I'm trans-racial.

[ForEverAfter]

I don't wish I was Asian. I am Asian. (I understand the distinction.)
I wish I was Caucasian, if anything, since I'm in a Caucasian vessel.
It would make things much less confusing.

This isn't a cultural thing.
Laotian culture doesn't appeal to me, particularly.
But, I am Laotian.

Edit: As for drugs, I've pretty much only consumed marijuana and alcohol over the past 14 months.
There have been a couple (maybe 4) mushrooms trips, during that period of time.
Over the past 4 months, I've had considerably more sober days than high/drunk days.

 

[Ninae]

The only thing I can think of is that it's a past-life issue. I don't know if you beleive in reincarnation but it's the only explanation I can think of.

Like, I read a book about celebrities' past lives and it said Michael Jackson was more used to incarnating as a white person so he didn't feel comfortable with being black. Also, it said Bill Cosby had been a particuarly brutal plantation-owner in a past life, who hated blacks, and also didn't feel very happy about having to live in a black body in this life.

But would you actually not prefer to be Asian, would you rather just feel comfortable in your body? If you could become Asian it could lead to other, more external problems, as it's hard to live as someone of a different race in a Caucasian society.

 

[methamaniac]

That's a stupid analogy.
Of course, a motorbike made in a car factory is technically a motorbike.
But that doesn't mean it was made in a motorbike factory.

One thing it means is the parts that make a motorbike aren't the same parts that make a car. The design is different.
It's not my analogy to defend, but its obvious you are comparing apples and oranges.
Your trans-gender/trans-racial analogy is what is obtuse.

I don't feel like I need to justify trans-racialism any more than a trans-gender person needs to justify being trans-gender.

Nobody has asked you to justify anything.
I'm asking you what it means to you to be Asian and how this differs from being Caucasian.
It won't prove anything other than what you consider it to be Asian.
I'm not going to take you serious about this
until you can at least somewhat define what
it is to be Asian.

I was making a comparison between trans-racial and trans-gender people.
If you limit the definition of male / female to physicality, then I assume you don't consider trans-gender legit, either?
(That was my point.)

Are you just trying to make a point?

I'm not limiting the definition of male and female,
I'm giving a textbook example of a characteristic of a man. If you have a penis and find only vaginas stimulating than hormonally you're right in line with being a man.

So, heterosexuality has something to do with being a man, does it?

It can be used in your indication.

So, someone with low T-levels is not a man?

It's an indicator they might not be a man.

So, a man who likes chic flicks isn't a man?

Another good indicator bro....☺

You're talking stereo-types, which is funny because I thought you said you didn't like them in another thread.

No my 'man', I didn't say I didn't like them.
(It's not about liking them or disliking them)
I said it is refreshing to me to have a chance to be free of them.

I don't consider myself Asian. I am Asian.
You have struggled to define what it is to be a man.
At least, I still don't know what your definition of a man is.
(Unless gay guys and people with different tastes in films are not men, according to you...?)
So, I'm not sure how you expect me to define what it is to be Asian...

You can start simply by describing what it is you feel it means to you to be Asian.
We all know what it means genetically/physically to be Asian.
Tell us what it means to you to be Asian other than that.
What are some indicators that let you know you are Asian?

And a racist joke is a racist joke.
Saying that Asian men eat rice and have small penises isn't top-shelf humor, IMO, regardless of racism.

Not my joke and definetly not top-shelf.
Arm level at best.

I didn't find it offensive. I don't have a small penis.
(There used to be a photo of it on Bluelight, back in the NSFW gallery days.)
Asians have smaller penises, on average. If anything, I need to get my penis surgically reduced.

Don't protest there too much, Gertrude.

I don't know what I was expecting with this thread, in retrospect.
I'm hesitant to say, now, that I'm also a little person in a full-sized body.
But, why should I be hesitant? Why should I be ashamed?

I'm just as confused as to what you were expecting as you are.
How come I have a feeling Ashton Kutcher is about to pop out my closet?

I'm a Laotian midget, in a full-sized Caucasian body... and I'm damn proud.

Good for you little budddy,
If you're going to come out loud and proud is the way to go.

 

[Ninae]

I'm not sure this thread doesn't belong in Mental Health.

Maybe you could do a switch.

 

[One Thousand Words]

Yes, you're Asian-born. You're ancestry isn't Asian. Unless your New Zealand parents were New-Zealand born, but of Asian ancestry.

See here I was thinking I was a human on planet Earth. Asia is nothing but a cartographers boundary, created for his King or Queen.

I can assure you that I am Asian, as I was born in Asia, just as those with Chinese parents born in America are not Asian. They may identify with a particular Asian culture, due to being raised by Chinese parents, but judging a person by his genome is more racist than accepting that statistically Asain's have smaller penises.

 

[psood0nym]

Perhaps this is a joke thread, but the issues it brings up are sort of interesting so I'll bite anyways.

As arbitrary a concept as race is, I still don't think it's defensible to simply allow how a person feels subjectively to justify the formation of a new category of racial identification like “transracial.” There are seemingly no absolute criteria for delineating species (see Species Problem) of animals either, yet there are enough objective correlates at play to plausibly argue we are homosapiens – and in any case being able to distinguish between species has important and useful consequences. The idea of transraciality as it's being argued for here lacks both objectivity and utility.

“Transraciality” is also disanalogous to transgenderism. The biological differences between males and females are often reflected in the biology of transgender individuals. For example, male transgender individuals tend to possess genes that cause weaker binding at androgen receptor sites, tend to possess neuroanatomical substructural volumes comparable to females, possess finger “digit length ratios” of females, etc. That is, there are objective reasons they feel like they're of the opposite gender, and those differences have direct developmental and behavioral consequences. There are no substantial neurobiological differences between the “races,” so unlike transgender individuals there's no robust biological basis for “feeling” like another race. You simply wish you were Asian and were treated that way, and/or to troll Bluelight.

 

[GodandLove]

First off, How in the Hell is this thread still open?

Second, if I were the one to have created this thread, with out a doubt I'd be infracted.

Third, here is a famous and well known closeted "transracial":

Micheal Jackson.

For the record, I'm transspecies, I know I was born a human being, but I truly identify myself as being a Lion.

A White Lion.

 

[Ninae]

I think this thread has enough comedy value to stay open.

 

[Journyman16]

I'm hesitant to post this thread, because everyone I've ever talked to about this issue has - so far - passed it off as as a joke...
I feel like I have to pretend that it's not a serious issue, for me, and "hide behind the joke".
Consequently, I feel like nobody has ever truly known me...

I feel like people are pretty open-minded and patient here, but I don't expect to encounter much understanding.
Unless you've experienced it first hand, you don't really know what it's like to be an Asian in a Caucasian's body.

It seems like I'd be taken more seriously if I was trans-gender, which isn't fair.
I mean, why is it more legitimate to identify as a different gender?

I know I'm Asian.
I've always been Asian.
My skin tone is wrong.
My hair colour...
Eye colour...
All wrong.
And, I'm too tall.

I wish I felt comfortable talking to my family about this.
I'm afraid to even talk to a doctor about it.

Why are people so narrow-minded and quick to judge?

Maybe last lifetime you were Asian?

All my life I have had a desire to own a katana. Specifically - it wasn't just swords. I'd have liked the set but it was the katana I wanted. First time I saw Samurai on TV I apparently mentioned my interest to my mother and said something like, "I want one of those again!"

I now have 3 and the desire kinda faded as soon as I got the first one.

There are some Asian movies (mostly Japanese but some Chinese ones) that I get riveted by - they tend to be the 'legend' ones, the warrior priests or Ronin types.

The interests came well before I had anything but Chinese Restaurant contact with Asians. :D

 

[Journyman16]

In a debate about sterotypes today I actually had someone call me and anyone u holds to sterotypes as racist. I was arguing that everyone holds sterotypes, and that it isn't necessarily a bad thing. They proceeded to tell me how they didn't "believe" in sterotypes.
I thought it very sterotypical of them to sterotype all people that use sterotypes as racist.
Appparently they didn't believe in irony either because they didn't see the humor.

I really like the net cause I don't have to be bothered about letting my sterotypes interfere in my conversations.

Stereotypes are that because mostly they are traits held by a group - not necessarily anything to do with race but often just memes in action.

When I was in Berlin, I was amazed at how many public clocks there were - it was hard to be out of sight of one. And almost always there would be someone(s) standing there checking their watch (or phone) against the clock time. :D

 

[sekio]

For the record, I'm transspecies, I know I was born a human being, but I truly identify myself as being a Lion.

For the record, I self identify as a truncated icosahedron who identifies as a tabby cat who thinks he's a person.

 

[Birc0014]

Transgendered lesbian aetheist, aspiring to be cosmonaut inflitrator on mission to mars in order to ensure i make first contact

 

[Birc0014]

For the record, I self identify as a truncated icosahedron who identifies as a tabby cat who thinks he's a person.

what are the other 18 faces?

 

[sekio]

Do each of my facets have to be a different race?

 

[noone1]

No. Just no. You're giving trans people a bad name with this shit. And god dammit if this ends up with something like "because of my love for anime and manga" I'm going to give you a wedgie.

 

[Erikmen]

First off, How in the Hell is this thread still open?

Second, if I were the one to have created this thread, with out a doubt I'd be infracted.

Third, here is a famous and well known closeted "transracial":

Micheal Jackson.

For the record, I'm transspecies, I know I was born a human being, but I truly identify myself as being a Lion.

A White Lion.

Lion?

 

[methamaniac]

For the record, I'm transspecies, I know I was born a human being, but I truly identify myself as being a Lion.

A White Lion

After reading this I have suddenly found the courage to say out loud thay I am indeed a beautiful butterfly.
I am merely a solitary larva at the moment with no one to truly love. I feel the time has come to transition into my pupa stage.
I have saved up enough money to pay for a cocoon and the chemicals needed for the transformation procedure ( I believe you humans call this "metamorphisis" )
Once I am indeed physically a butterfly,
I am going to fly to Mexico for some of that
dulce néctar Latino!

Stereotypes are that because mostly they are traits held by a group - not necessarily anything to do with race but often just memes in action.

True. Even butterflies hold sterotypes.
Sterotyoes can be very hard to seperate from.
Sometimes I even find myself assigning particular sterotypes to people on the net.
J-man, in my mind you are a brown chihuahua.
?

When I was in Berlin, I was amazed at how many public clocks there were - it was hard to be out of sight of one. And almost always there would be someone(s) standing there checking their watch (or phone) against the clock time.

If nothing else those Germans are punctual.

 

[One Thousand Words]

I never notice the clocks in Germany as much as the number of mullets, their love of sex shops and getting nude during their lunch break.

 

[Journyman16]

I am going to fly to Mexico for some of that

J-man, in my mind you are a brown chihuahua.

:D I have no idea what to say about this... other than, 'I hope you're not planning to check all the brown chihuahua's in Mexico when you get there?'

 

[Journyman16]

I never notice the clocks in Germany as much as the number of mullets, their love of sex shops and getting nude during their lunch break.

They were also extremely friendly. Stop and open a map and you'd have 2 or 3 within a few seconds asking if they could assist. And I was walking back out from the city along Kurfurstendam and the pub with good Guinness had about 5000 people watching Germany in the World Cup. There were soldiers around the outside with auto weapons. I had an Aussie flag sticker on my camera case and as I went to move on, figuring no Guinness for me, a soldier stepped up and asked if i was 'Ossie' and would I like a beer. He and 4 of his mates falanxed with me in the centre all the way to the bar so I could buy a drink (or 4 :D)