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Act your...... race

Act your race

  • Yeah- If your black you should act black and vice-versa

    Votes: 2 3.7%

  • No-People can act anyway they want and noone should have a say on it

    Votes: 27 50.0%

  • Really don't know/Really don't care

    Votes: 8 14.8%

  • This is a stupid thread

    Votes: 17 31.5%
  • Total voters
    54
I know how people feel I am Black/Puerto Rican/Irish and people say I act white (which I am part white anyways) just because I listen to rock music and I say that I hate Rap and Hip hop music because its stupid and makes no sense.


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As said before, people tend to act in the environment as they grew up in. Which is usually influenced more by their ethnic group than anything; so IMO its more stereotypical than racism.

I personally don't have a problem with this, a person can act however they want; as long as they refrain from breaking the law. One thing that does bug me though (I'm not trying to be racist) is how some people talk. They slur their words in a murmur and I can barely understand them and have to repeatedly ask them "Pardon?". It just gets frusterating, it seems like a whole new language simply because they're too lazy to pronounce letters and words properly instead of in a slurred manor? x:
 
Ullion said:
As said before, people tend to act in the environment as they grew up in. Which is usually influenced more by their ethnic group than anything; so IMO its more stereotypical than racism.

I personally don't have a problem with this, a person can act however they want; as long as they refrain from breaking the law. One thing that does bug me though (I'm not trying to be racist) is how some people talk. They slur their words in a murmur and I can barely understand them and have to repeatedly ask them "Pardon?". It just gets frusterating, it seems like a whole new language simply because they're too lazy to pronounce letters and words properly instead of in a slurred manor? x:
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Oh man. I hate that too. I work at a Subway (You know, the one where you get sandwiches) where I get people of all races coming through and nothing annoys me more than them being too lazy to prononce their english words properly so I can understand them. And what really makes me mad is that they turn around and accuse me of being hard of hearing or that I'm not listening to them.

But I do agree with you. No one has the right to define how you should act. Yes, it IS annoying to have someone of any race act like the "black stereotype". But it's their right and I really dont give a dern who they act like.
But then too I can understand why some white people dont act "white" It's because if you act "white" people automatically label you as a racist. Not all of us are racists.
Any person no matter what their race can be a racist.

It's a problem that has haunted humankind for thousands of years.

As I said in my previous post, it's not ok to apply stereotypes to people. In fact it's WRONG IMO.
If stereotypes didnt exist we'd all be much happier.
I'm the type of person that would warmly welcome anyone no matter how diifferent they are to the group. I dont discriminate against people.
I only shun someone if they have treated me badly or if they have wronged me in some other way. And even then I'm a very forgiving person. It's impossible for me to hate anyone for very long. I dont hold grudges.
If more people would quit carrying the grudges from their ancestors and forgive distant past/historical injustices there would be much less racism these days.

There is no proper reason to hate anyone. There never will be.
If you "hate" some one you need to hunt them down and try to resolve your differences. I say try because sometimes people are too stubborn to deal with you and talk the matter over like grown men and women should. And Kids should too. IMO at least.
Talk it over and try to clear up any and all misunderstandings and maybe you'll end up being friends.
Well, there's my opinion.
 
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I'm really Not Sure How somebody Could act "Black" or "White"
 
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I don't think people need to act like the stereotypes stamped on them because of their upbringing or ethnicity. So I vote 'no'.

Racial stereotyping bugs me in general- if you behave in a way because of your ethnic traditions, that shouldn't become 'act your race'. I absolutely don't think anyone needs to feel obligated to "act" this way or that. People shouldn't have to conform, either. It's silly that some people have to behave in a certain way to fit in in the first place; accusing them of 'not acting their race' is just making things worse.

Just my opinion, o'course.
 
Dude..what the hell? How can anyone ever be "black," or "white" to begin with?

I don't understand this at all; people adapt to how they were brought up. Just because you have a certain skin color doesn't means you should be subjected into being forced into acting like your Race's stereotype.

There's a difference between trying to act another race, and just being a straight-out poser. You can't act "Black" or "White" unless your trying to match the generalization or how people chose to ortrey certain people based on their skin color.

Dude, this just never made any sense to me anyways, so I just voted with This is a stupid thread. =/
 
Well, I forgot what I wrote in my first post, but really, I don't care.

Now on to this subject, people sometimes still try to "act" black (which is totally dumb, frickin retards) by the by. there is no such thing. (I told you they were friggin retards)

You've heard it before. What is white? Do we act like the friggin retards who try to be "black"? Are we total geeks? What the hell is wrong here?

Now hwat is blck? "Gangsta's?" Or just like people becuase everyones a human being? Trye.

What has this world of people come to?

Damn streotypes.....
 
Let me add my imput. I'm half black/panamainian, and I act however I want too. Some people say I act white. Others say I act too black. While, according to some, I'm soooo spanish. I am whatever I am. I feel like Simon P. Caldwell Jr. III. I am no stereotype. Everyone feels that blacks are gansta. Everone wants to be ghetto. Do they know how it is? I've lived a few places. The ghetto is not as glamorous as rappers make it seem. It truly offends me when I see that.

I now live in a nice neighborhood. Not as quiet as I like, but good. I am a very gentle perdon, so loudness, unlike people THINK I should act, annoys me.
 
I'm sorry, but I make light of that as well. My friend calls me a pirate (panama joke) and I say he came from a banana boat (I'm not sure where he's from) cause we don't believe that race should separate us.
 
Racism is a huge problem today...but the worse thing about it is...is that its just getting worse and worse. I don't see how gangster pimp and even the "N" word came to be a good thing or even a erm...COMPLIMENT! Guys acting the stereotype black, saying there gangster, i'm a pimp, i'm ghetto, those terms, aren't even that nice!
 
At my school the "White guys" stay with the other "White Guys" and the other races, such as the "wogs" (as they like to call themselves) stay with their own race. No-one ever tries to act different to try and fit into another race or "group". Thats just the way it is at my school.
 
pfft, it's not as if we always called ourselves wogs - it's meant to be a derogative term.

Anywho, this sort race segregation should have stopped years ago. But in the school yard it makes sense I suppose. People become friends with those they share common interests with, and heritage is such a thing shared between many people.

It happens in my school to an extent, but you can't help but interact with your peers.

... omai, I've already posted in this thread like a week ago XDDD
 
pple should b able 2 act... however they want 2. I WISH THE RASCIUM WOULD STOP! i dont say that because im black, im not, but i do have sum very good friends who r.
 
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