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    Do you guys ever assume that the person you're talking to online is White?

    Especially when they say they live in the US?

    Apparently some people make that assumption until you say what ethnicity you are.

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    I don't assume a race or culture because I've met people from around the world and many are not native of where they live now. One thing though that I have assumed that has gotten me into trouble is that I assume people online are sane. This backfired on me back in 2007 and this particular insane person stalked me for 5 years after that. I have since gotten way more mistrustful of people online.
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    That thought never crosses my mind.
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    Sometimes I make assumptions about people I encounter online, but race/ethnicity usually isn't one of them.
    “Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.” — George Carlin

    "If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." — George Carlin

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    Yeah I do it. lol I've been mistaken as Japanese though a couple of times for some reason.

    Interesting that I see you're from Vermont & think the same though. I always thought it was a Southern thing.

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    I do that lol

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    I don't think so. Like Sagan said, it's just not something that I think of.

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    I frankly don't care about the ethnicity. If I guessed, I would probably be wrong.

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    ill ask you right away if you're mexican. that tends to lead to an answer one way of the other so i don't spend time assuming one thing and then finding out one day that what i assumed was wrong. i mean i'm curious, really curious, so i get that answered pretty quickly. next to if you have a criminal record (you get points in your favor for having one of those) or a mental hospital record (even more points are awarded for that distinction) that's the thing i next want to know about you, if you're mexican. i know this can catch people off guard, and it often has, but then i just say, oh, i just had a feeling you were, i don't know why, and that gives me the reputation that im someone who feels things and then acts impulsively on them (which isn't so bad, actually i don't really mind that reputation, though neither do i go to pains to cultivate it) so for me the amount of assuming im doing is minimal.

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