Your Favorite Stereotype About Your Own Race . . .

PrettyBoy · #1 06-19-2009, 03:28 AM

Chitlins, I guess I fit the stereotype for it. I can eat those things for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

But, most black folks I know have never and won't even try chitlins.

knight_shadow · #2 06-19-2009, 04:08 AM

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Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

Chitlins, I guess I fit the stereotype for it. I can eat those things for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

But, most black folks I know have never and won't even try chitlins.

I will eat them, but really? Breakfast, lunch, AND dinner? I call that doing the most...LOL

PrettyBoy · #3 06-20-2009, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I will eat them, but really? Breakfast, lunch, AND dinner? I call that doing the most...LOL

I only get a chance to eat them once a year. I go back to MN. to visit my parents for the holidays every year, and my mom and I are the only two in the family that will eat them. So I have to savor every chitlin moment.

Can't forget the hot sauce.

PrettyBoy · #4 06-20-2009, 07:16 AM

I guess I fall in the collard greens, fat back and salt pork stereotype too.

BetteDavisEyes · #5 06-20-2009, 05:22 PM

I had a group of women once compliment me on my excellent English, enunciation and grammar. They kept complimenting my mom and the Mexican school system for making sure we learn excellent English.

I did so enjoy telling them that I was born & raised in the US, went to public schools for most of my life and that the reason I spoke so eloquently is because my mother raised me to speak that way.

They shut up after that.

christiangirl · #6 06-20-2009, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Munchkin03

What about black people who have dogs and cats?

We don't have cats and the only dogs fit to own are pit bulls.

DaemonSeid · #7 06-22-2009, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

We don't have cats and the only dogs fit to own are pit bulls.

and "Rockwiellers"

WinniBug · #8 06-22-2009, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

and "Rockwiellers"

That's too funny....my dad's a vet, and he has quite a few rottweilers come in with the name of "Rock" or "Rocky", because, as their owners explain.... "He's a Rockweiler"

christiangirl · #9 06-22-2009, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by 1stSoon2BePhD

Ugh, EVERYONE pulls that one on me! "When you get older, you'll be happy!" Okay but now I'm a 20-something that looks like she's in middle school!

My first year going home from college, I was using my school ID through the airport (you could do that back then) and I got detained--he thought I was too young to be in college so my ID must be fake.

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and "Rockwiellers"

LOL I forgot about those.

It seems like "Rotts" are out and Pits are the "in" dog. I didn't know breeds could go out of style.

MysticCat · #10 06-22-2009, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by WCsweet<3

Because I go to church I must be an evangelist who will shove my beliefs down your throat and teach my children to not have a brain. (Try again)

I've actually gotten that kind of attitude on GC.

epchick · #11 06-20-2009, 07:25 PM

--I get the whole "you must really be white" cause I don't speak with an accent or broken English.
--That I have 50 million kids, and have a gang member boyfriend
--My family are all gang members or have connections with drugs
--That i'm illegal (not in the slightest)
--That my family are illegals (not true either)
--"Oh you're Mexican? But you're really white to be Mexican" yeah, cause apparently there can't be light skinned Mexicans

Why do Mexican eat tamales for Christmas?
So they have something to unwrap

VandalSquirrel · #12 06-20-2009, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Thetagirl218

I actually get that a lot!

Others I get a lot:

I have thick, dark, curly hair therefore I must Italian, Hispanic, or Jewish! (I don't understand how they figure out these combinations but I am none of the above! I am actually of Swedish descent)

I get told that I can't really be Swedish because I don't have blue eyes or blond hair! (Really? Have you ever met a Swedish person?)

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Lol that is what I would say. The only people I've ever met that were Swedish, were blue eyed/blonde haired people, or people who were born in Sweden but their parents are of Iranian descent (which apparently is a really common occurance).

Ethnic Scandinavians are also known for being redheads, even though most attribute it to Scottish and the Irish, when in actuality it was introduced to the British Isles by Norse invaders and settlers. Scandinavians are also mistaken for always being tall, which is not traditional in the genetic makeup. The native Scandinavians (The Sami, formerly called Laplanders) are an excellent example of this. Though with people traveling and moving more, the genetic markers are fading.

BabyPiNK_FL · #13 06-20-2009, 08:14 PM

Funny how after reading this thread I was driving my baby sisters (who are 10). We got into an accident. We're sitting on the side of the road and the people in the other car start telling me how "This is awful and they have daughters too".

Dude. I don't look a day over 18 IF THAT (I'm 24 and babyfaced to death). I'm wearing a tank top and shorts and converse and my tummy's showing a little (it was teeny bopper day cos the laundry

). It was made very clear prior to the comments that I was going to grad school (not that grad school students don't have kids, but dang!). Why do they automatically think these are my kids?

It's fun to be black!

1stSoon2BePhD · #14 06-20-2009, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

Funny how after reading this thread I was driving my baby sisters (who are 10). We got into an accident. We're sitting on the side of the road and the people in the other car start telling me how "This is awful and they have daughters too".

Dude. I don't look a day over 18 IF THAT (I'm 24 and babyfaced to death). I'm wearing a tank top and shorts and converse and my tummy's showing a little (it was teeny bopper day cos the laundry

). It was made very clear prior to the comments that I was going to grad school (not that grad school students don't have kids, but dang!). Why do they automatically think these are my kids?

It's fun to be black!

I'm "cursed" (for now, at least) with babyfaced-ness also. When I was 18, still looking 13, I was working at a bank. Around Mothers Day a customer comes in and as she's leaving I told her:

me: Happy Mother's Day!
her: Thank you! And happy mother's day to you too! Wait - how old are you?
me: Uhh, 18....
her: OH! You better NOT be a mother!

I don't know how many people have told me "It's a good thing instead of having babies you're going to grad school" as if to say black women are either pregnant or doing something with their lives ... CERTAINLY not both at the same time, and nobody is not pregnant and also not doing anything worthwhile with their time and energy.

christiangirl · #15 06-21-2009, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

Funny how after reading this thread I was driving my baby sisters (who are 10). We got into an accident. We're sitting on the side of the road and the people in the other car start telling me how "This is awful and they have daughters too".

I also have the misfortune of looking 10 years younger than I am. (Yeah yeah, I'll enjoy it when I'm 60. But right now, I'm getting mistaken for a 6th grader and I don't enjoy that). When I was 14, I took my nephew to Sam Goody's in the mall to look at CDs while my sister was in another store and I got soooooo many dirty looks and heard mutterings about "babies having babies."

I WAS 14!!!! They couldn't even mistake him for my baby brother or something??