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I apologize Temporary One -- The statement that provoked my question was from Destinata.
The layout of this site is not very forgiving.
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Destinata,
When do you think “White” became a race? It’s not as if having “translucent” skin tone has always automatically put someone in the category of “White.” Concepts of race and people’s identification with racial labels has varied, therefore it can vary.
Your analogy about becoming Indian doesn’t work. All it says is that in your case it would be highly unlikely that people would easily accept your claim. That does nothing to invalidate the possibility that some person might identify with a racial label that most onlookers would not guess from that person’s appearance. Now if 14% of the population over all was people who looked like you, if there were areas in India where communities looked nearly 100% like you, if there had been a history of several hundred years of breeding between people looking like you and people looking less like you, and a range of people with DNA shared between the more-like-yous and the less-like-yous, and a shared culture between all these people of different looks... then I don’t think it would be so crazy to hear you say you identified with the label of the less-like-yous.
"You have yet to address the fact that...”
Why would I address that? My previous first was my first entry to this thread.
All the stuff you wrote was nice, about this particular person, whom I neither care about nor defend. But you made a general statement which I questioned. Your general statement seemed to me a declaration of what one may or may not do... according to you (?) You didn’t answer the question. You just wrote more stuff to discredit the character of Dolezal.
My question was,
“...what CAN (ability) one do to find acceptance as the race with which they identify, if other than the race they were “assigned” at birth?”
FYI I support the rights of transgender people to have their identification with a gender recognized in most of the instances where gender is relevant.
So it is typical for the Chinese “race” (or the government and people of China?) to make smart financial, and typical of “white” people to make dumb ones.
Exactly what of value is that observation supposed to bring?
"Typical dumb whitey.”
People of which race, in your opinion, make smart decisions about money / investment?
"you can't transition from one race to the next because you're a self-hating white person, or because you think that you're going to get more advantages being "black.” "
It sounds like you mean, “you MAY NOT transition...”, as in, one doesn’t have “permission” (as opposed to ability) to do that. But if you mean ability, please clarify.
If you mean ability, then what CAN (ability) one do to find acceptance as the race with which they identify, if other than the race they were “assigned” at birth?
Thank you so much for the detailed reply!!
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Yeah, It’s just like watching a kung fu movie. A fun entertainment, filled with battles. More interesting to me than those endless Lord of the Rings battles that were all focused on elf-y British ginger people.
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I wish ^^This! would die.
The owner of this site says (?) they archived the boards on IMDb and they’re working on reproducing them here. I’m not sure what exactly that means. Did they really archive ALL the boards? Or just the more popular ones? It appears that some boards DO have threads that are older than this site, i.e. old ones carried over from IMDb. So maybe, with time, the old Ink Master ones will show up.
I’m liking the simplicity of this site so far, but it’s missing so many conveniences like Favorites, Notifications, etc.
That other site has more features, but you have to click and scroll and look at too many graphics to get to the Discussions.