[BypeVupyide]

If you were a part Black and part White person and looked more Black then you never got the title to be 'mixed' by others. That person would just be seen as a lightskinned Black. If you were part Asian and part White, then you could be socially accepted more as White than someone who is Mulatto even if that person looked more Asian.

But where I'm from, to be considered 'mixed' you have to have a racially ambiguous/question mark look. I've had many mixed raced people I went to school with, but they were never seen as 'mixed' just lightskinned Black. But I went to school with a Black/Asian/White girl and she had an 'exotic' look to her and everyone would ask what she was and she was never viewed as a Black girl like the other mixed raced kids. She was always seen as 'mixed' girl.

It's just something I have noticed. Is it the same for others?

[Caluabdum]

If you were a part Black and part White person and looked more Black then you never got the title to be 'mixed' by others. That person would just be seen as a lightskinned Black. If you were part Asian and part White, then you could be socially accepted more as White than someone who is Mulatto even if that person looked more Asian.

But where I'm from, to be considered 'mixed' you have to have a racially ambiguous/question mark look. I've had many mixed raced people I went to school with, but they were never seen as 'mixed' just lightskinned Black. But I went to school with a Black/Asian/White girl and she had an 'exotic' look to her and everyone would ask what she was and she was never viewed as a Black girl like the other mixed raced kids. She was always seen as 'mixed' girl.

It's just something I have noticed. Is it the same for others?

To me a person who have phenotype of more than one race is considered mixed to me.

[astonmartinrx371]

If you were a part Black and part White person and looked more Black then you never got the title to be 'mixed' by others. That person would just be seen as a lightskinned Black. If you were part Asian and part White, then you could be socially accepted more as White than someone who is Mulatto even if that person looked more Asian.

But where I'm from, to be considered 'mixed' you have to have a racially ambiguous/question mark look. I've had many mixed raced people I went to school with, but they were never seen as 'mixed' just lightskinned Black. But I went to school with a Black/Asian/White girl and she had an 'exotic' look to her and everyone would ask what she was and she was never viewed as a Black girl like the other mixed raced kids. She was always seen as 'mixed' girl.

It's just something I have noticed. Is it the same for others?

Yes Bellame, that's the way it works.

[casinobonyanes]

In my area, this is 'mixed' http://www.teenidols4you.com/blink/A...1284362874.jpg.
She would never be considered a lightskinned Black girl here.



http://www.askactor.com/images/casts...on_18620_4.jpg
She would be viewed as lightskinned Black

[TeemFilla]

Yes Bellame, that's the way it works.

In the US.

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In my area, this is 'mixed' http://www.teenidols4you.com/blink/A...1284362874.jpg.
She would never be considered a lightskinned Black girl here.



http://www.askactor.com/images/casts...on_18620_4.jpg
She would be viewed as lightskinned Black

Light skinned black is a label created by Aframs to expand thier race gap to mulattoid people.

[Heacechig]

Mongoloids genetically are closer to Europeans than Negroids are. That's why Mongoloid-European mixed people will be more considered as "white" than Negroid-European mixes will be.

People have noticed this genetic distance thing between races already long time ago, before all modern genetic testing.

[bomondus]

Mongoloids genetically are closer to Europeans than Negroids are. That's why Mongoloid-European mixed people will be more considered as "white" than Negroid-European mixes will be.

People have noticed this genetic distance thing between races already long time ago, before all modern genetic testing.

Which is why the general public does not view,for example, Keanu Reeves Asian or mixed.

[jq0AFTTC]

In my area, this is 'mixed' http://www.teenidols4you.com/blink/A...1284362874.jpg.
She would never be considered a lightskinned Black girl here.



http://www.askactor.com/images/casts...on_18620_4.jpg
She would be viewed as lightskinned Black

In my area you have to be really ambiguous looking to be able to call yourself mixed without getting funny looks when claiming it. Neither one of those girls would be considered mixed just on looks from the majority of people around here.

[Galvanoidum]

In my area you have to be really ambiguous looking to be able to call yourself mixed without getting funny looks when claiming it. Neither one of those girls would be considered mixed just on looks from the majority of people around here.

To me Cassie has a racially ambiguous look. She could pass for Native North American, but a lot of people in my area don't view her as a 'sistah'.

[koebforfrn]

it all depends if they are visibly mixed or not..someone who is half and half but takes after the black side is considered just that, black..and it basically goes that way with whatever race..you are labeled what you look like.


but if you tell people you are mixed then they will usually accept you as such. and treat you accordingly..depending on who that is that might mean nothing (someone who isnt racially prejudice) or it could mean alot(someone who is)

[fenter1]

I am mixed because I look like it, and that is my ancestry, period.

[uniopaypamp]

I am mixed because I look like it, and that is my ancestry, period.

I agree and feel the same way, although I'm a little less mixed than you probably are. Most of the time I would identify as "Black" (whatever that means).

I just wonder if someone who was 72% Euro/18% African/10% Amerind, would be allowed to identify as White...

[Ifroham4]

Yeah... my gf is half indonesian, quarter irish, quarter Jewish. We all consider her totally Indonesian...

I really think its about how you look. Certain races seem more.. dominant when it comes to mixing. Like if you're Black or Asian mixed with white... you're just black or asian.. etc.

[GeraldCortis]

I agree and feel the same way, although I'm a little less mixed than you probably are. Most of the time I would identify as "Black" (whatever that means).

I just wonder if someone who was 72% Euro/18% African/10% Amerind, would be allowed to identify as White...

does he look white?



thats really what it comes down to most of the time..if they don't know your heritage they just guess really.if he looks black he's black if he looks white he's white..until further notice atleast.

[Wvq9InTM]

does he look white?



thats really what it comes down to most of the time..if they don't know your heritage they just guess really.if he looks black he's black if he looks white he's white..until further notice atleast.

Well that is what a random Puerto Ricans would be... right? So I guess I know the answer..

As soon as you deviate from "Perfectly White" you are no longer White...Imagine if that were the rule for Blacks....

I have a co-worker that liked this girl that he thought was Italian. As soon as he found out she was Mexican (with obvious, but less than average Amerind ancestry), he wasn't that interested....

[CarrieSexy]

In the US.

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Light skinned black is a label created by Aframs to expand thier race gap to mulattoid people.

Now even you know...that's not how it came along. You know very well this came from the one drop rule. So why lie?

[quedry36]

I agree and feel the same way, although I'm a little less mixed than you probably are. Most of the time I would identify as "Black" (whatever that means).

I just wonder if someone who was 72% Euro/18% African/10% Amerind, would be allowed to identify as White...

I wouldn't call him White.

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Now even you know...that's not how it came along. You know very well this came from the one drop rule. So why lie?

And they know it but do nothing agaisnt it, they accept it instead.

[Flankrene]

I wouldn't call him White.

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And they know it but do nothing agaisnt it, they accept it instead.

I wouldn't call him white either... But we come from different cultures.

Blacks historically held no power in the US.... W.E.B. Dubois and Martin Luther King Jr.were actually both integral in uniting blacks and admixed blacks....

Aframs are divided as it is, shunning the 1-Drop Rule would only be to their detriment...

[brulpcoersero]

I wouldn't call him white either... But we come from different cultures.

Blacks historically held no power in the US.... W.E.B. Dubois and Martin Luther King Jr.were actually both integral in uniting blacks and admixed blacks....

Aframs are divided as it is, shunning the 1-Drop Rule would only be to their detriment...

thye do not need it to sruvive, if they are an ethnicity(which many aframs have cliamed it to be) then they can survive in a cultural way, but thye can't come negating their non-white ancestry to protect their black one.

[letmelogin]

I wouldn't call him White.

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And they know it but do nothing agaisnt it, they accept it instead.

PRs know it's bad to find white features better than black ones, but they still do right.