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attgig
12-10-2005, 06:53 PM
So, might be a random question (but i've talked about it amongst friends)

If you could be any race other than your own race...which one would you pick?


I'm asian, and I would want to be black.
I've always thought that black people had a connection... like, if a couple black guys see each other at the office or whatnot, they kinda do the head nod, and all of a sudden, they're buddies. Shrug.

kgsilvas
12-10-2005, 07:02 PM
Not sure, I've never thought about it. I'll ponder it and post later.

MikeD
12-10-2005, 07:06 PM
White. :D

Yeah, yeah I know...I'm still answering white.

gear02
12-10-2005, 07:58 PM
White. I think it would be interesting...

DarkFury
12-10-2005, 08:21 PM
So, might be a random question (but i've talked about it amongst friends)

If you could be any race other than your own race...which one would you pick?


I'm asian, and I would want to be black.
I've always thought that black people had a connection... like, if a couple black guys see each other at the office or whatnot, they kinda do the head nod, and all of a sudden, they're buddies. Shrug.
Wow...

Honestly, that is surprising... since most folks probably wouldn't want to go that route based off of the various societal stigmas and stereotypes.

I take that as a high compliment ATT. :D


As far as me... I couldn't see myself as anything other than what I am. That would be a choice that I couldn't change for myself. Too bad we just can't change the way society is instead. :D

oblongmelon
12-10-2005, 08:24 PM
I'd want to be a Chocolate lab. Does that count?

molecularfire
12-10-2005, 08:28 PM
I'd go with the black route too... after spending my life trying to get dates as an asian guy with small hands... I think it would be nice to be a black guy with big hands.

Mommypooh
12-10-2005, 09:51 PM
I will stay white, b/c I can't imagine being anything else.

Kevster
12-11-2005, 12:31 AM
Technically, I'm mixed-race (European/Native-American) and with everything I have learned about being Irish and being Native American, I can't really decide. Both cultures have been very open and welcoming to me.

brainsmile
12-11-2005, 01:04 AM
Asian?

Freelance Superhero
12-11-2005, 02:38 AM
if we're talking about hypotheticals here, i'm gonna stretch it a bit further and say i'd like to be black during the mid 1960's. despite the pain of the struggle, i would have loved to have participated in the civil rights movement.

bachviet
12-11-2005, 08:57 AM
I'd go with the black route too... after spending my life trying to get dates as an asian guy with small hands... I think it would be nice to be a black guy with big hands.
:laugh:

That's one good reason heh!

I would like to be black also.

PoorAvatar
12-11-2005, 09:04 AM
Bread, preferably white. I just love those bread jokes :)

ialsohaveadream
12-11-2005, 09:20 AM
I would probably just want to switch ethnicities for a while more than race.

nickel
12-11-2005, 10:56 AM
i wouldn't want to switch for good, but i'd like to walk in the shoes of any other given race to see how it felt.

ray
12-11-2005, 11:51 AM
Gnome.

cheapie
12-11-2005, 04:20 PM
either black or native american. both have more of a connection to their heritage and community than most whites.


of course, white is so all-encompassing that we don't really have a "white" shared history. you can be white and be from ireland or russia. not much of a shared heritage there.

Grimm
12-11-2005, 05:51 PM
Gnome.
Elf. That way I could live at the North Pole and make toys and it would be like Christmas every day. :santa:

Cheesypuff
12-11-2005, 05:51 PM
I would like to beek Greek....the culture of greek people has always facinated me.

Freelance Superhero
12-11-2005, 05:53 PM
Elf. That way I could live at the North Pole and make toys and it would be like Christmas every day. :santa:
this casts a shadow of doubt upon your reputation as 100% pure evil... :hmm:

Grimm
12-11-2005, 06:00 PM
this casts a shadow of doubt upon your reputation as 100% pure evil... :hmm:
It's all about infiltration.... Mwahahahahahaha!!!!

Darn, no Grinch smiley... how about tom equal time here in the smiley department for us evil folk?!?

hoey222
12-11-2005, 06:28 PM
...human......

Grimm
12-11-2005, 06:39 PM
...human......
So, if you're not human now, what race are you?

KIISQueen
12-11-2005, 07:01 PM
Latina Baby

Burzhui
12-11-2005, 07:23 PM
i'm good where i am

Bires
12-11-2005, 08:15 PM
Eskimoe / Inuit.

Now THAT's a minority! Imagine the scholarships. :laugh:

ialsohaveadream
12-11-2005, 08:31 PM
Elf. That way I could live at the North Pole and make toys and it would be like Christmas every day. :santa:
Plus, you'd get a +1 bonus to dexterity.

Freelance Superhero
12-11-2005, 09:03 PM
Eskimoe / Inuit.

Now THAT's a minority! Imagine the scholarships. :laugh:yeah, i knew a guy in high school who was 1/16th native american, and he ended up milking that for scholarships all through college and med school at columbia. he was such a tool, too...

le_stick
12-11-2005, 10:37 PM
Ferrengi <- sp
females do not wear clothes....

ShawnLee
12-12-2005, 01:55 AM
I'm with everyone who can't imagine themselves differently. I'm happy being Korean and I'm uber-grateful that my parents moved here and raised me as an American. That, or they raised me and I ended up being American...

That said, I'm with IAHAD, switching around races could be fun.

Black might be fun because I'd be able to hang out in the inner city without getting stared at or look like I'm there to buy drugs, I could hit on a black chick without the world's assumptions to deal with, and I'd have the soul factor of being able to be cool without having to prove street cred.

White, eh, people assume I'm whitewashed as is. I have cowboy boots and listen to country music, I'm an NRA member and a gun-owner and have a Bush/Cheney '04 sticker on my car, I occasionally drop "y'all" into my speech, so I doubt it'd be worth it to change over since people make the assumption about me anyways. Besides, it's fun to drive through podunk middle America and be stared at by the local Amish-typed as you walk into a McDonald's. I'd miss that if I were white.

Being hispanic might be fun if only to not have to tell the Mexican guys behind the counter that when they talk about me, I understand Spanish. The chino gordo knows what you're saying, buddy. Haha.

And so on and so forth.

PoorAvatar
12-12-2005, 06:41 AM
Wonder what it would be like no more. They just announced that Ice Cube has a reality show coming out on FX where you can actually try it. ATT, you could have pitched this show.

InfiniteNothing
12-12-2005, 09:52 AM
Is Tiger Woods a race?

DarkFury
12-12-2005, 09:58 AM
Is Tiger Woods a race?
He's Black...

We got him in the Racial Draft per Dave Chappelle. :D

esme
12-12-2005, 11:56 AM
i'd like to be asian when i get my nails done that way i know what those girls are saying ....(not sure if they're chinese/vietnamese)

i heard that they talk about everyone there .....damn!

Merlin
12-12-2005, 12:28 PM
A mer-man

zenbooty
12-12-2005, 12:35 PM
Storm Giant

bachviet
12-12-2005, 12:59 PM
i'd like to be asian when i get my nails done that way i know what those girls are saying ....(not sure if they're chinese/vietnamese)

i heard that they talk about everyone there .....damn!
Asian women especially Vietnameses and Chineses are best at gossip.

attgig
12-12-2005, 01:06 PM
awww man! they stole my idea! lol.


and Wu-Tang with us gooks.

DaFunkyUnit
12-19-2005, 11:39 PM
Protoss

gaemul
12-20-2005, 12:12 AM
white

RIVERWIDOW
12-20-2005, 10:47 AM
Indy 500. I could run Little E around my track a few times.8 is great

TofuNinja
12-20-2005, 12:13 PM
I'd be an Elf because Elvish females tend to be hot.

molecularfire
12-20-2005, 12:49 PM
Asian women especially Vietnameses and Chineses are best at gossip.
Man, racist, sexist, and accurate all in one shot. :cheers:

cheapie
12-20-2005, 12:52 PM
Indy 500. I could run Little E around my track a few times.8 is great


'cept dale doesn't race the indy 500. :heh:

mebbe the brickyard 400?

riskykougra
12-20-2005, 01:36 PM
Wow...




As far as me... I couldn't see myself as anything other than what I am. That would be a choice that I couldn't change for myself. Too bad we just can't change the way society is instead. :D

Love this answer and totally agree.

sourdough
12-20-2005, 01:40 PM
I guess being a pumpernickel loaf might be interesting. Probably without the Caraway though - I wouldn't want to the seedy type.

nickel
12-20-2005, 01:42 PM
Is Tiger Woods a race?
yes.


the human race.

WhiskeyPapa
12-20-2005, 02:06 PM
I seriously want to be Italian. But I suppose that's not technically a race...

DaFunkyUnit
12-20-2005, 06:23 PM
Is Tiger Woods a race?

I've always wanted to say this....


For shizzle.