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How Many Friends Do You Have Outside Your Own Race?

post #1 of 103
4/12/08 at 9:39pm
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It's 2008. How many friends do you have outside your own race?
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post #2 of 103
4/12/08 at 9:41pm
Does the person with the most win a prize?
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post #3 of 103
4/12/08 at 9:44pm
No, we're holding auditions for the CHUD version of "Rent".

Serious answer: friends: very few. Acquaintances and/or work pals: 3 or 4.
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post #4 of 103
4/12/08 at 9:53pm
I have five other-colored friends, isn't that just neat? Everybody gather round and clap at what a humanitarian motherfucker I am. Some are even black or arab, so I try to be extra nice to them.
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post #5 of 103
4/12/08 at 10:07pm
A good dozen or so. I made a few Egyptian and Asian friends while over seas, some of my best friends are black, and while not of another race, I'm also really close with this Swedish couple I'm living with right now.
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post #6 of 103
4/12/08 at 10:40pm
I have many. Magic: The Gathering is a universal language.
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post #7 of 103
4/12/08 at 10:54pm
I dated a Korean girl once.
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post #8 of 103
4/12/08 at 11:29pm
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Originally Posted by PoppySeeds View Post
I dated a Korean girl once.
Once.
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post #9 of 103
4/12/08 at 11:33pm
Okay, several times.

She could put her legs behind her head, how could I say no?

Although, the more I think about it, the label asian gymnast seems more and more racist. I'm sorry, Patrick.
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post #10 of 103
4/13/08 at 12:02am
Do Jews count?
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post #11 of 103
4/13/08 at 12:30am
I am an Asian magnet, though for some reason my grandfather acts like they're the italian's mortal enemies. 8! 8 Asians!
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post #12 of 103
4/13/08 at 12:32am
Whenever we're organized in alphabetical order at school, I'm always put next to a bunch of Korean dudes.
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post #13 of 103
4/13/08 at 1:35am
I'm surrounded by honkies.
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post #14 of 103
4/13/08 at 2:18am
None.

So I guess I'm a racist and shit.
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post #15 of 103
4/13/08 at 3:05am
Bah, I've got a whole crew of diverse folks. I've got my black friend, my Indian friend, my Russian friend, my gay friend, my Jewish friend and Doug.
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post #16 of 103
4/13/08 at 3:35am
How are Latinos broken up? Is a dark-skinned Puerto Rican "black" and a light-skinned Puerto Rican "white" and an in-between Puerto Rican "latino"?
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post #17 of 103
4/13/08 at 4:08am
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Originally Posted by PoppySeeds View Post
Okay, several times.

She could put her legs behind her head, how could I say no?
Big deal. I can do that. The important thing is, did she put her legs behind your head?
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post #18 of 103
4/13/08 at 5:22am
I hate humanity in general, so I don't even have friends within my own race, much less the human race. Howd'ya like that shit?
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post #19 of 103
4/13/08 at 5:23am
0....
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post #20 of 103
4/13/08 at 5:43am
Define friends.
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post #21 of 103
4/13/08 at 6:09am
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Originally Posted by felix natalya View Post
Define friends.
People you don't automatically assume will try to mug you?
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post #22 of 103
4/13/08 at 7:14am
Since I'm middle eastern, and don't know any other middle eastern people, I guess all my friends are outside my race.

What did I win?
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post #23 of 103
4/13/08 at 8:06am
With the exception of my current job, I've always worked with, and hung out with after, a pretty broad spectrum of friends from diverse backgrounds and races. Still hang out with them every month or so, depending when our schedules line up.

At my present job, however, I work with only 4 other people, 2 of whom are on site. One Christian, one Jewish, and I don't know what the crew in New Mexico is. All Caucasian.

My best friend is Jewish, and I'm Catholic (sorta lapsed). My wife is Methodist.

There! I've told you all I know!!! Now, let me GO!!!!! And stop trying to good cop/bad cop me!
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post #24 of 103
4/13/08 at 8:20am
About eight or so, off the top of my head. A mixture of black, latina and asian. Am I a good person now?
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post #25 of 103
4/13/08 at 9:12am
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
It's 2008. How many friends do you have outside your own race?
What, is there some kind of quota now?
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post #26 of 103
4/13/08 at 9:18am
Lots, but then again I'm a friendly kinda guy.
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post #27 of 103
4/13/08 at 11:05am
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
Since I'm middle eastern, and don't know any other middle eastern people, I guess all my friends are outside my race.

What did I win?
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post #28 of 103
4/13/08 at 12:36pm
My roommate dates a Chinese girl.


That's all I got.
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post #29 of 103
4/13/08 at 12:59pm
I don't have any friends.
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post #30 of 103
4/13/08 at 1:02pm
I'd like to buy the world a coke.
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post #31 of 103
4/13/08 at 3:14pm
Almost all of my friends are outside my race. Perks from being on a diverse college campus, I suppose. I'll hang with anyone as long as they're good people. It's fun having friends outside your race. I was a bridesmaid in my good friend's Indian wedding, and it was the most kickass ceremony I've ever seen. It looked like the end of Moulin Rouge. If I restricted myself to my own race, I never would have seen it.
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post #32 of 103
4/13/08 at 3:18pm
I know a Canadian dude.
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post #33 of 103
4/13/08 at 3:40pm
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Originally Posted by El Thain View Post
I don't have any friends.
Worry not. I'll be your friend! Like Cheetos?
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post #34 of 103
4/13/08 at 7:27pm
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Originally Posted by Eric Cordo View Post
I know a Canadian dude.
Me too!
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post #35 of 103
4/13/08 at 7:49pm
I was wondering do the Irish count for this?
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post #36 of 103
4/13/08 at 8:01pm
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Originally Posted by Justin Clark View Post
Only 20 points? What a gyp. You know how long it took me to unlock that?
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post #37 of 103
4/13/08 at 8:12pm
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Originally Posted by BubWilliams View Post
I was wondering do the Irish count for this?
We'll take the chinks and the niggers, but NOT the Irish!
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post #38 of 103
4/13/08 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL View Post
How are Latinos broken up? Is a dark-skinned Puerto Rican "black" and a light-skinned Puerto Rican "white" and an in-between Puerto Rican "latino"?
Good question - I'm half Colombian, half European, so either my wife and daughter aren't of my race, or they are.

And if I'm "Hispanic", then almost ALL my friends are outside my race; if I'm "white", then MOST of my friends are inside my race. Stood in the wedding of a half-Jew, have a black cousin, my wife was married to a half-Korean man, invited one fully Mexican woman, one half-black/half-white guy, one half-white/half-Japanese guy, and one half-black/half-Japanese guy to my wedding. At one of my jobs there are a boatload of Asians - one Chinaman and a bunch of Hmongs, a handful of black people, and one Indian woman - and I like 'em all and consider a few of them "friends." And I'd certainly fuck a hot woman of ANY race.

I dunno, just put me down for "zero"; question is too complicated.
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post #39 of 103
4/13/08 at 8:25pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
Only 20 points? What a gyp. You know how long it took me to unlock that?
For what it's worth, the one where you get through life without ever feeling so racially stilted or threatened that you have to count your non-ethnocentric friends up as separate or different from the others is worth 50.
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post #40 of 103
4/13/08 at 8:26pm
I think the question of what constitutes "race" has to come up here. I said before that I'm middle eastern, but the truth is that I'm half Assyrian and half Dutch. Where does that put me? A recent poll of American teens showed that a majority of them didn't feel that race was a factor in friendship or dating, and that they didn't understand why mixed marriage would even be an issue. On the other hand, I still run into this idea from the black people I know that if there's any black in you at all, you're black. And there was at least one of them that I wouldn't have known if she hadn't told me. Her skin was literally lighter than mine.

So just how finely are we splitting the hairs here?
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post #41 of 103
4/13/08 at 8:29pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
I think the question of what constitutes "race" has to come up here. I said before that I'm middle eastern, but the truth is that I'm half Assyrian and half Dutch. Where does that put me? A recent poll of American teens showed that a majority of them didn't feel that race was a factor in friendship or dating, and that they didn't understand why mixed marriage would even be an issue. On the other hand, I still run into this idea from the black people I know that if there's any black in you at all, you're black. And there was at least one of them that I wouldn't have known if she hadn't told me. Her skin was literally lighter than mine.

So just how finely are we splitting the hairs here?
What was the Nazi standard - one Jewish grandparent meant you were Jewish?
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post #42 of 103
4/13/08 at 8:30pm
I come from the school of thought that says, scientifically, we're all black. Some of our ancestors just liked caves and mountains more than others.
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post #43 of 103
4/14/08 at 2:09am
I'm a marathoner, but I'm married to a traithlete. The guy who sang at my wedding set a record in 440 relay. He was also a hell of a sprinter.
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post #44 of 103
4/14/08 at 3:09am
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None.

So I guess I'm a racist and shit.
Only if you're white.

Canadians count? Cuz I got a whole boatload of them.
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post #45 of 103
4/14/08 at 8:07am
Only two or three, I think, unless you count people I only know online. I've never really thought about it much.
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post #46 of 103
4/14/08 at 9:31am
My family qualifies as interracial! Go me!
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post #47 of 103
4/14/08 at 10:38am
Couldn't tell. Those white hoods & large tunics just don't let you see each other's skin, y'know?
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post #48 of 103
4/14/08 at 3:27pm
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Only if you're white.

Canadians count? Cuz I got a whole boatload of them.

Like a boatload of immigrants??
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post #49 of 103
4/14/08 at 3:42pm
My liquor cabinet is not racist.

Russian? Check
Canadian? Check
Irish? Check
Mexican? Check
Japanese? Check
Korean? Check
German? Check

I'll let other races into my life if they taste good.
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post #50 of 103
4/14/08 at 3:59pm
Chavez, you are my Latino friend! I need to get a picture with you a la Stephen Colbert and his friends of many ethnicities. Of course, you're also one of my filthy surrender monkey friends, but that's not as cool... And, yeah, the Final Solution rule was one Jewish grandparent = Jewish. But do we really want to let murderous fascists dictate our interpretation of ethnicity?

On a related note, according to some, I'm in an interracial marriage (or half-interracial, anyway), though I really don't think about it. We're both white, racists don't leer at us on the street. What amuses me, though, is how others react to it. Most people don't think much of Dave's Jewishness, but there are some people who either get excited or seem really uncomfortable. Upon learning that Dave is Jewish, a guest at one of our New Year's parties said something about always wanting to have a Jewish friend (?!). I've had friends pull me aside and ask, in a whisper, if Dave is "really" Jewish. I've also had a friend make vile, vile comments about Israel in his presence and get weirdly obsessed with whether or not I intend to convert.
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