# Does anyone feel uneasy conversing with white people? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 24, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036 "2015-07-24T07:52:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HandsomeGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@HandsomeGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HandsomeGorilla)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/1 "2015-07-24T07:52:03Z")
Throughout my whole life I’ve noticed that white people have really high social intelligence and social skills (especially WASPs) compared to other races. Whenever I talk to them I feel stupid for some reason. Can anyone of another race share their experiences and whether they’ve felt this way? ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/2 "2015-07-24T07:57:55Z")
You what ? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/3 "2015-07-24T10:00:16Z")
If they have such great social skills, wouldn’t they be good at putting you at ease? ---
**Author:** ![HandsomeGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@HandsomeGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HandsomeGorilla)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/4 "2015-07-24T10:06:45Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > If they have such great social skills, wouldn’t they be good at putting you at ease? Not necessarily, it depends on their personality. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/5 "2015-07-24T10:53:22Z")
dafuq? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/6 "2015-07-24T11:16:24Z")
I give it a three out of ten. Not as subtle or clever as it tries to be, a little more time spent on composition could have produced a more inciteful opening post. ---
**Author:** ![Construct](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Construct](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Construct)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/7 "2015-07-24T11:36:46Z")
I feel like the Dope becomes more of a group therapy session with every passing day. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/8 "2015-07-24T12:07:34Z")
Every time I start talking to myself in the car or the shower I make myself feel so self conscious and inferior I shut down entirely and have to fight back the tears. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/9 "2015-07-24T12:18:48Z")
OMG!! A talking gorilla! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/10 "2015-07-24T12:51:29Z")
Username of “Handsome Gorilla” claiming to be a nonwhite person asking why white people are superior? You forgot the “88” on the end of your name. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/11 "2015-07-24T13:07:53Z")
Albinos terrify me. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/12 "2015-07-24T13:29:09Z")
I didn’t before ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/13 "2015-07-24T13:31:04Z")
My inner monologue scares the shit out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/14 "2015-07-24T13:32:16Z")
See, white folk be all conversin’ like this But other folk be all conversin’ like _this_. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/15 "2015-07-24T13:37:42Z")
> [@HandsomeGorilla](#): > > Whenever I talk to them I feel stupid for some reason. I fixed this for you, to clarify your position. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/16 "2015-07-24T14:40:51Z")
-\_- ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/17 "2015-07-24T14:42:57Z")
I bet all white people look the same to him. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/18 "2015-07-24T14:54:49Z")
VERY uneasy when I talk to white people. We are SO damn lame. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/19 "2015-07-24T15:14:03Z")
Aren’t you the really ugly guy? Nobody else experiences life the same way you do. You are all alone. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036/20 "2015-07-24T15:32:59Z")
> [@HandsomeGorilla](#): > > Throughout my whole life I’ve noticed that white people have really high social intelligence and social skills (especially WASPs) compared to other races. Whenever I talk to them I feel stupid for some reason. > > Can anyone of another race share their experiences and whether they’ve felt this way? I jus came in to say I agrees with you one hunnerd percent. My family of white people wasps is some of the greatest socially inteligent and socially skilled people I have ever met. [Cousin Delbert](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5300d794e4b05db46b656528/t/54b5ab84e4b07b4a7d008a73/1421192073922/) could sweet talk meat off a cow. [Aunt Tilly](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GYVycINWV5Q/hqdefault.jpg) jus oozes smarts, and I know she makes me feel dumb each time I’m around her. And I’m as white as she is! You know [Uncle Jerry and his neighbor Dean](http://images.rapgenius.com/344f27682ffa55ec272e6894963b2577.488x352x1.jpg) ain’t never been to school past the sixth grade, but they are cooler than three chickens in a Dodge Charger, I tell you what. And social stuff? I aint’ never seen any two guys post more cool stuff on the facebook than these two. And [mama](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6231/1475/320/White_Trash_Lisa.0.jpg)? She jus really knows how to put fellers at ease. I dare you to find someone who can carry on a more intelligent conversation after 12 whiskey sours than her. A real classy social lady if ever there was one. So I can’t help but agree with the OP. We white folks are just high intelligent folks with a real good dash of social stuff to boot. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-uneasy-conversing-with-white-people/726036.md?page=2)