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Guardian
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 11:41
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Just answer the questions. It's not like we can track them. Nalyd is sorry if he forgot anyone. [ Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:41: Message edited by: Nalyd The Dead ] Poll Information This poll contains 3 question(s). 48 user(s) have voted. You may not view the results of this poll without voting. function launch_voter () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=vote;pollid=vvWHtDYhiHua"); return true; } // end launch_voter function launch_viewer () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=view;pollid=vvWHtDYhiHua"); return true; } // end launch_viewer function launch_window (url) { preview = window.open( url, "preview", "width=550,height=300,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status,menubar=no,scrollbars,resizable,copyhistory=no" ); window.preview.focus(); return preview; } // end launch_window   -------------------- May the fires of Undeath burn in your soul, and consume it. Posts: 1636 | Registered: Wednesday, January 5 2005 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 11:48
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How the hell are Lebanese and Chinese racial categories? -------------------- "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." --Albert Einstein -------------------- Posts: 536 | Registered: Sunday, September 7 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 12:17
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What made you think Lebanese? (did you just pluck that idea out of the air?) Instead of Chinese, say Asian. You can't tell the difference. [ Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:19: Message edited by: Leftover Sauerkraut ] -------------------- "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 "But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip. Posts: 152 | Registered: Monday, November 6 2006 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 12:42
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quote:If you said that in Korea, Japan or Tibet (well, especially Tibet) you'd get punched in the face. :P (Although the point is valid, Asian is the proper term here.) [ Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:44: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 14:27
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It's not hard to tell them apart unless you haven't seen a lot of Asian people. I can pretty much tell Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and Indonesians apart by sight now, in the same way that you could probably tell a German from a Belgian or Austrian by sight. [ Saturday, March 17, 2007 14:29: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 14:34
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Lebanese?!? Nalyd, I know you're young, but haven't you encountered typical racial categories on standardized tests? Or the internet? Or somewhere? Seriously, where do you live that "Lebanese" and "Chinese" would be called races? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 14:36
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Huzzah for demographic surveys. How is this controversial (aside from racial choice)? -------------------- The Silent Assassin is Other, Other, and Vlish, for those interested. -------------------- -Lenar Labs What's Your Destiny? Ushmushmeifa: Lenar's power is almighty and ineffable. All hail lord Noric, god of... well, something important, I'm sure. Posts: 735 | Registered: Monday, January 16 2006 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 14:49
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I'll tell you what the controversy is. Three people voted that they were vlish, but I don't remember giving vlish the right to vote. -------------------- You lose. Posts: 2156 | Registered: Thursday, August 24 2006 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 19:31
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How about Hispanic? Yes, I know it's not a race anymore, but it's still pretty important. —Alorael, who is not a Lebanese Baha'i vlish. That's all he's saying. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 20:17
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Delicious Vlish is slowly infiltrating vlish into our membership. It'll make his take over much easier. Aran starts to rethink his plans. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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...b10010b...
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 21:15
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quote:Quite possibly Australia; Lebanese are pretty much the official whipping-boy minority over here. Anyone with other than lily-white skin who's seen committing a crime is invariably described as "of Lebanese appearance". -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 22:50
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quote:Yes, Koreans, at least they used to, don't really like Japanese due to Japan invading Korea several times, the last time being about just before WW2. And to add to it, isn't most of Russia in Asia as well? [ Saturday, March 17, 2007 22:52: Message edited by: E=MC Hammered ] -------------------- When you think you can't get any lower in life and hit rock bottom, God hands you a shovel. Why should I say somthin intelligent when idiots like you make me look intelligent in the first place. Posts: 615 | Registered: Friday, May 3 2002 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 23:12
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In general, Russians who live in Asia are no more Asian than Americans who live in the United States are Native American. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Sunday, March 18 2007 00:28
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quote:Try telling that to Euro-reactionaries. :P It is seriously a part of the political consciousness of every right-winger west of the Don that Russia isn't really European. One of the big appeals of the EU as a social project to European conservatives is that it allows them to attempt to reconstruct the meaning of 'Europe' as a cultural-geographic signifier, gerrymandering out the Balkans and Turkey and Russia and throwing in Israel and what's left of the colonies. They're ignorant jerks, obviously, but it's an important kind of ignorance. I think calling the author of this poll a fool would be basically redundant at this point, but allow me to point out what nobody else so far has: there's no way to adequately provide for 'Religion', because either you rely on self-identification and get a thousand answers or rely on trait-identification and wind up with a thousand well-organized and largely incorrect answers. A lot of Protestants don't really think Catholics are Christian, and quite a few Catholics don't think their schismatic bretheren are Christian either. Each of the big two branches of Islam thinks of the other as at best heretical and at worst basically pagan. Just because you don't understand the difference between the two (which various Administration figures, amazingly, have copped to since invading a goddamn fissure point between the two groups!) doesn't mean the difference doesn't exist and isn't very real to the people involved. Buddhism is divided in partes tres, and I couldn't even name them - but the theological and political dispute that division engenders is very alive, even though the population center for Buddhism, China, isn't even officially religious any longer. Race, sex, and religion have only one thing in common: they are a compromise between how you identify you and how others identify you. Transvestites take on characteristics of the other sex temporarily for whatever reason; transsexuals intend to change physical sex, and the 'genderqueer' (if that is the appropriate term) reject the rigidity of gender altogether. 'Male/female' is a dumb distinction and shouldn't be made as firmly as it is. Lumping religion into 5, 10, or 100 categories is losing out on a lot, and ignores at the very least how others would regard someone. (A known and active Catholic who claims to be Shinto and knows absolutely nothing about Shintoism or even Japan could only be taken so seriously.) Race is meaningless; it carries only the meaning we wish for it to. The Amhara in Ethiopia, for instance, consider themselves the only truly white people on earth: they think of Europeans as red and their Tigray and other neighbors as black. We regard them as black or some kind of brown or yellow. We say 'Chinese' and it means something to us, but there are Han Chinese who do not use the Chinese script or speak Mandarin and there are those who speak Mandarin as a first language (even before the PROC made it official) and are not Han in the least. Except as far as it concerns the inhabitants of China's political boundaries, the term 'Chinese' only carries meaning because something comes to our mind when we think about it. To someone in China, it would be largely meaningless except in that border-related sense I mentioned, which includes large numbers of Monglians, Vietnamese, and muslim Turkmens, along with dozens of ethnicities we regard as 'Chinese' along with the Han. Labels suck. They should be left to experts, if they're touched at all, and whenever anyone deals with them they should be understood as completely and utterly arbitrary. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Sunday, March 18 2007 05:10
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Whoa. Alec just made a reasonable post. Maybe they really have swapped brains. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Sunday, March 18 2007 18:47
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I was looking for something like "Latino/Hispanic". I am not exactly white, nor black either, so... In the end, I voted Vlish. -------------------- "Inspiration comes from hard work" -Charles Baudelaire. Posts: 292 | Registered: Sunday, November 23 2003 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, March 18 2007 22:46
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quote:WTF? Vlish was under gender, not race. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Monday, March 19 2007 03:24
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For the record, it should have been a race. Don't Vlish have sexes? oooh a palindrome :P -------------------- ??? ?????? ???? ????? Posts: 883 | Registered: Wednesday, October 19 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, March 19 2007 04:46
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... evah hsilV ... huh? Oh wait. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Monday, March 19 2007 14:30
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Judging how fast the Mk II poll went, Imban should be appearing any minute now. -------------------- You Shall Die Laughing: http://www.worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted The Roost: www.roost01.proboards104.com. Birds of a feather flock together. Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Monday, March 19 2007 15:53
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This thread and its creator should be found and shot on sight for complete incompetance. EDIT: Well I'm sort of kidding… :P [ Monday, March 19, 2007 15:54: Message edited by: Nemesis. ] -------------------- Do not provoke the turtles. They do not like being provoked. -Lenar My website: Nemesis' Refuge Posts: 743 | Registered: Friday, September 29 2006 07:00 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, March 19 2007 16:09
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quote:This is true if you are talking about ethnic Russians (descendants of Eastern Slavic tribes). However, they are only a part of Russian population, a rather small part in many areas. Russia is a multi-ethnic country with many different population groups. Think of it as something half-way between EU (whose parts have very little in common) and USA (where everybody is "American"). -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Monday, March 19 2007 16:51
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quote:Wow. Even I wouldn't go beyond hassling them verbally. You want to shoot them? -------------------- You Shall Die Laughing: http://www.worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted The Roost: www.roost01.proboards104.com. Birds of a feather flock together. Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Monday, March 19 2007 17:07
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quote: quote: -------------------- Do not provoke the turtles. They do not like being provoked. -Lenar My website: Nemesis' Refuge Posts: 743 | Registered: Friday, September 29 2006 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Monday, March 19 2007 17:08
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The "sort of" snagged my attention. -------------------- You Shall Die Laughing: http://www.worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted The Roost: www.roost01.proboards104.com. Birds of a feather flock together. Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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