I guess I'll jump on the bandwagon for the community demographic survey, I'm European-Caucasian in origin, although you're more likely to hear me call myself a "pakeha;" the technical translation for that is probably closer to "non-Maori New Zealander," but it's mostly used specifically for white New Zealanders of European descent. Along with "bloody thieving colonialists!" I couldn't tell you exactly what I am, but I am often asked if I'm Irish (even when I actually AM in New Zealand); it's partly because I come from a part of New Zealand where we roll our r's (it's actually Scottish in origin, but because we don't have anything else of the Scottish burr it tends to sound closer to Northern Irish than the mild Scots accent you get around Lothian and such). It's also partly because I have a mildly Celtish look to me, what with my red-gold hair and pale skin. Which likely as not probably makes me Danish somewhere along the line. ;;

But er, yes. I'm a native New Zealander living in England; I'm twenty-four and am not really sure what class I am in. I suppose I'm really working class, but I've got myself into a position where I can waste money fairly much at will so I am probably more middle-class. But not really. My sexuality is debatable -- most of the time I don't really have one -- and though my mother was baptised Methodist and my father Presbyterian, no-one in my immediate family practises religion (my dad is now an atheist and my mother and I went to church once a year to sing Christmas carols)...and if I personally had one, I'd probably be Jewish or Buddhist. I can't quite explain that, either.

But yeah, I love the diversity and maturity of the people on this board. <-- I'm doing the happy dance!

Irish may or may not be exotic, but it is hot.

I'm a French-Canadian (half the fam genealogy) with Irish/something else (other half roots, a mix of everything) girl, 25, straight sex (but all strong emotional attachments are with women), middle-class, only child, hippi-Christian (like the love & moral code, ignore the unjust rules), Cancer, Cock, Blood type O-, loves spaghetti, animals, art & collecting candles. Live in the South, hate racism, sexism, homophobism, all other bad isms.... see it a lot. Very depressing, but I do what I can to stick up for human rights. Never met a real live Utena fan out on the streets, either. Thankfully, I found the series from an Ikuhara interview in Animerica 5 yr ago. Big fan, kept searching, 5 years later, found this lovely forum...

Maarika wrote:

And I love this forum. This is the best thing to happen to internet in a long time! I've been to so many forums and eventually most of them lost their politeness or turned into Spamfests. Also, this is one of the few forums I feel welcomed to and for some reason I come here waaaay too often. This is always the first place I visit when I'm online and it's so damn hard to stay away from here.

I second this! It's such an awesome place where everybody feels like friends.

I'm the stereotypical white young female.  23, German/Cajun-Frenc/Irish background, and all that good stuff.

I'd like to do more than just poke the white hetero males on this board.  I'd like to bottle them and mass-produce them.  I love my male anime friends who enjoy their standard shounen comedy fair, but a diehard fan of Utena they are not. ;_;

I'm glad you'd like to bottle me and mass-produce me. I'm sure that there are some other people on this board that would love you forever if you did.