I'm not sure about you guys, but it bothers me when people do it. Maybe you grew up in white town and all your family look white. If your skin is not white, how do you casually tell people you're white? I'm thinking these individuals should say Dark Causasian instead?
shareOh no! It's the Anti-Warren!!
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Lol! She lived that lie for decades and it's finally come back to feast on her carcass.
shareI didn't know about any of that until your comment and a tshirt on amazon, lol.
shareYeah it's crazy, right? Probably THE whitest person on earth claiming to be "Native American".
Did you hear about her DNA test? She actually IS the whitest person on earth. And she made a big production of it. Literally. Video, mood music, etc.
And the tribe she claimed is pissed. Seriously. Can't make this shit up lol!
I'm part Native American on my Mom's side, but I have blue eyes.
In Pennsylvania Germans were the only people who made friends with NAs and refused to own slaves. Germans are very ethical people and refused to steal land or own people. NAs are basically Asians that were kind of evolving into a Caucasian person from the climate after being there for 12k years. East coast NAs could be very light skinned, as are many Japanese people, and they developed aquiline noses from the cold. In addition, DNA studies show that Asians and white are very genetically close.
So, Germans and NAs made friends, due to the lack of violence, and many people had kids. If you are German and from PA there's a good chance you may have so NA relative in your past.
I've done '23 and me' and despite growing up being told we had a trace on one side and quite a bit more on the other... apparently there isn't enough to detect. Yet anyway.
{sigh}
However, according to statistics, I probably have more than her just by chance lol.
It's my firm belief that 99.9% of human beings, given the opportunity and an open mind, will choose cooperation over conflict 90% of the time 😁
Unfortunately it's always that teeny tiny percentage that gets the headlines.
Post some picture (anything from internet) to show as example.
sharehttps://images.app.goo.gl/7mAyfCZCcaJVvtV49
Michelle Wolf is a perfect example of a Dark Caucasian. She actually is "White", but her skin is olive and she has curly red hair. Unfortunately, she looks like a light skinned black woman at 1st glance.
Unfortunately? What is unfortunate about looking like a "light skinned black woman"?
shareThe features are European, the skin has a strange tone, though. I'd say she's probably a bit mixed race. According to internet the family is German except one grandmother who was unknown, so that could be it:
https://answersafrica.com/michelle-wolf-ethnicity-race-parents.html
Then no one could say it, because nobody actually has white skin. Except maybe some albinos.
shareHahaha! I was just coming to type that I'm not white, I'm kinda pink.
shareWay back in frontier days, it was the white man and the engine (Indian). I wrote it how they pronounced it. I think they also called Natives the red man. Now if you think about it, many white people burn in the sun. So it was red man vs red man.
shareAll things absorb every color of the spectrum except for the color they appear to be, so the color of a thing’s appearance is the only color it actually is not. Therefore the only ones who can truly call themselves white are black people.
shareI think people tend to "identify" as whatever will give them the most benefit. I recall seeing a show with a woman who to my eyes was Caucasian but she identified as a "light skinned black person" if by black she means white, than yeah sure.
Likewise in Australia we have very Nordic looking people identify as Aboriginal, perhaps they are only 1% Aboriginal but as Aboriginals don't "quantify their race" they claim it and then get heaps of benefits as a result.
According to my DNA test I have about 1% from the Ivory Coast and another 1% from the Congo. While I think it's cool as Hell, my father would have a damn stroke!
Even if I did have enough Native American heritage to claim government benefits (I think it's a minimum of 16% - I honestly don't know) I still wouldn't do it because I don't need it. If I were in dire straits I might consider it.
But claiming this or that simply to game the system only shows the world what you are, what you're made of - it's too bad so many seem to have shit for the main ingredient.
I probably should have worded my post better, I think if people can pass for another race or feel they can bullshit the system than many will.
In the past there were lighter skinned black people (probably ones who were far less than 50% black) who could "pass" as white and did so.
I knew a guy who was blonde, blue eyed, Hungarian descent with like 1% Aboriginal blood if it was true at all. He got into the public service by doing the test every 3 months because his Aboriginal status allowed that whereas for anyone else you could only sit it every 2 years at the time. So he played it as if he were filling out a lotto ticket and eventually he fluked it and got in.
Likewise we have a well known footballer down here who enjoyed grandstanding about his Aboriginal status a few years ago. He is really only 25% Aboriginal and comes from a privileged background. But he made a huge fuss and pissed everyone off, the football league had to keep telling people to stop booing him!
Some people will play the race card for anything and it is bullshit. I will end on a funny story, we had an Australian born Indian guy at work he was very Aussie. He mentioned he didn't like Indian food because "it stinks" the Indians all got upset and started calling him racist.
All because he didn't like their food. Just funny how this race thing has become ridiculous.
What's very meaningful is how people are trying to pass for another race. That says a lot about society.
A couple of centuries ago, people were trying to pass for white it that was remotely possible. During the 70s/80s, nobody was trying to pass for another race, or at least it was something very rare. Right now, people are trying to pass for non-white it that's remotely possible.
You can come to some conclusion from that.
Exactly, the worst race you can be right now is White. Be something else and you have it made, especially in the West. This whole "White privilege" thing is bullshit.
It's like going to China and talking about Chinese privilege. It's their country of course they will have advantages, but to be white is supposed to be something special or unfair in some way to others?!
Being "white" is determined by skull bone structure, not skin color.
If they find a skeleton in the woods they can tell the race of the person by their skull structure. All the races have major differences in skull structure and if you know them you can eyeball a skull and tell.
Thanks for the info. What field is that considered? Knowing everything about bones?
shareYeah Craniometry was really big back in the 1700s. Georges Vacher de Lapouge used skull differences as the basis of his anthroposociology studies, which are noted as the main inspiration for Nazi anti-semitism and Nazi ideology. Modern studies suggest that skull size is determined more by the climate of the area from which that person originates, as opposed to the person's race, and that differences in skull size do not necessarily imply differences in intelligence.
Modern studies suggest that skull size is determined more by the climate of the area from which that person originates, as opposed to the person's race
Race is determined by many factors including skeletal, facial features, hair texture, etc. but also societal, cultural or personal. For instance a person could be considered black in one country, white in another and mixed in the third.
The U.S. census labeled Arabs as white no matter what they looked like considering their physical appearance is very diverse. They asked for their own category which will appear on the new census.
This is something I have said before as well. If you were to take a person from every major race and paint them the same neutral colour we would still be able to pick who is European, African, Middle Eastern, Asian etc just from the bone structure.
shareSo when I tan (which I do quite easily and darkly in summer) I should stop identifying as white and start saying Off-White-Browny-Soy-Latte-Mocha-Caucasian instead?
Give me a break. Stop worrying about how people identify. It doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
You're right, it doesn't matter, but you will question their mental health or have a laugh.
shareWe call our Eurasian daughter ‘The Hybrid’. I know, we’re just terrible parents, right?
shareAs long as she understands it to be humor and not an insult.
I wear a size 8 in hats (yes, it's a freaking Gourd) and my family gives me crap about it, but we all know that it's done in jest and it's an expression of their love and affection for me.