You're Not "White" Unless You're 100% "White&

Again you are proving my assumptions correct... Quote "I think white folks tend to go more on looks. If someone "looks" black then they think they are"...but that same person that may look "black" to white people, actually look very biracial or multiracial to the average black person...we just accept as black b/c all the other races would never accept them as their race...

 

You're right, I don't always know. However, if the hue is darker than mine I don't instinctually consider them black. Hell! There's tanned caucasians darker than me! Heh. But, I was saying that with some, depending on what they look like, it can be hard to tell whether they are biracial or not and what races make them up.

 

well as a black person it is not that hard for me to predict if a half black or multiracial black is 100% black or not...I may not be able to predict the exact races but you know if they are mixed or not generally...but it seems to me whites never see this

 

Really? That's interesting to me. If you go to a site such as blackpeoplemeet and browse through all who are calling themselves black (not mixed race or whatever other terms they have on there) you will see all different hues...some are as light as I am.

I have noticed that more black people tend to be willing to ask straight out than white people.

 

That's a good point. This was discussed on here at one point and I think the sentiment was sortof lost in the conversation. Some took it as a bad thing as to how it is in the US with blacks considering anyone part black to be black, rather than to understand just what you said.

 

that is another thing...whites tend to use skin color as the main thing to judge race...when in actuality, there alot of different features...and alot of black multiracial people say they are black b/c that is what they are accepted as ...and alot of times they are raised as our own with no other prejudice

 

another point is alot of african american people have interracial mixing from slavery years, so african american people have alot of racial mixing but most often we down play that fact or sort of reject it...b/c we are not proud of being products of sexually immoral slave owners and their descents who choose to ignore it or totally oblivious to it

 

I'm just saying that it can be hard for me. Unless the person in question is extremely very dark, with onyx tone skin. I don't know if they are biracial or not sometimes. Some are and some aren't. I don't think it has anything to do with me being white. Also, I've seen a great number of "black" people tell other "black" people who say "I'm mixed" to "Shut up, you're black!", maybe even more so than the amount I've seen of white people calling biracial people black. So I don't think this is a topic that should be so generalized to one race or the other.. JMO...

 

Well I don't really know what determines if someone is white or not. I grew up being asked - what are you?

I'm more Italian than anything else, which does fall under the Caucasian category in the US. Until the internet I wasn't really called a white woman....I have olive skin.

I noticed where someone on here said middle-eastern would be considered white. That's news to me. I don't know any middle-eastern people who consider themselves white. It's sortof more like how Hispanics are in the US. They want to be called Hispanic not anything else.

I think it depends on where you are having the conversation. White, Black, Hispanic, Asian...seem to be the basic categories. I think it's all sortof ridiculous though.

 

I agree on that.

Maybe we should try to get the 2010 census to leave the race question off the form. Do you think it would be possible?

No one would be able to give the statistics of the demographics anymore, and I think all of American business might just go under, it's such an "important" issue.
LOL

 

It does sound crazy..but it's true. South Asians (Iranians, Indians etc.) are considered to be Indo-European...though with Indians it applies more to the Aryan North Indians not so much the Dravidian South Indians. Hispanics can be black, white or Native American..but are often a combo of all three...but it seems they always have two sets of statistics...they will show the "White Population" as being 80% but then break it down further and have "Non-Hispanic Whites" and then Latinos in a separate category which brings the white population numbers (In the U.S.) down to 66-67%.

Latinos obviously describe themselves ethnically as Latino but what skews the numbers is that well over 90% of Latinos will racially describe themselves as white. White in Latin America is a much lower bar than white in North America. For every 10 Latinos I see...I'd only describe 4 or 5 of them as "white" or anything close...yet 9 out of 10 would call themselves white.

 

i never got that either.