Drachmaland Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 There are times I get the feeling that half of TWP is either from, in, or in some way connected to Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Badger Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Only the important people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drachmaland Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Then it is imperative that I too move to Texas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hariko Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 States by Population: 1. California 2. Texas 3. New York States by Size: 1. Alaska 2. Texas 3. California Texas, always getting silver. North Pacific Spy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elegarth Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Texas, always getting silver. <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 LOL! Hariko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietdad Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Born American of parents born in America, but all the Grandparents are immigrants. Paternal Grandparents born in the Rhine Valley of Germany and actually met at Ellis Island as they immigrated in the mid 1920s. Maternal Grandparents both called themselves Sicilian. Grandfather born in Sicily but Materenal Grandmother born in Belfast and immigrated to the US when she was 16. Her parents where born in Sicily and were on there way to the US but ended up in Belfast for 17yrs making the money to get here. So I've ALWAYS have been told I was half German and half Sicilian (you did NOT call yourself Italian in this house), however Grandma always called herself English/British. As such I grew up speaking fluent English, Italian and German. Still understand Italian and German when I here it, but it's an effort now to speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plagentine Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. Both parents are Serbian and have been for several countable generations back. Might have just a tiny bit of russian and german, but basically that would be a generations and generations....and generations ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hariko Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 The racial and ethnic make-up of this thread has been put into chart format. White ethnicities are blue, Asian green, and African red. 77% of the people surveyed are white, 17% are mixed, and 6% are Asian. 80% of the ethnicities claimed are white, 15% are Asian, and 5% are African. Compared to the US, this thread would overrepresent whites and Asians while underrepresenting blacks. Zogradia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consular Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 I think you have a very broad definition of "white". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hariko Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 Define white, then. How are the race categories used in Census 2000 defined? “White” refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicated their race or races as “White” or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish. “Black or African American” refers to people having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicated their race or races as “Black, African Am., or Negro,” or wrote in entries such as African American, Afro American, Nigerian, or Haitian. “American Indian and Alaska Native” refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. It includes people who indicated their race or races by marking this category or writing in their principal or enrolled tribe, such as Rosebud Sioux, Chippewa, or Navajo. “Asian” refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. It includes people who indicated their race or races as “Asian Indian,” “Chinese,” “Filipino,” “Korean,” “Japanese,” “Vietnamese,” or “Other Asian,” or wrote in entries such as Burmese, Hmong, Pakistani, or Thai. “Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander” refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. It includes people who indicated their race or races as “Native Hawaiian,” “Guamanian or Chamorro,” “Samoan,” or “Other Pacific Islander,” or wrote in entries such as Tahitian, Mariana Islander, or Chuukese. “Some other race” was included in Census 2000 for respondents who were unable to identify with the five Office of Management and Budget race categories. Respondents who provided write-in entries such as Moroccan, South African, Belizean, or a Hispanic origin (for example, Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban) are included in the Some other race category. Source: http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/cenbr01-1.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedy Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 The problem with every census is that in every country they have different criteria and definitions, so what's understood in the USA facts and figures may make no logical sense to a French person for example, who may quite properly question the USA criteria and definitions - even from a USA point-of-view! Consular 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hariko Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 I'm not really sure if there is a more specific way to define white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consular Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Never mind the fact that "white" isn't even an ethnicity. It's a skin colour...? What's the point of dividing people by skin colour? It's not indicative of culture or beliefs or practice or anything at all really. Why on earth would "white" include middle easterners anyway. They are neither white by skin colour nor "white" culturally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zogradia Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I was puzzled by that, too, given how different Jews, Arabs and N. Africans are from Europeans. Either way, it was all made up by some guy centuries ago going by essentially his opinion, I don't even consider myself "white", so much as "European-American". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consular Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Our census data here definitely does not list people as white. It makes no attempt to categorise by skin colour actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Pacific Spy Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Our census data here definitely does not list people as white. It makes no attempt to categorise by skin colour actually. NZ Pakeha/European descent? I'm pretty sure that is the PC way of attempting to categorise by skin colour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consular Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Pretty much the definition of "New Zealander", because we don't feel self conscious enough as a nation to classify people as that. So we call them NZ Europeans. I suppose that could be seen as colour based given it's separate from Maori, but I see it more as a cultural thing. If we were going for skin colour we wouldn't give the other ethnic options like South African, German, etc North Pacific Spy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthCaucasus1 Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I am Colombian-American. Live In America in Jacksonville Florida! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poo Dynasty Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 75% Irish and 25% Ashkenazi Jewish. I live in the fringes of the US and American society, both literally and figuratively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TransFlorida Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Im 98% Israeli Jewish and 2%Russian and even though my profile says location is florida, im not in florida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langburn Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Caucasian Australian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkdaddy Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 I'm a black dude and US citizen. I dislike the term African-America sounds really technical and I'm not Africa and no one in ancestry has been in Africa for centuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedy Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 I'm a foreigner born and bred! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adorable Davelands Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 American born and raised! My father's side is easy. Welsh ancestry but since the family came over on the Mayflower it's definitely ancestry. Mother's side is a little more complicated. A mix of central and eastern European nationalities, mostly Italian and Romanian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kastros Drakan Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 I'm half white and half Native American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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