Find yourself a purpose in life, one that you feel is the most important and strive towards it every day you wake up. It can be improving yourself, getting money, getting power, making friends, getting a stable relationship, doesn't matter. As long as you have an aspiration for something, you...
Agreed with Sano, this ought to be defined on case by case basis and, in my opinion, it doesn't really matter if you swap two ethnicities over. That is, as long as it doesn't affect the plot majorly - say there could be a whole difference between two characters that could be overcome simply...
Alright alright alright, I'm gonna join in with one single message here. Now, I haven't read all the paragraphs because I'm simply not that interested in reading back-and-forth argues.
The whole problem of this discussion lies in us humans wanting to prove things. For example, we need reasons...
Honestly, I just used my real name backwards... but hey, this name is awesome because I can mess around with people thinking I'm Turkish (since apparently Kerim is a Turkish name, didn't know it when I was creating it.) I sort of just stuck with this and was too lazy to change it.
Helps my amateur writing skills, widens my fantasy and dictionary and is generally fun to have someone else criticize your work (be that either good or bad). The fact I'm addicted to it now and can't stop roleplaying is a whole different thing, I swear.