calling all MIXED people... one drop rule?

Shaken, not stirred.

To me it looks more like someone holding a doll during an earthquake. Is it offensive to people that someone might hold a baby during an earthquake?

The real question here is what is that doll mixed with... right?

You're right! We've been arguing a straw man here.

I still want to know -- and no one has answered -- if a glass of Coke has only one dro pof rum, is it a mixed drink?

That one hurts my brain. I'm pretty sure a glass of Coke with only one drop of rum would just piss me off.

What about a glass of rum with one drop of Coke?

My brain is hurting at this point, too. :laugh:


I say no. It's NOT a mixed drink if there's only one drop of rum. It is decided, there must be at least an ounce of liquor or it's not a mixed drink. :drinker: :smokin:

Clearly, you're a drinkist.

I was raised that way. It's not the color of the drink, but how light-headed you feel when the glass is empty that counts.

What is "Full South American"? That's not a race; it's a continent.

You could be white, you could be black, you could be indigenous, you could be mixed.

People are what they identify themselves as. I consider myself human. What race? I happen to be, as far as I know, white. Could there be "one drop" of something else in there? Perhaps, maybe, possibly, probably. I've had Asians assume that I am part Asian. I've had Hispanics think I'm Hispanic.

I think people like to identify people as whatever they are, whenever possible.

And I think we should all consider looking further than the "exterior" when we try to figure out who someone is.

Well I am 20% Kenyan so I guess I'm black, according to the 1 drop rule.

How do I know? My family submitted saliva for DNA testing. They identified us as European and African (the African was most likely from Kenya according to the report) and gave the % likelihood of each.

Like others here though when asked I simply say "I'm Canadian". I know that's not a race but it does shut people up.

Well, I'm a descendant of Irish, Italian, Romanian and Scottish blood and I am 20% Kenyan so I guess I'm black, according to the 1 drop rule.

How do I know....my family submitted saliva for DNA testing.

Like others here though when asked I simply say "I'm Canadian".

I have never, EVER said, "I'm Canadian."

I don't have one drop of Canadian blood in me either.

Whew! I hear that stuff is cooold!!!

According to the one drop rule, most of you are neanderthals :drinker:

most of the world's population has 1-4% neanderthal DNA. That's more than a drop of neanderthal blood.

interestingly, it's people who originate from Sub-Sahara Africa (i.e. south of the sahara) who are 100% Homo sapiens. So the one drop rule, as applied to people who have just one drop of Sub-Saharan African blood is rendered utterly ridiculous (not that it wasn't already ridiculous).... as in you have just one drop of pure Homo sapiens blood, so that makes you a pure Homo sapiens, oh wait but you have just one drop of neanderthal blood from your non-Sub-Saharan-African ancestry, so that makes you Homo neanderthalensis.... no wait....

there's no scientific basis for race. Nothing wrong with being happy about your genetic origins, but to make rules about who is or is not allowed to consider themselves a particular ethnicity based on stupid things like "just one drop" of "blood" from one group meaning you can't consider yourself a member of the the group that most of your genetic heritage is from, is just utterly silly and incredibly racist. And from a purely scientific perspective, we're all Homo sapiens sapiens, and 1-4% neanderthal DNA or 1-6% Denisovan DNA does not exclude anyone from being classified as Homo sapiens sapiens