"Don't you people like spicy food?" - Questions people ask each other about race.

[Bucky]

Attention all humans. Prepare to meet your stupid ==> http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/05/24/186513199/the-questions-people-get-asked-about-their-race

(except #56, which is pretty funny)

[Le Taz Hot]

1. I got asked by a young Hispanic

lady a few weeks back if I ever had ever had a Tamale. I was incredulous. I'm in CA, btw.

[Xipe Totec]

3. To be fair, the first time they handed Gerald Ford a tamale, he tried to eat it husk and all. nt

[Le Taz Hot]

4. But this is CALIFORNIA.

Hamburgers and tamales are on equal footing here.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Point taken

Funny, you don't look Californian...

[Le Taz Hot]

6. LOL. Well, actually I do.

I kinda never got out of the 60's and yes I still have tie-dye T-shirts and still wear long skirts and yes, I'm a macrame artist. Goddess, I'm SUCH a cliche'.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Wow, you're Mexican? Really? Are you sure?

I get that a lot.

[Bucky]

10. Ha! Like there's a treatment.

[REP]

7. "I didn't know white people got ashy skin"

Some of us do - and how. I often look like I'm wearing white velvet tights.

When I get asked questions about "white people" hair, skin, whatever, it's never in a rude way though; these encounters are always sort of fun lotion-and-conditioner-tip swap fests.

[ZombieHorde]

8. "Does your skin taste like chocolate?"

Sounds like a come on to me.

[a la izquierda]

9. I get the Native American question all the time.

I have very high cheekbones. My mother has some Sicilian and Spanish blood, so I'm dark for a "white" person.

One time, an anthropologist refused to believe I wasn't indigenous...sigh.

[LadyHawkAZ]

11. My ex has people walk up to him all the time at work

and start speaking to him in Spanish. He is half German Jewish and half Korean, which has given him a tawny-skinned, dark-haired look that I called "generically ethnic": he said he's been mistaken for a local in Turkey, Greece and Mexico. But the Spanish thing really bugs him. He does not speak Spanish, and it happens a LOT. He's started answering them in his broken Korean. He tells me their facial expressions are priceless.

[laundry_queen]

13. LOL that would be funny.

My SIL always gets the 'of course you can dance, you're BLACK!' when she says she doesn't want to dance because she's not good at it.

A friend of mine in school once had to sit through a prof go on and on to her about how much he loved the Philippines and how her people, Filipinos, were the best workers. My friend is a Muslim from Saudi Arabia.

[olddots]

12. Sorry about this joke

how do you recognize the republicans at a Chinese restaurant ? they're the ones not sharing their food .

[HiPointDem]

14. i think making a big deal out of these kinds of things is dumb.

not saying anyone here is making a big deal, just that i think people who do are behaving foolishly.