White people- Are you ever offended by being called "white"?

Question

as if you have no ethnic background. Is there a more p. c. term?

Answer 1

Personally I like "cracker". They are light and crispy oh and sometimes buttery mmmmmm.

My skin has alot of red in it but my family tree goes through Europe and into Prussia and down into Turkey.

I do hate having to fill in the "white non Hispanic" bubble on questionares.

I think the catagories that we come up with for each other are often completely silly, but it doesn't offend me.

Answer 2

I'm not offended.  I don't really care.  I am what I am.  I don't think it means I have no ethnic background at all.

I guess European American would be a more pc term just as African American is more pc than black.

Answer 3

sheesh long answers.

no im not.

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Answer 4

Yes. Why do I need to be singled out? Does it matter?  

Answer 5

I agree with the other answer. My skin tone does not define me.

I am apache but look like I am white. I dont care. I am of the human race, deserving of love and respect as much as the next person.  

Answer 6

h**l Yes!

I'm not white....more a honey brown tan with some very strategically  placed freckles on my hairy butt. Though some parts of me are very white and I think it would be offensive to anyone to show those.

Answer 7

I don't mind being called white although my skin is actually a pink or peach tone.

Answer 8

Thanks for asking.

I'm not offended at all. It's what I am. I don't tell people I'm an Irish American. (unless they ask).

I'm also a singer - recently my sister and I sang at church and several black people came up to us and said "you two have got to have some black in you". I wasn't offended by that either. It was just a way for them to say we nailed the style of the songs.  

Answer 9

Um, yeah!  Who says "white people" don't have an ethnicity, huh?  If everyone else is going to be a hyphenated American, why can't I?  I could call myself an Anglo-Frankish American.  That should be PC enough for all these PCers.  Or maybe they should stop referring to us as having "white" skin and say we are pink or pale or something...

Actually, I'm just joking here.  I don't really care that much what anyone calls me.

Answer 10

How can u not have a backround???Eevrybody does..And white is just the color of my skin.    

Answer 11

There are many shades of white. You have to be particular. Or they might take offense.  

Answer 12

Personally I don't mind being called white.

When scientists talk about 'white' people they usually refer to them as Caucasian.

This is from Wikipedia:

The term Caucasian survives along with the similar classification "white" in many sociological studies. It is also retained with the corresponding terms ******* and Mongoloid in a scientific sense in biological anthropology.

The term "Caucasian" originated as one of the racial categories developed in the 19th century by people studying craniology. It was derived from the region of the Caucasus mountains[5]. The 18th century German philosopher Christoph Meiners first named the concept of the Caucasian race.

And by definition from the Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006:

Caucasian or Caucasoid

Adjective

of the predominantly light-skinned racial group of humankind

Noun

a member of this group

Answer 13

I'm offended because I'm actually olive-colored.  I'm part Japanese, but I don't look as Asian as someone who is full-blooded Japanese.  I don't like being labeled, but being improperly labeled is the worst.

Answer 14

i dont think black people are offended if you refer to them as black...its the same with white people. its only as way of describing the person as in tall, short, big, small etc

Answer 15

Not a problem.  

Why should anyone care what my ethnic background is?

My skin tone does not define me.

Answer 16

Being called white does not bother me.  I refer to other folks as black or Hispanic.  It is not racist but descriptive.

Answer 17

I have been called a lot worse names! Seriously, it doesn't bother me, cause, gee, in fact I am white. That is no more offensive to me than being called a male. But then, I am generally not offended by what other people say or do.

Answer 18

No, but I've never been called "white" - or not for the last thirty years or so.

I am Australian, and most questions wanting to know your skin colour are illegal here.

The only way in which talking about your racial origin may be acceptable is if you are researching your family history, and then colour doesn't come into it.

I am Celtic-Australian, so I am sort of pink.If someone asked me on the phone, for example, was I white, i would say"only in the winter!"

Answer 19

I have never been offended by being called white.  

Answer 20

I've been addressed as follows: 'You'se not white; you pink!.'

White is a relative term, just like Black. Calling a cafe-au-lait person Black seems misplaced. I prefer European-American and African-American. But American should be enough, don't you think?

Answer 21

I don't think that it has to do with color of skin.

- Tanned caucasians are still called white.

-  Pale Asians and Hispanics are not called white.

- Michael Jackson is still called black

Answer 22

No, I don't care. I is what I is. I'm not a fan of PC.

Answer 23

No problem. i can't expect someone to know my heritage by just looking at me.