If you could be a different race for one day which would it be and why?

[gennachkaa]

If you could be a different race for one day which would it be and why?

Do you feel other races look better, are smarter, more free speech, better opportunities? Any reason you would like to try being another race for one day.

I would love to hear from you on this! Please take a second and think about it, no answer will be seen as racist or mean.

Thanks!

[tenrec]

Innuit - I would like to experience their culture from about 100 years ago, before it all got spoiled by the rest of the world's explorers.

[andy-hughes]

I would like to be a really handsome black man for one day - and then a handsome white man for the rest of my life!!!!!

I would be intrigued to see what the perception of black men really is in the country - as far as is posssible in one day.

As a white man, I have no concept of direct racial predjudice, and when I encounter it, I still find it shocking, even though some people think it is matter of fact.

A ferw months ago I interviewed Victor Wooten who is a world-famous bass player, and he tolkd me how on one of his early recording sessions, a producer offered to give him a bass guitar, and accept payment later. he quite calmly said - "For a white guy to give a bass to an unknown black kid on trust was really something, and I have never forgotten it."

I have never forgotten him telling me either - the casual way he accepted racial sterotyping as simply the way things are was shocking, but I gues if you grow up poor and black in New York, that is what you learn to live with.

[jomifl]

Black isn't a race it's a skin colour.

[Wharton]

Riker - "Idiots on the alien vessel destroyed, captain".
Picard - "Well done, number one".

[joko]

i dont think the race itself would make any difference - other than looking a bit different, as sandy said, inside we are all much of a muchness.

or do you mean your attitudes, culture, opinions etc change too?

the only change really would be if you were also in a completely different life, and different place.

if i was a black women, yet still me inside and lived ,y life, i dont think itd make any difference...but if i found myself suddenly living in a hut somewhere, as a mother of 4 or something, then the expereince could be a learning one.

[Kiki-frog]

To quote Shappi Khorsandi, 'But we're all part of the human race, the same race. If I were a different race, I'd be something like a mermaid.'

I quite fancy being a mermaid.

[MarkRae]

But when we went walking, tentacle in hand
You could sense that the earthlings would not understand
They would nudge, nudge when we got on the bus
Saying "It's extraterrestrial, not like us
It's bad enough with another race
But flump me a monster from outer space!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezm-uJv1dEk