Any mixed-race people here on wrongplanet? :)

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I am from the Netherlands too! Wow there are so many Dutch people here, haha.

Yeah I hate that word mulatto too.

Well, it's a fact that many biracials consider the word 'half caste' offensive. There you go.

pokerface and Cafeaulait, I'm Dutch as well (and my mother's an Indo as you perhaps can tell from my post on the 1st page of this thread)... and I must say, I sometimes (jokingly) use the words halfbloed, mengbloed, mulat, mesties to describe myself, and when I'm in a real crazy mood, I'll even call myself vuilnisbakkenras! But what I usually say is, 'ik ben gemengd' ('I am mixed'), because it's just easier than summing up all my ethnicities. But I dunno, I was always told that words are merely words, and for me they don't really carry that much gravity.

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Yes. I am Amerasian

(Korean/Caucasian)

I think I'm 25% Spanish; but aside from that I don't know what my race would be other than "American"

Yes, it seems so.

I repeat, the definition of mixed-race: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definitio ... mixed-race



Is there a person alive, who can say with 100% categorical certainty that they do not have mixed blood in their veins? Do you know who each and every one of your ancestors were and where they originated and who they procreated with? Of course not. We are all mixed-race.

When you start going down the road of dividing people by categories of colour, eye type and other ethnically obvious features, you are saying that race equates to features only. That is not the case.

So, it seems there are people who refuse to consider fellow human beings as having the "right" to belong in a category definition by their own erroneous rationale.

Even if we all decided that this could be the definition, if you judge people by their physical features then there will be a lot of people who e.g. turned out looking white because of some white heritage but also have a lot of black heritage in their background, they just don't know it for a possible variety of reasons (adoption being one). So how do you ever therefore make it a group containing only those with the "right" to call themselves mixed-race based on their awareness of it?

e.g. Cafeaulait, your username indicates that you have physically obvious characteristics of being mixed-race and using that name indicates your pride in this which denotes your attitude to only allowing others into your perception of mixed race based on similar criteria, so if someone else doesn't have physically obvious characteristics you don't consider they are mixed race or if you met someone who had no idea they were mixed race and therefore could not announce themselves as so, you would automatically exclude them from consideration as being mixed race. Very flawed logic.

I do not place the degree of emotional attachment on words that you do, I cannot understand why a word with factual meaning could cause anyone so much offence. This wasn't a thread about political correctness as I said before anyway. I have just provided relevant information without giving my views on how people consider the use of those words, or whether that is right or wrong. It may be a fact that people are upset by it, but feelings are based on a variety of things which are not necessarily fact so it's not the same thing.

@CyclopsSummers, it's refreshing to hear someone able to not take words so seriously.

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I am of mixed races i have Native American, White and Spanish to put it simply without writing out a huge list.

There's no such thing as "race" in the human population.

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Extinguishing this misconception as quickly as possible is best for the human "race" at large.

Though my mother is brazilian with portuguese descent, and my father is norwegian, so I guess I come from a more genetically varied background than most.

Like I said: It's nice in theory, but not in real life. Very few people that are half white english/half white german would identify as mixed race. The parents are from the same continent, and they are both clearly white. I also don't agree with your claim 'everyone is mixed' race.

I don't take pride in my heritage at all, since it's something I was born with. I don't take pride in things I can't control. My username also has nothing to do with my race or how I look. I just like coffee and milk in the morning. It first I wanted to call myself 'strawberrycheesecake' or 'lemoncurd'. I just like food. And I know a boy who's mom is caribbean, black (although she probably has some white blood). The boy looks fully white. I would consider him mixed race, yes. So it does not only have to do with the physical characteristics of the person him/herself. So if a white looking person told me he/she was mixed race, I would consider that person mixed race.



Well, those feelings are facts. Perhaps it's aspie-typical to try and rationalize these things, but people have these feelings. It's the way it is. And if people are upset by it, I will not use it to open a topic with that in the title. And I dont understand why you are still using the term 'political correctness'. You can attach that to every thing you say. It's such a useless term.

Yes, I do think this is the case. And when I am referring to mixed race people I am referring to those whos parents (or one of the grandparents, greatgrandparents) have a contrast in features.

Here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28hu ... ication%29

Hope that clarifies, and wraps things up.

So? What are you trying to say?
People from certain continents generally have certain physical characteristics.

Erm...please read the quoted text, it is self-explanatory. Pay particular attention to the last paragraph. I can't explain any more than I already have.

I have read that and still do not see what your point is.

What I would like to know is if the biracial people on this forum have ever found it difficult and complicated to be mixed race.
Don't get side tracked by my avatar. In real life I do have a mixed race background and there where periods in my life that I had some problems with that. Sometimes the feeling that I didn't belong anywhere involuntarily crept up on me. What also contributed to this is the lack of acceptance from the white- as well as the black side.

Something that also disturbes me is the fact that white people seem to think that everyone with a mixed race heritage looks gorgeous. I have never been stunningly beautiful and I don 't look like Halle Berry or Alicia Keys, if only. I wonder why white and black folks seem to think that mixed race people are better looking than black people who don't have a mixed race background. We are probably so brainwashed that we all think (black and white people alike) that caucasian features and hair are superior in terms of good looks and in many other ways. Absolutely ridiculous ofcourse.

What worries me even more is the fact that a lot of white people still think that black people are not as intelligent and civilized as white people. I know that the majority of politcally correct white people will deny that fervently but I would like to challenge them to be really honest with themselves before they answer my question. If I even get an answer that is. Probably not.

This is about all I have to say about racial matters because in the end I sincerely think that race is completely trivial and unimportant.

The caucasian beauty standard, I have no problem with that at all. Perhaps it is because I am a girl and my mother is the blasian one. She always instilled me with a sense of self esteem when it comes to my race. It's okay to have a bit of booty, long curly hair is beautiful, full lips are gorgeous, etc. My dad as well, always told me I was gorgeous, intelligent, etc.

I don't really feel black, asian nor white. But it doesn't really keep me busy. This is who I am. I have never felt forced to pick sides. And my racial background and make-up is just a small part of me. Perhaps it's a bit different in Europe, I don't know...
My friends have been white, black, asian, mixed, everything. I've never really faced very much explicit rasim (my mom and dad have in the beginning, especially from black men)

And the last thing is absolutely true, unfortunately.