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You do have to wonder why people are restricting searches to their own 'ethnicity' whatever that means, in the first place. Why not just stick with the facts:
by axod 17y ago
You do have to wonder why people are restricting searches to their own 'ethnicity' whatever that means, in the first place.
Why not just stick with the facts:
* What color skin do you prefer [white / tan / bronze / dark ] etc
* What countries of origin are you interested in
[Africa / Jamaica / England / poland / ukraine etc etc
* What religion
I guess I just don't really understand what race/ethnicity actually means and why it's important to anyone. I don't know/care what my own 'race'/'ethnicity' is.
- slig 17y agoI don't get it either.
- defen 17y ago> I guess I just don't really understand what race/ethnicity actually means and why it's important to anyone. I don't know/care what my own 'race'/'ethnicity' is. It's fine if you don't know/care what your own ethnicity is, but to say that you don't understand why it's important to anyone strikes me as moral posturing, or an Asperger-level lack of empathy with other people. Some possible reasons why people may care about their own or their partner's ethnicity: 1) Knowing their susceptibility / children's susceptibility to genetic diseases. 2) Wanting their children to be raised in a certain culture 3) Wanting a partner with certain shared experiences/world view
- axod 17y agoThose are all good reasons. But I don't think trying to package that stuff up into a tag 'race/ethnicity' is useful.