My dad is completely devoted to his heritage and at one point was president of MAHA, the Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys... he's very involved in the community and since I was raised that way, i think I'm entitled to call myself whatever the heck I want, thanks.

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Quote: from GoodFairy13 at 8:29 am on Sep. 27, 2008

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Maybe they're telling the truth?

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If you're great great grandfather is asian, that does not make you a full blooded asian. Seriously.

I didn't say that they were lying about perhaps having mixed ancestry somewhere along the line. The point was, why are they going around speaking japanese and claiming to be japanese if the last japanese person in their family was three generations ago?

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they may be proud of that factor.

Dare to be different leaps to mind.

When i was younger i used to tell people i was half dryad (tree person) because its cool. Its just something people do!

its a factor of interest for others.

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If you stare long enough into the darkness,
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Also, they could be 3/4 White and 1/4 Black and consider themselves Black again.

Maybe where you live it's different, but around here people call themselves Black if they're like that (unless they're Hispanic).

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woman's arms and... tear the child in half... Such incidents...
occurred all the time." - A Year in Treblinka, Yankel Wiernik,
Treblinka's "most authoritative eyewitness"

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Maybe where you live it's different, but around here people call themselves Black if they're like that (unless they're Hispanic).

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They're just following the white man's cue.

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Quote: from kidd rune at 10:07 am on Sep. 27, 2008

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Maybe where you live it's different, but around here people call themselves Black if they're like that (unless they're Hispanic).

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They're just following the white man's cue.

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LOl, down here its the whites they always saying how they're Hispanics and stuff, I don't lie about my race, I'm proud of my race.

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  It's tough to find a 100% pure black person in the US or Canada anyway, so that's why alot of kids feel they should play-up their genetic 'diversity'. Unfortunately what it comes out as is "I'm not like those other black people. I'm better".

Post edited at 7:51 pm on Sep. 27, 2008 by The Artful Dodger

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Quote: from babygurl 2008 at 7:34 pm on Sep. 27, 2008

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LOl, down here its the whites they always saying how they're Hispanics and stuff, I don't lie about my race, I'm proud of my race.

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Whites can be Hispanic, it's not a race.

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I know, let me rephrase that, most white Americans tend to say that they're Hispanic.

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I like it I enjoy it. But its not like THE MOST important thing in life.

People who want to to hide their black heritage are sad like they are ashamed of it. That is sad.

People who are proud to be white and think that is the most important thing in the world are also sad.  

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Quote: from kidd rune at 10:39 pm on Sep. 27, 2008

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Quote: from babygurl 2008 at 7:34 pm on Sep. 27, 2008

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LOl, down here its the whites they always saying how they're Hispanics and stuff, I don't lie about my race, I'm proud of my race.

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Whites can be Hispanic, it's not a race.

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I know, let me rephrase that, most white Americans tend to say that they're Hispanic.

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Around here, Whites don't approve of the Hispanic influence.

Go to Saint Cloud High. I've spoken to the Whites there, they want to go to Harmony because they'd "rather be with Niggers than Spics".

Keep in mind this isn't only Rednecks that I've spoken to, I only know about 3 Rednecks in that whole school and one in mine.

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"One of the Germans... would frequently snatch a child from the
woman's arms and... tear the child in half... Such incidents...
occurred all the time." - A Year in Treblinka, Yankel Wiernik,
Treblinka's "most authoritative eyewitness"