Skewing statistics since 1999
Posted Aug 8, 2011, 7:01 PM UTC
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My next door neighbor's half Latino/Asian..his Chinese mom always told him to pick Latino on those tests to make Latinos look better.
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not sure if racist...or just honest
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I think just honest, I cannot imagine her being too insanely racist because she did marry her Mexican husband.
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my girlfriend's mom is just like this... shes Japanese, Korean and Filipino while her husband is Guatemalan she says similar things but also goes out of her way say the same kind of stuff to me... But I'm like "fuck that shit, I like anime anyways" which was why she originally didn't like me... she thought I was going to take her daughter's innocence because I'm a creepy otaku, which I am and which I did but she doesn't need to know that
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Ha! I'm half Mexican and my mom would tell me the same thing. Her excuse was that since a lot of Latino immigrant kids don't yet speak the language well, they were going to drag down the test scores for all Latinos.
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We have to show 'em that Latinos are smart and capable. ;)
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Yup, my Latina/Asian friend declared Latina when applying to college just in case it helped. I don't actually know if it helped.
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My friend who says he's kinda Mexican (because his grandfather was an immigrant), seriously the guys' about as Mexican as a Taco Bell. Anyways...when applying for scholarships he put that he's Latino for more $$$
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White chick in my English class (she was the one white person in the Black Student Union Club) told the teacher that her race wasn't listed on the test. The teacher asked her "oh yeah, well what are you? Her: I'm Sicilian Italian
Him: I'm sorry but you look like a whitey to me
Class: LOLOLOLOL
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Actually, I asked Dennis Hopper about this. He told me that Sicilians were spawned by niggers.
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Theres truth to this. Lots of raping was had. good times for everyone.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is worth more to the human race than you will ever be.
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Protip: it's a movie.
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Oh hai thar, half asian half white dude here too. Anytime I get one of those I just fill in both.
Watch me as idgaf
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+1, me too!
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Halfies unite, what's your breed?
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Half Japanese, good stuff.
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I am half white half Eskimo. Stop it. It gives me hope that there's someone else in the region.
Fuck, I hate living in Illinois.
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well i live in brazil. all people is sort of mixed up, so in the last option, there's a "other" alternative and a gap so you can fill the way you prefer. according to statistics, there are 1,251 grey brazilians, 54 blue brazilians, 2 marcians and about 2,597 other funny unregistrated ethinicies, most of them just random colors such as "light bege" or "woodish brown".
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They're called Inuit.
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I am aware of that. The tests back then weren't yet.
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I prefer my history edited, sanitized and aligned with my current beliefs.
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Unless of course they're not Inuit, like the Yupik.
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Upvote for mustachioed gustadad
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I'm a whi-sian guy and I always have to deal with this bs too. I sually check asian.
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Upvote for "whi-sian". Almost as good as Hinjew.
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My friend calls himself a banana - yellow on the outside but white on the inside.
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It's a common saying in China.
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upvote for the last panel
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Yes!!! Hapa girl here too and I always hated how you had to pick only one. To me the question always felt like, "Do you like your mother or father more?" Ugh.
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Nope, I'm from California.
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Pick both. Assume trollface.
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I was put other and fill the blank with "velociraptor" or "badass" or "martian" or "deity" or something. It's always a different one, and to date I haven't been called out on it.
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Okay, a little story:
I went to a private school for k-12, and while we didn't have to take the standardized tests (I live in Illinois so we took the Iowa tests), they gave 'em to us every couple of years, with no strings attached, just to sort of show us what standardized tests were like.
One year they gave 'em to us was 8th grade. So at this point alot of kids were just like "fuck that, I'm just gonna finish it as fast as I can and get out of there", but there were alot of kids who weren't going to bomb even a meaningless test (let's call them Nerds), and at a private school with like 60 kids in the entire grade, this came up to be over 1/3 of the grade.
We were like "what can we do to sort of see if they actually even read these fucking things?!" Well, we all put Pacific Islander as our race, figuring, tee-hee, minor data manipulation, right?
A month or two after the test, some folks came by from the school administration to talk to our grade, where they told us that we as a group did very well, aside from a small minority, and X% did this, and Y% of us did that. Then they paused and said, "...And I guess we have almost a 40% Pacific Islander population, which has gone undetected until this test..." and the class erupted in laughter.
TL;DR - Eh, it was a pretty meaningless story to begin with, I won't be bothered with summarizing it
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In Illinois you take the Iowa tests? Not being sarcastic? Just being ignorant.
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Never understood it myself.
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I'm a real inuit (eskimo), and ice fishing is the shit!
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Every time I see "Eskimo" my mind reminds me that the more PC term is "Inuit". And whenever I think of the word "Inuit", I think of that episode of Hey Arnold where Helga's nanny gets fired after Helga frames her. Then the nanny goes to help the Inuit children because she feels guilty and writes the most heartbreaking letter ever (my memory has made it so, not so sure about the actual contents) to Helga who then has great remorse. She confesses to the fact that she framed the nanny... AND THE NANNY FUCKING COMES BACK. What the hell? I mean, she was doing something worthwhile with her life and she quits to come back and baby sit some rich guy's bratty kid.
TL;DR Moral of the story: There wasn't really one. Regardless of whether you confess to framing someone for theft or not, the Inuit children are losing.
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Well, if you go on my answer to these sorts of tests, I speak 30 different languages, including Urdu, Hindi, Swahili, but not English. What do they expect when they give 12 year olds these options?
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I'm as white as white can be, but I always choose "other."
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Black, white, west indian, french, german, irish, and italian. My kid's probably gonna have stripes.
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I'm not sure you wanted to admit to being a half-asian female on reddit. Prepare for the flood of forever alones!
God damn those half-Japanese girls, do it to me everytime...