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By buryuntime - This FML is from back in 2009 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, my mother was re-enrolling me in school so she was required to fill out some paperwork. Later, she asked me, "What does caucasian mean?" I replied, "Why?" Apparently she didn't recognize the word, so she checked "Other" and wrote in "White". FML
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You deserved it 5 573

Same thing different taste

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macfluffers 0

That's so ridiculous! XD It's funny how some people don't know common ideas.

yea F your mom's life, glad you're going to school...she clearly didn't

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Its not racist, its for demographic purposes. There is nothing wrong with asking this. I also don't see how this is FML, oh its funny cause your mom didn't know what caucasian was but I don't see how this relates to you?

that's not funny. Kind of pathetic. I don't understand how this world works with such stupid people

# 62 - exumer; your retarded and this just proves how stupid people are.

This is going back a bit but for #15: Using 'Caucasian' for race is silly anyway. It's like saying that your race is white or yellow... or black. Then you ask "Black?... Like African? African-American? Aborigional? Which?". Black or White are not races... though they are racist, apparently. So unless he's actualy from the Caucasus area I think you're in the right to have made fun of him. P.S. Sorry for calling any races black. This was not the intention of this post. I'm also sorry for calling any caucasians white, I'm sure you're not too pale. My girlfriend is as pale as a porcelain doll, if it makes it any better.

Shoot. I forgot to mention, my best friend is part Aboriginal and I didn't even know at first cos he's the same as everyone else. While some other Aboriginal friends have much darker skin. So I'm neither saying that your race dictates your colour (Australian spelling). Also, Caucasian is used for colour as most of us really aren’t that white. We're tanned. It's like calling an Asian black. It just doesn't really fit (most of the time). In fact calling us white is RACIST! lol, I'm half jesting.

LOL WAIT... She signed YOU up for school? AHAHAAHAH too good

well if I was white I would probably do the same. i don't like the word 'caucasian', its origins imply that those are the most beautiful people on earth... and rest of us are inferior. apparantly, the US governmen needs some diversity training... i realize, however mom didn't know the word. second the comment about second language possibility :)

dirtyDan 0

lol maybe she should re-enroll herself

I agree with "Caucasian shouldn't be used as a substitute for white. Caucasian means "from the Caucasus area", which includes Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan." silly yanks. we can put white british, black british, white irish, mixed race, african, pakistani, indian, bangladeshi, chinese, etc plus british xxxxxxx combinations of these

71, where do you get the idea that Caucasian = most beautiful people on earth? I don't really follow your logic.