Originally posted by PVS
its uncool to be white. if someone is half-anything but white they are cooler by default if they conveniently leave out the white part.oh im wrong? ok fine then. any bi-racials here, please tell me that you take pride in and show off the fact that you're half white.
I'm 7/8 white. I'd take pride in that, but I can't because it's Irish blood and nobody wants to be Irish. Not even the Irish.
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Has anyone noticed that biracial people in the US who are half White and something else always identify more with their other half? Regardless if their other parent is Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, Polynesian, Indian, Arab or whatever. They always claim whatever their non-White parent is.I've known many biracials in my time, and this always seems to be true.
Why do you suppose this is?
i have this one half chinese half irish friend; her parents are divorced and shes been living with her american dad for more than 10 yrs of her life, but she insists that she is really asian and she even tries to adopt "asian mannerisms" and sterotypes so she can appear to be "more asian"...she even tries to cook chinese food... 😘
it gets kind of annoying after a while...
Also, I should note that, technically speaking, the general opinion is that someone is only really white if they entirely have white blood and are not related at all to anyone who isn't white. I look Caucasian but I'm 1/8 Chippewa Indian, so I'm not really white. I just look like I am (though even then, a bit swarthy at that).
Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Yeah, that's definitely true, too.
Yeah, being different (depending where you are) can automatically make you a "hot commodity". I really experienced that when I was in the Army. I'm American and Latino; two things that aren't exactly common in countries like Sweden and Korea. So naturally that helped me get a lot of chicks. (Not that I needed that to. 😎 )
In Australia is possible for a person of Aboriginal and "white" heritage to have access to certain benefits.
Just or not it has led to many promoting the Aboriginal side of their heritage over the "white" side as the Aboriginal part gives the access to perks - financial or otherwise.
As to more generally - maybe it is a simple surface thing. In such a genetic mix they rarely appear "just white" - they look closer to the "non white" parent - thus easier to identify on image alone with that nationality, or pass for it. It is an identity thing. Physically they don't feel they belong to the "white" group, they identify their physical appearance more with those of the other nationality.
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Now that's just stupid. That's like saying "I'm not Asian, I'm Chinese".
I've known of people like that - identifying themselves with a particular racial group as opposed to the umbrella definition. Of course few are silly enough to think they don't belong to the larger group in general, but identify themselves culturally more with the smaller one.
Asian is a big thing, Chinese is something defines with its own connotations and image. Why some people say "I am American" as opposed to "I am white."
I think it's probably a cultural norm. In the early days (18th, 19th and early 20th centuries) bi racial children were almost always the product of a white father and a black/indian/asian/hispanic mother. The white community wouldn't accept the biracial child as one of their own and the mother was left (most such births were out of wedlock at the time) to care for the child and thus the child always both accepted and was viewed by society as part of his mothers race as opposed to being white. I think society still views things in much the same way.
Re: Biracials in America
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Has anyone noticed that biracial people in the US who are half White and something else always identify more with their other half? Regardless if their other parent is Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, Polynesian, Indian, Arab or whatever. They always claim whatever their non-White parent is.I've known many biracials in my time, and this always seems to be true.
Why do you suppose this is?
I think if a person is biracial it is usually obvious just by their appearance. If a person is half white and half black you can see it. The same usually goes for half latino and half asian-half whites. I am biracial half latino and half white and if I identified my self as being white people would undoudtedly look at me funny considering the dark hue of my skin and my dark hair and eyes. I guess this is why people will occasionally ask me where I am from even though I was born in the midwest and have here for most of my life. If a person is considered half latino and half black they can easily identify with one side or the other. But, if a person is half latino (or asian or black) and half white they will only be thought of as being the minority half. For the most part, though, my white friends don't give a shit about my race because they understand that race means nothing. Communication trancends racial boundaries.
Interestingly enough I get some forms of prejudice, once and awhile, from latinos when they find out how poor my spanish is...