I used to just check White and that was it. Now I will mark other and list my predominant cultural heritage English and Norwegian. Do you think this is a mistake? Should I be broader and say European heritage? Should I just mark the White box?
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I'd probably just put Native American. I was born here, and my family has been here long enough I'm not eligible for birthright citizenship anywhere else.
I always tick African. I’m an Elon-type African BTW. It’s where I was born and grew up, there’s no lie there 😆🤷🏼♂️
It’s fun seeing their faces when a white dude shows up to the job interview
African would also work in the Richard Dawkins "we are all Africans" sense the New Atheists tried to push 20-ish years ago to "debunk" racism.
Noice.
I agree with you, but not 100%.
I'd say about 1/1024th, tops.
The government asks if you're American Indian, which has a specific meaning (to them). Now, this is all self-identification, so you can say what you want, but you're probably not an American Indian.
If something actually says "Native American", well, that's dumb; check which box you want.
I honestly don't know a better term than American Indian. Canada's term is dumb because the tribes that are recognized weren't the First Nations, obviously. They were the last ones before white people got there. Should be called Last Nations. We already covered Native American. Maybe Bering Strait-American. Bering Land-Bridge American. That at least makes sense.
Yes, it is. So in addition to it being dumb I'd also like to make it meaningless and useless.
Before you ask what you should do, you should decide what you're trying to accomplish. Your goal will determine your action.
That's a good question. I feel like when people talk about being white, they talk about like there's no culture behind it. So I started adding the more specific English and Norwegian bits to add a deeper meaning to white.
And it seems to me that a lot of the SJW types regard Europe as monoculture with everyone being the same. And a part of me feels pointing out different heritages is an attempt to pull away from that idea of Europe as a monoculture.
I'm also just proud of my English and Norwegian roots.
I mean the term White is pretty meaningless if you think about it. It's a term to describe the physical appearance of people with European ancestry but it doesn't actually tell you anything about the person besides their basic physical appearance. Same goes for Black or Asian. So it's a good thing to get specific.
Are you first gen? How long has your family been local?
My mom side has been here since before the revolution. My dad's side is a more recent arrival, he was the second generation born here
Yeah, im appalachian, grew up in appalachia, was told to write applachian on my sat's, and college admissions.
Come here to canada, I write "appalachian" next to cultural background for things like my healthcare.
But it means absolutely nothing to these retards. They have a very hard time comprehending how people can believe in different things, quite sad really.
So unless your country even recognizes the group your claiming to identify as, seems pointless in alot of circumstances.
Ive begged for years to get healthcare for the freon poisoning and now the hyper parathyroidism, im a proud person im only gonna beg a few times.
Im done now, and the people here just cant seem to comprehend what the hell im talking about.
Fucking pussies with no backbone in canada. Cant wait to go back home to america.
Im a direct descendant of the wing family that was crucial in things like the quaker movement and underground railroad. I have alot of pride for my lineage, though I have done nothing to prove my own worth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Quakers
The wing family has been here since the beginning but I would bet dollars to donuts no one here has ever heard of them.
You prolly also think were asian or something lmao, I can understand why the wing family always thought they were descended from vikings, we are big people.
But this is what retards are telling me I have to feel sorry for.
Its fucking near impossible for me to contemplate, my head nearly blows the fuck up.
Freedom is a hashtag to these people, they do not know, or even want to know what freedom really is.
Ironically enough im from daniels lineage, which isnt all that surprising. I wasnt surprised to find out he wasnt a quaker either, he just thought everyone deserved to be allowed to choose what they believe.
Fucking evil white people.
Low Crime Rate-American?
High Trust-American?
Melonin-Independent American?
I've heard the term Heritage American get tossed around in recent years, which I kind of like for how it reinforces the reality that America is a nation of European bloodlines.
Here in Canada we use "Old stock" to differentiate ourselves from the recent waves of immigrants. Obviously this gets you banned off of social media up here now.
I'm Heirloom
I've heard both.
Mark other and put "Hwite."
Mayo demon!
Leave it blank.
It's none of their business.
Communists love forms and collecting data.
Don't give it to them. It annoys them so much.
Generally bad data is worse than no data. It's why the institutional pushback for ad-nauseam was so much worse than for regular old ad-blockers, because it fucked up the marketing data way more effectively.
So yeah, they deserve nothing, but if you really want to fuck with them, give them gibberish.
I intentionally check Other: American
I use this as a common weapon to start a fight with any of the DEI crowd.
Racially and Ethnically American, and my gender and orientation is Aromantic Demisexual.
It means I'm attracted to people I have emotional connections to. Also known as: not-sluts.
If asked, the Diversity Officer has to prove my self-identification wrong.
Dunno how serious you are about using their bizarre nomenclature correctly but since I like etymology, the greek root a-[thing] is supposed to mean without-[thing].
So aromantic is supposed to mean you feel no romantic connections with anyone, same pattern as asexual or atheist. Linguistically just "romantic" should be the proper opposite, but if you want to use their tard language terms on them "alloromantic demisexual" is what you want. Or you could try "reciproromantic demisexual" as tongue twister way of saying "not a simp".
I think that you're thinking of anromantic rather than aromantic. But it's a good point, alloromantic is probably the one they can go with.
Oh-no anromantic is an even more advanced stage of tard language.
If aromantic is without or apathetic towards romantic feelings. Then anromantic is supposed to be the active loathing of romantic feelings. Aka anti-romantic.
I can only presume they chose not go with their standard template and call it "romophobic" because too many of them related to it, joyless misanthropes they are, and they didn't want to lumped in with the other dirty 'phobes.
That or they were worried that, even though it doesn't quite make sense, it maybe sounded racist against gay Asians saying homophobic.
Noted. I'll have to shift some of that in my notes.
Just use aromatic. Person of smell.
They let you pick deeper cultural heritage? Then I think that would be cool to put your Norwegian.
Well, I pick the other box and fill in English and Norwegian heritage.
Oh. Gotcha
I figured they knew my heritage by just looking at my very German name. Then I click Hispanic because Dad is Argentine.
Bwahahahahahaha
Haha, some of your normie leftie friends must have an aneurysm when they learn about that German/Argentine mix. 😂
I just write Spanish, as Spaniard is a massive portion of my genes.
But their own inherent bias makes them assume I'm just Mexican from it until they see me.
"HEY WAIT A SEC THAT GUYS FROM MADRID"
Check Other, fill in with some SQL injection.
That'll learn them for their software diversity hires.
European"; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Diversity,Equity,Inclusion;
I always put Atlantic Islander.
True. A continent is just a big island, when you think about it.
Well, that’s one way to look at it. But I am of Irish descent, so when I say Atlantic Islander I specifically mean the Emerald Isle.
I prefer "master race" personally. Call me old fashioned.
Indigenous.
I can trace my family back to the 15th century in Germany (thanks to the Ariernachweise of my grandfathers). So it's obvious that I'm native here.
I'm a proud descendant of the Declinetostate peoples.
If you're hitting upon the point that observed races are not particularly accurate proxies for ancestry, it is well taken.
That said, you're white. A lot of people get crammed into white. Persians are white unless you come up with some special category for them. Probably Arabs are white. They aren't Sub Saharan African or East Asian.
So being "different parts of Europe" white isn't even pushing it.
I am largely opportunistic about this. If I think marking White will hinder my opportunities I'll decline to answer or mark "other". Otherwise I'll just list myself as White. I have to imagine though that there are people out there who will see that box for "White" checked and heave a sigh of relief that the guy they're interviewing isn't going to be another knuckle-dragger.
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