not being accepted or "fitting in", particularly if the first people that did accept one of us were from a different race or culture...

What I don't like about these discussions is the "Are you really sure you're (insert ethnicity/color)?"

I see many "whites" claiming they are such when in my eyes they appear darker than what I would consider white. Hispanics and middle easterners (Turks, Jews, Arabs, Iranians) will appear white but not many would consider them such. Another pet peeve is the terminology "Caucasian". I consider myself Caucasian (not fully though), yet I am nowhere near white.



I recall an argument I had with an X! where I said "If a white man was born in Africa, he is by definition an African." She wouldn't accept such a statement. I never said he was black.

I never understood the concept of rascism.
Maybe cause I'm a teenage misanthrope.