Is it ok to lie about my ethnicity?
For the rest of my life, when I leave high school as a fresh start, I am planning to say I am irish. Its just that, I love Irish culture, I can speak Irish (gaelic) and 2 of the several Elven languages. I am really fascinated by Fairies, elves and the sort, most tales of the Fae originate in ireland, as most of you would likely know. So, since I feel that i belong there, as hard as this is to explain, and how much ive expressed I love there culture, is it ok to say im Irish for the rest of my life after high school? I am 15 by the way and my name is Emma Dawson. Urgh, boring name I know, i plan on changing my name to a mystical beautiful name through deed poll aswel, I like the name Elvia ??? ill look up a common irish second name. Can I just leave my past behind and embrace saying that im irish, i know how obsessed i sound, but i really do feel irish on the inside. I made up Elvia myself but perhaps its a name somewhere. ^_^ thank you for the help and advise. Quick note: I am posting this question in cateogires I feel open minded, I will only be posting this about 3 times. Please dont hate on me, this is my personal choice and im just asking your opinion on this and what I should do.
Can you guess my ethnicity?
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff34/thisiszoya/DSC05141.jpg A lot of people confuse for me being different ethnicities. So I just want to see what the majority of people think I am. and they can never guess my age. After you have guessed what ethnicity I am. click my icon thing and read my About me in my yahoo answers profile thing. :D this should be interesting.
Hierarchy of Races/Ethnicity??? Read for details?
I kinda have two lists. Better economically/better education: Asian White Middle Eastern/Arab African American Hispanic/Latino Native American Most respected/treated the best: White Asian African American Native American Hispanic/Latino Middle Eastern/Arab
What is your ethnicity if you are an Arab?
Given being raised Moroccan in America (USA), I've found much confusion in this topic.Whenever I've told Americans that I speak Arabic, they immediately jump to Middle Eastern stereotypes and countries, completely skipping North Africa.Whenever I've told Middle Eastern Arabs/speakers of Arabic that I am Moroccan, they speak to me in their ethnic dialect until we very quickly realize that our dialects aren't mutually intelligible. (Moreso I understand them a bit more than they understand me).Another main point to this would be that many people might not be aware of the ethnic divisions within Arabic-speaking countries. I will gladly acknowledge my Amazigh/”Berber" roots (after all, we Moroccans don't speak and look differently solely because we want to). If I actually spoke Tamazight, and had parents/family that did, I suppose my world view would be even more devisive in that I would be more connected to my native roots.Some might say that Arabic derived into multiple dialects-turned-languages similarly to Vulgar Latin and the Romance languages.And that's just language. The many other points of culture also distinguish us as groups of people further.Food for one. Multiple semolina-enhanced breads, sweet mint tea, chicken pies, and much more. (And many French pastries as well). Can't say I have much personal cultural context when some one brings up bulgur, grape leaves, samosas (too some extent), hummus, falafel, or shawarma, to name a few.Religion is also potentially a point, but let's leave that to the Lord. (Salam, brothers and sisters).
Eastenders ethnicity essay - read through it and give opinion?
You need to go back to the first couple of years of Eastenders - apart from a token black it was as though it was still "cheerful, chirpy cockneys down the Mile End Road" - just a phony and artificial as Corrie. In fact both programs got hijacked by a new generation of TV writer and producer trying to make them "relevant" so suddenly staid old Ken Barlow became the stud of Corrie and changed careers with ease and in Eastenders various poorly drawn, exaggerated stereotypes appeared. They have both failed in their prime directive of holding a mirror to today's Britain, they have turned into downmarket "Dallas" and "Dynasty" and hold their audience only by increasing shock tactics; an abortion, a love affair, murder, incest. How long before aliens kidnap somebody outside the Queen Vic?
Has anyone read "Unraveling the Knots of Ethnicity" by Arnold Azurin?
can somebody help me? I barely understand the essay because of the incomprehensible english words. XD Please, pretty please ! Can someone detail out the point of the essay ?
I had just read the definition of ethnicity it says that it is cultural so does that mean you can pick your own ethnicity by learning the language?
That’s a long standing debate. After WWI there was a push to allow for every group in Europe to have their own nation, based on the idea of ethnicity. Of course, that raised the question “what is an ethnicity?” Was it a group of people speaking the same language? (That was very much a western European view) was it religion? (That’s how the Ottoman Empire classified people or “nations.”) Or just any groupAnd what about genetics/ancestry? All humans are well over 99% the same genetically (and given the verities that humans come in that little bit of difference can count for a lot to the eye).The historian Herodotus defined the Hellenes (Greeks) as “people of the same stock and same speech,” who “worship the same gods and keep the same customs.” Basically that means to be a Greek you had to (1) Have Greece ancestors (2) Speak Greek (3) Follow the Greek religion—he refereed to the Hellenic Polytheistic Religion but today that could also be Greek Orthodoxy (4) keep the various practices and customs associated with the culture.Of course that begs the question—is someone a Greek if they are atheist and thus don’t follow number 3. Few people would say an atheist stops being Greek for not having a belief in a God or gods. What about someone like me who follows number 3 (Hellenic polytheism) has number 1 (my maternal ancestry) but only speaks a little Greek, and has grown up with only some Greek traditions in addition to American ones? (I have never work either a foustanella or a kilt despite being Greek and Scottish).So, back to the above question—yes, ethnicity is cultural but I would say learning another language does not “change” your ethnicity. It does not change your ancestry or background, it does not make your “forget” your old language. Rather I think that learning a new language can expand your culture, it can certainly widen ones view of the world. I’ve taken Spanish, French and Latin but that didn’t make me Castilian, Parisian or a Roman.
Is “Afghan” an ethnicity or nationality?
It is both! In Afghanistan nothing is black and white.Everything from history, genetics,language, and ethnicity is intertwined with one another. There is not a clear line between any of these.Everyone from Afghanistan is an afghan plus there are 30 million Pakistani residents that are also afghan. You see ? That is what I mean with how everything is intertwined with one another.It is only non afghans that use afghan to refer to only pashtuns. Pashtuns them self use afghan to refer to people from amu darya (oxus) river all way down to kpk.If anyone reading this gets a chance you should really read up on Afghan history you will see how modern afghan have been part of one nation for a very very long time. No matter if it was modern Afghanistan,durrani empire, kushans empire , Persian empires or the countless other empires all afghan where part of the same nation.
What's my nationality, ethnic, and culture?
it depends... legally speaking, it depends what passport do you have. that's your legal nationality ethnically speaking, you're Vietnamese, as your physical characteristics are your parents and you're Vietnamese in that sense culture depends on how you feel. i would guess that you feel more Japanese than american as you've just recently moved. however, it is also said that you are not from the country that you were born or raised, but from where your parents gave you values. for example, i am venezuelan, but my parent where from colombia. i've always thought that i feel more colombian than venezuelan, as feel that my parents raised me with different values than the rest of venezuelan people my age.
Did "race" have a different meaning in the past? Similar to "ethnicity" instead of "physical traits"?
It’s more like the other way around. Charles Darwin used the word ‘races’ to describe different types of bird based on their distinguishing characteristics. The word gained its current meaning as a result of attempts to categorize humans for political purposes, even though there’s little to no biological reason to do so this way.