And now back to my punch royal sel.11

Okey dokie. On the top of my reading list. Well right after Ireland and the cost of a 737. LOL

so your a half breed. everyone is.

The United States

"Mixed-Blood" or Mestizo

In the United States the term "mixed-blood" is more often employed for/by non-Hispanic individuals of mixed European and Native American ancestry, while among Hispanics and/or Latinos of this same mixed ancestry, mestizo is the term of choice, particularly by those who also identify as Chicano.

Of the over 40 million Hispanics in the United States, around half are said to be mestizos. The high birth rate among Hispanics in the United States is mostly attributed to mestizos. An additional 48% of Hispanics racially identify as White, though of these many may also posses at least some Amerindian ancestry.

ignorance is bliss......and an attribute that leads to mediocre social status (which is fine unless you have a tendency to get jealous of those that have a higher social status, then I recommned that the concerned individual do something to better him or herself).

there is no such race as "white."

Hey EOD, did the Typhoon get you? I left just in time I think. I heard the trains stopped in Tokyo.....

no typhoon here. little bit o rain but just the norm for this time of year i guess.

"there is no such race as "white." "

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To kinda threadjack a little...maybe someone can tell me this without me having to look it up myself...

In Social Studies in Jr. High, my textbook said there were 3 races on earth

Caucasoid

Negroid

Mongoloid

In 15 years, I have not heard the last two used other than me telling others about what my textbook taught when the issue of "Is Jewish a race?" came up. Actually, I heard them used on CSI once recently.

Questions...

1) was my book in error?

2) have these officially been changed?

3) are they still official but we have migrated to other terms?

Just curious...The only one of these I use is Caucasian. I know better than to use the other ones nowadays.

Billy,

Your textbook is still correct......

Billy your text book left out the

Hemorrhoids: the pain in the asses that dwell on each continent of the earth

and the

Polaroids: the nomadic tourist that take pictures everywhere they go.. A developing race that have cross bred and should now be called the Digitoids

If in group1 you can only make fun of 1 ,4,5 (thanks EI)

If in group 2 or 3 you can say whatever you want about group 1 and then call them intolerant of other groups.

Aren't the mongoloids and the poloroids related? I remember jokes about shutterbug japanese tourists back in the dark ages before we were lifted from the mire by Tey and Adroomi.

Yeah....the good ole days when you could joke about japs, jews, coons, and ****s.

Gee I miss those days.

America was such a better place back in the dark ages.....oops, did I say "dark?"

props to rug...that's pretty good

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One thing that gets me is how major race related organizations have names that you can't use when referring to that race.

NAACP

United Negro College Fund

At least with LULAC we can still say Latin American, right?

Oh....I forgot Polack jokes (as apposed to Pollack jokes about modern art).

Gee I miss the good ole days of jokes about other races and ethnic groups. It's not so much the jokes I enjoyed, but natural ease that the slurs would follow along right behind.......

...and "opposed" is spelled with an "O," not an "A."

Billy,

I don't get it.....what about the NAACP can you not refer to when talking to a someone of either the Negroid or Mongoloid race?

I miss them too. They were stock humor that all you had to do was memorize.

Now, with the changing points in posts here on Cbid, I have to formulate humor and insults that are tailored to the recipient...that's hard work...and I'm not that good to begin with.

NAACP = National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

correct?

I can't (not saying I want to) call a member of the Negroid race "colored" and not be considered racist. Yet the organization is still named such.

Billy,

The NAACP is not about Black people.....that's a misconception that unfortunatly most white people have.

Don't get offended, I'm being serious, but sometimes our own ignorance of the people and groups (such as the NAACP) that we criticize are the causes of our misunderstandings in race relations....

Whatever...every time there is a rep from NAACP on TV, he/she is black and they are talking about black issues. I have no remorse for extrapolating that to view the NAACP as an organization primarily for black people.

If they deal with others, fine.

But what race that they try to advance would be ok with me calling them "colored"...sure as hell wouldn't be the ones on TV.

from naacp homepage

"The primary focus of the NAACP continues to be the protection and enhancement of the civil rights of African Americans and other minorities"

African American is the primary race listed. Also, the pic on the homepage is of Af. Ams. marching.

Sure, the mission statement says they stand for justice and equality for ALL people. But since white folks don't really need it, you think they care about my equality?