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Aku orang Melayu yg merantau di negeri Orang. ufufufuffufufuuuuuu

Does that means that you are malayan and went traveling abroad?

Where I live there is not such thing as races, people are too mixed to find their race, the most we can is distinguish who is foreign descent, which is futile since their appearance in not foreign on most of the cases. Even though we make some racist jokes we never had cases of violence towards any specific race, just the usual third world violence, we also make fun of our own country people so the joke are not directed only towards foreign.
I do have two problems in here, I can't stand the german people who think they are better than us just because they came from europe and I can't stand extreme religious people, specially the people who force the women to hide their hair with those scarves.

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Aku orang Melayu yg merantau di negeri Orang. ufufufuffufufuuuuuu

Does that means that you are malayan and went traveling abroad?

Woah! You can speak malay Tps? Are you a malay or are you multilingual? From your profile, it seems that your location is Brasil. is it Brazil?

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I am pretty good at telling Caucasians apart.(I have trouble with Germans and Swedes though). Also I am pretty good at judging East Asian races. ie Japanese, Chinese, Korean

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That's part of where racism stems from - misconceptions and stereotypes.
I'm not racist. I don't feel as though I'm surperior to anyone else. Which, being mixed, really couldn't even if I wanted to feel that way.
Though, I'm half Irish and a lot of people assume because I'm part Irish that I can hold my liqueur. So not true. Biggest lightweight ever.

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I seriously don't like this thread, its subject or where it seems to be going...
Races isn't a concept I even consider valid.

And although I feel like locking this thread, I won't do so yet. I want you guys to prove to me that we can have a clean and friendly discussion about touchy subject without hurting anyones feelings.

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I'm sure it's different in different places, but where I've lived in the US, most people don't have a clue what their whole racial history/heritage is.

I'll use myself as an example. On my mom's side, her dad's family has supposedly been in the US since well before the times of Daniel Boone. Considering the (lack of) record keeping, most of the family history back more than a few generations is mostly guesswork. On my dad's side, his dad's family supposedly came over during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, when Georgia was a prison colony (not as prisoners, so the story goes, but because they were pretty high in court life & disagreed with the queen...). Same thing, back more than a few generations, it's mostly guess work.

Judging by my coloring, the majority of my ancestors were probably Northern European (and there are a few more recent that I know were) but there's no way to know what all is mixed in there - which is why when I'm asked I generally say I'm an American mutt. 🤣

Any friends I've talked about it with (in the context of family history & family stories) have had similar circumstances. They'll know that their family name is Dutch, or that one set of great-grandparents emigrated from Ireland, but not really have a clue beyond that. Of course there are some people who really can trace their family tree back almost to Adam & Eve (though at least part of it is probably guess work), and people whose families are newer to the US may know more, but the majority don't know & don't really care.

In Europe maybe some people can tell Germans from English from Dutch from whatever just by looking at them, but I'd expect that to be more a cultural than a racial thing & I doubt it would work for Americans of German or English or Dutch or whatever descent....plus they're likely to be mixed with who-knows-what rather than "pure" anything (but then again, how "pure" is any race??). 🙄

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Today in Chemistry class,(I don't know why but) we read an excerpt about schools in Asia and in America. Basically it says that in America we are given the impression that making mistakes are bad, therefore Americans do not take risks in school to expand their learn abilities. While in Asia children from a young age are told that mistakes are okay so they are more willing to make mistakes and learn from them than to do nothing and learn nothing.
It makes a lot of sense and it actually explained a lot about the Asian stereotype.

I don't remember the title of the book but it was something like: _______ Makes Mistakes, I Just Don't Make Them or something like that.

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Aku orang Melayu yg merantau di negeri Orang. ufufufuffufufuuuuuu

Does that means that you are malayan and went traveling abroad?

Woah! You can speak malay Tps? Are you a malay or are you multilingual? From your profile, it seems that your location is Brasil. is it Brazil?

LOL, no... I just saw it and thought while my eyes shone, oh~ she thinks no one can understand that... is that a challenge? 🤣
Yes, it is brazil, I just forgot and wrote it with S instead than Z. I had a friend whose family came from Malaysia (I have no idea how they end up in here) so I thought the language was that at first.

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I am pretty good at telling Caucasians apart.(I have trouble with Germans and Swedes though). Also I am pretty good at judging East Asian races. ie Japanese, Chinese, Korean

I don't know where you are from but I find the first part your affirmation far fetched. You really think that if you had like... 5 "caucasians" in front of you, you would be able to tell them apart huh? So let's say if you met me, you would think I'm Irish because of my red hair or my neighbour as a German because of his blonde hair. All in all it's way too easy to say.

I can't tell Asians apart and I would not try to do so because it's useless. They are people and therefore worth meeting, period. Certainly not only odd entities from countries.

I'm much better at telling where you're from based on your language or (more importantly) your accent when using English.

'course, there was the time I took off my glasses and noticed my friend: "Dude, your skin tone is weird." And he answers "Dude, I'm black." (He's pretty light, but his mother's blood gives him unusual skin and stunning eyes.) Race just doesn't matter much to me.

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LOL, no... I just saw it and thought while my eyes shone, oh~ she thinks no one can understand that... is that a challenge? 🤣
Yes, it is brazil, I just forgot and wrote it with S instead than Z. I had a friend whose family came from Malaysia (I have no idea how they end up in here) so I thought the language was that at first.

Haha! Close enough..the reason why I put some malay words in my other post ialah untuk lihat kalau ada orang di sini dapat faham bahasa melayu..seperti orang macam awak!! 🤣 I am also hoping that I could find someone from my country..but atleast I've met some Malaysians, singaporeans and Indonesians in this forum =) if only I could meet Bruneians...sigh ;_____;

Plz send my greetings to your malay friend! Brazil is a long way from home buddy!

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I'm sure it's different in different places, but where I've lived in the US, most people don't have a clue what their whole racial history/heritage is.

I can tell you I don't know much about my racial heritage... I'm black, native american/indian and white (and who knows what's mixed up in there) O___o and when asked I say black. It would be very hard to trace my ancestory and I don't have the resourses currently and if I could I'd probably only be able to trace my white ancestors and maybe my native amercian ones
🤨 I think it'd be very hard to trace african ancestors but that would be so interesting +A+

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I believe that the US government defines someone as "black" if they are 1/16 (someone check that please). I always though it was an oddity that having one great-grandparent could "define" your entire life.

I knew someone in college who was half mainland Chinese, and half Dutch-German-Irish. He got a huge whopping (and unfair) scholarship based on the fact that he was a so called minority (the school's primarily "white" and "Asian/Pacific Islander").