what's your race/ethnicity?

Anonymous


PP, my favorite is my Irish + Italian friends. They are passionate, happy and know how to EAT!
Anonymous
white southern american married to a white california boy.
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Both Russians
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Interesting you noticed OP. I feel the same way about DCUM. But then again, I'm one of the few Black people on here. The race/color categories in our country are ridiculous and have no bearing on reality. My husband is part Native American but looks completely white so he is just considered Caucasian. How is that at all accurate? My daughter has pale skin, red hair and green eyes (blue at birth). No one will know she has a Black mother by looking at her. Where does she fit in in everyone's rabid need to stereotype and categorize? It's all about what you look like and identify as, not what you actually are. Which, in my opinion, makes it meaningless.


ITA with this. DH is black, but he looks white so every single white person he encounters assumes he is white. DD looks white sometimes and black other times, but of course white people assume she is white because her parents both look white. Most of my friends are racially mixed themselves, and then their kids even more so. At some point, what does it even mean to say someone is one race or another?


I think about this some time that it is perception as much as anything else. I'm black - grandparents came here from Jamaica - consider myself a New Yorker. DH is white - a combination of Irish and Eastern European/Jewish - same deal that most of his grandparents were 1st generation American with the siblings born elsewhere. I find it facinating that both my mom and his mom were born in the Bronx. His parents grew up in the same time but the Irish/Catholic and Jewish communities really didn't mix and his parents didn't meet until they worked the same place.

So anyway, I earlier mentioned my kids are bi-racial and someone asked "what is that". I fully expect on the census they would check "more than one race". Who knows however how their kids - my future grandchildren - will identify. People may be like "ohhhh, that is your grandmother" and try to put two and two together.
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new england WASP. father's family arrived from england in 1600's. mom's later, from scotland.
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12:32 - Nope. Just saying. It's okay.

12:37 - repeat.

In many countries (NOT just Italy) the North and South differentiate themselves from each other for historical reasons.

Are you sensitive to what you look like, PP?

It has NOTHING to do with good/bad or positive/negative unless you internalize that yourselves. Or your ancestors did (whether or not they realize it).

Again, this has to do with history, not YOU. Sorry if you feel it has to do with you.

I would encourage anyone who has immigrants from the "first waves" to visit Ellis Island and see what they went through. VERY different than now.

I love my background, family and education, pretty much everything (!) but they are not all necessarily interlinked.

My background is very cool!

Everyone should enjoy theirs *and* appreciate what others have done for them - should they realize it. It did NOT just happen overnight, is the point.

Enjoy!


If you're referring to the light-skinned Southern Italian PP - nope! I like my looks very much! I'll never win beauty contests, but I was never really a fan of Miss America either.


Anonymous
i am korean american.
dh is mostly your typical boston irish catholic but with some quebecois thrown in.
Anonymous
me: Brazilian - daughter of a green eyed red head with a true Portuguese beauty a la snow white - pale skin and dark dark straight hair/eyes.
Grandpa was Brazilian Native Indian with green eyes and grandma from "the jungle" like she used to say, blond blue eyed jungle girl.

DH: Southern Indian. Brown skin, dark thick black hair/eyes.

DC: on the way and we can't wait to see how he will look like!!!!!

Which box do we check?!?!
Anonymous
Me - Russian American, husband - Jewish American
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wow - there's so much more diversity here than i thought - has anyone else felt that some of the threads become biased/racist/prejudiced?
Anonymous
Me - Indian (South Asian)
Husband - American (mixed European heritage)
Anonymous
Proud to say I'm a white American mutt! So is my ex-H and my kids.

Mutt just means I'm not remotely affiliated with my European roots, I have no idea other than family surnames where we all came from. I presume European because of the names, but I guarantee that someone in my family tree married into Native American blood at some point along the way.. we just can't find who/where!

I'm white complected and American born, so that's that!
Anonymous


I would prefer caucasian (or whatever else) to mutt. Mutt just sounds like you don't think very highly of yourself.
Anonymous
why do people think that caucasian means white?
Anonymous
Black. Obama-type Mutt and proud. (Black African father, white American mother). And elitist. DH is US born son of (white) Latino immigrants. Still not sure what to call the kids. Blatino? White of mixed heritage? I hate the "other" option.

I've been heartened to see the self-reported diversity in this thread. Although have to agree some posts in forums sound pretty culturally ignorant given the demographics of DC Metro area.
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