NationStates

2017 edition

In light of Rojava Free State's poll on skin tone, and the periodic age polls in NSG, I thought I'd bring back the race poll to see if anything's changed in the last two years.

Some of the poll options may seem a bit unorthodox; the interest here is more focused on social interactions between various races on these forums than any stricter biological definitions, so technically the question is more "Are you a person of color or not, and how do you identify?" FYI I'll be using the US Census Bureau definition of White. The poll will be open for 60 days.

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Feel free to discuss if you wish – since the poll is anonymous, there's no pressure to share any of your identity or to get into discussion, but if you want to, then go ahead. If you are so inclined, I think it could be interesting to hear some opinions on the race ratios on these forums and how they might affect our discussions of race-related issues.

If you do choose to join the discussion, just some basic guidelines and things to remember:
- Don't be racist*
- Remember that you can speak your mind but that anyone else has the right to refute you
- Keep an open mind and you just might learn something
- Do not speak for the experiences of other individuals or for identities that are not your own, and
- Do not expect someone to answer for their entire race
- Don't dominate the discussion please, especially if you and people backing you up on anything are in the majority (if we don't get to hear from every perspective then there's no point)
- If someone tells you you've done/said something racist or otherwise offensive, especially if you are in the majority (either on here or irl), stop and consider what they've said seriously before furiously typing a rebuttal.
- If you're stating opinion, make sure that you do it as an opinion and not a statement (e.g. "I think America is the best country", not "America is the best country")
- This is a discussion, not an argument.

*If you are racist, or want to share an opinion that could be construed as racist, consider whether it will have any constructive impact on the discussion. If it's something people can discuss, go right ahead, but don't post racist rhetoric if it's just going to break down the discussion.

The distribution thus far is pretty interesting.

I'm pretty white. Just a smorgasbord of Northern European ancestries in my blood, I suppose.

I feel like we should get multiple options. I’m mixed race but I’m majority Asian, and I don’t know which one to choose. Giving people 2 or 3 or more options and telling them to select all that apply could be good.

I’m mixed…a lot of things, really. Spanish, black, Filipino, Arabic...

Pacomia wrote:I feel like we should get multiple options. I’m mixed race but I’m majority Asian, and I don’t know which one to choose. Giving people 2 or 3 or more options and telling them to select all that apply could be good.

Sup fellow PNWer! I was gonna give mixed/multiracial people the option to choose which groups they were descended from, but that’d make it harder to tell how many mixed-race people there actually are. What’s your racial/ethnic mix, if you don’t mind me asking?

What's MENA white?

Nouveau Yathrib wrote:

Pacomia wrote:I feel like we should get multiple options. I’m mixed race but I’m majority Asian, and I don’t know which one to choose. Giving people 2 or 3 or more options and telling them to select all that apply could be good.

Sup fellow PNWer! I was gonna give mixed/multiracial people the option to choose which groups they were descended from, but that’d make it harder to tell how many mixed-race people there actually are. What’s your racial/ethnic mix, if you don’t mind me asking?

Well, at least half East Asian. My mom’s side is all Korean, dad’s side is a jumble of British Isles/Germany/Norway (or Denmark, I forget which) which might have some Asian mixed in, although not much of it.

Generally when things ask me to choose my race, I just check “Asian” because it’s the most simple option. I don’t really like the “Multi-Race” box because it sort of just disregards what races I have in favour of the fact that I have multiple. That’s fine right now, but as there are more and more multiracial people, it becomes less of a good idea.

I'm a white boy with Swedish, Italian, Polish, Welsh, English, and apparently a great-great grandmother of mine was Russian. Type 3 skin, medium to light brown hair, and hazel eyes.

Im a white european fella so i am like mate

Latino, though idk if that counts as a race if not more than a cultural/ethinic point. If anything I'd consider myself Mestizo (mixed of Native American and European) considering 51% of my ancestry is Native and another odd 30% is European (Iberian majority, mostly Portugese) but then there's also some African in there so its a whole mish mash of different areas.

Sheep don't do races, only breeds.

Nefarious whitey.

East Asian (Han Chinese ancestry) here.

East Asian, Chinese, Han.

White
Italian(Sicilian)/Irish American

The mile.

> East Asian
> Japan to Indonesia

What. No. Southeast Asians are not the same as East Asians.

But anyway, almost fully Filipino. Either 1/8th or 1/16th Spanish ancestry, with some smaller bits of Chinese and - according to family - British in there somewhere.

German/Russian/Polish/Irish white boy here.

Light skin, dark brown hair, and hazel eyes.

Hispanic


I'm quite sure everyone expected me to be White...

Chan Islander

Pasong Tirad wrote:> East Asian
> Japan to Indonesia

What. No. Southeast Asians are not the same as East Asians.

I do feel weird about that too.

I'm mostly Indonesian of mixed ethnicities, of Javanese and Minangkabau descent, with some Chinese and Arabic blood somewhere up in the line.

I was told I was born somewhere in the Pontic steppes, but I really can't remember that. We didn't do "races" back then, we were more focused on keeping the honeywolf away from the sheep.

Why is latino listed as a race? Latino is an ethnicity that any race can be a part of and most latinos are majority Caucasian in heritage

I mean seriously I'm part Lebanese and part Hispanic. Are you trying to tell me I'm mixed race?

Drongonia wrote:What's MENA white?

It means middle eastern.middle eastern people are Caucasian, although if you know me, you know I hate using color terms for different races because they aren't that accurate