The whole name thing gets fascinating. My daughter's best friend is Nishi. She's actually Indian, via Fiji, but her parents heard the Japanese girl's name Nishi and decided it was cool.
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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - Aug 16, 2006 7:33:33 am PDT #838 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Vortex - Aug 16, 2006 7:36:37 am PDT #839 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I...don't know.
a shiksa is a Yiddish term for a white woman. My understanding is that it has a vaguely negative connotation as in, "oy vey, my son is dating a shiksa!" I think that it can also have a funny/taken back connotation, as in my friend who is married to a jewish guy whose online name is "shiksagoddess"
Topic!Cindy - Aug 16, 2006 7:40:53 am PDT #840 of 10001
What is even happening?
Aren't Indians considered Caucasian?
Gris - Aug 16, 2006 7:41:48 am PDT #841 of 10001
Hey. New board.
"Shiksa Goddess" may be a direct reference to a song from The Last Five Years. Is he or she a musical fan?
Aims - Aug 16, 2006 7:45:09 am PDT #842 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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Vortex - Aug 16, 2006 7:46:36 am PDT #843 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Aren't Indians considered Caucasian?
depends on the geographical region of the referrer. For example, in London, Indians were referred to (and referred to themselves) as asian. Confused me a lot in the beginning.
Polter-Cow - Aug 16, 2006 7:49:54 am PDT #844 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aren't Indians considered Caucasian?
Not when you're fitting people into ethnic/racial slots.
§ ita § - Aug 16, 2006 7:50:46 am PDT #845 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Noo reason you can't be caucasian and Asian, though. I mean, calling them Asian doesn't make them the same "race" as most of China.
Which is possibly why both labels and race are kinda weak.
eta:
Not when you're fitting people into ethnic/racial slots.
Are you talking more than the old-school three racial slots? Caucasian isn't an ethnicity anyway.
Polter-Cow - Aug 16, 2006 8:07:40 am PDT #846 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, I'm talking when you mark checkboxes in surveys or case report forms.
§ ita § - Aug 16, 2006 8:09:46 am PDT #847 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What do you put down?
I mean, the boxes on the forms vary depending on what data they need. Some are in the race mindset, other focus on ethnicity. Others are just crap forms.