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I'm so confused on what I should pick....at first I saw the title and I was going to pick Taiwanese since I am mostly Taiwanese...but I don't count it as Chinese but yet I am part Chinese and part Burmese.....right I'm also American but that's not an ethnicity...

I have European blood in me.

I'm south/south-east Asian born in America. I have a pretty boring ethnic, lol. Mostly Bengali-Burman-Thai.

I'm European and French for nationality.
Belgium + German + French in my family.

as i stated elsewhere if America is the melting pot I am the stew.

Greek grandfather mothers side...Polish grandmother mothers side
Pinoy/Apache grandfather fathers side....Pinoy grandmother fathers side




Japanese wife

Finnish and Gypsy.

im from the middle east =D
egypt to be exact =)

im MONGOLIAN ..if you guys know what that is =_=

i´m latinamerican pretty much a mixture of indegene and some spanisch and german genes

but i think it doesn´t matter at all we all are mixed together and we all are human,flesh and blood all the same!!

xox-Beautifully-Broken-xo wrote:I'm Chinese. ^^ Hehe, there are quite a lot of Chinese people here, ne? xP

^^ Well....another Chinese here.

oh my, chinese is leading the way, LOLs

don't know how well this forum will work, because as you can see, there are people who are mixed. so i guess we'll see!

In with the majority Chinese people here

holy crap 2 year old thread

Chinese!! yay, too bad i cant speak / listen to mandarin... what a shame... cant read it either -.-

Hehe, I am chinese (Mandarin) but some people think that I am like other races that are like way off.

I'm latin with spanish and chinese blood (Not much though.) People often think that I am Filipino though.

I am Vietnamese but I was born in Norway.. I'm extremely glad that I found this site, because finding Asian film/dramas are nearly impossible! (I hate renting because they're just crappy VHS)

Bless this site ^^.. I'm pretty new here, so I better check the recommendations-thread

Chinese, cantonese speaking, and mandarin too. (As alost of asians do)
Living in Australia, used to be a fan of cantonese dramas, but after watching 1 korean drama, got totally hooked....

looks like there r a lot of chinese ppl on! cool! i was born in china so i'm chinese.. but apparently i look japanese, cuz i'm in japan right now and everybody speaks to me in japanese at first.. but its ok as long as they dont speak too fast

100% Chinese born in Canada... All the FOBs call me a banana lol (metaphor intended... you'll get it once you think about it). hehehe

I'm 50% german and 50% filipina with spanish influence.

i'm Hmong..don't ask what it is..lol.

seems like the majority is chinese and i'm one of them =]

Twinkling wrote:i'm Hmong..don't ask what it is..lol.

honger + mongolian?

I'm spanish!!!!!!!!!
probably that is why i love this side, because without eng subs i wouldn't be able to watch my asian dramas and movies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm a black guy from the USA...mixed with a lot of peoples...europeans and a couple native americans in the mix.

Hispanic, Latino, Mexican American, or some other generic term for us of latin origin would be cool. But I'm not sure how helpful it would be considering I don't know many hispanics watching Asian programming much outside of my very small sphere of influence.

Filipino... but mixed chinese... i have chinese blood... my great grandpa is pure chinese... and i hav a little spanish blood....

I'm European

I'm chinese

but y isn't there American on the poll?

Haha.
No south asians desi here on the poll?
FINE.

We're always forgotten. But that's okay! It's kinda bizarre already for an indian girl like me to like asian TV in the first place.
=D

Er... I voted Chinese, but maybe I'm really Southeast Asian, as I was born in that region and my parents were born there also... *shrugs* Bleh, too complicated.

I put Europe, but to be more specific: I'm black. I was born in the UK.

I'm Taiwanese, but I guess you can just count me in with the majority as "chinese".. I was born and raised in America (soon to study abroad in Shanghai!!) so I'm not all political about my nationality.. if people ask me if I'm Chinese I say yes.. if they ask what ethnicity I am, I answer Taiwanese ^_^

well, I'm only half Filipino, so maybe I should've put "other" as my choice

I'm Cambodian. I was actually surprised to not see it on there. Well, SE Asian, but you know what I mean. Oh well. ha ha

I am a Filipino!!! No more... no less... ;)

I'm.....well im a basically a mutt
Cambodian 1/2
Chinese 1/4
Vietnamese 1/4

hmm...but I was born in Thailand

so what does that make me??????

i am hmong. my friend fan wu, he makes fun of my chinese when i try to say i'm sorry. but i don't blame him. my accent is not that good...yet...

"European" is not an ethnic group. "German" is an ethnic group. "Norwegian" and "Italian" and "Greek" are ethnic groups. Even on a broader geographic scale, there's a hell of a big difference between a Scandinavian European and a Mediterranean European. So why does the poll distinguish between, say, Japanese and Korean, yet lump all Europeans together?

Worse yet, the category "Other" is apparently left to cover an incredibly huge variety of people, well over half the world's population I'd estimate, some of whom — Africans and Native Americans, to cite just two examples — have far less in common than any two of the arbitrarily-differentiated Asians.

Furthermore, there's no option for "Mixed" — which I think probably applies to far more people than any of the options that were provided.

So since this poll is obviously the product of an astonishingly shallow world-view, I'll forego participation.

i was always get confused whats the difference between nationality and ethnicity...
all my uncles and aunts(including my mom and dad) were born and raised in Vietnam
but my grandparents from both sides were born and raised in China and moved to
Vietnam to have my uncles,aunts and parents....so wut would i b considered?
(born and raised in america)

Soulja187 wrote:i was always get confused whats the difference between nationality and ethnicity...

"Ethnicity" and "Nationality" are mostly the same thing, except that the former term includes your ancestors while the latter term applies only to you.

The primary definition of "ethnic" is:

pertaining to or characteristic of a people, esp. a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.

The common "culture" and "language" specifications are very important, and that's why "European" is not an ethnic group.

Soulja187 wrote:all my uncles and aunts(including my mom and dad) were born and raised in Vietnam but my grandparents from both sides were born and raised in China and moved to Vietnam to have my uncles,aunts and parents....so wut would i b considered?
(born and raised in america)

I would merely consider you an "American" — "Asian-American," if you wanted to be unnecessarily picky.

lol thanks tao i no im asian american but i wanna no the specs if im chinese,vietnamese, or 100% chinese

Soulja187 wrote:lol thanks tao i no im asian american but i wanna no the specs if im chinese,vietnamese, or 100% chinese

Well, what language do your parents speak? (I mean primarily, since I imagine they probably know several.) If it's Vietnamese, you've probably got a good claim for being "Vietnamese-American." If it's Chinese, then you can say you're a "Chinese-American."

Or you could cover all the bases and say you're a "Chinese-Vietnamese-American."

Chinese...so yea i guessim mainly Chinese American....im ABC lol American Born Chinese

lots of chinese ppl here..
YEH CHINAA

whos heard of the Long Jiang (village) called Tai Lam Shan? its a couple hour drive away from ShenZhen

whowhatme wrote:looks like there r a lot of chinese ppl on! cool! i was born in china so i'm chinese.. but apparently i look japanese, cuz i'm in japan right now and everybody speaks to me in japanese at first.. but its ok as long as they dont speak too fast

LOL, that doesn't prove a thing. I am very white (ethnically all Germanic), but when I am in Korea, people actually talk to me in Korean! Sometimes I will get the odd (usually young) person saying "hi" to me on the street and some Korean guys in nightclubs sometimes try to pick me up in English trying to impress me, but usually in restaurants, the subway, in convenience stores, the street, even when talking to police officers, people will try to talk to me in Korean!

It is very strange considering how desperately people want to learn English in Korea (and Japan as well.) I think most people in Korea and probably Japan are just so embarrassed to attempt using English that they try to avoid it at any cost.

My ethnicity is European considering my ancestors are from Europe. I'm 25%Italian and 25%Irish. Thats all I know how much I am percentage wise. Other than that i'm French, German, and Swedish or Scotish. I'm pretty sure its Swedish though. I'm not really sure.

CBC here... lol Canadian-Born Chinese

BBC ;) so, chinese...
Whoa, there are so many "others"...I don't really understand what that option means.

Another full chinese here.
100% Chinese <-- 100% Han <--- 50% Kejia (Hakka), 50% Fujian (Fukien)
Born in Taipei, so I guess that's my hometown.

xlaiwongbaox wrote:BBC ;) so, chinese...
Whoa, there are so many "others"...I don't really understand what that option means.

Watch the movie "The Others" then you'll know

Anyway, I'm PinoyBoi (Filipino)

I live in the Netherlands, but I'm Vietnamese. ^^

Im chinese

i'm viet for life.. pending my genetic surgery..

african american.. half-nigerian

I am an American

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W...w...what? b...but, we haven't even been introduced yet!!!!

Ethnicity: Taiwanese (my ancestors lived in Taiwan since the Ming dynasty)
Nationality: American citizen

I'm an American citizen and am half Egyptian, quarter Polish and quarter Ukranian.

nationality: japanese citizen/ us citizen

ethnicity: more towards the japanese side.

101%Chinese(Han)
Singapore
50% Teochew(Chaozhou)
50% Hokkien(Fujien)

Umm.. I'm american...but my parents are Guyanese! ^__^
They're From Guyana.

No offence meant but I think the options are not comprehensive and rather vague between nationality and ethnicity.

Does the option of Chinese refers to China Chinese or any Chinese in any part of the world as long as their ancestors are from China?

Does it means SE Asians refers to Thai, Malays, Indians, etc not mentioned like Vietnamese?

Well, I'm a Singaporean(Nationality) Chinese(Ethnicity).

purple73 wrote:No offence meant but I think the options are not comprehensive and rather vague between nationality and ethnicity.

Does the option of Chinese refers to China Chinese or any Chinese in any part of the world as long as their ancestors are from China?

Yea, it can get confusing. Ethnicity/race was actually a 19th century concept developed by the European imperalists to classify (and therefore subjugate) their colonized masses. A couple hundred years ago, there was no such thing as the "Chinese people." The area of modern-day China was a land inhabited by hundreds of tribes with diverse cultures (much like Europe). But nowadays people just lump them all together into "Chinese" for the sake of convenience.

It is so confusing to compare ethnicity between one person to another. Like in america there is a lot of mix people so to differentiate them by asking what is your ethinicity is a very big question. They might be an american but they ethnicity can be portuguese or south american..

Nationality:- Malaysian

Ethnicity:- arab,malay deli, ibanese, chinese, bruneian,kayanese,punan,melanau but here in Malaysia they group it as Malay because my parents is muslim.

I'm Eastern European, unfortunately. I call myself Russian-Jewish, though in reality i'm Jewish by birth, and land i grew up in for first 8 years of my life was Russia. The next 13 years are spent in America. I don't like to group myself as caucasian or European. I'm not a stereotypical image of white first of all, and i'm Jewish, so not a stereotypical religion either. If anyone gets insulted by what i'm saying, notice the word i use, stereotypical.

^ Hmmm, so whats wrong with being East European

LOL i'm not unique. You can find Eastern Europeans almost anywhere. I don't even look like a stereotypical Russian woman. If i could choose an ethnicity to be, it would be Asian, or i'd have blonde hair and blue eyes. And if its European, i think a lot of people group me into being Western European. I doubt they care whether or not i'm from West or East. But overall, Eastern European, not very unique.

1/4 malay..1/4 indon...1/4 chinese..1/4 indi..huhuhuuhh...

i am ethnically chinese. i was born in Thailand, raised in the US. my parents lived in Cambodia and Thailand for awhile... my grandparents came from China, and they still retain cultural ties.

i've always identified my ethnic background as Chinese... nationality, however, is different. i became a naturalized US citizen when i was 21, so i consider myself American also.

Trinadadian /venezuelan/american