calling all MIXED people... one drop rule?
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Since we're talking about what we check on those dratted "choose your ethnicity" forms...
Why is it always "White / Caucasian (not Latino or Hispanic)" OR "Hispanic / Latino"? I am both and always have been... *kicks rocks*0 -
Does the one drop rule apply to other races as well? If so, you are looking a a Native American...a memeber of the Lac Courte Orielles Band of Chippewa. And I am by tribal membership. When I was in college, I fully identified as such. And they identified me as a wannabe. Why...because I was raised in a completely whitebread town in Wisconsin, nowhere near the rez. Yeah. I finally came to terms with the fact that I am a white girl. That's just the way it is for me.0
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Oh well.. according to some sources i'm part: French, British, Irish, American. All this born in Canada...
I have identity problems....0 -
because in the african american community it didn't matter what you were mixed with, if you "looked black" you were treated as second class citizens, so i guess people just began to choose the race with whom they could most identify with.My son is a quarter Hispanic. He is pale, bleach blond haired and has green eyes. I am very thankful for that as his sperm donor is not in his life and he looks more like his REAL dad, the one who raises him.
I too always wondered why people like Obama or Rashida Jones were considered black. Only one half of their DNA is..0 -
Awesome, one squirted water at me, I giggled, my bf shook his head. I think he was jealous.
Those things feel super neat.I have a drop of giant sea cucumber DNA. Should I be concerned?
From the naked scientist web site.
I'm glad to be related to such a sexy beast.
Mostly mouth and gonads. Your bf should be jealous of such animals. But no cucumber is taking you abroad, I think he'll do ok with the competition.
Thankfully I don't share any blood with platypus. I think they spontaneously generated.
Edit: platypi? Platypuses?
Platypussies? :laugh:0 -
I am one drop cyborg and one drop beast
and half drop kitten.
meow
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I consider myself a very pale African and a Jew Of Color (JOC). I am super proud of my heritage.0
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I am one drop cyborg and one drop beast
and half drop kitten.
meow
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[/quote] because in the african american community it didn't matter what you were mixed with, if you "looked black" you were treated as second class citizens, so i guess people just began to choose the race with whom they could most identify with.
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^THIS^0 -
Since we're talking about what we check on those dratted "choose your ethnicity" forms...
Why is it always "White / Caucasian (not Latino or Hispanic)" OR "Hispanic / Latino"? I am both and always have been... *kicks rocks*
I applied to a community college that I really didn't want to go to, and I said that I was purple. Also, in the section that said "Why are you interested in this college?" I wrote "There was a hot guy in the brochure. Can you give me his number?" I wasn't accepted, and I don't know why. I had a 3.86 GPA. Probably because I'm purple.0 -
the one drop rule is absurd. that is like denying one whole side of my race, in my case, my mother is full filipino, and my dad is black hispanic. i WILL never allow society to put me in a box the way they did in slave times, and the one drop rule was meant to keep people in slavery, because apparently, if the mother is a non black, then the slave could be free. so that would mean loss of money, and the one drop rule was made. So when ignorant people try to tell me what I am, I look at my mixed family and feel good knowing I am what I am. I don't care what other people think I am because I correct them if need be.0
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I am one drop cyborg and one drop beast
and half drop kitten.
meow
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I am one drop cyborg and one drop beast
and half drop kitten.
meow
Make sure you log those schnozzberries!!!0 -
Platapusua?
Awesome, one squirted water at me, I giggled, my bf shook his head. I think he was jealous.
Those things feel super neat.I have a drop of giant sea cucumber DNA. Should I be concerned?
From the naked scientist web site.
I'm glad to be related to such a sexy beast.
Mostly mouth and gonads. Your bf should be jealous of such animals. But no cucumber is taking you abroad, I think he'll do ok with the competition.
Thankfully I don't share any blood with platypus. I think they spontaneously generated.
Edit: platypi? Platypuses?
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Since we're talking about what we check on those dratted "choose your ethnicity" forms...
Why is it always "White / Caucasian (not Latino or Hispanic)" OR "Hispanic / Latino"? I am both and always have been... *kicks rocks*
I applied to a community college that I really didn't want to go to, and I said that I was purple. Also, in the section that said "Why are you interested in this college?" I wrote "There was a hot guy in the brochure. Can you give me his number?" I wasn't accepted, and I don't know why. I had a 3.86 GPA. Probably because I'm purple.
Hahahaha! That is awesome. I should apply to jobs off Craigslist like that.0 -
Mixed people....not all mixed people look mixed. I myself have dark brown skin, but have a lot of European ancestry due to my Jamaican background. I identify myself as black. I married a beautiful white man and when we have children...they are free to identify themselves however they want. When they ask me what they are...I plan on telling them they are human and children of the most High God (Jesus)!0
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My cousin had to deal with something similar.
Her boyfriend in high school found out that her great grandmother was black, and he dumped her. He saw a picture and she said that was her great grandma. She loves her family and was pissed at him for being so shallow as to dump her because of the skin color of her great grandma. Apparently he was "really broken up about it".... Good riddance.
I'm sure he was SO broken-up. SMH. Clown. People are jerks.0 -
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I am one drop cyborg and one drop beast
and half drop kitten.
meow
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This thread has been enlightening. I'd honestly never heard of this 'one drop rule' thing before now. Maybe that's cos I'm from the UK and we don't have that over here or something. Hmm. We just have idiot skinheads and extremist Muslims fighting each other in marches in Luton.
Also, I learnt when I was 12 that my friend's very white, very fair mother was a full-blooded Jamaican. My mind was blown for weeks.0 -
Platapusua?
Awesome, one squirted water at me, I giggled, my bf shook his head. I think he was jealous.
Those things feel super neat.I have a drop of giant sea cucumber DNA. Should I be concerned?
From the naked scientist web site.
I'm glad to be related to such a sexy beast.
Mostly mouth and gonads. Your bf should be jealous of such animals. But no cucumber is taking you abroad, I think he'll do ok with the competition.
Thankfully I don't share any blood with platypus. I think they spontaneously generated.
Edit: platypi? Platypuses?
That's so twisted I want to keep children away from TVs.
That would be tentapusua. Not sure any one has a drop of their blood. No. Just no.0 -
TRUTH IS you cant go around pretending that white privilege doesn't exist. Its here, even without being the majority race, period.
My 8 year old has struggled with her identity already and i am happy to give her examples of how important and un-important it is all at the same time. She will know REAL HISTORY and she will know REAL AMERICA. I cannot lie to her and say skin color doesn't matter because she has already seen and felt the reality of it (unfortunately).
I love living in a multi-racial home. My husband is Nez Perce (Native American) I am white. My children have black aunties, a white auntie, Mexican uncles, Native American uncles, and incredibly mixed cousins
MAN DO WE HAVE SOME KILLER BBQ's0 -
I'm mixed, half Sephardic Jew / Half Ashenazic Jew. Half of my family are a few generations from Spain, speak Spanish fluently. My nickname when I was a kid was Juan Epstein.
I have NO idea what to put on those forms. I just write in 'Imperial Race Klingon'.0 -
I am half Tiger Blood, half awesome. So all awesome. With a drop of hotness.0
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This thread has been enlightening. I'd honestly never heard of this 'one drop rule' thing before now. Maybe that's cos I'm from the UK and we don't have that over here or something. Hmm. We just have idiot skinheads and extremist Muslims fighting each other in marches in Luton.
Also, I learnt when I was 12 that my friend's very white, very fair mother was a full-blooded Jamaican. My mind was blown for weeks.
I don't know if British/UK slave trade...white-black race relations were ever as outlandish as the U.S. I do know that the slave trade ended decades if not a full century or two before the U.S. stopped.
Was her mother Caucasian? I know there are Caucasian Jamaicans and they have the accent and everything! or is she just a really fair skinned afro-carribean. The Islands have such diverse ethnicity as there is PLENTY of mixing going on. Beautiful people.0 -
Does the one drop rule apply to other races as well? If so, you are looking a a Native American...a memeber of the Lac Courte Orielles Band of Chippewa. And I am by tribal membership. When I was in college, I fully identified as such. And they identified me as a wannabe. Why...because I was raised in a completely whitebread town in Wisconsin, nowhere near the rez. Yeah. I finally came to terms with the fact that I am a white girl. That's just the way it is for me.
Can 'white' be counted as a culture? Even in Wisconsin? Anyway, this made me sad for you. The disaffected geek tribe is always recruiting, though. Join us and we shall rule the world! It isn't our DNA that will determine the course of humanity, it is those who can alter the DNA of humanity that will determine our course.
Come to think of it, that is a very scary thought and has been giving me nightmares for some time now, yet the possibilities for making our species happier, healthier, and possibly even immortal is also there. I should have gone into genetics.
Anyone still hunting around for a field of study who reads this, don't make the mistakes I did. The future is the sciences, for better or worse. Don't bother with politics and history except insofar as it's useful to understand our past idiocies (such as the many -isms) so as not to repeat them.0 -
I'm mixed, half Sephardic Jew / Half Ashenazic Jew. Half of my family are a few generations from Spain, speak Spanish fluently. My nickname when I was a kid was Juan Epstein.
I have NO idea what to put on those forms. I just write in 'Imperial Race Klingon'.
Imperial Race Klingon! LOL!!! BEST EVER!0 -
Since we're talking about what we check on those dratted "choose your ethnicity" forms...
Why is it always "White / Caucasian (not Latino or Hispanic)" OR "Hispanic / Latino"? I am both and always have been... *kicks rocks*
In the UK the weird one is Asian, because it only refers to the Indian subcontinent, not the whole of Asia.
My son will get to tick something like 'mixed other', because he's half Japanese. I'm 1/16 French, 1/8 somewhere in Scandinavia (probably, as we don't know who my Nan's dad was), and my brother inherited all the blond and tan genes while I didn't. I know about those bits because the stories are interesting, and I know members of my great grandparents generation married German and Indian women, but otherwise, no clue. I like knowing that my ancestors didn't limit themselves too much when choosing a mate, but I don't think it has had any impact on my life.0 -
I love Drawn Together. That's the episode they found out Clara (the racist Disney princess) found out she had a cursed 'octapusua'.
Platapusua?
Awesome, one squirted water at me, I giggled, my bf shook his head. I think he was jealous.
Those things feel super neat.I have a drop of giant sea cucumber DNA. Should I be concerned?
From the naked scientist web site.
I'm glad to be related to such a sexy beast.
Mostly mouth and gonads. Your bf should be jealous of such animals. But no cucumber is taking you abroad, I think he'll do ok with the competition.
Thankfully I don't share any blood with platypus. I think they spontaneously generated.
Edit: platypi? Platypuses?
That's so twisted I want to keep children away from TVs.
That would be tentapusua. Not sure any one has a drop of their blood. No. Just no.0 -
Only people with African descent count as mixed? I'm of mixed descent. That doesn't mean that I've lived through the things that members of my family lived through. There's descent, and there is life experience, when it comes to identity.0
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