Your Favorite Stereotype About Your Own Race . . .

epchick · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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??

epchick · #6 06-22-2009, 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

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??

OMG that happened to me at Sam's when I was 15. I had my baby cousin with me at Sam's Club, and this old man kept staring at me. When my mom came back to our table with food, the man goes up to my mom and says "isn't it a joy to be a grandmother?" and then gives me a funny look. I didn't get it at first but a little later I was

I was 15...and probably didn't look a day over 11, and he automatically thought I was the mother?

christiangirl · #7 06-22-2009, 03:42 AM

^^^Girl, the things we go through watching other people's kids! Now, when I actually have some of my own, I bet people will think they are my siblings or cousins.

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I don't drink malt liquor (actually I don't drink at all)

You dont be drankin that malt licka?? You aint keepin it real!

PrettyBoy · #8 06-22-2009, 05:53 AM

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You dont be drankin that malt licka?? You aint keepin it real!

LOL! Nah, I don't drink.

Thetagirl218 · #9 06-22-2009, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by epchick

OMG that happened to me at Sam's when I was 15. I had my baby cousin with me at Sam's Club, and this old man kept staring at me. When my mom came back to our table with food, the man goes up to my mom and says "isn't it a joy to be a grandmother?" and then gives me a funny look. I didn't get it at first but a little later I was

I was 15...and probably didn't look a day over 11, and he automatically thought I was the mother?

Maybe people just thought I was white trash....which would not be hard to think of in the town I live in! I cannot tell you how many times I have been out with a younger kid, cousin, babysitting, whatever, and I got some comment about "my kid". The comments started when I was around 13!

1stSoon2BePhD · #10 06-22-2009, 05:42 AM

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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).

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! When I started college, it was funny. However, when I say "I just graduated" to a stranger and they ask "From where? Middle school? High school?" it pisses me off! But I don't believe in make-up just yet so there's no way of "making myself look older". I just have to constantly act like an adult and hope that people get the picture.

BACK ON TOPIC... One day, my friends son was quizzing me as part of a Healthy Living Unit he is working on at school. He asked me "If you wanted a snack, would you grab a piece of watermelon or a bag of chips?" I answered "bag of chips" and his mother chimes in "DON'T LIE! YOU KNOW BLACK PEOPLE LOVE WATERMELON!" I guess she's getting her kids started early with stereotyping

(he's only 7)

lovespink88 · #11 06-22-2009, 02:41 PM

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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!

OMG THANK YOU! I'm getting sick of it. I know I've shared this story before, so I'll give the short version: I'm about to be 21 and I was mistaken for a 13 year old. I went to buy a student discounted ticket to a high school basketball game (my brother was playing in the Jazz Band), and the lady asked me if that discount "would be for high school or grade school?" Really lady?! I was wearing an Illinois hoodie too. Not that college kids are the only ones who wear those, but I think I would have helped. I really need to start wearing making everywhere I go...

Yes, I know I'll appreciate it later...just not right now... lol

KSUViolet06 · #12 06-22-2009, 02:48 PM

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OMG THANK YOU! I'm getting sick of it. I know I've shared this story before, so I'll give the short version: I'm about to be 21 and I was mistaken for a 13 year old. I went to buy a student discounted ticket to a high school basketball game (my brother was playing in the Jazz Band), and the lady asked me if that discount "would be for high school or grade school?" Really lady?! I was wearing an Illinois hoodie too. Not that college kids are the only ones who wear those, but I think I would have helped. I really need to start wearing making everywhere I go...

Yes, I know I'll appreciate it later...just not right now... lol

This is so funny. I am 24 and I recently got carded buying tickets for a rated R movie (I am 5'0 and 100 lbs soaking wet). I actually don't mind it. At least people don't mistake me for 35 or something.

Dionysus · #13 06-23-2009, 01:09 AM

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What about black people who have dogs and cats?

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

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

That pretty much sums it up, lol.

And it was more of a probablity thing too. My understanding...in my grandparents days it was rare for a black family to have a family pet, unless they were on a farm.

Munchkin03 · #14 06-23-2009, 08:31 AM

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That pretty much sums it up, lol.

And it was more of a probablity thing too. My understanding...in my grandparents days it was rare for a black family to have a family pet, unless they were on a farm.

That's also a total urban vs. rural thing. My father's family always had several animals--dogs, horses, etc. My mother hates animals, but that's pretty much the only reason I didn't grow up with a menagerie. We had a horse growing up, but she was clearly boarded elsewhere.