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Post by mingzayni88 on Aug 21, 2008 15:18:43 GMT -5
Hi, yeah I believe it is possible for a 1/8 to be brought up similar to one who is 1/2, eg davidbleo and hapaangel28's niece and nephew. Other eg could be singer enrique iglesias who is actually 1/8 but many consider to be half filipino since his mum was born and raised in the phillipines. JMhO. Well i'm going to go introduce myself to this board formally now!
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Post by mingzayni88 on Sept 7, 2008 11:01:55 GMT -5
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Post by daystar on Sept 17, 2008 14:47:06 GMT -5
Wow, Jimmy Page looks so much more Asian now that he's older.
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Post by toyomansi on Sept 17, 2008 15:43:40 GMT -5
For me 1/4 Asian and the rest Scandinavian looks very white...And all of the 1/4 Asians Ive seen in my country have blue eyes. Isnt brown supposed to be more dominant? Anyway, for each 1/4 Asian I see here I get surprised every time about how little Asian they look. I thought they would at least have a slightly darker complexion than this! I know what you're saying, I was also a little surprised by that... I haven't met many 1/4 Asian 3/4 Scandi mixes, only the baby boy of my EA friend and her Norwegian boyfriend. Everyone agrees that it doesn't look like he has a single drop of Filipino in him He has pale skin, blonde hair and aqua blue eyes... Genetics is really mysterious, no? They are hoping that their next one will be a brown-eyed girl (in theory, there should be a 50-50 chance) with brown hair
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Post by catgirl on Sept 30, 2008 8:22:05 GMT -5
Yeah, they should make a new genetic law because it doesnt add up
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Post by dead0baby0chick on Oct 16, 2008 20:40:54 GMT -5
I think 1/8 is stretching it a bit. I mean...you can't swing a dead cat from it's tail without hitting dozens of white people who claim 1/8 something else (generally Native American) so they can make themselves feel special. I don't think looks are very important to it, though how you are treated does somewhat affect your identity. So I suppose someone who is 7/8 white and 1/8 Asian who somehow ended up looking clearly part Asian can have felt that they were lumped into the Asian category by non-Asians. But I don't think that's enough. How other people view your and how DNA played out on your features isn't the main factor. I think the main factor is how you were raised and your connection to your 1/8 background. For most people with 1/8 this or that, I doubt the this or that gets played out much in their lives. So when someone who has had no influence from a droplet in their bloodstream...it seems ridiculous for them to claim it as an important part of who they are. But then there are so many ways to play devil's advocate on this one. I mean, what about say a full Asian-American? An American of 100% Asian descent, who happened to have been adopted as a baby by a white American family, who doesn't speak the language of his/her ancestors, who has never been to the country of his/her origin, who has no interest in his/her background, who is effectively whitewashed...are they Asian then? Because when I meet people like that I feel more Asian than them...even though I have less Asian blood than them. I think it depends on how you are raised culturally, as that is the most important determining factor on how you identify culturally/racially. So just because a person has 1/8 Asian in them and it is visible in their features, that alone doesn't make them EA. They have to have had some influence in their lives and have to really identify as EA...not just throw it out to look exotic/interesting.
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Post by devinsky on Oct 23, 2008 17:51:59 GMT -5
well, i'm between 1/8 to 1/4 mongol, impossible to say the true amount. but i'm also 1/8 to 1/4 Lakota so i guess that evens that out . I find that most Full blooded asians dont accept me at all, but all the Hapa people i've met are more then willing to let me join the crowd! i guess because all the full bloods are snobby to them too . jk, but more often then not if you are around 1/8th some European people will just see you as asian, while more often then not to asians you are bleach white!
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Post by devinsky on Oct 23, 2008 17:53:37 GMT -5
[/img] [/quote] wow man i cant believe i didnt know that! jimmy page is the man! more so because he's eurasian
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Post by mingzayni88 on Oct 27, 2008 12:46:16 GMT -5
[/img] [/quote] wow man i cant believe i didnt know that! jimmy page is the man! more so because he's eurasian [/quote] Ya, i didn't know til recent, now that I know it's pretty obvious as he gets old..ah I mean..advances in age!
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Post by Subuatai on Dec 5, 2008 4:35:49 GMT -5
Well, my grandmother is Slavic, but she thinks like a Tatar, honors her ancestors, knowing much more about nomads then she does the other majority of her blood, family history struggling to maintain Tatar identity despite Soviet attempts to remove cultural identities. So, I kinda gave up judging books by their covers.
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Post by catgirl on Dec 5, 2008 21:50:07 GMT -5
well, i'm between 1/8 to 1/4 mongol, impossible to say the true amount. but i'm also 1/8 to 1/4 Lakota so i guess that evens that out . I find that most Full blooded asians dont accept me at all, but all the Hapa people i've met are more then willing to let me join the crowd! i guess because all the full bloods are snobby to them too . jk, but more often then not if you are around 1/8th some European people will just see you as asian, while more often then not to asians you are bleach white! 1/8 of what? asian or white? Usually those who are 1/8 asian look fully european (if its the case) and those who are 1/8 european and rest asian look asian. But there should be a few exceptions, like always... Its possible that you might have got the "asian looking" trait from your european parent and mistaken it for coming from the asian side I know about many scandinavians with more slented eyes than EAs. I think its more a matter of the what you see and what kind of associations you have with europeans and asians. I dont think everyone shares the same ideas... I think the experience with looking asian to whites and looking white to asians goes more for 1/2 asian-euros, and sometimes 1/4 asians.
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Post by Subuatai on Dec 5, 2008 23:50:41 GMT -5
well, i'm between 1/8 to 1/4 mongol, impossible to say the true amount. but i'm also 1/8 to 1/4 Lakota so i guess that evens that out . I find that most Full blooded asians dont accept me at all, but all the Hapa people i've met are more then willing to let me join the crowd! i guess because all the full bloods are snobby to them too . jk, but more often then not if you are around 1/8th some European people will just see you as asian, while more often then not to asians you are bleach white! Mongols do not traditionally have the racialist views as other Asians or Europeans. We accept all no matter what each other looks like because it's the reality of everyday life looking varied and different on the steppes. Forgive me if I'm wrong but I'm assuming you have not met many Mongols where you live. Heh - I haven't either living in Australia either then the Hazara community in Sydney. But if you wish you are very welcome to join many online Mongol communities.
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Post by Paddy on Dec 6, 2008 4:56:40 GMT -5
Mongols do not traditionally have the racialist views as other Asians or Europeans. We accept all no matter what each other looks like because it's the reality of everyday life looking varied and different on the steppes. But if you wish you are very welcome to join many online Mongol communities. Mongol long-lived conquest for world domination takes on cyber-space
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Post by Subuatai on Dec 6, 2008 11:01:41 GMT -5
Well hooking up with my own people did solve a few issues here and there, so why not make the same suggestion based on my own experience
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Post by nemesisgalofdoom on Dec 13, 2008 20:01:21 GMT -5
Wow, Jimmy Page looks so much more Asian now that he's older. whoa, so true. I love LZ, never knew that he is mixed
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