Wouldn’t we all be black then?
Tiger Woods refers to himself as “Cablinasian”. He’s 50% Asian (25% Thai and 25% Chinese). Tiger is only 25% black, yet that seems to be how the media and most people define him.
Tiger is quoted as saying he felt that “African-American” was too restrictive a term, given his multiracial background; and that, in particular, it excluded his Asian mother from the picture. Therefore, during childhood, Woods invented the term “Cablinasian.”
Was it Kierkegard, or Dick Van Patten, who said, “label me and you negate me”
do adults play basketball? I don’t think I know anyone that still plays basketball.
I can say that I don’t have black blood in me.
Can’t comment on other fluids.
You mean like surgical sedation ???
He means like Archie Bunker
Not all the multiracial people I know identify as a single race. It can be a cultural identification, or how society has treated them. I know some people with one white and one black parent who feel neither white nor black, and don’t refer to themselves as either.
If I were to find out, somehow, that one of my biological grandparents was another race, I doubt I would begin to claim I was anything but white, because I don’t have the experiences of being treated as anything other than white, and I don’t have any cultural ties to that other race. But some other person might feel differently than I do. And I bet there are a lot of multiracial people out there who disagree about how to self-categorize.
My mother and sister did 23 and me. Im close to 100% Ashkenazi Jewish. Boring. I’d like to be able to claim I’m black.
Yeah the part about cultural ties resonates.
I look like a white person and I’m 7/8ths white, so basically I’m white. But my half-Middle-Eastern grandmother was very close to her Syrian/Lebanese grandmother. She frequently cooked Middle Eastern food. She had Middle Eastern clothing (including children’s clothing which I occasionally wore for special occasions before my family gifted it to Philadelphia Museum of Art) and a number of other Middle Eastern items in her home, some of which are now in MY home. So I’ve always identified with my Middle Eastern roots.
On the other hand I’m like 3/8 Irish but have basically no connection whatsoever with my Irish roots and don’t especially identify that way. I think that my Irish family was taught that they should suppress that part of their identity due to the intense anti-Irish sentiment.
In Australia, Irish ancestry is often mentioned but you would think that noone had any German heritage (I’m 1/2 Irish and 1/8 German). During/after World War II, any towns that had German names were renamed. My dad’s best friend was discouraged from speaking/learning German as a child, even though he was born in Germany.
There were Irish clubs but I don’t recall seeing any German clubs.
People tend to identify with whatever gets them ahead in life. I frequently pass as Chinese although it’s usually because I’m too lazy to correct people.
Since we’re on the subject, you should all learn about this guy, he’s awesome:
Similar thing happened to my English teacher (US). She had a German grandfather who refused to speak German after WWI and would deny being German when his grandkids asked him to speak it.
when i meet people of german ancestry i wonder if they have ancestors who killed my people. sometimes i ask.
it’s like ya, i know you weren’t born yet back then, but most nazi’s are dead now, so you’re getting the blame. sorry.
I wonder who Vladimir Ashkenazy identifies as
Oh and after we did the 23&me thing I found out I had some long lost Sherpa cousin, so imma go identify as that and get in touch with my Sherpa roots
i don’t know what a sherpa is, but google image search makes it look cold.
That explains that warm fuzzy feeling you get every time you hear the song “Climb Every Mountain”.
Tenzing Norgay was a pretty awesome sherpa.