Minorities?

[Shinmaru]

Yeah, I've run into my fair share of stuff like that. You always get the random idiot that thinks that Mexicans are stupid and lazy...though I must admit that I'm a little lazy, but that's just me...it's part of my psychology, I guess...I'm not really the person that people should assume as the model of a race, if you know what I mean.

[Semjaza]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Manic [/i]
[B]Most anime fans that I've met IRL were either Caucasian or Asian. I don't meet very many African-American anime fans, except for online. Apparently we exist, but I've only met one IRL, and I'm related to him.[/B][/QUOTE]

That's really surprising, mostly because at my college it seems there are a large amount of black males that are into anime. More so than any other race in the school from my experience.

[Chaos]

I think I read somewhere that 84% of the people in America belong to a minority.

And I happen to be everything except Asian. And Swedish. I have some South African heritage since my family has lived here in New Orleans since 1827, and directly from my great grandparents I have Creole, Cajun, French, German, British, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and somewhere lost in there Apache. From my grandparents I have Canadian, more French and German, Spainish [as in Spain], almost all forms of Hispanic, like .2% of Egyptian, some Italian, some Greek, etc. and my grandfather's half cousin was Middle Eastern, and my parents were mostly French, Cajun, German, and Polish [with hints of what I have thanks to my grandparents].

So there you go. Not the biggest anime fan around, but I'm one of the most ethnically diversed person you'll ever know.

[Cora Jane 2]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Juuthena [/i]
[B][color=ff00cc] [size=1]I'm just plain old 100% Korean. Nothing too special about it. Though, people always seem to mistake me for Chinese at the bus stop. I always get the occasional old guy coming up to me and asking me for directions in Chinese. oo;;[/color] [/size] [/B][/QUOTE]

[font=arial][size=1]YAY for Juu!! I as well, am 100% Korean, though raised in the States all my life. I tend to be asked if I am Chinese as well, and that is kind of fun. Also once in a great while, when I get a really dark tan I get asked if I am Hispanic. I just tell them to look at my eyes, and they are like, "Woah, you're Asian!"[/font][/size]

[DuoMax]

I'm half Latino and half mixed Eastern European. plus a litl Native American in there somewhere.

[(<AA>)]

I'm just plain old African, no american, just african. I won't bother to tell you from where exactly, there's no way anyone knows it...

[Genkai]

() , Try me. Chances are, if it's in northern africa, I've heard of it. I was fascinated with EVERYTHING in Africa between 1st and 6th grade,....

Me? I'm sort of like a mutt. I'm at least 30% Puerto Rican, though look whiter than if I crawled out from under a mall in Nebraska... Okay, not quite that white... In fact, I'm darker than most white people.. But the truth is, my roots are in Iceland, Ireland, AND Italy... ICELAND?!?!?! Yeah.

[Rhys Mayiessen]

[color=skyblue]AND I AM CANADIAN! Ahahahahahahahahahahah! Okay that was a lame joke and the only people who would get it would be other canadains. Anyways I'm white...though sometimes I really don't want to be considering all the things we've done to other races in the past-__- So yeah right where I am I'm a minority but I guess not here...[/color]

[(<AA>)]

Ok, I'm from Eritrea, Genkai. You know Americans, are in all actuality, a minority. They imagrated from Europe. But Since they irradicated(Sp?) the Native americans, and renamed the country, they are now a majority.
PS= I'm glad as hell OB is back. :):):):)

[Manic Webb]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Semjaza Azazel [/i]
[B]That's really surprising, mostly because at my college it seems there are a large amount of black males that are into anime. More so than any other race in the school from my experience. [/B][/QUOTE]
I guess it's just the town I live in. The majority of my town is made up of people of Hispanic and East Asian origin. Half of the black people I went to high school with didn't even live here, and you could count the anime fans among them with one hand. And when I started college in January, I barely talked to anybody and I don't know if [i]anybody[/i] I talked to (of any race) was an anime fan. So all black anime fans I know, I've met online.

[James]

[color=#335062]Hm, discussions about people's backgrounds are very interesting. There's always a lot to learn.

My background is pretty European-centric I guess. My parents and grandparents are all from Australia, except for one -- my grandfather on my mother's side is Welsh. A large group of people on that side are from Ireland, some further back are from Germany and my great aunt is Japanese. So basically, I can't list ten billion countries in my family history, though I probably could if I went back far enough. I don't like getting into the whole "3% this and 5% that", because I think it's a bit silly. lol

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[Manic Webb]

There's something I've been wondering about.

When there's a black person of African origin in the US, we call them African-American. What do you call a black person of African origin in, say, the UK? And are black Canadians still called African-American, because Canada is still in North America?

[G.D. Ryoko]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Manic [/i]
[B]There's something I've been wondering about.

When there's a black person of African origin in the US, we call them African-American. What do you call a black person of African origin in, say, the UK? And are black Canadians still called African-American, because Canada is still in North America? [/B][/QUOTE]

[COLOR=blue]That always bothered me too. Kurama-Fiend and I always joke about things like that and call them Afro-Canadian but don`t listen to us. [/COLOR]