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Topic: Do You Consider Puerto Ricans Who Live And Breathe Hip Hop |
Bischoff
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Forum: Ethnicity in America Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 20:53 Subject: Do You Consider Puerto Ricans Who Live And Breathe Hip Hop |
| anonymouse how come most NYC Puerto Ricans that you have come across do not consider themselves to be White ? Do you think it's because the WASP dominated American society/media has been telling them ... |
Topic: Do You Consider Puerto Ricans Who Live And Breathe Hip Hop |
Bischoff
Replies: 9
Views: 3017
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Forum: Ethnicity in America Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 19:52 Subject: Do You Consider Puerto Ricans Who Live And Breathe Hip Hop |
| Culture to be Wiggers for the most part ? For those of you who say no way, why is that ? Is it because you do not think most Puerto Ricans are White and hence such a label as Wigger is not accurate te ... |
Topic: 2 Blue Eyed Parents Giving Birth To A Brown Eyed Child |
Bischoff
Replies: 2
Views: 2024
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 18:29 Subject: 2 Blue Eyed Parents Giving Birth To A Brown Eyed Child |
| I have personally never seen such a scenario. How rare is this anyways ? |
Topic: THE MULATO HAVEN |
Bischoff
Replies: 108
Views: 38014
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 18:23 Subject: THE MULATO HAVEN |
Wikipedia does not mention anything about Heather being part Black. It only mentions Scottish and Lumbee ancestry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_locklear#Early_life |
Topic: Stealing more Creole History for African-Americans |
Bischoff
Replies: 28
Views: 4053
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 18:08 Subject: Stealing more Creole History for African-Americans |
| To an outsider who does not understand how Blackness works in the United States, they might find it weird that Ice-T would question Bryan Gumble's Blackness when T's pigmentation is closer to White th ... |
Topic: California's Top Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban |
Bischoff
Replies: 118
Views: 5563
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Forum: Improving U.S. Society Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 17:41 Subject: California's Top Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban |
| A Chinese friend of mine told me that the Chinese government considers homosexuality to be a mental disease. |
Topic: Stealing more Creole History for African-Americans |
Bischoff
Replies: 28
Views: 4053
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 17:37 Subject: Stealing more Creole History for African-Americans |
| Yeah most of the forefathers of rap are all older than 45 today and were born in the decade of the 1950s. Ice-T for example is at the ripe old age of 50. |
Topic: "How To Tell A Negro, How To Tell A Jew" |
Bischoff
Replies: 6
Views: 6647
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Forum: History of the U.S. One-Drop Rule Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 17:21 Subject: "How To Tell A Negro, How To Tell A Jew" |
| Powell it's wrong to say throwbacks do not happen, they do but they are very rare though. I have heard of 2 cases of this happening, one in South Africa and one in the United States where even a book ... |
Topic: Mulato/Black Couples And Mulato/White Couples |
Bischoff
Replies: 7
Views: 4635
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 07:38 Subject: Mulato/Black Couples And Mulato/White Couples |
| Question for everybody here which do you consider to be more interracial, Mariah Carey's marriage to the White Tommy Mottola or her marriage to the Black Nick Cannon ? |
Topic: Mulato/Black Couples And Mulato/White Couples |
Bischoff
Replies: 7
Views: 4635
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 07:25 Subject: Mulato/Black Couples And Mulato/White Couples |
| The media labels Mulato/Black couples as monoracial and hence not considered racemixing, but Mulato/White couples are labeled as interracial. I know "Other" said she does not consider her ma ... |
Topic: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
Bischoff
Replies: 14
Views: 3681
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 06:46 Subject: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
| Actually you are wrong fsweet that Obama would not be considered socially Black anywhere in Brazil. Especially since there are many Brazilians with a phenotype similar to his who self identify themsel ... |
Topic: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
Bischoff
Replies: 14
Views: 3681
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Tue 27 May 2008 23:31 Subject: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
| I am stating that the overwhelming majority of 50/50 SSA/Euro mixed people in Western society do not have the option to "live life as a White person" because it goes back to the eyeballing t ... |
Topic: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
Bischoff
Replies: 14
Views: 3681
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Tue 27 May 2008 21:23 Subject: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
| fsweet, Obama would not be considered socially White by most Brazilians either. Here is a picture of a Brazilian Oktoberfest in the state of Santa Catarina, which has the largest number of Germans in ... |
Topic: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
Bischoff
Replies: 14
Views: 3681
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Tue 27 May 2008 21:03 Subject: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
| William it depends, they can either be eyeballed as a native if they are one of those very dark Mulatos, or they can be eyeballed as maybe looking like a Horner or a North African for example. One thi ... |
Topic: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
Bischoff
Replies: 14
Views: 3681
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Tue 27 May 2008 20:51 Subject: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
| I still say physical features is the main reason why the overwhelming majority of 50/50 mixes do not have the option of passing for White. Look at Barack Obama for example, millions of people in the A ... |
Topic: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
Bischoff
Replies: 14
Views: 3681
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Tue 27 May 2008 20:16 Subject: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
| fsweet you have some SSA admixture, do you think your phenotype would still be eyeballed by most of society to be within European range if one of your parents was say Ugandan for example ? Or do you t ... |
Topic: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
Bischoff
Replies: 14
Views: 3681
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Tue 27 May 2008 20:03 Subject: Why does hypodescent exist in U.S. perception? |
| If European genes are so strong in 50/50 mixes than why are such offsprings rarely eyeballed as looking White in the eyes of most Westerners ? Yet such offsprings get confused for being Black all of t ... |
Topic: Does this man look black to you? |
Bischoff
Replies: 16
Views: 3484
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Tue 27 May 2008 19:48 Subject: Does this man look black to you? |
| African genes are strong when it comes to actual 50/50 mixes or atleast very close to an actual 50/50 mix, hence why it's rare to find such offsprings that are able to pass for White. The overwhelming ... |
Topic: Does this man look black to you? |
Bischoff
Replies: 16
Views: 3484
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Tue 27 May 2008 08:28 Subject: Does this man look black to you? |
| It's not a big deal, somebody with SSA admixture who has a phenotype that would not be eyeballed by most people as being Black looking, hardly earth shattering revelation. Here's a pic of my female co ... |
Topic: Stereotypes Of White People |
Bischoff
Replies: 3
Views: 3047
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Forum: Ethnicity in America Posted: Tue 27 May 2008 08:10 Subject: Stereotypes Of White People |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_whites |
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