As a European-Scandinavian-Native-American, I think they are all absurd labels.
I am just a simple American. Have been for a long long time. To put a label on me is silly.
Well, beside old fat red neck. I can relate to that.....
As a European-Scandinavian-Native-American, I think they are all absurd labels.
Why be so deliberately obtuse? I talked about both over this exchange, and clearly identified which one I was referring to. And you know it.So now you are talking about refugees? Because just a second ago you made it sound like you weren't talking about refugees, and when I used the word "we" it was in reference to "refugees."
I am just a simple American. Have been for a long long time. To put a label on me is silly.
Well, beside old fat red neck. I can relate to that.....
That's pretty much how I feel about it .So I'm going through the whole thread and reading a bunch of articles online......
The entire continent is volatile and a race war/drug war/power war is only a border away and always has been. Have these people been living in some kind of a utopia dome with no other contact? As though they had absolutely no warning that this would ever happen to them...ever. Hasn't the rest of the world been expecting this for a while now?
Why do we need to rescue them? Why should we care? Serious question because I don't know.
Even the whitest person isn’t white.
Eh. Farms, schmarms. I read on INGO that they’d be just fine because they have natural resources. Oh, and all those white farmers had it coming. Whiteness must have its throat cut. Whateverthehell “whiteness” is.Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters on 4 Mar: "All white people who are voting for the Democratic Alliance, who are angry with what we are going to do in Port Elizabeth...all of you can go to hell, we don't care about you...we are cutting the throat of whiteness."
After the land appropriation in Zimbabwe the economy tanked, farm production evaporated, unemployment hit 95%. Zimbabwe recently established a compensation committee, 18 years after expropriation to try and attract people back who can revive the economy (fat chance).
Expropriation will tank the farm economy, erase land values, devalue farm notes held by banks...unemploy almost everyone...and increase the SA essence of ****hole. Once again tribalism on the Dark Continent is living down to my expectations of it.
Eh. Farms, schmarms. I read on INGO that they’d be just fine because they have natural resources. Oh, and all those white farmers had it coming. Whiteness must have its throat cut. Whateverthehell “whiteness” is.
Eh. Farms, schmarms. I read on INGO that they’d be just fine because they have natural resources. Oh, and all those white farmers had it coming. Whiteness must have its throat cut. Whateverthehell “whiteness” is.
Personally, I think anything-American is absurd. It should just be American for all.
Why be so deliberately obtuse?
Personally, I think anything-American is absurd. It should just be American for all.
Why be so deliberately obtuse? I talked about both over this exchange, and clearly identified which one I was referring to. And you know it.
That's a fair position to have, but it's a hypocritical position to have when people only call such labels absurd, when it happens to be black people, or African-Americans, that employ the convention. I have yet to see an instance ever on INGO, where this hasn't been the case... despite people using other such labels freely to describe others, or when people are describing themselves and their various European-American identifications.
That's a fair position to have, but it's a hypocritical position to have when people only call such labels absurd, when it happens to be black people, or African-Americans, that employ the convention. I have yet to see an instance ever on INGO, where this hasn't been the case... despite people using other such labels freely to describe others, or when people are describing themselves and their various European-American identifications.
I suppose if you’re saying that leople go around saying their race is European-Ameican. Who does that? Seriously. All the people who’ve disagreed in this thread, how many use it themselves to describe their own race? I say I’m white, and I don’t even agree with that label. I’m light-skinned but I hold my hand up against something white, and there’s a lot of contrast still.
I suppose if you’re saying that leople go around saying their race is European-Ameican. Who does that? Seriously. All the people who’ve disagreed in this thread, how many use it themselves to describe their own race? I say I’m white, and I don’t even agree with that label. I’m light-skinned but I hold my hand up against something white, and there’s a lot of contrast still.
I suppose if you’re saying that leople go around saying their race is European-Ameican. Who does that? Seriously. All the people who’ve disagreed in this thread, how many use it themselves to describe their own race? I say I’m white, and I don’t even agree with that label. I’m light-skinned but I hold my hand up against something white, and there’s a lot of contrast still.
I have--for some time now--had the feeling that it's folk like me (a 45-55 male WASP) who are being overlooked for employment because of our age/demographic. This "stuff" is getting real old folks.
I'm standing in line to vote as I type this. A couple minutes ago, a frown-faced old WASP says to me, "This is the longest I've had to wait to vote in 39 years." Knowing full well she was complaining, I said in return, "I know! Isn't it great that so many people showed up to vote?" She just kind of glared.
You can tell they are WASPs if they were skiing by your house: