Race Quiz!Follow

4/16. That test is racist!

5/16

Which is odd, because I know for a fact Zack Morris is bad at math....

I got 7 out of 16 the first time. I approached it the opposite way. Assumed that the "trick" was that they were all some combination instead of a single backround (which I think only actually occured in one case that I can remember). Still managed to get a bunch wrong though, but on most I was just guessing anway...


It's a somewhat silly test IMO. Including such things as "latino" and "jewish"? Um... A latino is someone from a "latin country" (Pretty much anywhere in the Americas that is *not* the US or Canada). So if I were to move to mexico, my kids would be latino, regardless of what their ancestry is. You could be pure Native American, pure Spanish or Portuguese (which would be "white, of European decent", or pure African, but if you were born in say Honduras, you are a Latino/Latina.

Jewish is a damn religion. Not sure what that has to do with anything, or why not being able to see that someone's Jewish is some failure of racial recognition (hah. But I got that one right...).

Wow, gbaji. Your ignorance knows no limits. Jewish is both a religion and an ethnicity.

Your Score: You got 5 right out of 16 questions, for a score of 31 percent.

All Look Same, though old, was more fun!

And what, exactly, is an "ethnic Jew"? Heck. For that matter, what does "ethnic" mean in this context? Do you mean middle eastern? So if someone from the region around modern day Israel migrated to Europe during Roman times, interbred there for about say 1500 years, then migrated to America, then interbred some more, we're supposed to believe there is *any* connection to the original ethnicity, much less be expected to be able to tell this?

Um... What's the point again? It would be like me (or Joph) claiming Mongol ancestry because I'm a tiny bit Polish and a good amount of Mongol inbreeding occured there about 900 years ago...

The *only* relevant feature to being Jewish for something like 99.99% of Jews today is the religion. If their great great great great grandmother had converted to another religion, there would be nothing to indicate otherwise.

So if it's a semantics issue for you, then what moniker do you assign our brown-hued, dark-featured, sexy friends?

Oh, and the bolded bit just makes no sense to me after the previous two sentences, so please explain it to me with a minimum of two-thousand words.

And the same applies to every ethnicity on the planet. You're just trying to mask your ignorance of the Jews.

Not too bad, some of them were pretty hard ^ ^

Sure. And the second "Jewish" and "Latino" become indentifiable via physical characteristics, then I'll agree with you.

My entire objection was that the quiz is essentially asking us to identify things that have nothing to do with physical characteristics by looking at a picture of someone. It would be equally silly to ask what languages someone speaks by showing the same pictures. Jewish and Latino are cultural references, not racial. They are certainly not linked in any way to any physical characteristics, nor should anyone be expected to be able to identify them by looking at a photograph of someone.

And it has nothing to do with "doing poorly on the quiz". I got 7 right, which is above average for the group. Heck. I even got the jewish question right. Of course, I didn't get it right because I looked at the guy and thought "He looks jewish". I got it right because I figured they wouldn't have put it down as an option unless he was. I also assumed that they included that option in his case specifically because most people would assume that a black rapper would not be jewish. Oddly, you'll note that they didn't include any photos of guys in black suits with long curled hair sticking down the sides of their hats, with the option "jewish" under them. Wonder why that is?

It's testing stereotypes. And doing so in a very blatant and obvious (and silly!) way by deliberately picking people that wont "look" like the stereotype to most people. Kinda like the pale red haired woman who was part black. But specifically doing so invalidates the test. While the presumed objective is valid, "You can't judge someone based on what they look like", the method is annoying to me. I don't think we need bogus tests to explain to people why they shouldn't catagorize people based on how they look. I'd also even go so far as to suggest that by presenting this as a "quiz", it makes people think that they should endeavor to become better at differentiating people based on their appearance, when IMHO they really should be doing the exact opposite.

Way to miss the entire rest of the paragraph where I explain why their method of doing so is stupid. Whatever...