# What is your race? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 8, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666 "2011-04-08T15:13:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/21 "2011-04-08T19:38:57Z")
> [@dawson](#): > > Half Italian half Irish. Does that make me white? White as rice. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/22 "2011-04-08T19:45:48Z")
White and Native American. Sadly, I inherited the pale white skin genes. My white ancestors came from the Great White Scandanavian North. Like \*\*silenus \*\*, I don’t tan, I burn and freckle and then pass out from heat stroke. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/23 "2011-04-08T19:48:53Z")
White. Like really, super blindingly white. American, 28. ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/24 "2011-04-08T19:49:13Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > White as rice. Arborio rice at least. I guess I’m white then. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/25 "2011-04-08T19:55:20Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Dude, my ancestors came from places where the sun is regarded as something largely theoretical. If I was any whiter I’d glow. I don’t tan, I stroke. Heh. I say, “I don’t tan, I fade.” If only that were true. I burn _so_ easily. :mad: (\<- indicative of both the emotion and the condition) ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/26 "2011-04-08T20:28:31Z")
White. I actually have [one of these](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Population_registration_certificate_South_Africa_1988.jpg) to “prove” it. (Disclaimer: In case it’s not clear, I’m not proud of this or anything, I’m just mentioning it as an interesting historical artifact.) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/27 "2011-04-08T20:56:24Z")
cock-asian! Get it?? Yeah, I’m white. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/28 "2011-04-08T21:18:59Z")
My sister says I’m the reason they call our people white. Let’s just say picking out makeup is easy: I just look for the lightest shade they make. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/29 "2011-04-08T21:23:43Z")
There wasn’t an option for either _human_ or _I believe race to be an illusory concept based on superficialites that do not hold up under any biological examination_, so I voted _black_, as that is what persons who believe in race would call me. American, early 40s. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/30 "2011-04-08T21:26:18Z")
Why do you survey racial backgrounds, Mammalian Sub-Creature? [del]Mars will want to know![/del] ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/31 "2011-04-08T23:22:32Z")
White meat. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/32 "2011-04-08T23:29:51Z")
The 50 yard dash was always my best time. ---
**Author:** ![A.Gwilliam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@A.Gwilliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.Gwilliam)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/33 "2011-04-09T00:03:14Z")
White British. Also English! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/34 "2011-04-09T00:04:17Z")
I’m flesh colored. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/35 "2011-04-09T00:04:30Z")
Proudly white and Irish My better half is bi-racial and she identifies as both white and black. Our soon to be born child will be white in our eyes and can call himself whatever the heck he likes. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/36 "2011-04-09T00:27:04Z")
Western europeon mutt. German, English and who knows what else. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/37 "2011-04-09T03:33:07Z")
German. I thought I had some Irish ancestors but even they were Germans that fled Frederick the not so Great. I’m also Dutch and Scottish and have some native American ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/38 "2011-04-09T03:46:02Z")
Hmmmmm, the SDMB population is not all that racially diverse. Surprising. I wonder why. ---
**Author:** ![pinguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@pinguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinguin)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/39 "2011-04-09T03:53:54Z")
My race is **CHILEAN** and I don’t want to chose anything else. Please, add that option above. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666/40 "2011-04-09T04:14:46Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > Not seeing a category for leprechaun, I abstained. I think that would make us white. 😛 Other than the g-g-g-gandmother who was Cherokee, I’m an Irish-German-Polish mutt. Like **Brynda** , the lightest shade of makeup and sunscreen just shy of protecting from nuclear holocost suit my skin shade. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-race/577666.md?page=3)