Serious Question- Caucasians, what do you think overall of African American?
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I am a white woman in a relationship with a black man and we have talked about race many times before. Its not only whites that act like that. Alot of different races black, white, spanish, all races have some bad seeds. Narrow minded people like to put blacks in their own catagory when it comes to stuff like this but really think about it, all races have their own thing. Black people dont like white people and vice versa. Hate will always exist, its just up to you if you recognize it. Me personally, I dont feel that it is just one race doing harm, its all the people of the world coming together in hate that makes its stay. Black people are beautiful to me as all other races. If you look at a person and see their race before you see a person then you are probably one of the people I am talking about.  If you wanna talk about people living in the ghetto why dont you go to the ghetto and see how i really is not having food to eat or being a child yourself having to take care of siblings because your parents split, or having to share a bed with 2 other people, its hard and alot of these people black white or mexican go thru it everyday. Like I said people will always judge no matter what, and others answering this have said blacks dominate sports, well good observation because they just about do, so you mean to tell me that if a team is predominatley black you no longer like the sport? If you answer yes then you were never a fan.I could go back and forth with this all day so I guess its no point because ignorance will never die and people will always throw the race card out there when they get a chance.
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About 25% better than a white male student with a 4.0 GPA.\n\n30% better if you are a black female rather than a black male. :)\n\nEdit: Not being racist or classist here... if you think I am, look into it and educate yourself on the matter. When it comes to higher education, white students get LESS money and are denied a LOT more on their entrance applications than students of color because of the 'standards' at nearly all universities (Especially California, what a screwed up state). HOWEVER, to balance out the coin here I will say that when it comes to PUBLIC schooling, Students of color have to put up with a lot more crap, and less oppertunities (steriotype, but in GENERAL statistically)... SO, in the view of college acceptance, a minority student (non-asian) with a 4.0 GPA stands out a LOT more than a white/asian student with a 4.0 GPA.\n\nHow many 'white only' scholorships are there?\n\nHow many '<insert random minority here> only' scholorships are there?\n\nKinda makes you think, eh?
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Economist, I REALLY like your answer.\n\nQuestion: If other cultures hanging out with whites makes them "whitewashed" does that make my blue-eyed blond granddaughter "blackwashed" because she has a beautiful  partly black daughter?
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Why do African-Americana's have a bigger twig and berries than Caucasians?\n\nSome questions are better left unanswered.
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As a proud Black American (yes I said BLACK American NOT AFRICAN American).....We are not Africans. We are Americans and even the Africans will tell you that.  For millions of us our blood is way too diluted to consider ourselves to be solely African. To answer your question, I could really care less about what blacks in other countries and other cultures think of and say about us.  We have been through hell and back for the past 500 years. Our People (the generational Black Americans) have struggled and thrived in the United States for Hundreds of years.  Over the years race mixing has occured between our African Ancestors and Europeans and our African Ancestors and Native Americans.  Most Authentic Black Americans are of diluted blood and aren't pure African at all.  Our features, culture and heritage has evolved into something different than that of our African Ancestors to make us who we are as an ethnic group today.  We have our own rich history, culture, and heritage.  Many of us Black Americans don't even realize how rich our heritage is.  We don't need the approval of Africans or Carribeans or any other blacks to feel good about ourselves and confident in who we are.  We may have our problems, but what ethnic group doesn't?
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I take it you meant Afro-Americans, right?  The spelling was incorrect.......I am a Black American.  And I can honestly say we are not the only aggressive race in the U.S., and I'm not sure what part of Africa you have visited but alot of Africans do not have the right to speak up on matters in their country.  Maybe that is why you don't think they are very aggressive.  But every race that I know of here in the U.S. is very vocal and aggressive when it comes to their rights.  I am sorry you feel that way about Blacks and your own country!:(
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I am caucasian.  I have always wanted to be either African (in africa, perhaps in one of the indiginous tribes like the !Kung) or Chinese.
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In the 19th century (and later) it was believed that there were 3 distinct "races" of humans: negroid (black), mongoloid (eastern) and caucasoid (white, but also applied to non-white people from the subcontinent and middle east).\n\nNegroid and mongoloid are now (rightly) considered to be non-PC and downright insulting. But the term Caucasian has survived to describe white/south asian/middle eastern people.\n\nWhen black people in America got fed up being called negros, they took on the term African American as a more accurate and respectful description of themselves and their heritage.\n\nI guess white people still get called Caucasian because it has never been a term of insult/abuse.
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Pretend this passage is part of a story you're reading. Read this passage, then I've got a question for you to answer.\n\n     It was a hot, sunny afternoon in the inner city. The three bald youths, wearing T-shirts and baggy pants, walked down the cracked sidewalk, their bling dangling around their shoulders. One carried a boombox playing Snoop Dogg loudly. One wore a baseball cap, its bill turned to the side. Another wore sunglasses.\n\n     All right. Now my question is: What ethnicity were these three youths? Answer, then continue reading.\n\n     My point is that you very probably thought of these youths as African-American, even though the description of them never actually said so. Why can't they be whites, or Latino? You see, stereotyping is programmed into our behavior patterns, it's hardwired into our thought processes. It's part of what makes us human. It's a survivial mechanism--we tend to organize others into groups that we want to try to stay away from, and groups that we want to try to join, because these groups could either harm us or hurt us. Such concerns are beyond "good" and "bad", it's just the way we are.
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I hope that we evolve enough to stop classifying our self's as black American ... Hispanic...white Asian.. etc.. and accept that we are all Americans regardless of our skin pigmentation... divided we fall...........peace.
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Get great grades, do well on the SAT and check one of the boxes other than "Caucasian."  It also doesn't hurt to have parent who is an alum (legacy) or money to donate (development admit)\n\nOf the top 12 in my class, only those with a heritage other than caucasian got in.  Hoping things have changed since then.
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USA .. Caucasian... part American Indian, Scottish, German that I know of ... basically your general American mutt.
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DUH if you're born in Africa no matter what color you are you are African. they're all kinds of Africans,black white Chinese Italians ,etc. just like it's all kind of Americans. Peace Out
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african or european??
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Me: African-American woman.  1. Personally I'm tired seeing it...media tends to focus on black men with white women exclusively, this helps to send out the message that black men consider white women to be their ideal standard of beauty...for some black men, having a white woman helps to validate their status in life... however not every black man wants or feels the need to have a white woman on their arm. 2. I also find it very interesting how very little attention is given to relationships between white men/black women. Hmmm, what does this really say about society, and American culture in general?
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Jeff A, take off your pointed hood and open your eyes.\nLet's look at it from a bigger picture and ask ourselves a couple of questions.\nWhat percentage of the Global population living under the poverty line is black, asian, colored?\nNo matter how you look at it, there is a corelation between the color of skin and prevalence of poverty.\nNow, slavery and colonialism have various debilitating effects. These effects take a lot of time to heal. Every civilization in the past has at one time or the other had slaves from other conquered cultures e.g Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Nevetheless, in none of these cases has the proportion of slaves to citizens come close to the prevalence of the United States. At the height of slavery in the US, there was 1 african slave for every 4 citizen.\nIn the case of previous civilizations, the negative effects of slavery have been greatly healed by the passage of time. It has been barely a century since slavery was abolished in the US, and just a copule of decades since civil right reforms were implemented in the south. It is over optimistic, to the point of naivette, to assume that societal and racial relations in the US would be normalized after only a copule of decades.\nThis brings to mind a skit in an episode of "Family Guy" where a colonial white man removes the shackles from his african slave and says "Okay, its over now. We're cool, right?".\nIt is understandable that minorities unconsciously feel slighted about the past and wish to strike back. In roman history, an army of escaped and former slaves led the Thracean Spartacus led a bloody revolt against the Roman populace.\nIn modern US society, It is sometimes taken as a subconscious mental victory that it is politically incorrect for a white person to say "Ni99er" while black people can refer to each other that way. These irrelevant mental victories help to heal racial problems in the society.\nBeing born and raised for the first 20 years of my life in a West African country, I have the advantage of being able to look at the US society from an outsiders perspective.\nFor anyone who says that the current US society is racially fair, I ask them to research the average family income for a black, hispanic, asian then caucasian family. Numbers dont lie, but ultimately, time heals all wounds (hopefully).
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i am caucasian\ni am a christian\ni am a man\nwrite me!