| | What nationality [ethic background] are you?Page 3 of 10 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) | If your looking to meet someone from a similar cultural background as yourself, it is an important question to ask. Often you can't tell from looks where a person is from. Afro-Canadian have a different cultural experience than AFrican-Americans, Carribean, or Africans.
People from Toronto are different than someone that grew up in Nova Scotia.
I'm Afro-Canadian, family has been here since the mid 1800's | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/11/2006 2:46:52 PM | I agree. There is no point to asking that question. Every March 17 I'm downtown dressed in green, eating corned beef and cabbage, swiggin' on green beer and some damn fool always asks " Danny boy, You Irish?"  | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/11/2006 4:18:57 PM |
Is the absolute worst question to ask someone.
I disagree. I don't think it is wrong to ask someone what their heritage is! We should be proud of who we are and where we came from!
My heritage is Russian, and I am damn proud of it!!! | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/11/2006 6:40:27 PM | if its asked in a non-accusatory,non-judgemental way in the course of a common-topic converstaion, (did i say all that ok?..lol.. ) i dont see whats wrong with it.. 
(*i am Italian, Sicilian, English, & Sioux Indian) ...hugs... | |
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daisie
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/11/2006 7:45:02 PM | I think the question can be "bad" or "good" depending on how the asker intended it, the relationship between the asker and the askee and how touchy the askee is about it. People bend over backwards these days to have "cultural" fairs and food and music and clothing and art celebrations. Yet, here someone is offended by it.
Sure in some places people would just accept you without giving it a thought. And in some places they would slap a BURKA on your a$$ and beat ya with a stick if you took it off.
Hey no place is perfect.
PS: I'm 100% American Mutt. Arrf Arrf!!! | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/11/2006 8:09:47 PM | I get asked that all the time I think it is cute really it does not bother me really
It is cool to see so many different mixes really
So let’s see mmmmm…….. I am pretty much mixed up any way you look at it lol
Brazilian Portuguese Sicilian and Jamaican
Told you pretty mixed up lol
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/12/2006 2:38:27 AM | | i'm german on my mother's side, austrian-italian on my father's side...tho some people suspect my dad's family name might originally have been portuguese, not really sure tho. | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/12/2006 10:44:54 AM | | I just tell them I'm a Texan and we came from everywhere. Or I tell them I live in the state of Confusion. My people basically came from England. As far back as I can go it's English surnames. | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/12/2006 10:54:06 AM | | That is an awesome perspective to have, semigoodlife!! I'm a Canadian born girl raised in the Pakistani culture...my parents and half my sibs were born there. I grew up with racism all around me, and I didn't know it at the time, but it's just due to ignorance. So enlighten them...be proud to tell people what ethnic background you're from. Maybe they want to learn more. | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/12/2006 1:11:29 PM | I'm assuming, since you don't have a picture on here, that people ask you this when you meet them. I don't know if I would find it insulting. I mean, I do a lot of traveling and people are always guessing where I am from. They yell things like "Hey, fish and chips", "G'day mate", "Velkommen", and anything else to try and guess my nationality. I don't take offence because they are going by visual clues. I don't get upset when they look at me and figure out I'm female or determine that the St Christopher medal around my neck tells them I'm Catholic. Usually, they will ask me to determine if they are correct.
I get the feeling you are being a little overly sensitive about this issue but then again, I haven't had to put up with a lot of racist crap - just sexist crap. If a guy says "You look mixed", ask him if he's trying to determine what your children will look like. | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/21/2006 8:02:40 PM | | It's the first thing Asian women like to bring up with me. I just answer truthfully and ask about their background. When white people ask me, I say I'm from San Francisco. | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/21/2006 9:41:01 PM | Italian............and yes..............I cook A mean LLLLLLASAGNA!
When I'm hungry and on the go I get out a PANINI AND throw a couple of slices of prosciutto topped with OREGANO,garden tomatoes,and olive oil and sliced bocconcini.
I also love an occasional CANNOLI pastry with an espresso.
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/21/2006 10:00:53 PM | quote from just_cats:
so you meant ethnic background... ? although it's not really important to me, this information might lead to other questions, like - if you're Arabic, are you Islamic... this kind of info would be valid to me, not changing my attitude towards anyone, I would just like to know, that's all.. so maybe it's just taking a short way, you know. Once you know the ethnic background of the person, you automatically get some general presumptions about them and you can verify them... or just decide to stop talking to them. It's silly or stupid, but better this way than after a month of chatting....
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Well, I'm Middle Easter and Arab too.. Not religious, but when I talk with someone and thats all what they wanna know to see if they will talk to me or not, then sorry, try another search.. I don't like that kind of shallow people who would judge me this way.. Not all people are the same, not at all, or the whole world would be full with identical twins!!
I'm still wondering how come people still look at the surface and and bother to take a deeper look in to see all the treasures!! Its so easy!
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/22/2006 12:53:58 AM | | I don't see why it would be a bad thing? I hang out with peole who are proud of their cultures and of where they come from . I am pretty mixed and I am proud of my heritage. I don't buy into the having to know where you're from to know where you are going but it's still nice to know where you're from however I do sometimes feel out of place (not white enough, not hispanic enough). I ask people all the time that question all the time I am culturally and geographically aware. It is just very easy piece of conversation starter. | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/23/2006 3:00:34 AM | Irish/Scottish/Iroquois
I have a status card and use it as a 2nd piece of ID. I hate it when the person starts going on and on about how I don't look native (well duh, I never noticed that b4) then telling me about every native they've ever met....like I'd know them or something.
I am polite because I know they mean no harm. Just annoying sometimes. I don't mind people asking though and I don't mind telling. | |
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soph
| | Joined: 4/30/2006
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/23/2006 9:40:44 PM | If you are asking why they list it on here...because it is a fact that people are more attracted to certain ethnic features
As far as the question being asked in a more personal setting....that seems to be more of a silly question...why date someone if you aren't attracted to them? And then, were they attracted to your ethnic background or the person? If it is merely the ethnicity they are attracted to, move on, they have problems far beyond dating. | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/23/2006 9:54:37 PM | I'm sorry, but what's wrong with finding out someone's nationality? Is that not part of getting to know someone? I've never took offence to someone asking my background, as I've asked people myself. If that's the worst question you've ever hand to endure, than you're in for an awful ride.
And why do you feel that since you are "mixed" that only YOU have put up with racism? If you wanna talk racism, make a pot of coffee and I can go on all night!
I do agree that the stench of racism still exists, only difference is it's less "in your face". | |
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| What nationality [ethic background] are you?
Posted: 5/24/2006 1:14:55 AM | Well, neither the habits of my family nor the place where I was born has any resemblance on my personality.
This is so true, that every person I met from my own country don't believe that I'm from there. There's even one person who don't believe me after showing the ID from my Country.
I consider myself to be a human being, for me this means that my body is something that i have and use, but it isn't me, I'm the unit of awareness which is aware to be aware and habitats that body, THAT is ME!
And despite of the genetic heritage this body has, I will still be who I am even if it was completely different.
Because all the Ideas, considerations, manners, type of behavior, way of thinking, that makes me WHO I AM, come from all the experiences I ever had, and the things that I have learned, 99% of what I learned in my childhood from family school etc was dismissed at the age of 22, when I decided that I WILL ONLY use my OWN mind to find things out.
So my body yes has some mix. Like most of us, Spanish, Arabian, Italian, Native American...
Who cares..??? You won't see any of it in my personality anyway.
If someone like to know WHO I AM…… that person would have to interact with me to find out.
And, if my body was completely different and I would have lived the exact same life, I would still be the exact same person. | |
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