The majority of my friends are black, we have the same views and attitudes, and even speak very simlar to eachother (in volcabulary and speech patterns, I'm not mocking their voices, hell no).
It's difficult to describe really, I just feel that I would be more myself if I had black skin.
Love how you give the same ansewers to two similar questions :)
It's like now you can see two alternate realities of a conversation unfold.
The fact that you as a white person blend in so well among your black friends is great. It's a lesson for all who think someones tone or behaviour is defined by their race. But if you now say you'd feel more like yourself if you were black it is still kind of racist. I'm really not trying to make you feel bad and I don't think you're a bad person or anything.
But what would you say if someone told a black guy that he wasn't realy black because he talks and behaves like a white person (Like some have said about Obama and other well spoken black people). I'm sure you see the racism in that.
If a black man talks and behaves like a stero-typical white man then no, that alone doesn't make him white. You can't just tell a person they are trans-ethnic because you think they behave more like a different race than their own. It's only if he himself identifies as a white person, when he becomes trans-ethnic.
No. What I meant is that if somebody identifies themself as another race then they are trans-ethnic. However just saying to someone "you act like *any race*, therefore you have to be one of them" is racist.
Is it normal to identify as a black male in this way?
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The majority of my friends are black, we have the same views and attitudes, and even speak very simlar to eachother (in volcabulary and speech patterns, I'm not mocking their voices, hell no).
It's difficult to describe really, I just feel that I would be more myself if I had black skin.
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Love how you give the same ansewers to two similar questions :)
It's like now you can see two alternate realities of a conversation unfold.
The fact that you as a white person blend in so well among your black friends is great. It's a lesson for all who think someones tone or behaviour is defined by their race. But if you now say you'd feel more like yourself if you were black it is still kind of racist. I'm really not trying to make you feel bad and I don't think you're a bad person or anything.
But what would you say if someone told a black guy that he wasn't realy black because he talks and behaves like a white person (Like some have said about Obama and other well spoken black people). I'm sure you see the racism in that.
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If a black man talks and behaves like a stero-typical white man then no, that alone doesn't make him white. You can't just tell a person they are trans-ethnic because you think they behave more like a different race than their own. It's only if he himself identifies as a white person, when he becomes trans-ethnic.
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So if the other guy judges you based on a stereotype he's a racist. But if you judge yourself based on the same stereotype you're trans-ethnic.
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No. What I meant is that if somebody identifies themself as another race then they are trans-ethnic. However just saying to someone "you act like *any race*, therefore you have to be one of them" is racist.