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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I still don’t even know how to define “people of color.” [/b]

I identify as Jewish-American. When I did 23andme a few years back, it came back as:

48% Ashkenazi Jewish (by way of Russia and Ukraine)
14% Southern European (Italian and Maltese)
14% Northwestern European (Norwegian)
13% East Asian (Japanese and Korean)
4% Middle Eastern and North African (probably Libya)

They couldn’t categorize the rest.

Outside of the Norwegian portion, my background is not white, as defined as Anglo-Saxon. I look white in terms of my skin color. I don’t face discrimination based on my skin color, but I do based on my religion.

My mom, uncle, and grandpa were called Japs in NYC in the 1930s-1960s and my grandpa and his brothers were in internment camps here.

On the Jewish side, everyone came here in the 1910s/1920s to escape pogroms in Ukraine and Russia. They all changed their names to anglicize them.

So what the hell am I, in terms of this “POC vs white people” dichotomy? [/quote]

Fortunately, you don't have to. You know what you identify as. Let other people decide what they identify as.[/quote]

I know a light skinned, blonde, blue-eyed woman who wants to be identified as Native American. Her mother is 100% Sioux with tribal affiliation, her father is Eastern European.  So if you talk to her about race don't assume she's white.  [/quote]

Right — she’s a great example of what I’m talking about. She has every right to identify as Native American, even if the world perceives her as white.[/quote]

She is absolutely Native American. But she moves through the world differently than someone who looks more stereotypically Native American does. She can identify as Native American and also acknowledge that.

- daughter of a blonde haired, blue eyed black man[/quote]

So she’s Native American, but I’m white?[/quote]

Yerp.[/quote]

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