What is your race/ethnicity?

does it really matter what race you are?

Man people's ancestors could come from all over though... mine are Irish, Cornish, Scottish, English, Welsh, Cumbrian, Ulster, Italy and Yemen.

I didn't see an option for that lol

Hispanic is not an ethnicity :S Spanish people are obviously hispanic, but obviously not latin american :p

Mortos, compatriota!! Are you from the island or you live in the US?

Yeah the idea of Caucasian and Hispanic as different races is purely an American (America the continent rather than just the country) concept. Doesn't happen over here where while English, Russian, Spanish, Greek people etc are all clearly ethnically different they are all seen as part of the same sub-group.

Of course not that there's anything wrong or right about either distinction, race after all is just a man-made construct to decide which ethnic differences are significant and which aren't.

To give another example of racial tags being used differently in different cultures. In the UK the term 'Asian' when used for a race exclusively refers to people from the sub-continent. Chinese or Japanese people in the UK aren't Asian. If you look at the ethnicity section of a British census form the 4 main groups which are broken down into sub-groups are 'White, Black, Asian, Chinese or other'

Carnatic, I'd differ. It is an American (the country) concept.

Mortos, thats too bad. I havent met a single person form the island that has this fetish (of course, the people Ive converted into the dark side dont count :p)

lol, perhaps we've figured that Northern Europeans prefer inflation and Southern Europeans prefer WG

I agree with Inflate123, yea that rhymes...

Clearly, inflatables are individual race. ^^

I didn't mean to suggest that we can't discuss race (and yeah, I will sadly admit that I know a lot of closed-minded people who will not practice what they preach when it comes to being color blind.) It's just that tracking that statistic doesn't serve much of a purpose for this community. I think the geographic stuff is more interesting as a root demographic.

Like, the social rules about sex in the UK are very different than they are in the US; more sexually suggestive or explicit things are shown on TV in the UK, for instance, than on US networks. That says something about the different cultures. And even in America, different areas of the US have different influences (what flies in California does not necessarily fly in Oklahoma). And then there's Japan, always on its own cultural wavelength!

So I'm less interested to find out what color people are and more curious to know what's permissable in your part of the world. Is there a section of the world that is more open-minded about this fringe fetish, or is it scattered? Can you point to a notable influence from one section of the world -- Wonka being shown on TV or coming out on video at some particular time, for instance -- that drove people to ultimately seek out this site? I think that's just more relevant, since our interest is really only constrained by social mores. I'd drill down to race as a secondary demographic after geography and then see what that data tells us.