This is really irritating, I’m sure they grow tired of being asked but I always ask very respectfully and with a clear interest, not to make them feel like an outcast or to seem judgmental.
shareThey sensitive because they're a minority in a country they lived their entire life in. Not feeling accepted racially or culturally in a place they consider home not the place from which they or their parents originally came.
shareBest answer. I’m still interested.
shareVery well said.
shareIt is a difficult position to be in, especially if they are different in appearance to most of the resident population. I feel sorry for Africans in Australia for that reason. They stick out like sore thumbs.
Wait... so you are irritated that people get irritated about you asking impertinent questions? I think you should be wait to be told or mind your own business.
shareWhy is it impertinent? I’m genuinely interested.
shareIt’s impertinent because you are assuming they are from another country because of their skin colour. Some may call it racist, but I just think it’s rude of you to presume that. How many years has America been multicultural now? Probably long enough not to assume every “ethnic looking person” is foreign.
shareI don’t assume people are from another country because of their skin color lol. I don’t think every ethic looking person is foreign.
shareYour OP suggests you do
lol
It does indeed.
shareNo it doesn’t. I never said anything about skin color. There are plenty of other indicators.
shareLIKE SUITCASES? LARGE CAMERAS AROUND THEIR NECKS? SOMBREROS? LIP PLATES?
share😂
It’s a shame when someone isn’t even smart enough to play dumb convincingly isn’t it?
I think we need a “MovieBuff’s guide to spotting an ethnic” thread because, y’know, “ethnic looking” doesn’t suggest you are basing your assumptions on appearance at all. What the hell were we thinking?
You're not from round here are you boy *chink, chink of the rifle*
shareWhen I moved to east Tennessee I heard that about once a week - for almost 3 years!
"Yuins ain't from 'roun' here, are ye?"
Drove me nuts! One day I heard it one time too many and blew up in the crewroom at the railroad yard:
"I was born in Ft Benning, Ga and I'm the only bastard in this room with the RIGHT to fly to the Stars and Bars! Oh and if you really want to talk trash about yankees - my Momma's a yankee... "
Three seconds later... "We were just kidding, Cruz", "Yeah we didn't mean nuthin' about your mom", "It was just a joke, brother"... etc.
Never had another problem and that was 15 years ago. Just gotta stand up to the mouthbreathers.
LOL!
Three eyes, webbed feet, scaly purple skin
So many giveaways man!
What about an accent that may peg them as of foreign birth, or recent arrival?
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Since America is the great melting pot, discussing ethnic origins is very common in the US. I've yet to meet anyone who didn't express at least some pride in their heritage.
Besides - ask 99.9% of people to talk about themselves and they'll happily drone on endlessly lol!
Do you get asked where you are from?
shareThere must be a way to ask a persons background that isn't accusatory as "Where are you from?", right? I'm from America but my ancestors were Scottish, English, and German.
I say this as a white man that has NEVER been asked where I am from, however.
Not so much anymore, but I used to get asked where I'm from all the time. I'm white. I think perhaps the US and Canada are immigrant countries it just seemed a normal question. I haven't been asked in a long time now as I guess it seems racist?
It doesn't help that certain politicians fan the flames of immigrant hate.
shareIt all depends on your perspective doesn't it. If you are for globalization, mass immigration and wholesale ethnic mixing then you might see politicians that are against that as "fanning the flames of immigrant hate". But if you regard globalization, mass immigration and wholesale ethnic mixing as bad things then you might see these politicians as people who are trying to preserve their country's people and culture.
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Nobody is advocating "mass immigration". That is a red herring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
I know the type you are and I know the discontent you want to sow. Just come to the realization that I am smarter than you, bogan.
Well a moron would say both of those things...
When you talk like the sky is falling you leave yourself open to ridicule.
shareWell it's no surprise that a Bumswipe would be as slippery as an eel as well as dumb as shit.
You would be doing well to back me into a corner.
shareHonest question: What do you think of homosexuals? Do you think they should have the same rights as "straight" citizens?
Not a bait question.
I think homosexuals should be allowed to live their lives free of persecution. I don't think that activists should promote any of the LGBTQ etc varieties to try to make them become more mainstream. That is a mistake and will blow up in their faces. These are minorities and should remain as such.
As far as marriage goes I see it as a necessary evil for the raising of children. Why anyone gets married who doesn't absolutely have to is a mystery to me.
"Minorities and should remain as such".
This is when you are clearly not American. Our Constitution guarantees that the majority will not rule over the minority.
See? You don't understand the tenets of what it is to be American.
Ladies! Please!!!
I'm not watching this shit unless you strip down to your undies and settle it like real men, with a good jelly wrestling match.
Waiting.
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Temper, temper.
The day I take your advice they will be sucking snowcones in hell. But thanks for the suggestion sunshine.
You know it's amazing how often when I am having an argument with someone some other person (or sock) just happens to show up on cue to stick their oar in.
There's your foot fetish again, it's all about socks with you isn't it? Weird.
Seriously, it's bordering on paranoia, each time a new member joins you hound them about sock accounts. You talk about sock accounts all the time. I would hazard a guess that you dream about sock accounts.
Dumb doesn't suit you either mate. You know exactly how discussion forums work and if you engage in an online argument on an open forum you would be naive not to expect others to comment.
You want one-on-one? Send a message or go offline. With your attitude lately, either would be acceptable.
Ha! I was a bit nicer with my comment below but it involved the same issue.
I just want to meet people here and talk about shit I won't talk about at the office or at my local bar.
LOL. Making friends I see. I am not a sock. Look at my post count. I like to talk but I don't want to bother my friends and family with some of the shit in my head.
So now you get it. This forum gets it.
Look, I will not argue in bad faith with you. However, the whole "sock account" protection veil you seem to be so fond of needs to stop. It's weak. I'm saying this as a forum friend. You can call me on shit as well. Fair play.
That was harsh, Quasi...
shareI think you haven't been around here for a few days Cruz so you may have missed what's been going on. Forsaken got run out of town by the mob and there has been fur flying and feathers getting ruffled since then. Normally I will ignore the reprobates who infest this place but there is a limit.
Yeah I haven't spent much time on the board lately. So... he took a running leap over the boundaries?
shareYeah I was here at the time but I didn't look at the thread where it went down. He got piled into and ended up deleting his account.
I wouldn't have become involved even then but hownos posted a thread crowing about Forsaken self deleting and then they got together and started patting themselves on the back for a job well done. And how they were a great bunch for keeping Moviechat a good place for decent folk. You know that sort of mob mentality thing.
And in the interests of full disclosure I am a targeted individual so I have a particular hatred for this type of group persecution of one person. And Moviechat is obviously not free of this sort of contamination. Not by a long shot.
You are blaming other people for his behavior.
shareI am blaming people for taking it on themselves to say what is and what isn't acceptable around here. Who made them God ? Forsaken had his issues with women. So what ? No doubt he had his reasons. If people didn't like what he had to say they could have put him on Ignore.
You are putting the responsibility on other people and not his actions.
I'm not a judge here. I simply point out situations. I am good at that. I see through posturing. I see through bravado.
I'm good at it. If you want to be a friend, cool. If not, cool. I'll call you out regardless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilZPZawbw5w
shareI like blues. May I suggest a bluesman?
R.L. Burnside. Probably the best that ever existed.
https://youtu.be/-mRTU_7M97Q
Edit-Winters in the background.
Straight Mississippi blues.
I love the blues! Robert Cray's style is what I personally consider, "rockin' blues." I have a good collection of music in the genre. I will look into Burnside.
shareI like a stripped down version of the blues.
Check out Burnside. Listen.
https://youtu.be/gFoPYr8XDrE
This is what I consider as old school, classic blues.
shareIt is my firm belief that it takes all kinds to make a village. Everyone, and I mean Everyone, has "issues" of one kind or another. Some are more abrasive than others... but the whole point of being social creatures is to be tolerant.
On the other hand - the MC brunch are generally quite forgiving. Hell, ya'll kept me around after that night that I blew the fuck up and acted like a homicidal psychopath! So if he got ran off by GenPop then might be a bit more to it.
Knowing nothing about, I'm trying to objective and see both sides.
Forsaken didn't like the way his anti-feminist rants went over so he "slunk" off.
Quasi is being called on his "separatist" views.
So now you're an authority on what I'm being "called" on ? You really are a piece of work aren't you.
It doesn't take a meteorologist to know which way the wind blows.
You should keep on your toes. A new sheriff may be in town.
Well I know where the wind is blowing out of and it ain't pretty. And you keep talking as though Moviechat is your own private club. It isn't. It's a public message board open to anyone.
Exactly. I want to be a casual friend of yours. I like differing views. Racial purity is a bit much for me but I will listen to your arguments.
If you don't attack me I'll promise not to call you a bogan. Bet?
Y'know, I've only been back on the boards for a couple days but damn... I take off a few days and when I get back the place has gone completely to shit lol!
One gets bullied (apparently!) and quits, at least four others are openly cursing each other (with little or no provocation that I can see), a couple more people, perhaps the gentler of our bunch ( maybe, maybe not) are upset about all the hard feelings and harsh words - and rightly so!
Ah when it's said and done, in a couple months, Hell a couple Weeks!, it'll be forgotten or at least relegated to the past. Everyone involved will do whatever they do to live with it.
That kinda came out of left field. I realize you guys have a history, but how do you get from "depends on your perspective" to "fuck off"?
shareA country without borders is not a country
shareWhat country doesn't have borders?
shareExactly.
shareWhat was your point exactly? Not attacking here.
shareAll countries have borders. Otherwise it's just countryside.
I dunno, I'm trying to wrap my head around the morons who want to open my country to everyone in the world including those who want us dead.
Not to mention all the people with no dog in the fight, who think they have the right to voice their insignificant opinion.
As if 1,000,000+ immigrants every year isn't enough, along with the hundreds of millions (yes - HUNDREDS of Millions) of taxpayer dollars we literally give away EVERY year. Not to mention the horrible beating we've taken for at least 35 years in our ridiculous trade deals.
Some folks are just naturally stupid.
Just had to get that out.
Wait, just to be clear, do you ask them what country they're from or what town?
shareLol country
shareHonestly, MovieBuff, you've got to be trolling us. The US is a immigrant country, why would you assume they're foreign just because of the way they look???
By the way, where are you from?
I realize that. I ask them what their ethnic background is, not what boat they stepped off of.
My great grandparents were from Russia (now Ukraine) and Poland.
Well, if you really just ask about their ethnic background it does seem a little oversensitive...unless they're complete strangers...
shareThat's perhaps a little insensitive. Why not ask, 'Where are you from originally?' This is so much more open to interpretation as it doesn't imply anything other than a genuine interest.
shareI get it all the time. I don't mind.
shareWhere are you from?
shareNew York.
East of The Mississippi people assume I'm Puerto Rican. West of The Mississippi I'm assumed to be Mexican. I'm neither. I'm Irish. (Black Irish). My children are biracial, so that further complicates the matter for some folks. We don't care, it's funny.
Its all good but you don't speak for everyone.
shareSounds like you have a good reasonable attitude about people and their behavior. Good for you. By the way, do you get email notifications when people reply to your comments? I used to but do not seem to be getting them any more.
shareDon't tell them that you're from _____ _____.
shareSTUPID QUESTION...STUPID OUTRAGE OVER HOW IT PLAYS OUT.
shareWhere are you from, stoner???? LOL Mars???
shareSomething wrong with blazing a bit? You should try it, I'm certain that it will do YOU alot of good.
shareI do blaze. Kowalski is one of my favorite people on here. CHEERS!
shareNorthern Lights, baby!
shareBeautiful.
shareI quit the pain clinic and went back to my drug of choice 😁😋😲😴
Definitely the right decision! My back still hurts, I can feel it, but I handle it.
It's Soo good to not basically center my life around my pain meds!
Last November made 12 years!
This past month I have been blissfully happy lol.
I hope this is your first question for your main man Scorsese should you ever get the chance to meet him. Pretty ethnic looking isn’t he? Would love to see how that plays out.
shareNo he’s not ethnic looking. He looks like every other 2nd-3rd gen European in this country.
share"ETHNIC LOOKING"...MAYBE TRY AND NOT TALK ABOUT STRANGERS LOOKS AND ORIGINS.
shareSee, you're not being completely honest here. There are "ethnic looking" people in the US who go back much further than that. It's not like European Americans are native to America. You just can't be serious, Buff.
shareEvery single person on the planet is native to Africa.
shareWhen I met Mr. Scorsese, I said "MAMA MIA! Where-a you come-a from?"
His response was "Whatsa matta you? I slappa you face!" Then he looked at me derisively and made some sort of gesture that looked like he was scratching under his chin.
Thank you I needed that laugh 🥇
shareLMAO.
shareI believe it😁
shareHilarious!
shareHoly shit.
We live in a time where there's people who get offended when they're asked where they from... and there's who think that's a reasonable behavior, this thread is an example. The world is nuts. 😕
Spare me. You get offended when a sci-fi character is too “woke” and will spend hours lecturing people about being lectured. To me that’s nuttier than a truckload of Snickers. All about perception innit?
shareNope, I don't get offended by 'woke characters'. I didn't get offended by Christian movies (neither I liked them), why should I be offended by Wokes, which is just another religion?
I don't like Wokes having taken over Hollywood and BBC and media and academia, the same I wouldn't like if it was Mormons, or Evangelists, or any other cult. That's not 'being offended'. I think that cults should belong to the private sphere.
I don't like open religious proselytism and I don't like some religious cult (no matter which one) controlling most of media, and trying to impose their sacred commandments to everybody (ask the developers of Kingdom Come what happened when they rejected to apply one of the Woke Commandments "You shall have Black main characters").
Uh-oh here we go...
I guess I asked for it. Now if you’ll forgive me I am late for the next sermon at the church of Whittaker. It’s a big day, we’re praying that more black women will take over white male roles. Our holy mission is to have Queen Latifah starring as Shaniqua McClane in the next Die Hard movie by the end of the decade. Keep us in your prayers kuku.
I don't pray, dude, not since I was a little kid and I told my grandmother I was not willing to go with her to Church. I never liked religions, not one bit. And that hasn't changed.
shareI understand. We accept donations, $10 will get you a complimentary pass to our museum of diversity and a soya-lite latte.
In the name of The Father, The Son and the Wholly Woke.
We accept donations. In the name of The Father, The Son and the Wholly Woke.
UGH..."WOKES"..."WOKENESS"..."I DONT LIKE RELIGIONS"...SAY,DO YOU WEAR A HELMET WHEN YOU SHOWER?
shareYeah... it really was a joke.
shareOkay...
shareDo you talk to god or pray during life or death situations? It’s common for some non believers to do so in those moments.
shareNope. And I never met any non believer who does.
Of course, you can find people who become believer, the same you find believers who become non believers, or believers who change their religion, but in general that's not frequent.
Nuttier than squirrel shit!!!!
shareLOL
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