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Post by long on Dec 18, 2007 23:36:06 GMT -5
Particularly hilarious that many here are telling the thread creator WHAT and how HE or SHE should feel when they have no f**king clue what it`s like to be a monoracial. Hmm, so you're agreeing (s)he has no f**king clue what it's like to be biracial. - I do not agree with that assumption.
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Post by thesa on Dec 19, 2007 4:48:33 GMT -5
same difference
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Post by fumanchu on Dec 19, 2007 10:53:40 GMT -5
actually i'd say it's the opposite. Superficially the experiences are the same, but they are very different in a fundamental sense. As a halfie, either in Asia or at home I'm never assumed to be part of the majority, always a minority. So if you want to look at it that way, there is nowhere to go to escape being "categorized by race". And there is the asian family/european family thing to boot.
Actually, until a few years ago I assumed everyone thought I was full european. I had no idea they didn't. So it's never bothered me what race people think i'm from and i still don't give a rats a$$. After all, I can't control what other people think, and if i'm all concerned about what they think then it says more about the state of my self-esteem and self confidence rather than their ignorance. 2/3rds of everything you see is behind your own eyes. What bothers me more is whether or not I treat other people fairly on the basis of who they are and what they do, not their race.
(steps down from soap box)
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Post by cm on Dec 22, 2007 11:53:14 GMT -5
You are disregarding their family bonds. Many have white relatives, many have Americanized relatives that don't speak the language. Those just want to be like any American....eat their cinnamon bread and drink their mocha, and drive their gas guzzling SUV, yet they'll get dumb comments and rude service...and get categorized by their race instead of their personality. So essentially, while the experience is different in terms of minutia, it's quite similar in the big picture. WHAT? I said there are AAs who might not know their Asian language and I guess there are a lot that just want to "eat their cinnamon bread and drink their mocha" (and drinking mocha is sth nowadays everyones wants to do once they're in the Starbucks hype... whereever in the World). And I never said they couldn't. I said that's sth. SOME EAs have in common w/ SOME AAs (AAs as representative of 2nd generation immigrants, AA is just shorter to type). But there are also EAs who are not detached from their Asian side and there are also AAs who are not detached from their Asian side, either. But please, having white family... that's sth. no genetically pure Asian has in common w/ an EA... unless they're adopted. Maybe it doesn't mean anything to you that you ALSO have white family, but to me it does. Not b/c I think that white is better or whatever kind of sh*t you're going to assume next but b/c it is my family and b/c it involves other traditions etc. etc. than what my Asian side brings in (other good things). There are tons of Asian Americans who have white family members There are also many EA's who have only a single Asian parent taking care of them Not everybody's situation is the same as yours. I have no clue about the family members of my white side. They didn't accept the marriage. So I really don't give a f*** about them. Is that experience the same as yours? There is no universal experience to begin with. So saying their experience can be similar to ours is not a stretch, for your and my experience are probably as different as they can get.
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Post by attilathehun513 on Dec 25, 2007 23:22:12 GMT -5
I am not sure why some ppl feel that pure/mixed race ppl are better or worse in their nature?
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