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Fudge
04-30-2014, 11:07 PM
How about Nicolas Batum? Boris Diaw?

Inferno
04-30-2014, 11:08 PM
Batum and Parker are half

b1imtf
04-30-2014, 11:08 PM
Chocolate milk.

Smook A.
04-30-2014, 11:09 PM
Half Black
Half Dutch

Dresta
04-30-2014, 11:12 PM
Half Black
Half French
:roll:

KOBEtherealKing
04-30-2014, 11:12 PM
He's black and Dutch, from France. He could identify as black, he could put black as his race/ethnicity on those check boxes because he is or he could put white. If I were to look at him, he looks more like a light skinned black man.

Edit: all of them look black tbh.

JohnMax
04-30-2014, 11:13 PM
Curry is Whiter

http://www.basketusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/curry-parker.jpg

Smook A.
04-30-2014, 11:15 PM
:roll:
Actually half black half dutch

http://ethnicelebs.com/tony-parker

Idk why you think that's funny

PickernRoller
04-30-2014, 11:16 PM
Milk and coffee?

RoundMoundOfReb
04-30-2014, 11:17 PM
Generally, if they have curly hair they're black.

Fudge
04-30-2014, 11:20 PM
Generally, if they have curly hair they're black.
Gotcha. So Kirk Hinrich is black?

Dresta
04-30-2014, 11:20 PM
Actually half black half dutch

http://ethnicelebs.com/tony-parker

Idk why you think that's funny
I thought you were making a joke, but turns out you're actually just stupid. Saying someone is half black and half french doesn't make any sense considering that black is a skin colour and french a nationality.



He's black and Dutch, from France. He could identify as black, he could put black as his race/ethnicity on those check boxes because he is or he could put white. If I were to look at him, he looks more like a light skinned black man.

Edit: all of them look black tbh.
:biggums:

Dresta
04-30-2014, 11:21 PM
Gotcha. So Kirk Hinrich is black?
Nah, just a dark skinned white man.

RoundMoundOfReb
04-30-2014, 11:21 PM
Gotcha. So Kirk Hinrich is black?
http://www.menudobol.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/kirk-hinrich-chicago.jpeg

Not really curly.

moe94
04-30-2014, 11:22 PM
Jews confirmed brothas

TheReal Kendall
04-30-2014, 11:24 PM
Only on ISH :facepalm

deja vu
04-30-2014, 11:29 PM
No, he's brown.

Fudge
04-30-2014, 11:34 PM
No, he's brown.
So he's East Indian or Asian?

deja vu
04-30-2014, 11:35 PM
So he's East Indian or Asian?
There are white, black and brown Asians. :confusedshrug:

Fudge
04-30-2014, 11:36 PM
There are white, black and brown Asians. :confusedshrug:
But Asians are generally brown, though.

He might have some Indian in him too.

rmt
04-30-2014, 11:40 PM
Parker was born in Belgium but raised in France. His mother is white, and his father is black.

Fudge
04-30-2014, 11:41 PM
Parker was born in Belgium but raised in France. His mother is white, and his father is black.
Ok, thx

rmt
04-30-2014, 11:41 PM
But Asians are generally brown, though.

He might have some Indian in him too.

Asians are not generally brown. One quarter of the world's population is Chinese.

Fudge
04-30-2014, 11:43 PM
Asians are not generally brown. One quarter of the world's population is Chinese.
And they're brown.

rmt
05-01-2014, 12:14 AM
And they're brown.

Are you joking? Chinese are not brown - they're yellow.

Fudge
05-01-2014, 12:17 AM
Are you joking? Chinese are not brown - they're yellow.
White, blacks, browns are the 3 types of skin colours. You round that yellow to brown.

Marchesk
05-01-2014, 12:27 AM
There are white, black and brown Asians. :confusedshrug:

There are white Africans and black Australians.

What do you call a white African who's a naturalized American? Is he/she African American?

Marchesk
05-01-2014, 12:28 AM
Asians are not generally brown. One quarter of the world's population is Chinese.

Hello, India has like 1/5th and they're part of Asia.

Marchesk
05-01-2014, 12:29 AM
Are you joking? Chinese are not brown - they're yellow.

Nobody's actually white, black, yellow or red. Unless they're albino or sun burned.

I had this thought. What if we all woke up tomorrow with green skin? How would that change things?

Im Still Ballin
05-01-2014, 12:29 AM
is OP a faqqit???

yes.

chocolatethunder
05-01-2014, 12:34 AM
Asians are not generally brown. One quarter of the world's population is Chinese.
Where exactly is India on your world map genius? It's funny but in the US "Asian" means someone who looks Chinese/Japanese etc but in the UK the term refers more to Indians/Pakistanis.

Marchesk
05-01-2014, 12:37 AM
Where exactly is India on your world map genius? It's funny but in the US "Asian" means someone who looks Chinese/Japanese etc but in the UK the term refers more to Indians/Pakistanis.

It's interesting how we have these mental labels. You know who else is Asian? A large part of Russia.

If a Russian from Siberia imigrates to North America and naturalizes, are they Asian American? What if it's a black Indian?

Anyway, it's all silly. Everyone starts out female in the womb and we all came out of Africa.

Big#50
05-01-2014, 02:02 AM
He is lucky he got to play with Duncan.

Manila
05-01-2014, 02:06 AM
is michael jackson black?

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 02:40 AM
I thought you were making a joke, but turns out you're actually just stupid. Saying someone is half black and half french doesn't make any sense considering that black is a skin colour and french a nationality.



:biggums:
"Nationality" is somewhat ambiguous, but just to simplify it... French IS indeed an ethnicity. The French people have an indigenous land, culture and language.

I'm not sure exactly what you're doing. There's this weird idea that all groups are ethnic except whites. You would never say that Indians or Persians or Koreans aren't ethnicities. You would understand fully well that Koreans, Han Chinese and Japanese are separate Asian ethnicities. The same applies to Europeans.

Maybe you're just accustomed to America where all Europeans are mixed together and all speak the English people's language.

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 02:50 AM
There are white Africans and black Australians.

What do you call a white African who's a naturalized American? Is he/she African American?
No, because in America especially, group names frequently don't have literal meanings.

African immigrants aren't typically considered "African American". That name is typically used to mean generic "black" descendants of the slave trade.

A Nigerian person who comes to America isn't generally considered an "African American". They are Nigerian American. Just as there are no "European Americans". They are classified by specific ethnic origin like Irish American or Italian American. African Americans don't know their specific ethnic or National origins. They are a mix of various Western african groups.

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 03:05 AM
It's interesting how we have these mental labels. You know who else is Asian? A large part of Russia.

If a Russian from Siberia imigrates to North America and naturalizes, are they Asian American? What if it's a black Indian?

Anyway, it's all silly. Everyone starts out female in the womb and we all came out of Africa.
This is a misunderstanding of human development.

We all start out visually indistinguishable =/= we all start out female.

Big#50
05-01-2014, 03:08 AM
It's interesting how we have these mental labels. You know who else is Asian? A large part of Russia.

If a Russian from Siberia imigrates to North America and naturalizes, are they Asian American? What if it's a black Indian?

Anyway, it's all silly. Everyone starts out female in the womb and we all came out of Africa.
**** You. You came from Africa, you African bootyscratcher.

Marchesk
05-01-2014, 03:09 AM
This is a misunderstanding of human development.

We all start out visually indistinguishable =/= we all start out female.

http://www.livescience.com/32467-why-do-men-have-nipples.html

The Genesis story has it backwards. Moses was male, so he inverted the story. Eve came first. You think she didn't know what she was doing with that apple? Her and the snake were pals before Adam came along.

Marchesk
05-01-2014, 03:11 AM
**** You. You came from Africa, you African bootyscratcher.

Yeah, and I got Neanderthal genes in me too. So do you, unless you're sub-Saharan.

Verticality
05-01-2014, 03:13 AM
Does the OP think you can't be black and French at the same time? :confusedshrug:

Verticality
05-01-2014, 03:17 AM
This is a misunderstanding of human development.

We all start out visually indistinguishable =/= we all start out female.

They say that because there isn't a Y chromosome yet.

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 03:21 AM
Does the OP think you can't be black and French at the same time? :confusedshrug:
Can you be black and Chinese at the same time?

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 03:23 AM
They say that because there isn't a Y chromosome yet.
Do some quick research. You will find how absurd what you just said is.

Male DNA = you're a male.

Dresta
05-01-2014, 03:49 AM
"Nationality" is somewhat ambiguous, but just to simplify it... French IS indeed an ethnicity. The French people have an indigenous land, culture and language.

I'm not sure exactly what you're doing. There's this weird idea that all groups are ethnic except whites. You would never say that Indians or Persians or Koreans aren't ethnicities. You would understand fully well that Koreans, Han Chinese and Japanese are separate Asian ethnicities. The same applies to Europeans.

Maybe you're just accustomed to America where all Europeans are mixed together and all speak the English people's language.
Not really: France contains a collection of ethnicities, and its national borders have been shifting around for centuries, and the French are a vast mix of former ethnicities also. American has as much a claim to ethnicity as French does (if you are going to define it so broadly), but calling someone half black and half french doesn't make any sense when plenty of people who are black are also French and have no other nationality. There are also clear ethnic divides within France: they are pretty Germanic in Strasbourg, and swarthier in Toulouse, but they are all still French (the culture also is different). Moreover, this thread was clearly asking about the racial ancestry of Tony Parker, not what his cultural heritage was, so i don't know what you're arguing.

Persians are an ethnicity, but Iranian nationality is not necessarily, because Iran also includes a large number of Kurds. There will be many in India and Pakistan who are of the same ethnicity despite being from different countries. Honestly, how can you think a nation defines ethnicity when the borders of countries have been so arbitrarily drawn? Was Yugoslavia a single ethnicity before it split, and now is it many? Was it both?

Regardless, in the context he used it, saying someone is 'half black, half French' doesn't make sense, those are two different classifications, lying on different spectrums. The definitions are vague and ambiguous anyway so you are effectively arguing semantics, pointlessly i might add.

You wouldn't call a mixed race person who lives in the US 'half black, half American' would you? How about 'half black, half white, and half American?'

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 05:08 AM
Persians are an ethnicity, but Iranian nationality is not necessarily, because Iran also includes a large number of Kurds.
Well, Iran is only slightly above 50% Persian. There's no confusion though because the ethnic group and the state have different names. Most states have gone the other route though. Many states share the name with its indigenous people. Most of Europe has done this.

Example. The Romanian people. The language of the Romanian people is simply called the Romanian language. The Romanian people's land is called Romania. This is the general custom in Europe.

Italian people, Italian language, land of Italia.
Irish people, irish language, Ireland.
Polish people, polish language, Poland.

Each ethnic group governs its own land.

The confusion comes in when somebody immigrates to a country with this kind of labelling. You might become a citizen of the Greek state, but you're not one of the Greek people. You'll never be ethnically Greek.

I can move to Iran. I can become an Iranian, but I'll never be a Persian.

9512
05-01-2014, 06:06 AM
The French are claiming tony parker as their own is strictly a way to stick it to the USA.

The French view the USA as their arch nemesis. Secretly or maybe not, they want to upstage the us because the rest of the world envy, love, or hate the US (depending if you love aermcians movies or hate their foreign policy as a Muslim).

Murica makes the most flashy movies, have the loudest bling bling, etc...no one (especially mainstream Americans) gives a crap about France's culture, french movies, cuisine, etc... Except pretentious americans hipsters...

I saw tony Parker's documentary and it sounds to me he is trying to corner the French market to himself not unlike Jeremy Lin w/ the Asian community all over the world. French journalists say parker would win a bigger fan following if his name was "minaudou" (the French olympic swimmers) because "parker" it's too "ricain" (en fran

BoutPractice
05-01-2014, 06:35 AM
Parker is French by law, was raised in France, feels French, plays for the French national team. Of all the arbitrary "boxes" you could put him in (and they are indeed arbitrary up to a point, but they are also meaningful otherwise they wouldn't exist), "Frenchness" is the one that works best.

9512
05-01-2014, 06:42 AM
Arbitrary boxes only exist for legal or immigration reasons (and we all know every1 respects the law) and for people who needs their world to be nicely organized in their own little heads.

Creating those boxes are what led to conflicts and wars in this world. French, American, dutch, Senegal, Muslim, catholic, judaism, gay straight...lmao silly humans...

MJ(Mean John)
05-01-2014, 06:43 AM
That's funny. Half black, half French.

C'mon ISH. We that Ignant on here ?

MJ(Mean John)
05-01-2014, 06:51 AM
Anywhoo.

Parker's father is American with African decent.
Parker's mother is Dutch.


Parker was born+raises in France,

Verticality
05-01-2014, 06:54 AM
Can you be black and Chinese at the same time?

Yes :confusedshrug:

Verticality
05-01-2014, 06:55 AM
Parker is French by law, was raised in France, feels French, plays for the French national team. Of all the arbitrary "boxes" you could put him in (and they are indeed arbitrary up to a point, but they are also meaningful otherwise they wouldn't exist), "Frenchness" is the one that works best.

I've never touched a French before, what do they feel like?

9512
05-01-2014, 06:56 AM
I've never touched a French before, what do they feel like?

Warm, moist, and slippery kinda like a snail...or frog!:roll:

9512
05-01-2014, 07:05 AM
Anywhoo.

Parker's father is American with African decent.
Parker's mother is Dutch.


Parker was born+raises in France,

Tony was born in Bruges, Belgium. But I believe it is located in the French speaking part (south) of Belgium.

Interestingly, tony endorses a French- Belgian fast food chain called quick. A euro version of McDonald's & just as unhealthy!

He also endorses Renault a French car.

It's french endorsement galore for him. He is like the Jeremy Lin of France. :roll: French people only care for the NBA if tony is doing well.

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 08:17 AM
That's funny. Half black, half French.

C'mon ISH. We that Ignant on here ?
It's not "ignant". If he said "half black, half Japanese" you wouldn't think twice about it. If he said "half black, half Irish" or "half black half Italian" you probably wouldn't think twice about it either. What's so different about being half French?

fragokota
05-01-2014, 08:40 AM
Can you be black and Chinese at the same time?
http://www.daylol.com/images/2012/October/23/508704cd75c1d.jpg

AussieG
05-01-2014, 09:38 AM
USA is a weird country where everything is mixed..

Black.. white.. who cares. All just people.

Grizzlies blog is called 3 Shades of Blue. USA = 101 shades of black.

davehos
05-01-2014, 10:04 AM
Stupid threads like this are what's killing this forum.


What is relevant?

Q) Can person X play ball?
A) That's all that matters.

9512
05-01-2014, 10:08 AM
Stupid threads like this are what's killing this forum.


What is relevant?

Q) Can person X play ball?
A) That's all that matters.

Agreed and lol people actually fight violently for pride of nationality. Lol wait until world cup sokkker this summer...watch fist fights amongst those blind sheep to their own countries...

Yes tony parker is proud to be a slave of a culture, country, flag, etc...

"libert

tmacattack33
05-01-2014, 10:24 AM
How about Nicolas Batum? Boris Diaw?

This (Parker's race) is one of the big questions i ponder in life. If I had to guess I would say he's some type of mix.

Batum and Diaw seem pretty black to me, I never even doubted that or thought about it with them :confusedshrug:

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 10:26 AM
Tony Parker looks like he could be related to Herman Van Rompuy... Also Belgian.

Nikola_
05-01-2014, 10:30 AM
Half black/half <insert nationality>

rhowen4
05-01-2014, 10:40 AM
white/yellow asians: chinese, japanese, korean, vietnamese
brown asians: filipino (by some), indonesian

i think of indians as indians, who are brown. i didnt know people in the UK consider them asian. are eastern russians asian too?

TP is half black

BoutPractice
05-01-2014, 10:44 AM
Arbitrary boxes only exist for legal or immigration reasons (and we all know every1 respects the law) and for people who needs their world to be nicely organized in their own little heads.

Maybe you're right, and I personally don't care much for nationalism or even exaggerated patriotism, but many people do need their world nicely organized, and as a general rule people are less stupid than you believe (or to be more specific the gap between their stupidity and your own is much smaller). Not believing in nationality (something which doesn't require much thought or effort) shouldn't give you a right to feel "superior" in any way. I'm terribly sorry but we're all "silly humans" and "blind sheep", you included. At the end of the day the joke's on all of us.


Creating those boxes are what led to conflicts and wars in this world. French, American, dutch, Senegal, Muslim, catholic, judaism, gay straight...lmao silly humans...

No. Conflicts are a completely unavoidable part of human nature, just like the boxes are. If the world was full of people just like you, you would still find a way to fight to death over arbitrary distinctions. Even if religions, nations, etc. somehow all die, which I strongly doubt, we'll find a suitable replacement in no time.

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 10:56 AM
Maybe you're right, and I personally don't care much for nationalism or even exaggerated patriotism.
You would if you didn't have the privilege of benefitting from it without earning it. Civilized society has been handed to you. It's been taken care of by others.

I enjoy very much living in the civilized part of the world. I enjoy my people having freedom and being able to govern themselves as they see fit. I'm very proud of the society we have created for ourselves. My society is indeed superior to others and it's very important that we understand and appreciate what we have so we're fiercely protective of keeping it.

deja vu
05-01-2014, 11:10 AM
http://www.daylol.com/images/2012/October/23/508704cd75c1d.jpg
Looks shopped. :roll:

chocolatethunder
05-01-2014, 01:02 PM
Depends where you're from. In most places in the world no one would label him anything except "human". In America though, where its so important if youre black/white/yellow/jew/gay etc he'd probly be labelled "black".

I dont know why Americans care so much about color. Hes a dude born in France to a Belgian (ethnically Wallachian/Dutch) mother and an African-American father. If he was living in Latin America hed be labelled a "Mulatto" (Mixed-background). Sometimes I wish the US was more like Latin America where color isnt important
The US is a nation of immigrants which is why people identify with ethnicities so much here, as they do in other countries of immigrants. That's why you'll find places like Chinatown and Koreatown and Little Italy etc. I have lived abroad and traveled all over the world and this happens in plenty of other countries. Take Argentina for example. I have Argentine friends who are of Italian descent and identify strongly as both. I have Polish Argentine friends who are the same way and grew up speaking Polish in Argentina. This happens all over the place. Look at the Chinese in Thailand. Look at the Palestinians in Lebanon. They've been there since 1948 so you're talking 60+ years and they indentify as Palestinians.

People always alway find a way to distinguish themselves from each other. Look at the Masai and Kalenjin in Kenya. This is natural. It's unfortunate and annoying but this is human nature. It doesn't seem to serve anyone well but it's how humans interact.

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 01:12 PM
The US is a nation of immigrants which is why people identify with ethnicities so much here, as they do in other countries of immigrants. That's why you'll find places like Chinatown and Koreatown and Little Italy etc. I have lived abroad and traveled all over the world and this happens in plenty of other countries. Take Argentina for example. I have Argentine friends who are of Italian descent and identify strongly as both. I have Polish Argentine friends who are the same way and grew up speaking Polish in Argentina. This happens all over the place. Look at the Chinese in Thailand. Look at the Palestinians in Lebanon. They've been there since 1948 so you're talking 60+ years and they indentify as Palestinians.

People always alway find a way to distinguish themselves from each other. Look at the Masai and Kalenjin in Kenya. This is natural. It's unfortunate and annoying but this is human nature. It doesn't seem to serve anyone well but it's how humans interact.
How is it annoying? People speaking their own language, celebrating their own culture "annoys" you?

What the fcuk is wrong with you?

chocolatethunder
05-01-2014, 01:13 PM
How is it annoying? People speaking their own language, celebrating their own culture "annoys" you?

What the fcuk is wrong with you?
That's not annoying you moron. It's unfortunate that people feel the need to divide so often and so sharply. Get a grip *****.

9512
05-01-2014, 01:15 PM
Maybe you're right, and I personally don't care much for nationalism or even exaggerated patriotism, but many people do need their world nicely organized, and as a general rule people are less stupid than you believe (or to be more specific the gap between their stupidity and your own is much smaller). Not believing in nationality (something which doesn't require much thought or effort) shouldn't give you a right to feel "superior" in any way. I'm terribly sorry but we're all "silly humans" and "blind sheep", you included. At the end of the day the joke's on all of us.

Not believing in nationality will get you ostracized no matter where u live. Being ostracized is not that fun. And it sure doesn't make me feel superior. But rather relieved of not having to uphold or live up to any creed. I am part of planet earth and I have to suffer, laugh, & live w/in a society (in my case frigging France) where the group think is pretty " orgueilleux" against any1 who doesn't worship the beautiful france.



No. Conflicts are a completely unavoidable part of human nature, just like the boxes are. If the world was full of people just like you, you would still find a way to fight to death over arbitrary distinctions. Even if religions, nations, etc. somehow all die, which I strongly doubt, we'll find a suitable replacement in no time.

I don't disagree that discourse or conflicts are an unavoidable part of life on earth. But at the same time they've been raised (including myself) to live and think w/in a society where they think it is unavoidable. If u don't stand up for ur beliefs then u must be a weakling (un l

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 01:15 PM
That's not annoying you moron. It's unfortunate that people feel the need to divide so often and so sharply. Get a grip *****.
Marxist scum like you claim to promote "diversity" but you don't want diversity at all. You want uniformity.

NumberSix
05-01-2014, 01:18 PM
Not believing in nationality will get you ostracized no matter where u live. Being ostracized is not that fun. And it sure doesn't make me feel superior. But rather relieved of not having to uphold or live up to any creed. I am part of planet earth and I have to suffer, laugh, & live w/in a society (in my case frigging France) where the group think is pretty " orgueilleux" against any1 who doesn't worship the beautiful france.
http://www.************.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/marine-le-pen_245043k.jpg

FatComputerNerd
05-01-2014, 01:27 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4jhli55meM :banana:

9512
05-01-2014, 01:29 PM
http://www.************.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/marine-le-pen_245043k.jpg

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

Genaro
05-01-2014, 01:48 PM
I guess he's a mulatto. Diaw and Batum are black

chocolatethunder
05-01-2014, 03:19 PM
Marxist scum like you claim to promote "diversity" but you don't want diversity at all. You want uniformity.
Ok honestly, I actually kinda like your trolling. 9/10

rmt
05-01-2014, 03:33 PM
white/yellow asians: chinese, japanese, korean, vietnamese
brown asians: filipino (by some), indonesian

i think of indians as indians, who are brown. i didnt know people in the UK consider them asian. are eastern russians asian too?

TP is half black

To me:

light/yellow Asians: Chinese, Japanese Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indonesian, Russians, Kazakhstan (2 of my friends adopted from this country - kids are a mixture of Russian/Chinese - white/yellow - very attractive kids as most mixes are).

dark Asians: India, Pakistan

Don't think TP thinks of himself as black or white but as French. Same as me, I consider myself Jamaican (first) and then Chinese. I look Chinese, but don't speak Chinese. Never been to China, but I do eat a lot of Chinese food.

stephanieg
05-01-2014, 04:36 PM
Sometimes I wish the US was more like Latin America where color isnt important

That's why Latin rulers, elites, and super models trend towards lily white and all the poor people are brown.

KOBEtherealKing
05-01-2014, 04:44 PM
I thought you were making a joke, but turns out you're actually just stupid. Saying someone is half black and half french doesn't make any sense considering that black is a skin colour and french a nationality.



:biggums:

not sure why youre using :biggums: ... black people come in different shades. I have light to medium to dark cousins. If you were to ask me if tony parker looked mixed, i would say no (even though he is), but still he looks like a regular black man just lighter. I would say the same for steph and seth curry. but not for klay and blake, because they look obviously "mixed".

Fudge
05-01-2014, 04:46 PM
So... Tony Parker is... white?

Euroleague
05-02-2014, 05:07 PM
It's interesting how we have these mental labels. You know who else is Asian? A large part of Russia.

If a Russian from Siberia imigrates to North America and naturalizes, are they Asian American? What if it's a black Indian?

Anyway, it's all silly. Everyone starts out female in the womb and we all came out of Africa.

No one except Americans call Russians Asians. Everywhere else they are deemed as Europeans. It's just another example of Americans being morons.

Euroleague
05-02-2014, 05:10 PM
Well, Iran is only slightly above 50% Persian. There's no confusion though because the ethnic group and the state have different names. Most states have gone the other route though. Many states share the name with its indigenous people. Most of Europe has done this.

Example. The Romanian people. The language of the Romanian people is simply called the Romanian language. The Romanian people's land is called Romania. This is the general custom in Europe.

Italian people, Italian language, land of Italia.
Irish people, irish language, Ireland.
Polish people, polish language, Poland.

Each ethnic group governs its own land.

The confusion comes in when somebody immigrates to a country with this kind of labelling. You might become a citizen of the Greek state, but you're not one of the Greek people. You'll never be ethnically Greek.

I can move to Iran. I can become an Iranian, but I'll never be a Persian.

Yes you will. Greece changed their laws back. Now once again it is like it used to be. No one can ever attain citizenship, or even a passport, unless they have complete Greek ethnicity.

StephHamann
05-02-2014, 05:10 PM
No one except Americans calls Russians Asians. Everywhere else they are deemed as Europeans. It's just another example of Americans being morons.

:facepalm

oarabbus
05-02-2014, 05:12 PM
I guess he's a mulatto. Diaw and Batum are black


I believe the politically correct term is "octoroon"

whitetext tho

Euroleague
05-02-2014, 05:13 PM
:facepalm

Like this moron right here.

oarabbus
05-02-2014, 05:16 PM
Like this moron right here.


I'm American, 90% of the people I know are American, and NOT ONE considers Russians "Asian" :confusedshrug:


Except in the sense of "Hey guys, isn't it weird that 80% of the land mass of Russia is technically in Asia? Strange right?" but Russians are still full Euro.

Euroleague
05-02-2014, 05:21 PM
I'm American, 90% of the people I know are American, and NOT ONE considers Russians "Asian" :confusedshrug:


Except in the sense of "Hey guys, isn't it weird that 80% of the land mass of Russia is technically in Asia? Strange right?" but Russians are still full Euro.

You realize that half of USA does not consider the Bay Area to even be American right?

Jameerthefear
05-02-2014, 05:23 PM
You realize that half of USA does not consider the Bay Area to even be American right?
What the **** are you talking about?

oarabbus
05-02-2014, 05:24 PM
You realize that half of USA does not consider the Bay Area to even be American right?


No I don't realize. I literally have no clue what you're talking about

Euroleague
05-02-2014, 05:30 PM
What the **** are you talking about?

You ****ing idiots obviously have not traveled much. Ever hear of the term "flyover states"?

:rolleyes:

Half of the USA does not consider the East Coast or West Coast to even be part of the USA, or the "Homeland" or "Heartland" (NAZI terminology) as they put it.

Sure, in the Bay Area people might consider Russians to be Europeans, although I doubt the figure of 90% is even remotely right, because I used to live in California and I seriously doubt even 1/10 of people there could even point out Russia on a map...........

But the point is that people in the flyover states sure the **** don't consider them Europeans. They consider them as "commie bastards", "Ruskies", "Soviets", "commies", "communists", "Russian bastards", "Asians", etc.

And truth be told, that's at least what 1/3 of the people in California think too, not anything near what 1/10 of the people think. Unless you are living just in San Fran or something maybe, but even then I seriously doubt it.

People in USA anywhere are generally so ****ing stupid they have no ****ing clue what a Russian even is.

Euroleague
05-02-2014, 05:30 PM
No I don't realize. I literally have no clue what you're talking about

Well, that's because you are a ****ing moron.

oarabbus
05-02-2014, 06:07 PM
Well, that's because you are a ****ing moron.

No, it's because almost everything you said is wrong. You posted a bunch of ****ing garbage. How the **** would the USA have so many of the top universities worldwide if no one was intelligent here, idiot?

FatComputerNerd
05-02-2014, 06:18 PM
I'm American, 90% of the people I know are American, and NOT ONE considers Russians "Asian" :confusedshrug:


Except in the sense of "Hey guys, isn't it weird that 80% of the land mass of Russia is technically in Asia? Strange right?" but Russians are still full Euro.

This is not actually entirely accurate. Plenty of Russians are, but you will also find quite a few in Russia who do have a slightly Asiatic look to them. It's most noticeable in the eyes.

Russia is ridiculously ethnically diverse, other than the lack of Black people...lol.

Threethrows
05-02-2014, 06:53 PM
ISH doesn't know the difference between nationality, color and ethnicity :facepalm

oarabbus
05-02-2014, 06:56 PM
This is not actually entirely accurate. Plenty of Russians are, but you will also find quite a few in Russia who do have a slightly Asiatic look to them. It's most noticeable in the eyes.

Russia is ridiculously ethnically diverse, other than the lack of Black people...lol.


You are correct. I meant the "typical" Russian from the European part of the country, since that's where the population is concentrated. But point taken.