Im black for those who dont know. Like i said my name is Desi, not my ethnicity. My great grandma was native American but anyways, im sure plenty people are part that. As for those calling mixed people “mutts” i hate that term and think being mixed is beautiful. I doubt anyone is any one thing but the poll above is more so about what you identify as
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Now y'all know i usually comment on like 90% of everyones opinions but this was more of a survey in which i settled with upvotes. So thank you for everyone who participated. Not sure why a few got offended because this is a common theme. But anyways, im headed to work... everyone take care and enjoy your weekend. 👍👍 #TasteTheRainbow media3.giphy.com/media/3ogsjUeIUkMzM5qIta/200.gif media.giphy.com/.../giphy.gif
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I'm black as well! It cracks me up how people react when they find out I'm black instead of some other ethnicity. Apparently black women don't exist on the internet 😂
Oh we're on here, I have spoken with a few. Most of us are just smart enough to keep a low profile due to how most trolls on the internet treat us. As unbelievable as it sounds, I have had people unfriend or stop talking to me when I told them or showed them I was black. Smh!
Same! They flirt hardcore and assume you're another ethnicity. Soon as you say black, thats the end of that convo. Its all good tho cause at this point i prefer to date within our race... preferably with the black dudes who haven't left us for white women or big booty black women 🤦♀️🤣 my booty small, i ain't gone lie haha
I still shake what i got. Shit it pop and twerk and jiggle just as good as a big one when i dance haha. But i got the tits to make up for it. And yea i wish us the best 🙌
I am Caucasian and I am descended from several old Florida families. The Florida pioneers were nicknamed "Crackers" for the sound of the bull whip that they used in herding cattle, so I am doubly a cracker!
My somewhat ex was japanese and portuguese. super hot mix. He looked like jet li but was built like an American footballer and had the accent of cristiano ronaldo but spoke English very clearly. Super hot mix. If only he wasn't an ass lol
Race is white, but heritage is German, French, Italian, Spanish - which I guess you could argue makes me Hispanic though I nor my mother's family ever thought so - French Canadian, English Canadian and Polish. If you can ferret out what the significance is in all of that, you are doing better than I am.
@OddBeMe Well, certainly as an estimation of character, that was my implicit point.
However, we should not forget that man gets his sense of identity and community from things like ethnicity, nationality, religion and the like. Strip these away and you, as the 18th century British statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke put it, "reduce man to his naked shivering nature."
A balance needs to be struck between man as a "rugged individual" separate and without connection to his fellows and man as mere creature of tribe and clan. Man is a social being and when deprived of the sources of his identity he will seek out identities to fill the void - this being the birthplace of Marxism, Fascism and National Socialism, among other totalitarian ideologies.
The problem at the moment is the cultural penchant to define the individual by his group alone and then to use that as a cudgel to extract sympathy and even compensation. This then leading, ironically, to the atomization of the culture that presumably our various sub-identities are meant to foster. In this we lose the magic mean - e plurbus unum.
@OddBeMe It's nice that you are, but I think you are rather missing the point. This is a cultural phenomenon that is an outgrowth of man's social nature. In any given context it may manifest itself in any number of ways. In the United States, from something as benign St. Patrick's Day celebrations in the United States with their focus on Irish pride to the "identity politics" to even the militancy of the Black Panthers.
You may note, overseas, the Han Chinese handling of the Uighars, to apartheid in South Africa back in the day to the various nationalisms that helped foster the First World War and in a different sense the Second. See also now the Catalan and Scottish independence movements.
Man takes his identity in a million different ways that he does not recognize. I offer to you for further study the 18th century statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France," and in a different way, Timothy Carney's "Alienated America." These may give you some insight and a better understanding of that to which I refer.
Suffice to add that in political life a balance need be struck between a sense of community identity and rugged individualism. Too much of the former can conduce to an unhealthy tribalism. Too much of the latter a sense of cultural atomization that can lead to the kinds of social pathologies described in J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," including the opioid crisis seen in much of blue collar America.
@OddBeMe Human nature is immutable. It is what it is and the mistake you are making is the very same that the rationalists who came out of the Enlightenment made.
Strip away from man all the pre-rational and irrational sources of his identity and shape the law and his nature in light of abstract reason and harmony will follow. As France 1789, Russia, 1917, Italy, 1922, Germany, 1933, Spain, 1939, and China, 1949 - to cite the most conspicuous examples - amply demonstrate, that is not true.
Strip man of the sources of his identity and sense of community - he will not believe in nothing, he will believe in anything.
As for mixing in my Blood There is a lot I will start with my Paternal Family My Grandfather is the Son of A Moroccan immigrant who came to Venezuela and married a Woman of Spanish origin (He is Black) my Grandmother In turn her father was Italian and he married a native Venezuelan (she is very white and with very light brown hair with reddish tendencies). In turn, my paternal grandfather was a son of Spanish and a native Venezuelan (he was very white with blue eyes) and my grandmother was a daughter of two Venezuelan Natives (His Race was Native As For example A Native American) today I have Blond Cousins with Blue Eyes Others Very Black Some Very White But with Factions of Black Curly, Straight, Wavy hair and I am a mixture of all that Dark-skinned Not so dark but not light enough to be White With Bushy Beard And Smooth Dark brown hair with some clear highlights Visible only with sunlight at the end of the day in Venezuela we are so racially mixed and c I think we are all proud of that
I'm Italian, Welsh, Mongolian, Caveman, Neanderthal (although noone wants to specify it, I'm quite certain one of them got into the mix). It is distinctly possible that since mankind originated in Africa.. I'm also part... African, maybe a little "Lucy"? I'd love to see my family tree go back to lucy, that be so cool!
Why isn't there an option on forms for me:( I feel so discriminated against.)
The main is Black, even thought i am mixed with many ethnic because of my grandpa, grandma, great grandpa and great grandma and so on... So i am mixed with some africa countries such as (Rwanda, Burundi, tanzania, congo), belgium, holland, indian, Australien, Canada, sweden, Uk.
23 And Me says that I am 97% British and Northern European. But, there are a bunch of physical features that I exhibit that are crazy unlikely for people in my demographics. Like almost all of my physical features make me look like I'm Dutch, Scottish, and then some kind of North African/Turk/Arab. My genetic test insists that I'm Scottish and Danish, which lines up with my family's lineage records. But to me, it seems highly unlikely that I'm not part Near Eastern.
It turned into a whole saga lol. I (and my brother as well, actually) was somewhat wondering if my dad was actually my dad. We didn't doubt it, per se, but there was a lot of little curiosities that would have become easier to explain if my dad wasn't actually my dad.
I'm the largest unrecognized minority of all & it's colorblind & doesn't have a sexual preference, or feminist agenda, or a religious agenda either I'm left-handed 9% of the United States population is left-handed & 18% worldwide, & up until the 1980, s we were being forced in schools to write right-handed, When I kid going to school I would get my knuckles hit with a ruler if I wrote left-handed, My Mother & Father went to school " He was born left-handed let him write left-handed. If anyone deserves prefers minority it's the lefties who are to everything the right-handed way.
Black, Romanian, Native American, definetly some African but not sure which countries from Africa. I have to do a hereditary test to trace my roots. The groups I put are from what family has told me but I really want to see if I have some Asian in me.
All western European here. Ancestry. com says 80% Irish/English/Scotch, 15% Iberian Peninsula and the rest northwestern European. My mom's side was pure Irish Catholic (I have the genealogy). My dad's ancestors were pure Irish Catholic (I have the genealogy) except his grandfather married a French lady and his mother was a mix of Irish, English and who knows. I think of myself as being of Irish descent.
I'm Ukrainian American. Both of my parents are from Ukraine but I was born and raised in the U. S. They say we have Irish, Polish, English and all sorts of other European bloodlines I dont care to take the time to list. We also have Tunisian and Chinese ancestry. You couldn't tell I had African or Asian heritage just by looking at me.
Oh I would never put down mixed heritage. I never was a recognized member of an American Indian tribe or considered to be "White" and I have family members who look just like American Indians. . . some even look Asian.
We have always been "Black" folk.
But I will get my genetic test done this year. I am very curious.
I've never got a test done and i just call myself black but i know there's Native American down the line. Im not denying it, im just identifying as black since thats what people will call me when they see me
Well, if I may be so bold, I would just say if you have American Indian heritage, I would get it checked out. If you want to claim it. I have talked to Cherokee Indians who have invited me to check into it. I don't know if I would ever claim it. Because I feel I could taint their experience and their heritage. But everyone is different. Maybe you might want to go on a pilgrimage to claim your heritage if it exists and you find a tribe you can enroll in.
I don' t know. That's up to you. But American Indians don't do race. They do culture.
Mixed white. As in, a lot of different kinds of white.
But I suppose that doesn't really count. Because people of other races can say the same thing about themselves. Like, a Latino/a might be part Honduran and part Salvadoran. And an African-American might have ancestors from both Ghana and Benin.
@Jamie05rhs haha, yeah, all my college buddies call me that. In my freshman dorm, one of our other friends was named Steve, so we became White Steve and Asian Steve, for a time. But Asian Steve had a cool, punchy Korean last name, and it just worked well together with his first name, so Asian Steve fell by the wayside and we just called him by his full name a lot. But for me, not as much because I’m racially white, but because my skin tone is so white, lmao, White Steve stuck for me😂
F: I'm half White (dad's side) & half Asian (mom's side). My physical appearance will lead anyone to believe I'm whole Asian until he/she/they hear me talk and/or learn about my mentality.
I did a genealogy and I could go on a rant about the various European ancestors I have or the one African American ancestor in my genealogy but ultimately
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