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MEN ONLY: What is your race/ethnic origin?

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(Women's survey found here WOMEN ONLY: What is your race/ethnic origin? )

What is your race/ethnic origin?

(Answers based on USA Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1964 employment non-discrimination questionnaire)

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TheMiddleWay 8 June 1
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Human

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Human

@TheMiddleWay Ethnicity and race are two distinct concepts, are they not? [livescience.com] "Human" was my official answer to the US census,so why should I give you a different answer? [livescience.com]

@TheMiddleWay My goodness, you certainly know how to open a can of worms!

Which minority do you think you represent? People with PhDs in Physics? People from Chile? People who speak with a Spanish accent? There are so many minorities to represent! In my case I think I represent the minority "people who think clearly and reason well". LOL Which minority does Martha Argerich represent? Woman? Hispanic? Argentine? Catalonian? Jew? Long-term cancer survivor? World's most famous living pianist?(that is definitely a minority of one!).

If anyone is running a business and hired only White people they would eventually go out of business. Business's need to hire the best people they can get, or else their competition will, and they will go bankrupt. Academia and government are under less pressure to hire the best, and maybe that's where your attitudes were formed. The business I work for is run by a woman, and my immediate superior is a Black man. They are both almost as smart as me (LOL), work very hard, and are very well qualified.

Now I am wondering about you. My original assumption was that you were a brilliant man with two PhD's in Physics. But now due to your newly revealed attitude I am wondering if you got some special assistance because you fill the Hispanic quota. Are you an "affirmative action physicist"? It really doesn't help you for anyone to suspect that you are anything but the very best, like Martha Argerich.

The great Black economist Thomas Sowell frequently receives criticism for opposing "affirmative action", based on the assumption that he himself benefited from it. But Sowell was quick to point out that when he went to Harvard in the 1950s they didn't have affirmative action. I recommend that everyone learn by reading Dr Sowell's writings, as I often have. [hoover.org]

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Human race / origin of the species, thats me !

@TheMiddleWay
I am not in the hiring line ! I...AM....RETIRED. Yipeeee !

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Plain ol' kraut.

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Human being from this planet....

@TheMiddleWay my ethnicity in this digital world is generic as any human can be. Anything else is irrelevant

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According to my DNA results, I'm 100% European with a fairly high share of Neanderthal genes. Excuse me now, it's time for Spring cleaning. The cave gets a mite raw during the cold season.

I have about 2.5% neanderthal genetics. That means my Dad has a whopping ~5%.

The thing about Neanderthals is that some of them were genetically gifted enough to produce Cro-Magnons with very large brains. Their descendants live in some parts of Germany, the Baltic countries, Northern India, the British Isles, and maybe some other places.

@DZhukovin -- This Neanderthal lives in southwestern United States. I keep my cave immaculate because I never know when a modern female may stop by and want to try crossbreeding.

@evidentialist

Hahahahahahahaha 🙂

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Out of curiosity, what do you hope to learn from these results?

@TheMiddleWay Why do you find it alarming that white people make up a majority of atheists and agnostics? Based on historical context and culture of non-white people (mainly black and Latino), many don't really change their religious views.
Look at chart #4, majority of people who are atheist identify as white compared to other races/ethnicities [pewforum.org]

@TheMiddleWay

I think you should keep in mind, also, that at least some of the people here (myself included) found this site in the first place through ads on other algorithm-filtered social media, and as such, some of the traffic that brings people to join in the first place is from within the Filter Bubble. That means that membership is going to be at least partially filtered.

Thus, such results as your quick visual comparison, and even more complete results that you may or may not get from these polls, doesn't necessarily represent a problem with the site, or even with atheism or agnosticism. Rather, it merely makes apparent some of the problems of the Filter Bubble combined with, as @joeymf86 pointed out, the fact that atheism and agnosticism is simply more common among whites (at least for the time being) within our societies and cultures in general.

That latter point in particular should not really come as a surprise considering the fact that for non-whites, religion is often not just a matter of beliefs and faith, but also a component of cultural identity, and social and political activism. Such diverse purpose and active involvement in those religious sub-cultures means it is less likely that people will break out of those sub-cultures. This is particularly the case anywhere (such as the US) where racism is still a major problem and people depend on the society of their sub-culture to help one another get by in life where others from outside that sub-culture are often trying to prevent them from getting ahead, or even get by, or even live in the area, or sometimes even live at all. I think that as racism and systemic/institutional racism decrease, atheism and agnosticism among such groups is likely to increase.

@TheMiddleWay So discuss it then. Surely you know the facts about non-white atheism as your survey purports to prove it is "alarming".

@TheMiddleWay As for many black and Latino people not changing their religious views, statistics speak for themselves; however after doing some research, it seems there is a rise in Latinos identifying as a religion different than their parents or not associating with any affiliation.

In regards to why both groups are still very religious compared to white people; there are different reasons which includes oppression and racism (past and present) which have contributed to both groups having lower socio-econimic status compared to whites. Education, income level, learning environment, and geography all play a factor in who we are as people and what religion we are.

To summarize a little bit from the links I provided. When Africans were brought to America as slaves, they were forced to become Christians. Slaves then used religion as a tool to unify them and keeping African cultures intact, provide a reason for what was happening to them, and have hope. This continued after slaves were freed and during black segregation and Civil Rights Movement. Black churches were built to create a sense of community and provide a safe haven for learning and expression.

For Latinos, Catholicism was spread throughout Latin and South Americas by Spain. Catholicism is a very strict religion with specific religious practices, so it quickly became part of Latinos every day lives and shaping their culture. Latinos in America were also subject to oppression and racism mainly by Protestant whites who migrated to the west. Latinos also built churches or worshiped secretly in their homes to keep their culture and religion intact.

Religion can create a sense of hope for people in terrible times. With the history and current racism towards these two groups, it's no surprise that black and Latinos are still religious. As a whole, white people in America have not encountered oppression or racism to the extent that other races have in America, so the need to preserve our culture and community isn't as strong. Religion and churches do that for blacks and Latinos.

[americanhistory.oxfordre.com]

[religion.oxfordre.com]

@TheMiddleWay But you won't find it by asking this question!

@joeymf86
Nice of you to try and help him, but he's not interested in considering the sociological causes which may be behind his questions. I believe he reposted with Men/Women instead of continuing his "alarming thread" because everyone ate his lunch over there.

@joeymf86 I agree,many of my neighbors ,co workers and friends are people of color.Yet many employers ;clubs;
social organizations;are pro religion.Watch the t.v. shows,radio,the elder population especially is very religious. Their exposure
to the option of free thought has not been extensive
enough for the information to be readily availible.
This site is what? 2 years old?
There is no way possible to disseminate into the cultures the knowledge
of its exsistance

@joeymf86 my personal experiences
mirror these facts; I have no agenda ;
believe in the goal of the site;thanks
for the source material...
p.s.
don't know if I income matters.

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I'm a messap ya survey

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This is not a properly written questionnaire.

I am in the "mixed" category, and most of us are in that category.

Pure races/ethnicities are rare, and I wouldn't be surprised if they barely existed at all.

My father is over 90% white with some east asian. My mother is over 90% middle eastern (persian), south asian, and minorly white. Those are all typologically distinct groups.

@TheMiddleWay I would suggest you do something more useful with your time than try to categorise people. Why do you want to know anyway? Are you gonna block the races you don't like?

@GoldenDoll

I don't think he is like that

@GoldenDoll Uh, you categorized me when we had our discussion a while back when you said I wasn't Italian, Irish, or German because I didn't partake in their cultures or live there.

@Piece2YourPuzzle Someone said that!? That's retarded, those are terms of citizenship and/or blood origin.

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Only in ameriKKKa.

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Ethnic Cracker.

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Pale 😀

Italian, Irish, German, and Native American

I will not entertain the people who tell me I'm just American.

@Hebert54 Ok, I'll play along. I'm not trying to prove anything. What are you trying to prove? If people can't understand the difference between nationality and ethnicity then that's on them. I'm just as much all of those things as I am American, and probably even more so those things. I say that because if I decided to go through the naturalization process and move to Japan then I would become a Japanese citizen and my nationality would also be Japanese as well as American. There are people with more than 1 and even more than 2 passports and nation citizenship. My ancestry will never change as it's been handed down to me through my DNA. In every NATION there are people within that nation with different ETHNICITIES. There IS a difference! Also, the only true Americans are the Native Americans. So I guess my ethnicity ALSO includes American because my mother's side also has Native American ancestry. Just because you're born somewhere it doesn't automatically make you a part of that ETHNICITY, although it could if that ETHNICITY was one of the first settlers there like the Native Americans. If you were Japanese and moved to America, it doesn't mean your ETHNICITY is American, but it makes your NATIONALITY American and Japanese. Under the same situation, if you had a kid after you moved to America, it would mean your kids NATIONALITY is American and his or her ETHNICITY is whatever your ethnicity is, which isn't American.

Race, nationality, and ethnicity are all completely different things. Some people talk about them like they're all the same. They're not.

@Hebert54 And just what do you think that would be? That I can discern different terms and ideas?

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What is the purpose of this 'poll'?

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Categorizations such as this one are both inaccurate and incomplete. Nobody is just one thing, especially in our increasingly diverse world. So to be truthful, everyone should just check "other." LOL

[humanorigins.si.edu]

@TheMiddleWay Yes, our two country's needs are different in this area.

@TheMiddleWay Thank you.

I have believed what you expressed for
ten years or so,and have acted accordingly.

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Not sure you needed a poll to determine that there are more whites than other races/ethnicities on the app.

Should be difficult to get any viable data considering the amount apathy towards your effort... I understand what you're doing and I support you 100%. Not sure so many other people do though.

What's your next move after validating what I would assume was a pretty obvious conclusion? (That would be the disproportionate populations on the app) I recognize that it's standard to leave no room for assumption and so this survey would help to close in on that assumption
I'm interested to see what you plan on following up on this with 😉

@TheMiddleWay Yeah, I knew what you were getting at.

I'm just wondering if it really is a problem. I know the disproportion exists, but so What? Is it really a problem?

I doubt it is and I'm not exactly sure I'm in line with Crimson67's thinking. I don't think it's about clustering or fear. I think it's just got more to do with culture and difference of interest and beliefs based on the differences in cultures. I know a lot of my Latinos tend to be Catholic and embrace the role of religion in their lives. They aren't even aware of the position of agnosticism and don't care to know. Many of my black friends also tend to ignore religious topics and simply practice church-going and regular religious beliefs, ignorant and apathetic towards thinking any deeper than their pastor makes them.

I'm not saying that that is the only case. It's just what I've observed down here in the bible belt of the stupid South.

Especially considering my own discovery of the app through Reddit. (I'm Latino btw just to clear the water some.) Doesn't seem really that easy to discriminate with advertising using social media. Everything spreads like wildfire... But again, your efforts provide evidence to back up such claims. Thanks.

Edit: expansion and reflection

@TheMiddleWay Texan, descended from Spain ?

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Then shouldn't you be aware of the significance of religion in the Latin people's lives? It's pretty outrageous how cool they are to just not think about shit any deeper than they have to. Lots of us idolize and worship virgin Mary, Joseph, and have pictures of Jesus right next to roosters and family pictures. It's like an essential component to being a part of Latin culture.

People like you and I are rare.

Thanks again middle.

@TheMiddleWay hahaha ...too bad you're miles away middle, it would be nice to have a few drinks, chats, and debates with ya.

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...I started marking other in the last 10
years-mainly because they are vastly different
TODAY then 10 years ago.-i've been honest to a
fault in all government dealings-now the forms
are maliciously impossible to fill out.No joke.

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Why?

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Technically, there no such thing as race in humans.

The biological definition of race is a geographically isolated breeding population that shares certain characteristics in higher frequencies than other populations of that species, but has not become reproductively isolated from other populations of the same species. (A population is a group of organisms that inhabit the same region and interbreed.)

Read more: [biologyreference.com]

Because humans have moved across the surface of the Earth, interbreeding wherever they travelled. This mobility and proclivity to have sex (forcibly or otherwise) precludes the opportunity for a population to be and remain geographically isolated. A necessary element in the biologic evolutionary definition. Therefore, there is no identifiable race gene in humans.

Race, or what we call race is more a matter of sexual selection and natural selection. Peoples in a specific geographical location produce more melanin in high ultraviolet locations, and less in lower ultraviolet levels. Peoples in these respective areas are deemed healthier due to their melanin content, and therefore deemed a more desirable mate (a combination of both sexual selection and natural selection).

So as we ask the question about what race you are, it is a nonsensical question in humans. It is a cultural delineation, not an evolutionary or biological definition.

How is it nonsensical to ask what race someone is? You admit that it’s a cultural delineation. How does that invalidate anything? By that logic, asking what culture someone identifies with is a nonsensical question.

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Human.

@TheMiddleWay Human is "Other" and also my official answer to the US census. The subject of racial and ethnic classifications is steeped in corrupt entitlement politics, and it surprises me that someone of your great personal accomplishments is so obsessed by it.

I am reminded of the example of the late great colonial administrator of Hong Kong, Sir John James Cowperthwaite. He refused to compile GDP statistics arguing that such data was not useful to managing an economy and would lead to officials meddling in the economy. He was once been asked what the key thing that poor countries could do to improve their growth. He replied: “they should abolish the office of national statistics.” I feel the same about data about race and ethnic origins; we are much better off without it.

@TheMiddleWay "great personal accomplishments" referred to your accomplishments in physics, not this topic. "obsessed" is my own perhaps overstatement, since you have posted on this topic more than once.

This "community", if one can call it that, is dramatically skewed in a number of ways. It seems to me that there are far more atheists than agnostics, and far more people on the political left than the right. I haven't taken a survey but it seems to me that the average age of participants is over 50. And probably there are more Americans than other nationalities participating. All of those community statistical characteristics are noteworthy, but do not call for remedial action.

And neither is the ethnic or racial characteristics of the people participating here a fit subject for any remedial action, which I have seen suggested, although not yet by you. If people of any race or ethnic group want to participate they are welcome, and if they don't want to participate they are also free to make that choice.

So it seems surprising to me that you think that a person's race or ethnic classification is important enough to spend your very valuable time investigating, as though it were an important defining characteristic of a person, instead of a minor accident of birth.

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So not all white men follow slavishly the ruling party and its propaganda. That’s encouraging. Really

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Squirrel.

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Human before all.
My ancestors left France to settle in North America nearly 400 years ago. My mother is from Berthierville, Quebec. My father is a New Brunswick Acadian from the Caraquet area. I was born in Montreal.

@TheMiddleWay True

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I'm a European mutt with a dash of Native American. I judge more on intelligence and music taste.

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That’s racist

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My race is human.

@TheMiddleWay Just what do you consider white, I'm a Scot and a beed apart from the english. I'm a Celt they ate anglo/saxon.

@maturin1919 That's like clubbing together parrots and frogs, well they are both green. You need to study genetics and evolution. Skin colour changes as peoples migrate. Earliest briton found was black.

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