what is your ethnicity

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I just found out, uncle Woodrow chose "Other" not "Caucasian". I guess, that's "Native American".

Just like uncle Woodrow, if I am living in US I would close to Native American too. I grew up with cowboys movies, but in late of my teen age, "The Battle of Wounded Knee" opened my eyes and I began to have big sympathy to Native Americans.
 
afaik, unc. woodrow has tatar blood from lithuania and some native american, so not exactly caucasian.
 
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ardianto said:
I grew up with cowboys movies, but in late of my teen age, "The Battle of Wounded Knee" opened my eyes and I began to have big sympathy to Native Americans.
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I read Karl May's books when I was a child, which were not that sympathetic towards the native americans.
 
Ramadhan said:
afaik, unc. woodrow has tatar blood from lithuania and some native american, so not exactly caucasian.
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I know European people consider Lithuanian as Mongoloid. But for Asian people like me, Lithuanians are white.
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I read Karl May's books when I was a child, which were not that sympathetic towards the native americans.
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I often borrow Karl May's books from my elementary school library, those were thick books. But my view on Native Americans when I was kid was much influenced by "Rin Tin Tin" and Cowboys movies.
 
Who Am I? said:
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I talked to a young Pakistani brother at masjid once and I asked him about the Indian/Pakistani rivalry, because I wanted clarification on it. Yeah, that was a mistake. I won't be doing that again... :hmm:
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Lol yea thats unfortunate. Muslims shouldnt be having this rivalry issue between each other...thats all I care about. Could care less about the non Muslims, no offense...luckily there are people who arent this way, like me and other sisters on this forum. Alhamdulillaah.
 
Light of Heaven said:


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Lol yea thats unfortunate. Muslims shouldnt be having this rivalry issue between each other...thats all I care about. Could care less about the non Muslims, no offense...luckily there are people who arent this way, like me and other sisters on this forum. Alhamdulillaah.
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:wa:

I judge people by only one thing: how they treat me. If they treat me with respect, then they receive the same in turn. If they disrespect me, then they get ignored.

I think that racism is a conspiracy encouraged by secular society and by Western governments. A populace divided against itself is easy to control. When people are too busy hating their neighbor because of skin color or religion, they won't stop to look around and realize that the government is the real enemy.
 
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lol :) I thought this is relevant.
 
I meet someone this morning who greet me with:
"Happy new year"
It wondered me because new year has been passed almost a month ago. But suddenly I realized what he meant, the Chinese new year on 23 January 2012. So I asked him,
"Do you mean Imlek (Chinese new year)?"
"Yes, what you did to celebrate Imlek?"
"I did not celebrate Imlek. But I went out with my family yesterday"
He looked surprised, and he asked me again "Really?, you did not celebrate Imlek?"

I knew why he thought I celebrate Imlek (Chinese new year). Yes, although I am Javanese I have a little Chinese blood in me. But I wonder why many people are thinking I am a pure Chinese.

I have no problem if people are thinking I am a Chinese. I just wonder.
 
I have two bengali friends who both looks sooo chinese. In high school days we used to call them everything under the sun that has to do with china and chinese lol. One of them is my badminton partner and I still cant resist doing my noodle jokes with him :p
 
ardianto said:
I meet someone this morning who greet me with:
"Happy new year"
It wondered me because new year has been passed almost a month ago. But suddenly I realized what he meant, the Chinese new year on 23 January 2012. So I asked him,
"Do you mean Imlek (Chinese new year)?"
"Yes, what you did to celebrate Imlek?"
"I did not celebrate Imlek. But I went out with my family yesterday"
He looked surprised, and he asked me again "Really?, you did not celebrate Imlek?"

I knew why he thought I celebrate Imlek (Chinese new year). Yes, although I am Javanese I have a little Chinese blood in me. But I wonder why many people are thinking I am a pure Chinese.

I have no problem if people are thinking I am a Chinese. I just wonder.
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Koneechiwa brother
 
Hehehe!! I smiled... now I can imagine how you look like Brother Ardianto

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originaly from somalia but i live in spain, and i think we r only 2 people in this thread
 
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I agree we are muslim first and foremost, but it is a fact also that we are different, we are born into different ethnicities so we need to get to know each other, as Allah swt says in the Qur'an:

O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.
(QS. Hujuurat: 13)
 

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