What's your ethinicity??
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Yea....im definately OTHER on that list..
I'm a black guy from the USA...mixed with a lot of peoples...europeans and a couple native americans in the mix.
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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 ^_^
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"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.
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.
Last edited by Tao Libra on Aug 27th, '06, 03:49, edited 1 time in total.
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)
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)
"Ethnicity" and "Nationality" are mostly the same thing, except that the former term includes your ancestors while the latter term applies only to you.Soulja187 wrote:i was always get confused whats the difference between nationality and ethnicity...
The primary definition of "ethnic" is:
The common "culture" and "language" specifications are very important, and that's why "European" is not an ethnic group.pertaining to or characteristic of a people, esp. a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
I would merely consider you an "American" — "Asian-American," if you wanted to be unnecessarily picky.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)
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."Soulja187 wrote:lol thanks tao i no im asian american but i wanna no the specs if im chinese,vietnamese, or 100% chinese
Or you could cover all the bases and say you're a "Chinese-Vietnamese-American."
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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!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
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.
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W...w...what? b...but, we haven't even been introduced yet!!!!
W...w...what? b...but, we haven't even been introduced yet!!!!
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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).
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).
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.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?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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