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Regarding your feelings of wanting to be born White, I have to ask first and foremost why? What would you hope to accomplish by changing your race? Do you feel White? The reason I ask is that from my understanding, most people that go through some sort of gender reassignment surgery tend to feel that they actually are of the opposite gender and are trapped in a body that doesn’t reflect who they are. BWT, I’m not judging. This is merely a layman’s observation, so take it with a grain of salt, but I think one could make an argument that there is a difference between feeling like a man and feeling like a woman. There are both psychological and physiological factors that contribute to our gender roles in life, but do these exist in race? What does it feel like to be White? What does it feel like to be Black? How do we qualify feelings as Black or White (or anything else for that matter), and once we’ve qualified them, how do we quantify them? Are there feeling that are Whiter than others? Do you wake up in the morning and feel really, really White today; a step up from yesterday when you felt just a little bit White? I’m Hispanic, and I can tell you from my own experience that I’ve never had the feeling that I was being Hispanic; its just part of who I am. I can’t tell you what it feels like to be Hispanic, or how it differs from feeling White or Black because I’m not certain that such feelings exist (I’m not saying they don’t, but I don’t know that they do). Regarding a “race reassignment surgery”, there are a couple points to remember: First of all, race and ethnicity are more complicated than just physical characteristics and traits (genetics). There are many cultural issues that contribute to the way we see ourselves as members of a race and the way we see others who are not a part of it. Regardless of our skin tone, there isn’t a surgical procedure in the world that can change our customs, upbringing, etc. A “race reassignment” would only address the former and not the latter. Secondly, in terms of genetics and procreation a “race reassignment surgery” if it were to exist could possibly lighten (or darken depending on the direction one wanted to go) your skin tone and change the texture of your hair, but it would have no effect on the genes you’ll pass on to your offspring. Would you then feel that they should have been born White? I wonder how they’d feel about that. – serum6
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Name : serum6, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Age : 28, City : Miami, State : FL, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Candy, can you please explain why it’s ‘only tolerable’ for people of different races to date or marry? I’m not going to argue that your views are wrong (although I believe they are), but I would like to know the reasoning behind them.
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Name : serum6, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Age : 28, City : Miami, State : FL, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,
