Mixed Races have Identity Issues?

mixed race people having "identity issues" is blown out of proportion by people who don't like IR couples, or mixed race people, very few have "identity issues"
depending on the persons mix mixed race people usually identify with how they look and how they are seen, and i still laugh at the sad thought process of people who think "racial mixing" equals identity loss or any other fancy words with no meaning behind them

 

We need to take this seriously and not trivialize what Hero is going through. If you are white, I'm not sure you can completely understand. Unless perhaps, you can possibly sympathize through relating it to national identity or something related. Although it's not the same.

 

On the contrary - in the grand scheme of things mixing blood is very beneficial. It is in incest and in keeping to "one's own kind" that all kinds of diseases crop up. Take a look at those in Iceland (who are a veritable gang-bang of inter-breeding), or with the African American population with sickle-cell anemia and lactose intolerance, etc. (just a couple). The "mutts" are always the strongest because they have the best of the genes and breed out the inherited diseases. I hate to put it in such explicit terms but it's true. Rroma gypsies are mixed-breed people and look how they thrive after 1000s of years with no real home/written language!! It's called adaptation/ survival of the fittest.

 

A lot of black people come out as genetically mostly European/Caucasian - this is not new. And many seemingly Caucasian people are surprised to learn of their genetic heritage... I would love to find out my own. My body shape does not lend itself to Caucasian build at all, and my father was from Lousiana. My grandfather does a great deal of geneology, and has traced us back to Thomas Jefferson and Daniel Boone. Not to mention the great Western artist Frederic Remington, from which I think it's possible that our artistic talent may have stemmed from.

 

I love darker skin. I have always love it, ever since I was a little girl and wished I could tan better. I used to dream that I was a Native American princess...liked Mowgli in the Jungle Book. Wished my parents would adopt an "older brother" from Egypt, Greece, or Italy. The boys I loved in school as a little girl usually had the darkest skin in the class, although they weren't black (I lived in Canada)...I loved hanging out with the little black girls who played with my hair, and wished I had hair like them with lots of barrettes (they were from Haiti).

Just envious of the lovely darker skintone and the ease of walking around in one's own body...I have become more comfortable with my skintone as of late...but all due to a particular man from the Caribbean who makes me feel beautiful...I even went swimming the other day and wore a bathing suit for the first time in two years...he wouldn't come swimming because he said the water was too cold and he wanted to watch soccer...I have since begun wearing shorter skirts (kneelength instead of floorlength)...and want to go swimming all of the time! Just being around him made me feel good. I didn't care what anyone else thought of me - I felt like I looked great.

We're going to the river later today, to drink some beers and listen to music :heart: He treats me well.

 

Thank you, Hero... and you will meet the right person - when she makes you feel wonderful about yourself, you will know. It won't matter where she's from - all that matters is that your mind and heart are open to the whole world and every lady in it because it increases your odds of finding happiness!

 

You can't be mixing that different type blood and all because you know certain people with certain blood have bad qualities, like black men being lazy and white women smelling like wet dogs. The worst thing in the world to do is to produce children who are lazy and smell like wet dogs...........:shock:

 

Straight up bullshit.

 

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LOL!

 

While I can appreciate the want and need to keep all cultures alive you also have to take into consideration cultures have changed continuously through out time. Think of it like this. We started with one man and one woman. As their family grew eventually they parted ways. When the families were apart. New traditions (culture) rose. Those type of split continued to take place and new cultures continuously rose. People slowly spread all over the world. Culture not only rose but evolved. But it was never as simple as people staying with in certain bounds. One group of people integrating into another culture was common. Sometimes they share their culture and the new embraced it. Sometimes it was lost. That is part of of integrating into a new population. It's ok to do that. Their is nothing wrong it that.

Take a look at Hispanics for example. They identify strongly with their new found culture (Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, etc.) They don't so much identify with Spain, Africa, or native Americans which are the ethnic groups they tend to descend from. They even descend from Irish, Indian, and Asian and they don't identify with them any longer. While I understand the sad aspect it's also a normal and natural progression.

When a family chooses to move to one land to another they they have to be prepared for their children to integrate with the majority culture of that land. It wouldn't be fair to ask them not to. It's ok to embrace your majority culture. It doesn't take away from who you descend from. It doesn't make you any less apart of that culture just b/c you may not look like the majority in that culture. Stop letting others define you and tell you where you fit. YOU choose where you fit. YOU define your self. If your comfortable with who you are the rest will follow.

 

Culture doesn't belong to singular color.

 

Mixed race people have to choose which side they are based on their looks.

One of my black girlfriends has a Blasian son. He looks very Asian, but would be considered black by society. Is that fair? I don't think so. He needs to claim both sides.

As for half-black, half-white mixes, they should proudly showcase what THEY want to be. That is what matters, what YOU want when you are mixed-race.