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How White are you?
« on: February 01, 2012, 07:27:47 pm »
Apparently according to Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute,  I am not in-tune with White Culture.  http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=how-thick-is-your-bubble

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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2012, 07:34:58 pm »
"White culture"

Also known as: "the entirety of mainstream western culture."

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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2012, 07:41:10 pm »
Okay, starting up the quiz.  I'm predicting I'm gonna come up pretty white on this.  Were I any more whitebread, I'd have Wonder tattooed on my forehead in big red letters.

EDIT:  10 out of 20.  A little surprised.
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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2012, 07:48:01 pm »
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On a scale from 0 to 20 points, where 20 signifies full engagement with mainstream American culture and 0 signifies deep cultural isolation within the new upper class bubble, you scored between 5 and 8.

In other words, you can see through your bubble, but you need to get out more.

Personal opinion: bullshit. Jobs that are painful, being in parades, and having friends who have political differences or don't do well in school are not white-only phenomena.

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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2012, 07:55:11 pm »
This quiz is such bullshit. Apparently this asshat thinks that "white culture" depends on how much you conform to the stereotype of a WASP.

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On a scale from 0 to 20 points, where 20 signifies full engagement with mainstream American culture and 0 signifies deep cultural isolation within the new upper class bubble, you scored between 5 and 8.

In other words, you can see through your bubble, but you need to get out more.

Don't tell me what to do, asshole.

(By the way, this is also the man who co-authored The Bell Curve, which says that race influences intelligence.)
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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2012, 07:59:12 pm »
Okay, starting up the quiz.  I'm predicting I'm gonna come up pretty white on this.  Were I any more whitebread, I'd have Wonder tattooed on my forehead in big red letters.

EDIT:  10 out of 20.  A little surprised.

You did worse than me I got a 12

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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2012, 08:02:51 pm »
Apparently I have an upper class bubble. Well, that is a joke! Class ain’t got a thing to do with any isolation I might have!

So you aren’t engaged if you don’t watch NASCAR or Oprah? ::)
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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2012, 08:03:15 pm »
I got the same thing Smurfette got. I really don't understand how these things are "white" things?? But this is some jackass from AEI trying to sell his dumb ass book. Also I don't know if any of you guys know it, but AEI is a thinktank that is somewhat conservative in nature, so this bs isn't all that shocking.

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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2012, 09:11:39 pm »
I got a 5/20, apparently, I "need to get around more."  This thing needs more options, if nothing else...have I been to a parade or rally that wasn't a gay pride parade or such?  I've never been to a parade or rally, period.  Seriously, never.

But, I'm gonna join the chorus and call this test pure and utter bullshit.  I don't give a fuck about race...I'm white, I'm American, but that shit don't matter.  I'm human.
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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2012, 09:22:03 pm »
I care about race because it's a matter of heritage, but seriously, this guy's an ass. Are gay people suddenly not white?

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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2012, 09:56:42 pm »
This quiz did not ask nearly enough about trees.

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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2012, 10:41:32 pm »
Y'know what's weird? I got 4 out of 20, but the thing at the bottom says I got between 5 and 8.


Of course, any score I get is meaningless because the questions are designed with the assumption that the taker is American.
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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2012, 10:43:46 pm »
4/20, but the result was:

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On a scale from 0 to 20 points, where 20 signifies full engagement with mainstream American culture and 0 signifies deep cultural isolation within the new upper class bubble, you scored between 5 and 8.

I'll admit I was confused with a few of the questions on whether to say yes or no on.
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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2012, 10:56:16 pm »
On a scale of one to shit test, this comes out pretty well on the shit test end of things. If someone has a fridge stocked with mass amounts of some shitty beer, do you really expect them to remember what a nascar driver looks like? If so they are not watching the race correctly.

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Re: How White are you?
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2012, 11:25:31 pm »
I wish I knew why this thing bugged me so much. I usually don’t get this angry over something so trivial.
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