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Social Perceptions - Secular Sanity - Oct 14, 2016
What is the biggest misconception people have about you?
RE: Social Perceptions - Syne - Oct 14, 2016
That I am younger then I am.
RE: Social Perceptions - C C - Oct 14, 2016
That I'm not part of a minority.
Or at least in the kind of quasi-bizarre(?) way that people of 1\8, 1\16, 1\32 verifiable descent can get tribal cards. Or in the way that those of similar percentages in other groups are open to a singled-out classification dispensed by either society or themselves (as if the rest of their ancestry is utterly irrelevant or non-existent).
RE: Social Perceptions - Syne - Oct 14, 2016
I use to work with a fellow that had Native American benefits who was only like 1/256...and that was actually printed on the ID card. Someone in his family did a lot of research to prove it.
RE: Social Perceptions - C C - Oct 14, 2016
(Oct 14, 2016 09:04 PM)Syne Wrote: I use to work with a fellow that had Native American benefits who was only like 1/256...and that was actually printed on the ID card. Someone in his family did a lot of research to prove it.
That's an extreme I never imagined being possible in even the whacky world of interracial lopsided-ness and the Institute Of Entitlements For Being Ethnically Ambiguous.
RE: Social Perceptions - Secular Sanity - Oct 15, 2016
(Oct 14, 2016 07:49 PM)Syne Wrote: That I am younger then I am.
Based on looks or interaction?
I've asked. People think I'm judgmental.
RE: Social Perceptions - Syne - Oct 15, 2016
LOL. Based on looks.
RE: Social Perceptions - Zinjanthropos - Oct 15, 2016
(Oct 14, 2016 03:56 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: What is the biggest misconception people have about you?
That I don't care.
RE: Social Perceptions - Secular Sanity - Oct 15, 2016
(Oct 15, 2016 01:10 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote:(Oct 14, 2016 03:56 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: What is the biggest misconception people have about you?
That I don't care.
Is it something that you say or do that gives them that impression?
RE: Social Perceptions - Zinjanthropos - Oct 15, 2016
(Oct 15, 2016 01:29 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote:Not really sure why but I've heard it from other people who in hindsight don't really know me.(Oct 15, 2016 01:10 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote:(Oct 14, 2016 03:56 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: What is the biggest misconception people have about you?
That I don't care.
Is it something that you say or do that gives them that impression?
For starters.....I am not easily persuaded by large groups nor am I trendy. I tend to deal with issues on a personal basis, direct and blunt. People have no idea what I have done on a charitable level because I don't brag about it. I look before I leap in just about every endeavor. I rationalize things, reason and logic are important to me. One of favorite expressions is 'there's no reward for stupidity'.
Subconsciously I may actually like people thinking things about me that aren't true at all. In my mind that just goes with the territory and I'm OK with it, inner chuckling aside.