Darko posted:

Ehhhhh....

I would just say dress in a way in which you are comfortable that matches the general attitude of the kind of person you want. That's kind of overthinking things; there are no rules.

I do wear a lot of sports coats or suits in new situations, just to throw anyone around me off, not just about dating. That way I immediately establish myself as "not a ghetto black person but a professional one" and get better service, reaction, etc. wherever I go.

woke wedding drone posted:

Oh, hunting hunting LOL. Never mind

Doctor Butts posted:

I would have told the matchmaker you dress in comic book t-shirts because you're trying to attract nerdy white girls.

woke wedding drone posted:

Oh, hunting hunting LOL. Never mind

The Shortest Path posted:

I read that the same way you did because of the topic and wasn't sure how to call that out. Whoops.

The Shortest Path posted:

How else would you pronounce it? Mel-ay-nee-a?

But yeah that's the way it's pronounced in all the news things where I've heard her name.

7c Nickel posted:

As a white dude, do I have to wear a dashiki while in Negrotown?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBv3BKY_604

Nevvy Z posted:

Excuse me but that is a black character.

negromancer posted:

It was brought up that people don't get to choose their own names, BUT we as black people when we have ethnic names, just resign ourselves to correcting every ignorant white person that feels like being a jackass about their ethnic illiteracy, but Asians, specifically Chinese and Vietnamese, will make up a American name like Jake or Mike, when their real name is Nguyen or Han, and rather than make them call them by their actual name and put some respekt on it.\

negromancer posted:

If you look like this in one...





Then hell no.

highme posted:

Worked at a restaraunt with a Laotian guy years ago who changed his name to Phoukum when his family emigrated here, his given name was Bay. On the menu was "Phouk's quesadilla" and I was asked several times by old white dudes, trying to be discreet about it, "is this pronounced 'fucks'?".

negromancer posted:

Excuse me but you don't know colors.

negromancer posted:

I didn't want to assume a reason, it was just something I've noticed among specific Asian groups, and I haven't gotten around to formally learning Cantonese yet.

Baronjutter posted:

A lot of chinese people think that it's 100% genetically impossible for non-chinese to speak chinese or understand chinese culture, so they need to adopt a western name for interfacing with non-chinese people because it would be impossible to expect anyone who isn't chinese to say their name. It's just become a traditional thing now as all the english language and international student programs tell them they simply have to adopt a western name as part of the program, and for doing business with western people in future. I thought it was weird as well. I had a friend from Taiwan named Ming. Not a hard name to say. But he had a western name of Mitchell. We'd tell him to just use his real name, be proud of who he is and such, but in the end he just had to tell us he was really uncomfortable using his chinese name as that simply wasn't what the other chinese students did, all chinese students learning english and talking to foreigners always use a western name, to do otherwise was stressful and uncomfortable. We realized we were putting our culture surrounding names on him when he viewed names very differently. For us your name is your name, it's a deeply personal thing and someone refusing to use it or refusing to even try to pronounce it is insulting. For him and many of the chinese students, they did not see names the same way and felt very uncomfortable using their chinese name when interacting with non-chinese people.

Eej posted:

No point doing this when Hong Kong is gonna be erased off the map in our generation!


Dunno about Mandarin but for Cantonese speaking immigrants there's a couple things like HK being a British Colony so having an English name when interacting with the gwailo has been a thing for a while (also why, for example, there are probably more Chinese people named Clarence for example, than White people in any major city in Canada). Again, can't speak for experience for your Taiwanese friend here but in Canto, Ming has at least 3 different ways you can say it with different tones so you might say "Ming" with flat tone but this theoretically Cantonese Ming might actually be "Ming" with a rising tone and that would be a different word altogether. Sorta like calling someone named Tylor "Taylor" and being unable to tell the difference.

Another reason why most people don't bother using their Chinese names is that to say them right you have to code-switch into Cantonese pronounciation to say your name and then back to English which feels really unnatural. Upside to this is that it's super easy to do a fob impression if you just don't code-switch back.

Sorry for the China derail!

e: also there's a bit of "Western names will let me be taken more seriously in a professional manner" thing going on

The Shortest Path posted:

It's like that one middle-aged guy who always wears Hawai'ian shirts except so, so much worse.

negromancer posted:

Excuse me but you don't know colors.

boner confessor posted:

there's a whole dropped plotline from the third season which would have revealed that tobias is an extremely light skinned african american

negromancer posted:

I'm glad they dropped it then, because that would have crossed over from hilarious to hilariously offensive as gently caress.

Voyager I posted:

Crossover question from the Politoons thread: how hosed up is it when cartoonists consistently draw Obama with giant purple lips? It seems pretty hosed up to me.

The Shortest Path posted:

...How bad is Song of the South? My grandmother has mentioned it before as being one of her favorite Disney movies but I know literally nothing about it other than that one annoying song

The Shortest Path posted:

...How bad is Song of the South? My grandmother has mentioned it before as being one of her favorite Disney movies but I know literally nothing about it other than that one annoying song.

She's horrendously racist though, so I suppose that speaks for itself.

MC Smoke Sensei posted:

Thread, allow me to share this with you, from the bowels of *chan /pol/. I wanted to , and also note that I am diamond-hard at their rage. It has already begun. It might be an opinion poll, but I'm treating this as a fappetizer for the tears and mad to come.

Be advised, they say the n-word so fair warning

A Winner is Jew posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ak4vjiNzw

http://screencrush.com/song-of-the-south-racism/

A: really loving racist to the point where it was picketed in Harlem upon it's release.

MC Smoke Sensei posted:

4chan

The Shortest Path posted:

...How bad is Song of the South? My grandmother has mentioned it before as being one of her favorite Disney movies but I know literally nothing about it other than that one annoying song.

She's horrendously racist though, so I suppose that speaks for itself.

negromancer posted:

7c Nickel posted:

Dexo posted:

I'm tempted to set up a twitter bot that responds to every tweet I have in a twitter list with this image.

MC Smoke Sensei posted:

Thread, allow me to share this with you, from the bowels of *chan /pol/. I wanted to , and also note that I am diamond-hard at their rage. It has already begun. It might be an opinion poll, but I'm treating this as a fappetizer for the tears and mad to come.

Be advised, they say the n-word so fair warning

Dexo posted:

I'm tempted to set up a twitter bot that responds to every tweet I have in a twitter list with this image.