Race and Forum

[Trainfan344]

I'm nothing exciting really. Quite normal and bland. But I'm also unfit so a race would be no good for me. I'd probably lose.

 

[Cowley]

I'm nothing exciting really. Quite normal and bland. But I'm also unfit so a race would be no good for me. I'd probably lose.

I'm white but it's sometimes difficult to tell because I'm often covered in paint.

 

[Butts]

Caucasian..... aka "heinz 57"

Qualify to play football for Scotland,England or Wales if i was good enough

 

[tsr]

I'm largely orange with silver stripes.

 

[Butts]

I'm largely orange with silver stripes.

Are you an Orangutan/Gorilla hybrid ?

 

[tsr]

Are you an Orangutan/Gorilla hybrid ?

I'm not sure that's quite how it's worded in the contract.

 

[Smelly_Diesel]

I have always identified as a mixed race person. A father from Limerick (R.O.I) and my mother is Liverpool born with one Black Barbadian parent and one English / Irish parent.

 

[DarloRich]

White. English. Northern.

 

[Trog]

Somewhat localised white English, my Great great grandfather left a farm in a village five miles from where I sit to join the LNWR. With me retiring from Network Rail from a WCML office almost within sight of that village. Although one of my grandfathers did move from Newcastle to a town ten miles from here where he then met my grandmother, which is quite exotic compared to most of the rest of my ancestors.

 

[EssexGonzo]

Strictly speaking, I'm pink and rather squidgy. And English.

 

[Busaholic]

Should someone called William Wallace on their birth certificate identify as English, without receiving a brick through the window, metaphorically speaking? Tis true, though - I suppose in my defence I could point to my shared birthday with both St George and William Shakespeare. Actually, I'd be quite happy to identify as European, despite not having ventured over either the English Channel or the North Sea during the course of this century.

 

[45rpm]

I`m caucasian British. Father from Scotland,mother was from Kent. My birth certificate says I was born in Howdenshire! A grandfather that I never had was from Alderney & I believe I have some Irish (pre the re-shaping in 1922 so were they British or Irish?!) ancestry.

 

[VauxhallandI]

Scottish, white and I like racing of the motor kind rather than equine

 

[yorkie]

I have always identified as a mixed race person. A father from Limerick (R.O.I) and my mother is Liverpool born with one Black Barbadian parent and one English / Irish parent.

I'd not have guessed! Having met you, I'd have just assumed you were 100% scouser!

 

[cuccir]

It's been interesting to see people listing their skin colours and nationalities, but it's worth pointing out that beyond these there's really no such thing, at least from a biological standpoint, as 'race' (citations:12). The only thing that race is is a concept and set of behaviours towards people of varying skin colours and from different parts of the world....

 

[DaleCooper]

It's been interesting to see people listing their skin colours and nationalities, but it's worth pointing out that beyond these there's really no such thing, at least from a biological standpoint, as 'race' (citations:12). The only thing that race is is a concept and set of behaviours towards people of varying skin colours and from different parts of the world....

Another interesting link:

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4546

There's No Such Thing as Race... Or Is There?

We know that genetically, race does not exist; so why are we still using it in science?

Today we're going to take a deeper dive into one of the most popular themes in science in recent years: the recognition that genetically, there is no such thing as race. Nothing in our DNA identifies us as Caucasian, Mongoloid, or Negroid, or lends any support to the idea that any of those classifications might exist at all. No gene or combination of genes is unique to any race. Race, says today's common wisdom, is merely a "social construct" — it is a way we look at each other, make a snap judgement based on some obvious traits, and apply a label. This seems like a simple enough resolution of the question, and is not especially controversial. So why, then, does the question persist?

 

[ATW Alex 101]

I'd not have guessed! Having met you, I'd have just assumed you were 100% scouser!

Do. Not. Call. People. From. Chester. a. Scouser.

 

[backontrack]

I'm not white. I'm not the same colour as a piece of paper. But I am relatively pale.

 

[AntoniC]

White British, although with my 3 given names people assume that I am Polish.

My father was born in Przemyśl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemyśl during WW2 , my mother was born in Bootle, Liverpool during WW2.

My father was naturalized as British in 1948.