Who aaaare you?

[Armalite_]

You could have used continents...

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

an american black guy would say he's from america, he'd still be treated as a black guy. a second generation african immigrant into america would also be treated as a black guy. A first generation caribbean immigrant into america would also be treated as a black guy, and all three would generally live in similar situations. That's 3 continents with little difference.

[Armalite_]

That's a bold statement. So what you're trying to find out is the standard of living for people based off their skin colour and not national background? What's wrong with labling people from places? You can't hold a survey that says upper class American? Middle Class Austrailian? Middle class Asian? That is why I suggested continents since you didn't want to use countries. I don't really want to say this but I think your poll kinda throws the term "equality" right out the window. No offense, but it's like you're implying that an American black person lives or should live differently from an American or Austrailian or European white person by basing financial and material wealth as a result of skin colour with complete disregard for where they're from. Hence: developing countries, 3rd worlds, and the financially stable. What's worse is that you know it's racist and you still don't do anything to change that, let alone knowingly start a poll that could be offensive to people. So what if you can't have a massive poll? Is that supposed to be what you tell people when they get upset? An upper class white boy getting beaten up in an alley by thugs strictly because he's rich and, most of all, white? Or a poor asian who cannot find work because he cannot speak English properly in an English dominated country escaping war and terror? What I find a bit scary is that some people go along with this without realizing how racist it really is or even care to mention it which really tells me things about certain people.

I know you didn't mean bad intention when making this poll. But all I can say to you is if you care about the feelings of others or that you're being racist, then you do something about your racist poll. I gave you my suggestion.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

That is a very good point, and i agree that dividing people up into colours rather than nationalities or even contental identities is incredibly crude but i do think that this is how society divides people. These are the categories that society decides for people. My survey makes no decisions about whether a black person should or is likely to be poor, or a brown person be rich or a white person be somewhere in the middle. Just that society divides people by these categories of colour and wealth. Whether a person connects the two and dictates what position one colour would occupy and the characteristics of that colour is racist and i do recognise that some of my comments have done that to middle and upper class white people and I'm not happy about that but my survey is not about my personal opinion on race. It's my personal opinion about the influence of society upon race and class.