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Post by lisa91 on Jan 11, 2009 18:23:12 GMT -5
I think of me as white cause' I identify 100% with a white upbringing, surrounding and culture. I lived a bigger part of my life not knowing or maybe understanding that I was mixed.
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Kush
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Post by Kush on Jan 11, 2009 19:13:19 GMT -5
My culture is very much British but that doesn't necessarily mean "white" culture anymore as nowadays it is formed by African Brits and South Asian Brits as well as the White English.
For starters, I don't look white and when in groups of white people I'm often singled out (which can be good or bad) but when I'm among my Asian or Eurasian friends I can take the piss out of white people/culture (only in a lighthearted way of course) without anyone looking confused and going "You're white, you can't say that".
Being in a white society made me identify with my Asian side more just as if I grew up in China I probably would have identified with my British side more because that's what makes me slightly more unique than everyone else and it's what I'm singled out for.
I might identify myself as a Westerner or a Brit, never white.
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Post by Subuatai on Jan 12, 2009 6:08:19 GMT -5
Well personally, I chose "no, b/c my culture is that of Asian people". Calling me white is the same insult as calling me "civilised" and being part of all the shameful attributes of their culture (only in my opinion only, no offense). Unfortunately I'm putting up with that as a mixie but just how it is. My grandmother always insists on her Tatar ancestry but people don't allow her this luxury in public. They go "You don't look Turkic" or "You don't look Tatar or Mongolic" or etc etc. Within our family we let her believe what she wants to believe to her face, though some feel she's holding on to an identity that isn't applicable for her as the Altaic blood is very thin. Others go "racial purity is for nazis and the West, it's not our way, she is Tatar, and that's final" etc. For dipsy's response to how my father said to me "you are white too" was simply his attempt to try to humanize and individualize everything so I won't go around saying racist stuff about whites which I DONT EVEN DO NE WAY! ... just the social systems in place but not the people. Luckily, there's no such thing in the dictionary yet as "Steppewashed" ne ways So other Tatars/Finns/Magyars can carry on their little identities despite looking full "white".
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Post by Subuatai on Jan 12, 2009 6:33:26 GMT -5
^ Hence some become very individual
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Post by Subuatai on Jan 12, 2009 8:29:04 GMT -5
Mongoloid: Negroid: Caucasiod:
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Post by Subuatai on Jan 12, 2009 8:31:59 GMT -5
@flat Top
Heh nevermind about your history teacher they are workers just trying to do their job from whatever textbook they are paid to read out to kids.
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Post by Subuatai on Jan 12, 2009 8:40:09 GMT -5
LOL sorry, edited
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Post by Subuatai on Jan 12, 2009 8:53:59 GMT -5
^ I can understand stray's response but I dont get what you mean o.O
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Shock
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Post by Shock on Jan 12, 2009 10:26:18 GMT -5
I cannot understand why should history teacher speak about race? Was him Arthur Kemp or Karl Earlson?
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Post by Subuatai on Jan 12, 2009 10:34:56 GMT -5
Heh it's confusing;
Read it again and again I can't seem to picturise this into my head, but I'm just tired and bored on a monday night.
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Post by Subuatai on Jan 12, 2009 11:09:30 GMT -5
Ah I see what you mean. Unfortunately I can't relate I guess. For me, I don't see my race in the mirror, I just see an ugly mug everyday that I have to shave hehe
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Post by Subuatai on Jan 12, 2009 14:48:08 GMT -5
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Shock
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Post by Shock on Jan 12, 2009 15:25:03 GMT -5
Still none answered to my question...
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Post by paul101 on Jan 12, 2009 15:58:29 GMT -5
I identify as white.
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Post by Emily on Jan 12, 2009 18:04:18 GMT -5
I voted yes, because most people think I'm white. It's actually a combination of the answers and it's not most people who think I'm white. But enough people, including white people, have thought I was completely white and were surprised to hear I was mixed.
The fact that many white people have considered me white and didn't treat me differently explains that I also see myself as white. That and the fact that I am genetically part white and was raised in a white society. I consciously choose to also integrate "white" culture and I guess I've been "lucky" enough (in that I don't get people doubting my white heritage as much as some of you) that society allows me to do so.
That's not to say I don't feel Asian, I'd have answered the same thing if the poll had Asian instead.
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