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Post by catgirl on Jan 19, 2009 20:02:14 GMT -5
Nationalities are after all more specific, maybe because culture is a little bit more important than race. The thing about people from non-western countries is just to recruit more non-western people to work. Perhaps to make a better mix of different people at work? So it would benefit you if you could put a cross there As far as I know its only in the health business Ive seen it, cause I usually work there
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Post by Dirt on Jan 20, 2009 9:43:17 GMT -5
For me i don't consider myself white or asian... i consider myself simply as a mix.. a somekind of new breed of species... having both their strengths but none of their weakness.. umm something like wut? blade? lol xD
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Post by rob on Jan 20, 2009 10:00:42 GMT -5
For me i don't consider myself white or asian... i consider myself simply as a mix.. a somekind of new breed of species... having both their strengths but none of their weakness.. you know, you could be onto something there....
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Post by Dirt on Jan 20, 2009 10:11:30 GMT -5
For me i don't consider myself white or asian... i consider myself simply as a mix.. a somekind of new breed of species... having both their strengths but none of their weakness.. you know, you could be onto something there.... yeah somethin like that, probably exactly like that. ;D
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Post by starlette on Jan 31, 2009 0:48:37 GMT -5
My (white) boyfriend was asking me about this the other day. I identify as "mixed", beyond white or ethnic because I feel it's impossible for me to extricate one or the other. Although I spent most of my life in Asia, I feel like I was raised in a kind of "third culture" which was not quite British, not quite Filipino.
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Post by rob on Jan 31, 2009 9:20:03 GMT -5
My (white) boyfriend was asking me about this the other day.... I think you should have a talk with CJF on this. (and welcome back! btw)
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Post by halfbreed on Feb 1, 2009 11:31:58 GMT -5
My (white) boyfriend was asking me about this the other day. I identify as "mixed", beyond white or ethnic because I feel it's impossible for me to extricate one or the other. Although I spent most of my life in Asia, I feel like I was raised in a kind of "third culture" which was not quite British, not quite Filipino. Did he talk about how he perceives you?
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Post by starlette on Feb 3, 2009 3:35:03 GMT -5
^ haha, thanks rob. halfbreed: Well, before he even met me, my boyfriend had been told that I was from the Philippines (he is friends with my roommate). But when he actually met me he says his first thought was "She's not Filipino, she's Caucasian!" I think that now he perceives me as "mixed" too, though.
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Post by amalgam on Feb 4, 2009 20:33:31 GMT -5
^ Excellent.
As for me I too perceive myself as beyond my parents races because we are an entirely new race, and it's true as starlette commented, it's impossible for us to part ourselves as one or the other... In my opinion.
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Post by Ganbare! on Mar 26, 2010 1:40:55 GMT -5
For me it's a no-brainer, I'm not White nor Asian, I'm mixed, culturally and genetically. Good to see the plurality of standpoints, I miss that. People treated as ethnic seem discontent, is is necessarily a bad thing considering we in fact are ethnic?
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Post by FreckleFoot on Mar 26, 2010 6:20:02 GMT -5
It was difficult to make the decision, but I picked that I am mixed. It was tough to choose because it is true that I feel more white than Asian because I was raised as a white child. I definitely don't look 100% white and my personality and attitude do not match the norm for most white people. I do have limited knowledge of my Chinese side and experienced some of it while living in Canada close to my Chinese side of the family, but I don't even speak the language and have not been raised with any Chinese culture.
Then again, does it matter whether or not I fit into any of these categories? Plenty of monoracial people aren't typical of their race either. I'm something entirely different, which is simply me.
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Post by japonesa on Mar 26, 2010 21:32:26 GMT -5
' I consciously choose to also integrate "white" culture and I guess I've been "lucky" enough (in that I don't get people doubting my white heritage as much as some of you) that society allows me to do so.' because it makes your life easier? sorry, im just trying to understand what the 'lucky' means, personally i'm proud to be mixed and even if i looked white i would never call myself that simply because i understand how much non whites have struggled and continue to struggle in the west aside from which 'people doubting my white heritage as much as some of you' ethnically we're not white we're only part white so i don't see why it should annoy anyone if people doubt our white heritage unless you feel being white is superior in some way.. when i look at people who are half white half black for example.. i sometimes notice they'll just call themselfs black and society accepts it yet if they were to call themselfs white since they're equally as white, people would think they were insane.. isn't this exactly why we should be proud to be mixed instead of just white
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