palavore
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I put my pants on just like the rest of you -- one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold posts.
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Post by palavore on Feb 28, 2010 14:02:09 GMT -5
hyper> giddy = sugar > sex I thought giddy was better than hyper. I guess hyper is "I've had too much" whereas giddy is "hit me again I'm still standing".
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danyc
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Post by danyc on Feb 28, 2010 15:10:24 GMT -5
I am pround to be Eurasian, and comfortable with it. It is when other people want to define me. One thing is I am a great deal older than a lot of people on this site. Amercian attitudes have changed for the better. I think someone my age may have experienced things to hypersensitize one to this, also as an adoptee I am in perpetual identity crisis that is just me I guess. Anyway no offense to anyone and I hold no ill will. Take care all
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Post by jefe on Apr 17, 2010 15:44:34 GMT -5
^ Some of us are your age - I think you are right in between me and the administrator (And we are not that far apart).
I do remember some things even back to the 60s, when my parents' marriage was still illegal and before desegregation was forced on us, when cinemas had two tiers of seats and blockbusting was a common practice, when WWII, Korean War and Vietnam war was still in the minds of people walking around on the streets. I do remember when my parents could not even rent an apartment together - basically my mother would have to rent the apartment and my father would move in later.
I am still sensitive to certain things and sometimes it shows.
I am sorry that you think that people on this site want to define you. I have been on this forum for 7 years and I have never seen that happen.
Do you mind considering maybe sharing a bit more about yourself? How did you find out about your Eurasian background? Was it at a young age? Once I read about a Eurasian male who was adopted as a baby, and he did not confirm he was Eurasian until he was an adult.
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palavore
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I put my pants on just like the rest of you -- one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold posts.
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Post by palavore on Apr 17, 2010 21:43:58 GMT -5
I am pround to be Eurasian, and comfortable with it. It is when other people want to define me. I have been on this forum for 7 years and I have never seen that happen. me –pronoun 1. the objective case of I, used as a direct or indirect object I defined it. Though, the meaning is not all clear to me.
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Post by jefe on Apr 18, 2010 13:57:34 GMT -5
^ Thanks. That's the first time someone ever did this on this forum. I feel so stupid now. I simply could have looked it up.
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conorsoccr23
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Post by conorsoccr23 on May 15, 2010 18:33:22 GMT -5
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danyc
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Post by danyc on May 20, 2010 6:46:06 GMT -5
BTW Charles Bronson and other many other eastern europeans are Eurasian. It is part of history. Do we define eurasian as one parent of each or generations of mixing? Oh oh, now I am opening it all up again. LOL. Actually, in my experience if people comment about your racial phenotype then you ain't 'passing' and its too bad that there is that line.
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danyc
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Post by danyc on May 22, 2010 9:02:55 GMT -5
Well Jefe
You ask me a lot of questions. My experiences are valid yes as are yours. When I moved into a house for the first time in my life and someone placed a wrapped up present of dog s*** in the mail box I remembered that I don't pass. When I was a little kid and a white guy offered to buy me from my adopted Dad, I remembered I was adopted and do not pass. Sorry If I come off as sensitive but as an adoptee I have had some different experiences, one of which is that people try to "white" me --meaning play up my whiteness so that when they are giving me crap they can say its me not my race (sound familier, see how some racists play up Obama's whiteness). I grew up in a house where my older brother also adopted and white referred to me as ChinK and that was considered 'just part of life' I met my bio dad once as a child, and once via phone call. He did not tell me much, he is dead now, all attempts at contacting his family has not worked.
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Post by Ganbare! on May 22, 2010 14:41:31 GMT -5
^I noticed a trend in which people born before the 80's seem to have suffer very harsh racism be it in the US or continental Europe, no clue for the rest of the world. My older brother told me enraging stories of ordinary racism at school and daily life, strangely he's very white-washed.
I believe he's part of the last assimilated generation, nowadays very vew minorities who were either born or have immigrated assimilate completely, sometimes with age they end up rejecting Western culture altogether reconnecting with their roots. On one hand I do understand this phenomenon as I'm immersing myself in Chinese culture and putting the Western one on hold but on the other hand I don't think segregation brings anything good unless they choose to return to their fatherland. I guess not everyone enjoys juggling between several cultures like I do.
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danyc
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Post by danyc on May 22, 2010 15:53:08 GMT -5
yeah I don't want to sound old and bitter, but things seem to be heading back that way again. At least in the community I am in right now.
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