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Post by Subuatai on Jan 16, 2009 18:33:32 GMT -5
What are your thoughts about this? Is it too much for such a mixed child to be brought up in today's modern racial conditions? Also in regards to parenthood, will juggling 4 cultures at once confuse the child - hence not healthy?
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Post by catgirl on Jan 16, 2009 19:44:36 GMT -5
Im almost that... Or tricultural/biracial. Its already enough! Wonder what those who have 4 nations in the back of their mind must feel like  Its kind of hard to explain to people in my country because its not usual. Bicultural/Biracial is the most common mixed form. It sounds better to say Im half this and half that than Im quarter this and quarter that... |
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Post by catgirl on Jan 16, 2009 19:46:00 GMT -5
Well ethnically I'm like octocultural but that's normal in America but I'm just American really. I'm not bi-tri-or whatever cultural. Just happen to have different ethnic backgrounds. Exactly! When I told someone I was tricultural, they said I belong in USA, lol. |
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Post by catgirl on Jan 17, 2009 7:18:49 GMT -5
Yeah. If I have kids with my current Swede boyfriend they will be quadcultural ;D It runs in the family I guess? lol
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Post by mingzayni88 on Jan 17, 2009 11:20:45 GMT -5
I come from a multicultural background and I was raised monocultural and you don't know how much I wished that my family had held onto the traditions of our other ethnic makeup and used them in our upbringing.
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Post by amalgam on Feb 4, 2009 2:14:10 GMT -5
Interesting... I'm 'quad-racial' but from only 2 cultures (Asian and European) brought up in Australia and I'm pretty sure it's easy (and fun) to be a multiracial person, meaning it's got no negative implications on how I feel about myself.
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Post by penguinopolipitese on Feb 6, 2009 5:35:27 GMT -5
my thought on this is like food colouring. you add blue, green, yellow, and red... you just end up with brown invariably. there's no quad... just the melting pot.
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Post by Subuatai on Mar 14, 2009 20:36:40 GMT -5
Im almost that... Or tricultural/biracial. Its already enough! Wonder what those who have 4 nations in the back of their mind must feel like Heh, how about 4 nations at the back of your mind who hate each other! ;D |
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Post by amalgam on Mar 16, 2009 18:12:47 GMT -5
Im almost that... Or tricultural/biracial. Its already enough! Wonder what those who have 4 nations in the back of their mind must feel like Heh, how about 4 nations at the back of your mind who hate each other! ;D MINE DO! |
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Post by jefe on Mar 16, 2009 23:41:34 GMT -5
I don't think you have to be quadriracial in order to be quadricultural. You can pick up cultural identities in a myriad of ways. There are value conflicts among cultures, but there are also among generations and economic / social / educational classes as well -- people face this all the time.
So juggling 4 cultures is not that much of a biggy. Hundreds of millions of people do that on a daily basis anyhow.
I look at HK's local pop duo Soler for inspiration -- children of a Burmese Mother and an Italian father, they grew up in Macau. After failing to make a success in Italy, they have become very popular in HK, and use Burmese, Italian, English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Portuguese on a regular basis in their personal and professional lives.
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Post by LaFace on Mar 17, 2009 1:28:24 GMT -5
^Not necessarily quad-cultural, but to follow on from Jefe's post...
a large number of the members on this very site would be / are tri-cultural.
Eurasians (such as myself) whose parents both immigrated to another country, whereby their children are born and raised.
Such children are likely to be influenced by three cultures (two from their parents, one from the country they are living in), so to add one more on (perhaps due to a biracial parent who was influenced by both of his/her backgrounds), I imagine cannot be -that- rare in terms of cultural influence.
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Post by Subuatai on Mar 17, 2009 6:05:53 GMT -5
Yeah I think you're right, the number of cultures ain't really a problem. It's only a problem when one or two have a cultural conflict with another. For my child's case, Slavic and Nordic culture - it doesn't matter much really. But I know a lot of my own people may not accept my child as Mongol since he or she is mixed with a culture they despise so strongly.
Due to the current social climate in both Western and Central Asian countries, perhaps in 14 years, I got a feeling he/she will think of his/her Chinese blood as if it's a curse. As much as I hate to admit it, looks like one day I'm going to be one of the few Mongols starting to stand up for Chinese culture.
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Post by Subuatai on Mar 17, 2009 8:01:19 GMT -5
If you wish, pm me, I'll be able to explain the current issue more appropriately.
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Post by Subuatai on Mar 17, 2009 17:05:05 GMT -5
Sheez, looks like even today I'm arguing the rights of my child in the Mongol community. FFS 1/4 Chinese and some can't even accept that.
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Post by Subuatai on Mar 18, 2009 9:12:40 GMT -5
It's funny really, how children really change us... with my kid on the way, I never expected I would stand up for the Chinese people in such a passionate manner. "China builds walls, Mongols break down walls, you ask yourself who the f--k is real Mongol, and who is real hujaa?" Haha, *awaiting reply*  |
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