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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:27:11 No.50019404 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020248 >>50021818 >>50021963

Anyone else a white south african living in USA?
What do you mark on forms that ask your race and have options like "caucasian" and "african"? I tick African.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:30:54 No.50019567 Report Delete

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I've been told African-American by SA guys. Only know one who's been to uni there and he said he got in trouble for it before his parents had a go at the staff

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:31:05 No.50019574 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50019608 >>50019732 >>50019867 >>50020245

I was born in Namibia.

You dumbass. You're not an African. You're white.

Trying way too hard to be different.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:31:48 No.50019608 Report Delete

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>>50019574
>You dumbass. You're not an African. You're white.
I'm not caucasian either.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:34:45 No.50019732 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50019874

>>50019574

African-American isn't just race though its nationality, in which case its appropriate to white from SA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:37:23 No.50019834 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50019900 >>50020245

Caucasian/White
Stop trying to be a special snowflake. You're only "African" by your nationality, your race is still white.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:38:20 No.50019867 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50019954

>>50019574
>You dumbass. You're not an African
If he has south african citizenship, than yes he would technically be an african, im assuming you dont have Namibian citizenship

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:38:28 No.50019874 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50019994 >>50020245

>>50019608
>Anyone else a white south african living in USA?
>Anyone else
>else

Yes you are.

>>50019732
African American is an ethnicity, it refers to the descendants of black slaves. African immigrants usually have the option of "African-American/BLACK". In which they opt for black. No Nigerian immigrant will call himself "African American"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:39:09 No.50019900 Report Delete

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>>50019834

But "..."-American is nationality?

If it just said African that's race

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:40:43 No.50019954 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020229

>>50019867
I do.

Dumb American detected. I'm white, if I was to be born in Japan, moved to the USA, would I pick "Asian/Pacific Islander" or would I pick "white"?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:41:45 No.50019994 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020171

>>50019874

So surely then there should be European-American, Arab-American, Native (NA)-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American etc as they are all significant groups in the population?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:42:06 No.50020005 Report Delete

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it doesn't even fucking matter.

Unless you're applying for some special black scholarships or benefits. Which I can tell you that you won't get it.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:43:35 No.50020060 Report Delete

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>>50019900
Ding dong you are wrong. You're not American so stop talking lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:44:41 No.50020096 Report Delete

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>the butthurt nigger in this thread
OP is more african than you ever will be

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:45:34 No.50020124 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020218

>>50020060

But why are they separated like that and no one else? I thought "American" was supposed to be all inclusive and race didn't matter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:46:43 No.50020171 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020207

>>50019994
Who ever told you there wasn't?

As of right now, Arab and European Americans are both classified as "white"
There's a non-white Hispanic option as well as a Native American/Alaska Native option.

lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:47:48 No.50020207 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020305

>>50020171

I applied to a few American unis and the options were Arab/European and not x-American.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:48:08 No.50020218 Report Delete

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>>50020124
There are options for everyone except Arabs lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:48:23 No.50020229 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020556

>>50019954
>Dumb American detected. I'm white, if I was to be born in Japan, moved to the USA, would I pick "Asian/Pacific Islander" or would I pick "white"?

You wouldnt have Japanese citizenship, so you would have no claim to claiming that your a Pacific islander.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:48:47 No.50020245 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020348

>>50019574
>>50019834
>>50019874
average black in america is 24% european according to 23andme
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/12/genetic-study-reveals-surprising-ancestry-many-americans

fyi, that figure is higher than the average hispanic's native percentage. So if you think hispanics should tick 'american native', then blacks should tick 'white'

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:48:51 No.50020248 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020352 >>50020375 >>50020400

>>50019404
Should I immigrate to burger-land anon? I'm thinking around Seattle might be nice, but I haven't looked into it much yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:50:04 No.50020305 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020481

>>50020207
I highly doubt you applied to a university that did not have an "African-American, "non-white Hispanic", etc option.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:51:02 No.50020348 Report Delete

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>>50020245
>So if you think hispanics should tick 'american native',
American native only applies to the native american tribes in canada and the united states. No ones cares about the natives south of the border

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:51:08 No.50020352 Report Delete

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>>50020248
iirc netherlands recently passed a new immigration law regarding south africans with dutch heritage, you should check into it first

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:51:43 No.50020375 Report Delete

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>>50020248
Make sure you make a big deal about being African whenever you have to list your race. Regardless of your ethnicity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:52:28 No.50020400 Report Delete

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>>50020248
>Should I immigrate to burger-land anon?
Ofc, someone needs to pay for our pensions :^)

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:53:45 No.50020456 Report Delete

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reminder that there's zero repercussion for saying you're a different race or gender than you actually are
if we all collectively decided to tick 'african-american' and 'female' on every single form it would make affirmative action worthless

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:54:10 No.50020481 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020677 >>50020749

>>50020305

Yes it did have those but that's my point, why do you separate races when its supposed to just be "American"? And if you do separate them, why don't you represent all? If I was Asian-American I wouldn't have had an option to pick at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:55:45 No.50020556 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020983 >>50021072

>>50020229
citizenship is not related to race. If I had Japanese citizenship and was 100% white, that wouldn't make me Asian. This is commonsense.

So if you're white, born in South Africa with South African citizenship - you would mark "white" in the census.

You're a European-American "white" living in the United States. Being born in the Americas does not make you ethnically Native American. Much like being born in Africa doesn't make you ethnically African.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:58:41 No.50020677 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020761

>>50020481
Just tick the other box and on the line to specify write whatever you want. Or you can start screaming at people about this piece of paper not letting you identify of as Indo-Slavic-African-American Asian

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:00:34 No.50020749 Report Delete

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>>50020481
Asian-Americans do have an option on the census and other applications.. I have no idea where you got that idea.

Why isn't it just American? Are you one of those "I see no color" folks? Race matters. Ethnicity matters. Many black Americans are black before they are American. Likewise for other groups. I'm just telling you how race in the census works, and calling op stupid; you're diverging this and turning it into a moral issue.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:00:57 No.50020761 Report Delete

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>>50020677

Fair enough, it just seems strange to me and more segregating than helpful

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:04:10 No.50020879 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50020918

Why is this even a discussion? The African/Caucasian options all refer to the place your race originated from, not your personal country of origin. If you're white and try to say "lol I didn't come from the Caucasus xD" you're either over-thinking it, or being a pedantic cunt. The latter seems to be a common characteristic of educated foreigners who immigrate here and think they're hot shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:04:56 No.50020918 Report Delete

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>>50020879
This

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:06:48 No.50020983 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50021060

>>50020556
Its not as if hes ticking one called black. Hes ticking one called african because hes from africa.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:09:19 No.50021060 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50021159

>>50020983
The census is based on race. Not where your citizenship originates or where you were born. Being white in Africa does not make you of African descent, which is what the census and other apps are trying to work with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:09:30 No.50021072 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50021299 >>50021470

>>50020556
>citizenship is not related to race. If I had Japanese citizenship and was 100% white, that wouldn't make me Asian
If you spoke fluent Japanese and grew up in japan, how would you not be Nipponese?.

>So if you're white, born in South Africa with South African citizenship - you would mark "white" in the census.
You can mark anything you want mate, we dont live in a fascist society.

>You're a European-American "white" living in the United States. Being born in the Americas does not make you ethnically Native American.
You keep acting like race=ethnic group. Which it doesnt.
>Much like being born in Africa doesn't make you ethnically African.
Afrivca is very diverse , it is natively home to white, black and asian people. Your ignorance is really astounding tbh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:11:38 No.50021159 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50021330 >>50021345

>>50021060
African isnt a race, black is

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:15:31 No.50021299 Report Delete

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>>50021072
>If you spoke fluent Japanese and grew up in japan, how would you not be Nipponese?
He would be Japanese, but not Asian, due to his white ethnicity.

>You can mark anything you want mate, we dont live in a fascist society
Sure, but if you end up somehow skewing demographics or lucking into a scholarship, or something like that, that would be pretty shitty. Purposely trying to fuck with a simple self-identification questionnaire like this just reeks of "I'm a cunty attention-whore, look at how cute I am for intentionally taking these categories too literally xDDDD"

>all that other shit
I think I'm being trolled so I'll just leave it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:16:26 No.50021330 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50021455

>>50021159
The census refers to "African" as blood ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. Not where you were born. I don't understand why non-Americans can't wrap their heads around this. I'm white from Namibia. My race is not ethnically African so I do not mark African on the census.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:16:50 No.50021345 Report Delete

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>>50021159
JFs in this thread who have no idea how American demographic/census surveys work need to shut the fuck up, seriously.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:19:33 No.50021455 Report Delete

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>>50021330
This. For Christ's sake, it's a simple concept. Methinks this is yet another subtle attempt to troll Americans for what foreigners regard as retarded categories, which are actually quite straightforward and easily understood.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:19:51 No.50021470 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50021814

>>50021072
You're really stupid if you believe that being born in a country and speaking their language makes you ethnically one of them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:29:19 No.50021814 Report Delete

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>>50021470
>You're really stupid if you believe that being born in a country and speaking their language makes you ethnically one of them.
This. Niggers, spics, krauts and potato-niggers will never be true americans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:29:22 No.50021818 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50021855

>>50019404
Youre about as african as a mexican is american

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:30:37 No.50021855 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50022163

>>50021818
inb4 >implying americans aren't mexicans x100000000

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:33:53 No.50021963 Report Delete

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>>50019404
Why do all you sub-Equatorial colonials dress like you're on a safari all the time?

Just khaki shirts and shorts and high socks, all the time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:39:31 No.50022163 Report Delete

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>>50021855
implying mexicans aren't americans

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:44:10 No.50022326 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>50022395

This shit pisses me off. You're clearly white so why the fuck would you mark African American/black.

The category is for descendants of native Sub-Saharan Africans or blacks, not whites living in Africa. Why would they have a separate category just for white South Africans?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:45:59 No.50022395 Report Delete

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>>50022326
>This shit pisses me off.
Butthurt """""""""person"""""" of color detected.

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