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General Discussion | Writing the man who sol... - Friday, July 28, 2006 - 10:56

so, which race are you?

please, be polite. no racism.

i'm something between white and mongol.
actually, i'm white but i turn brown and i have chinese eyes.
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zombiekittykat's picture

I'm white...uh...mostly

zombiekittykat; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 14:11

I'm white...uh...mostly polish I think.

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Im latin. My falmily comes

StephanieNicole; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 15:01

Im latin. My falmily comes from El Salvador.

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I am...

killijoy; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 17:10

...a mutt. But why is this subject in writing/comicking? I think you made a mistake. Ah well, no harm done. Nya ha ha!

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White as the winter snow.

Rachel the Great; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 17:28

White as the winter snow. Mostly German with 2% of "other," which doesn't show in me but expressed itself in one of my aunts.

I take care of my pale skin. I use heavy duty sunblock and avoid tanning at all costs. White skin isn't much fun in that respect. I think I don't have as many capillaries in my skin or my circulation is poor because when I get cut, it just will not heal, and I end up with a scar anyway. I once broke out in hives, and the little cuts wouldn't leave for like six months. They finally started going when I started spraying my skin with fungicides.

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ME!!!

xXRed13Xx; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 18:22

White Irish baby all the way!
Well not really all the way, 1/16 English, 1/16th Scottish, 2/16th Italian and 12/16th Irish

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Look Its Nichole's picture

I'm white. I'm for sure

Look Its Nichole; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 18:29

I'm white. I'm for sure Irish, German and Norweigien (<-- How suprising being from Minnesota and all). I'm also a tiny bit Native American, you'd never know though because I'm about as white as they come, and I have blue-ish eyes. Also, my dad has no idea what's on his side of the family so I could be half Scottish for all I know.

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IRISH FTW

xXRed13Xx; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 18:32

Irish FTW... YAY!!!
And blue eyes are wicked, how blue are your eyes ?
My gf has the buffest blue eyes, only way you get bluer is with contacts.

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Look Its Nichole's picture

My eyes aren't that blue,

Look Its Nichole; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 18:35

My eyes aren't that blue, because they sometimes look green or gray.

And what does 'FTW' mean?

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i'm colombian. and please no

kelsey at the disco; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 19:05

i'm colombian.
and please no cocaine jokes. those get so old so fast.

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I was going to make coffee

Rachel the Great; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 19:06

I was going to make coffee jokes :(

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Im latin. Im from El

iloverevenge153; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 19:27

Im latin. Im from El Salvador and Brazil
XD

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I'm with Rachel on

Look Its Nichole; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 19:37

I'm with Rachel on that.

When I think of Columbia I think of coffe...not cocaine.

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I'm classified by the

Anime Punk Joey; Friday, July 28, 2006 - 21:46

I'm classified by the government as a white hispanic. My great grandmother is a black descendent of the African slaves brought to Cuba by the Spanish. My great grandfather was a blonde, blue-eyed, white-as-they-come Spaniard. Both my parents are Cuban, which automatically makes them 1/3 black, 1/3 white, and 1/3 Chinese.

So I'm a all over the place. lol.

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Another mutt

quamp; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 02:28

I'm about 45% Czech, 25% Irish, 20% Scottish, 5% English, and 5% German.
I just consider myself a human being, just like everyone else.

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Re: i'm colombian.and please no

StephanieNicole; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 02:34

kelsey at the disco wrote:
i'm colombian.

Colombians are cool. Shakiras a colombian and so is this dude at my school.

and no one but me and revenge are from el salvador...

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Oh yeah! I'm English too.

Look Its Nichole; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 02:38

Oh yeah! I'm English too. I only know this because Vincent is an English last name.

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thank gosh, everyone at my

kelsey at the disco; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 02:49

thank gosh, everyone at my school thinks of cocaine when they think of colombia. i do not mind the cofee jokes or any other jokes, just not cocaine ones.
i get extreamly tired of being called a drug lordess. technically i think it should be mistress, but i am not sure.
shakiera is a very good dancer
i can kind of dance okay, no where near as good as her though.

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Lordess is not a real word.

Look Its Nichole; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 03:18

Lordess is not a real word. In English nobility you would be a Lady...I think Mistress would work though to. ;)

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I had most of my race

NikeYoung; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 03:36

I had most of my race ancestry mapped out, but I misplaced it. I'm pretty much caucasian, German and Irish, with 1/32nd of Native American.

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Neila's picture

Hmm

Neila; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 03:37

Lets see, I dont know by the numbers, But I know that my skin is so pale it blinds all who see it in the daylight. I'm white, my family hails from Scotland and somewhere further north in the British iles...
I'm not too very sure on my Dad's side of the family, I hear there is some Cherokee in there though, as well as Powatan (which is probably way to far back in there to matter). As for my Mother's side, I know that the family was kicked out of Scotland for stealing cattle...that's what I hear anyway.
Gee, I feel a little lost not knowing my make up.

If you're eyes change color from grey to green or blue, it means they are Hazel, as are my eyes. I got ash/dirty blonde hair and as stated before irratated white skin. Plenty of bloodveins though, they used to get mistaken for juice on my face as a child...which led to endless rubbing by adults thinking I was a messy eater. >.<

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Nielak20 wrote:If you're

Anime Punk Joey; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 04:11

Nielak20 wrote:
If you're eyes change color from grey to green or blue, it means they are Hazel, as are my eyes.

That reminds me of my friend's eyes. They look green most of the time, but somedays she'll have one blue eye and one grey one (naturally, mind you). It's crazy-cool.

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My eyes are brown with olive

Rachel the Great; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 04:29

My eyes are brown with olive rings. I think they are hazel. They perfectly match my hair.

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Neila's picture

Hazel

Neila; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 04:45

I think Hazel cover's lots of colors, I'm not really too sure. I've always been told that since my eyes change color they're hazel. I have dark black rings around the outside of my iris's.

Rachel, are your "olive rings" like a sunburst from the center or are they ont he outside? Green Olive or Black olive?

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Hazel covers just greenish

Look Its Nichole; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 04:55

Hazel covers just greenish brownish doesn't it?
I'm going to look the word up.

Yeah...

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/hazel

The second meaning is "a light brown to strong yellowish brown"...so I don't think eyes are hazel if they only change color.

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Neila's picture

Tad confusing...

Neila; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 05:03

That's Hazel as a Noun, we mean the color therefore its an Adjective ^_^
So its:

Main Entry: 2hazel
Function: adjective
1 : consisting of hazels or of the wood of the hazel
2 a : of the color hazel b of eyes : of a variable color averaging light greenish-grayish brown
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

Either way I'm not sure if they mean "variable color" as in the color itself changes or that the colors it includes are not clearly defined. It's a tad confusing.

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Ah...yes. The mighty

Look Its Nichole; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 05:27

Ah...yes. The mighty adjective. ;)

I always forget stuff like that...

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Either way it all works out

Broken Rage; Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 05:35

Either way it all works out in the end.

My race is odd, I'm half Vietnamese and Half European (a mutt)

I sprout auburn hair and hazel eyes, but yet I speak fluent vietnamese, I don't share the same hair color or eye color as my parents. I look like my grandparents.


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quamp's picture

Eyes...

quamp; Sunday, July 30, 2006 - 03:31

My eyes are hazel with a brown ring around the center. I also have brown hair, but it used to be sun blonde. (although it's starting to be replaced by gray hair.) :(

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At thirty :O

xXRed13Xx; Monday, July 31, 2006 - 08:46

At thirty ? Shame... I mean... Erm, sorry to hear that (Although grey can look good on some people, goes kind of silvery and looks all debonaire ^^ (Spelling?)
I have brown hair now, although I used to have curly blonde hair :) Man I was a good looking baby. And so modest too.

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Hey, guess what!!

killijoy; Monday, July 31, 2006 - 13:33

I never told you what I am! Spare me the groans, I'm here to be a moderator between all of you!

I am Cherokee, Iriquois, Polish, French, Italian, Irish, Checkalslavakian (sp?), and oodles of other stuff that I forget. The list goes on and on - you name it, I am probably it. Probably, except for the Latin countries. I think.

Darn it, now I have to go ask my mother! Why cruel world??

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x__o

Lexy; Monday, July 31, 2006 - 16:11

You mean Czech? There's no such thing as Czechoslovakian any more.

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x.X

killijoy; Monday, July 31, 2006 - 16:58

Probably!

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Well, if it was a relative

Look Its Nichole; Monday, July 31, 2006 - 17:36

Well, if it was a relative from long ago she could be Czechoslovakian.

If it was recent she would be Czech or Slovakian.

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The story of how my ancestors came about.

HarajukuSky; Monday, July 31, 2006 - 19:04

A long time ago in Europe, specifically in France, my ancestor was a Hugenot (I think that's how you spell it). Hugenots faced Religious persicution so in order to escape this he left France to become a plantation and slave owner in Barbados. There he met and fell in love with one of his slaves. Together they had children out of wed-lock. In all with both my mother and my dad combined I'm Native American,West Indian, Pakistanian, French, African American. I think that's about it.


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hmm..

Caitlin Willow; Monday, July 31, 2006 - 23:04

Well, I'm 1/4 Scottish, 1/2 Irish, 1/4 German, and I think the rest of me is Cherokee which doesnt really show except for my flat feet and full forehead. At least thats what everyone says.
I can sympathize with Rachel. I'm very pale too. If I dont put on a lot of sunscreen I tend to become as red as a cooked lobster. XP Everyone should avoid tanning anyways. Its bad for you

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Lexy and Nichole

xXRed13Xx; Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 08:08

Lexy and Nichole, didn't one of you guys say soemthing about Czechoslovakia recently and I told you it no longer existed ? Good to see my teachings are being used :)

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I thought you meant omething

rabbitpiss; Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 08:55

I thought you meant omething like the Amazing race for some reason. I guess call me a South Asian? I'm Malay, Indonesian and Thai mixed. But I'm more Malay than anything else. Actually, just call me an Asian. Much love for my continent <3 (except for the violent side of Asia that *ehem* is currently reforming, that's scary to live in, honestly.) My hair and eyes was and still is black. You don't get much variation over here like in European countries. I laugh when I hear Caucasian people aying he can't tell from a South Korean to a Vietnamese to a Chinese. Seriously, if I ever go to their country, all I get is, 'Are you from China?'

I really loved mixed race kids. That's the real way to world unity, people!

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You have black eyes :O

xXRed13Xx; Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 13:02

You have black eyes :O WICKED.
I wish I had black eyes, it would look wicked, kinda like when Vin Diesel had those crazy glowing eyes in Pitch Black only the opposite.

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Well...

aishwarya; Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 13:43

I'm Indian but I have Italian and Spanish blood in me.

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Re: Lexy and Nichole

Lexy; Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 16:49

xXRed13Xx wrote:
Lexy and Nichole, didn't one of you guys say soemthing about Czechoslovakia recently and I told you it no longer existed ? Good to see my teachings are being used :)

Erm, no... O__o At least not to you.

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Re: Lexy and Nichole

Look Its Nichole; Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 18:42

xXRed13Xx wrote:
Lexy and Nichole, didn't one of you guys say soemthing about Czechoslovakia recently and I told you it no longer existed ? Good to see my teachings are being used :)

I don't remember that. Either way I knew that Czechoslovakia doesn't exist.

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Aw man

xXRed13Xx; Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 20:38

Aw man, now it's gonna bug me, and I gotta look through everything to find it >.<

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OOO i found it

xXRed13Xx; Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 21:18

Ooooooh I found it (actually my gf found it) it wasn't either of you I told, it was Crayola, and Lexy said "No way. The Czech Republic's mine. >=3" That's why i thought it was Lexy :)

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...?

Lexy; Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 22:15

But you didn't correct me on anything there... and I knew Czechoslovakia didn't exist. In fact, I didn't even reference it. O__o

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Re: Hazel

Rachel the Great; Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 22:22

Neilak20 wrote:
Rachel, are your "olive rings" like a sunburst from the center or are they ont he outside? Green Olive or Black olive?

Green olive. Little starbursts. The green gets brighter when I'm excited :p

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i have a green eyes and a

the man who sol...; Sunday, August 6, 2006 - 22:18

i have a green eyes and a brown hair, sometimes it looks like it's little red, and sometimes like it's light brown. veard/weard. usually i'm white-yellow, but now, at summer, i'm brown. proud to be. ;)


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Re: I thought you meant omething

Hairballed Kat; Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 18:53

rabbitpiss wrote:
I laugh when I hear Caucasian people aying he can't tell from a South Korean to a Vietnamese to a Chinese. Seriously, if I ever go to their country, all I get is, 'Are you from China?'

Heheh, that always reminds me of King of the Hill:

Hank, to his new Asian neighbor: So, are you Chinese of Japanese?
Kahn: ...I am from Laos.
Hank: Where in China is that?

I admit it, I can't tell what country most Asians are from just by looking at them >.< But I do know that Laos is a country. Yay me!

There are maybe five Asians in my school, about a dozen hispanics, and everyone else is white or black. I'm one of maybe half a dozen practicing Jews, and I say "practicing" in the loosest sense.

Oh, and I'm 1/4 Polish Jew, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 French, and 1/4 Italian.

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Re: I thought you meant omething

Look Its Nichole; Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 18:58

Hairballed Kat wrote:
rabbitpiss wrote:
I laugh when I hear Caucasian people aying he can't tell from a South Korean to a Vietnamese to a Chinese. Seriously, if I ever go to their country, all I get is, 'Are you from China?'

Heheh, that always reminds me of King of the Hill:

Hank, to his new Asian neighbor: So, are you Chinese of Japanese?
Kahn: ...I am from Laos.
Hank: Where in China is that?

Actually the quote would be...

Hank: So are you Chinese or Japanese?
Kahn: I'm Laotion.
Bill: The ocean? What ocean?
Kahn: I'm from Laos! It's a land-locked country in south-eastern asia!
Hank: So are you Chinese or Japanese?

Sorry, but that's my dads favorite show...we watch it often.

:D

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Butting in

CatChewer; Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 19:10

Wow O_O!

Everyone has such COOL backgrounds!!!!

I'm just 50% swedish and 50% portuguese. The part I like is that my eyes are such a dark brown, alot of people think they're black ^^
My dad says that we were prolly from Germany (from the swedish side) coz of our last name.

All they know is that the furthest back they could traces was a guy called 'Mikael' or similar, and he was a silversmith.

I can relate to that XD

And yes, SOME caucasians can tell the difference. I lived singapore. There you get all kinds of people from all over the world. They even had to make the national language (mandarin) something that no one actually spoke normally so that no one would get insulted.

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What's that? Well, I don't

Caramel; Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 19:50

What's that?

Well, I don't know so much about ancestry, I read an article about all humans came from one place: Europe or Asia. Then they spread out all over the place, and became other people, and made up different languages and beliefs. Why are almond shaped eyes called' Chinese eyes'? According to the article, it was because they worked all day in the sun. So we are probably 1% or less of everything.

I'm Chinese American for now.

Mandarin...people do speak Mandarin. Here in New York, you try to ask for directions, they answer in Mandarin. (Woa bu mein by.) I used to speak Mandarin, but forgot. My mom and aunt can speak Mandarin, Spanish, Cantonese, Taiwanese fluently. Although Taiwanese (I think it's Taiwanese) and Cantonese are almost the same.

There are 52 (or more) dialects of Chinese. Whew.

Maybe there aren't as much Mandarin people in Singapore. :/

Oh, yeah, I speak Cantonese/Taiwanese. And I'm still not sure if it's Taiwanese or some other dialect.

EDIT: There's no such thing as black eyes, though. Black hair, yes, black eyes, no. Unless it's a bruised black eye. ^-^

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