Race

Wormwood · Jun 29, 2003

Our Group:

5 Whites, one Tcho-Tcho-American.

diaglo · Jun 30, 2003

Sixchan said:
Of course you don't ask! You can tell if someone is white by looking at their face!

i don't relate race to just the color of someone's skin.

i have a friend whose skin tone is "black". but he never says he is. he always says he is Panamanian.

i consider myself Filipino and Hispanic. yet my skin tone is "white," if you compare me to my sisters. you would call them "Of color".

i have gamed with Native Americans, Koreans, Chinese, Indians, Italians, Russians, Germans, etc...and that's just my friends. after eating at their house or with their parents or at my house or over my parents and discussing more than just gaming....etc...

EDIT: You game with stangers?

at conventions, when joining a new group, at the FLGS, etc...

doesn't everyone do this?

Agback · Jul 1, 2003

diaglo said:
(game with strangers)
doesn't everyone do this?

Apparently not. A lot of people are recruited into gaming by relatives, friends, and classmates, and spend most of their gaming careers in group of friend-who-game rather than gamers. And a lot of gamers don't go to cons, game days, or gaming clubs.

Regards,

Agback

s/LaSH · Jul 1, 2003

Double post. Ignore.

s/LaSH · Jul 1, 2003

We're not terrifically ethnically diverse, I'm afraid to say.

Then again, I don't get out much so there's precisely 3 of us that I considered, and we're all vaguely West European. Which is a majority around here, and statistically speaking, the composition isn't at all unusual.

(New Zealand, if you're interested. I reckon we're probably the last mass-settled country on the planet - 150 years ago there was a booming business in shipping British colonists here. The indigenous Maori were outnumbered quite a bit, I believe. Other immigration hasn't been fierce enough to edge us pakeha (white folks) out of the majority yet.)

Sixchan · Jul 1, 2003

diaglo said:
i don't relate race to just the color of someone's skin.

i have a friend whose skin tone is "black". but he never says he is. he always says he is Panamanian.

i consider myself Filipino and Hispanic. yet my skin tone is "white," if you compare me to my sisters. you would call them "Of color".

i have gamed with Native Americans, Koreans, Chinese, Indians, Italians, Russians, Germans, etc...and that's just my friends. after eating at their house or with their parents or at my house or over my parents and discussing more than just gaming....etc...

at conventions, when joining a new group, at the FLGS, etc...

doesn't everyone do this?

Nope. I've been to few conventions, all my groups have been close friends first, and my city doesn't have any FLGS'.

Tuerny · Jul 1, 2003

My group has three men (including myself) and three woman.

Racially we have 4 whites, one mixed (half-Portugese, half-Syrian; a guy), and one asian (a girl).

Mark Chance · Jul 1, 2003

s/LaSH said:
We're not terrifically ethnically diverse, I'm afraid to say.

Why be afraid to say it? It's not anything to be ashamed of, is it? There is, after all, no real virtue in having an "ethnically diverse" gaming group. It doesn't make Diverse Gamer superior.

My gaming group consists of upwards to nine people, although not everyone has ever showed up at once. Most of us are white. Bobby isn't. Neither is Scott, but he technically isn't part of the group anymore, so I guess we really only have eight players.

This mix was not by design. It is what I have to work with, and it works quite well. Since admitting to "ethnically diverse" gaming experiences is a "good thing," I have gamed with African-Americans, Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Puerto Ricans, Filipinos, and so on.

Interestingly, although my immediate family and my wife's immediate family are entirely white, a very large hunk of the overall extended family is not. Melting pot and all that.

s/LaSH · Jul 2, 2003

Mark Chance said:
Why be afraid to say it? It's not anything to be ashamed of, is it? There is, after all, no real virtue in having an "ethnically diverse" gaming group. It doesn't make Diverse Gamer superior.

I'm just terrified someone could look at me and call me a racist, which wouldn't be true, but I've got no way to prove it because my small circle of friends are largely just like me. I'm just paranoid about impossible things like that... or what I'd do if I accidentally travelled back in time to the Middle Ages with no technological support.

A boy scout's motto is 'always be prepared'. I've taken that to extremes and it makes me very nervous sometimes.

I'm A Banana · Jul 2, 2003

I'm lucky. I'm in Wisconsin, where the white flesh is as common as the farms, but I've got an amazing plurality of hot asian girls in my gaming group.

Go me!