How do you self-identify?

[Coyote]

Tabanidae

Wait a minute...a deer fly?

Hossfly, deer fly

They all have an annoying bite...

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Tabanidae

Wait a minute...a deer fly?

Hossfly, deer fly

Aaah....it becomes clear.
Never really thought about a deer fly being the same as a horse fly.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Tabanidae

Wait a minute...a deer fly?

Hossfly, deer fly

They all have an annoying bite...

But nothing like a Buffalo gnat.....those bastards will raise a golf ball that lasts for a week!!

 

[eflatminor]

Canis Latrans

I hunt varmints.

Sorry,

Got several Canis Latrans a few weeks ago..

I tend to go after the prairie dogs. I know a few dairy ranch owners/mangers that are quite happy to see me show up. You don't want rats in your house, you don't want varmints on your ranch.

Buddy of mine just converted his .243 to an Ackley Improved, just for coyotes. Good round.

Canis Latrans

I hunt varmints.

Sorry,

Got several Canis Latrans a few weeks ago..

I tend to go after the prairie dogs. I know a few dairy ranch owners/mangers that are quite happy to see me show up. You don't want rats in your house, you don't want varmints on your ranch.

Buddy of mine just converted his .243 to an Ackley Improved, just for coyotes. Good round.

We dont have prairie dogs in my part of Texas.
We mainly shoot coyotes and wild hogs as far as vermin go.

Every once in a while for me too, but I really like the lighter, faster rounds for 'dogs. I burn barrels!

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Canis Latrans

I hunt varmints.

Sorry,

Got several Canis Latrans a few weeks ago..

I tend to go after the prairie dogs. I know a few dairy ranch owners/mangers that are quite happy to see me show up. You don't want rats in your house, you don't want varmints on your ranch.

Buddy of mine just converted his .243 to an Ackley Improved, just for coyotes. Good round.

Canis Latrans

I hunt varmints.

Sorry,

Got several Canis Latrans a few weeks ago..

I tend to go after the prairie dogs. I know a few dairy ranch owners/mangers that are quite happy to see me show up. You don't want rats in your house, you don't want varmints on your ranch.

Buddy of mine just converted his .243 to an Ackley Improved, just for coyotes. Good round.

We dont have prairie dogs in my part of Texas.
We mainly shoot coyotes and wild hogs as far as vermin go.

Every once in a while for me too, but I really like the lighter, faster rounds for 'dogs. I burn barrels!

I could definitely see the fun in setting up and dropping prairie dogs from a couple of hundred yards.
But hunting hogs in the east Texas swamps is a blast!!!!

 

[Michelle420]

I had my DNA done but I don't identify by it.

 

[eflatminor]

Canis Latrans

I hunt varmints.

Sorry,

Got several Canis Latrans a few weeks ago..

I tend to go after the prairie dogs. I know a few dairy ranch owners/mangers that are quite happy to see me show up. You don't want rats in your house, you don't want varmints on your ranch.

Buddy of mine just converted his .243 to an Ackley Improved, just for coyotes. Good round.

I hunt varmints.

Sorry,

Got several Canis Latrans a few weeks ago..

I tend to go after the prairie dogs. I know a few dairy ranch owners/mangers that are quite happy to see me show up. You don't want rats in your house, you don't want varmints on your ranch.

Buddy of mine just converted his .243 to an Ackley Improved, just for coyotes. Good round.

We dont have prairie dogs in my part of Texas.
We mainly shoot coyotes and wild hogs as far as vermin go.

Every once in a while for me too, but I really like the lighter, faster rounds for 'dogs. I burn barrels!

I could definitely see the fun in setting up and dropping prairie dogs from a couple of hundred yards.
But hunting hogs in the east Texas swamps is a blast!!!!

I have an AR platform in .308 that I use for hogs.

864 yards is my farthest in the prairie. That was with a 22-250. One day, I''l have the platform for 1000+ yard shots, maybe.

 

[Muhammed]

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

Are you afraid to say that you are Samoan?

 

[Mortimer]

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

Are you afraid to say that you are Samoan?

Im afraid yes. It sounds very negative, and its traditonally like that, that people of my ancestry dont openly speak about their ancestry. Its a huge psychological problem.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Canis Latrans

I hunt varmints.

Sorry,

Got several Canis Latrans a few weeks ago..

I tend to go after the prairie dogs. I know a few dairy ranch owners/mangers that are quite happy to see me show up. You don't want rats in your house, you don't want varmints on your ranch.

Buddy of mine just converted his .243 to an Ackley Improved, just for coyotes. Good round.

Got several Canis Latrans a few weeks ago..

I tend to go after the prairie dogs. I know a few dairy ranch owners/mangers that are quite happy to see me show up. You don't want rats in your house, you don't want varmints on your ranch.

Buddy of mine just converted his .243 to an Ackley Improved, just for coyotes. Good round.

We dont have prairie dogs in my part of Texas.
We mainly shoot coyotes and wild hogs as far as vermin go.

Every once in a while for me too, but I really like the lighter, faster rounds for 'dogs. I burn barrels!

I could definitely see the fun in setting up and dropping prairie dogs from a couple of hundred yards.
But hunting hogs in the east Texas swamps is a blast!!!!

I have an AR platform in .308 that I use for hogs.

864 yards is my farthest in the prairie. That was with a 22-250. One day, I''l have the platform for 1000+ yard shots, maybe.

The long shot has always held interest in me but in my part of Texas it really isnt feasible.
My longest shot on a whitetail was 400 yards and thats only because I could see em.
The rifle was sighted in at 100 yards and the shot was downhill by about 200 ft.
The logistics were a little sketchy with a hangover but I only missed my mark by three inches.

 

[Michelle420]

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

Are you afraid to say that you are Samoan?

Im afraid yes. It sounds very negative, and its traditonally like that, that people of my ancestry dont openly speak about their ancestry. Its a huge psychological problem.

That's their problem you are great just the way you are.

 

[teapartysamurai]

Hillary identified me as Deplorable.

I identify her and her voters as LOSERS!

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

Are you afraid to say that you are Samoan?

Im afraid yes. It sounds very negative, and its traditonally like that, that people of my ancestry dont openly speak about their ancestry. Its a huge psychological problem.

Samoans hold a certain mystic in the NFL and college ball in the U.S.....










Walk proud!

 

[Mortimer]

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

Are you afraid to say that you are Samoan?

Im afraid yes. It sounds very negative, and its traditonally like that, that people of my ancestry dont openly speak about their ancestry. Its a huge psychological problem.

Samoans hold a certain mystic in the NFL and college ball in the U.S.....










Walk proud!

Im not Samoan.

 

[Mortimer]

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

Are you afraid to say that you are Samoan?

Im afraid yes. It sounds very negative, and its traditonally like that, that people of my ancestry dont openly speak about their ancestry. Its a huge psychological problem.

That's their problem you are great just the way you are.

Thats not that easy. Im not Samoan btw, I thought people know what I am here.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther

How do you self-identify?
Aside from nationality, if someone asks and you say (i.e.) American, but then they ask; yes but what are your origins? Do you just say European/African, tri-racial?


And to people of mixed race, how do you identify, with the predominant part of your ancestry? Or do you go by 'mestiza, castiza, 'half-half', 'mutt'?


Also aside from what you tell people, how is that you truly feel as in what part of you do you identify the most with?
(considering what you say doesn't have to coincide with how you feel/which part your the most connected with). You can be i.e Dutch/English, but connect more with your English side.


Sorry for the extra explanation just trying to make sure my point comes across clearly.

My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

Are you afraid to say that you are Samoan?

Im afraid yes. It sounds very negative, and its traditonally like that, that people of my ancestry dont openly speak about their ancestry. Its a huge psychological problem.

That's their problem you are great just the way you are.

Thats not that easy. Im not Samoan btw, I thought people know what I am here.

You just said you were afraid to admit you're Samoan.

 

[cnm]

I was going to say I identify as human until I saw that travesty of a haka. So, New Zealand it is.

 

[Mortimer]

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther
My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

From another forum, I frequent. Copy&paste from the user @Esther
My response
#Depends on the person who I interact with what I communicate him or her about my origins, but usually I would say "Im from Serbia" without specifying which ethnicity I am. Usually people dont ask further. That works in Austria, in a other country it might not work. People also more often ask me about my religion then my ethnicity, here.

#I feel equally close to romani and serbs, I have strong ties to Serbia, Im first generation immigrant, I listen to serbian music, speak serbian at home, and eat serbian food, I celebrate serbian-christmas on 7th January, I go to serbian church. I have a serbian name. The perfect match would be someone like me who is Roma with extra serb ancestry and culturally does the same as I do, believes the same as I do. I would the closest to such a person but I cant generalise that I feel close to every roma, I dont have much in common with British or Spanish Roma, I do feel solidarity with them too, but on a cultural level we are quiete different. As I said the perfect match is someone like me.

#Racially I identify as "mixed race" or "some other race" on forms.

Are you afraid to say that you are Samoan?

Im afraid yes. It sounds very negative, and its traditonally like that, that people of my ancestry dont openly speak about their ancestry. Its a huge psychological problem.

That's their problem you are great just the way you are.

Thats not that easy. Im not Samoan btw, I thought people know what I am here.

You just said you were afraid to admit your Samoan.

I thought its obvious that he is trolling me with the Samoan thing, and that everyone knows what I am. I said Im afraid to openly speak about my ancestry though which is true. Im Romani (Gypsy) from Serbia.

 

[Hossfly]

Are you afraid to say that you are Samoan?

Im afraid yes. It sounds very negative, and its traditonally like that, that people of my ancestry dont openly speak about their ancestry. Its a huge psychological problem.

That's their problem you are great just the way you are.

Thats not that easy. Im not Samoan btw, I thought people know what I am here.

You just said you were afraid to admit your Samoan.

I thought its obvious that he is trolling me with the Samoan thing, and that everyone knows what I am. I said Im afraid to openly speak about my ancestry though which is true. Im Romani (Gypsy) from Serbia.

He's pulling your leg, Mortimer

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Are you afraid to say that you are Samoan?

Im afraid yes. It sounds very negative, and its traditonally like that, that people of my ancestry dont openly speak about their ancestry. Its a huge psychological problem.

That's their problem you are great just the way you are.

Thats not that easy. Im not Samoan btw, I thought people know what I am here.

You just said you were afraid to admit your Samoan.

I thought its obvious that he is trolling me with the Samoan thing, and that everyone knows what I am. I said Im afraid to openly speak about my ancestry though which is true. Im Romani (Gypsy) from Serbia.

All right then.....
Does your heritage warrant ridicule? I know here in the U.S. blacks get the shitty end of the stick sometimes but in a lot of cases they deserve it.
But they can easily overcome that impression if they dont act like *******.