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I’m also a mutt. This is how i identify:
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Submitted 6 days ago by adrianhooves@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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teft@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Anissem@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
One of us!
Towerofpain11@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Why not all? You don’t have to identify in one box. I think it’s awesome to have a connection and understanding of a range of backgrounds. All my dogs have been mutts btw and they’re the best.
Today@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Now I’m super jealous and want to check all the boxes on every form.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Dude, we’re all mutts.
adrianhooves@lemmy.today 6 days ago
true!!!
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I mean… what are you?
Where are you from? What is your culture?
These are questions that you should answer only to yourself, but the answer is the one you seek.
For instance, my family started when a Scottish pirate kidnapped an Irish princess, sold her to an American; their son married a Native American woman. Now we’re all Kentucky rednecks 🤣
I’m a bit of an exception S:-]
adrianhooves@lemmy.today 6 days ago
woa you’re right, i mean now that i see it yep we’re all humans
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Ive been telling people I identify as the culture I grew up in. Im South West US. I never touched Europe, why should I tell people Im German? Or Polish? Or whatever
adrianhooves@lemmy.today 6 days ago
yea it’s about culture not race, that’s the truth
spongebue@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I think you answered your own question in the title. You identify as someone of mixed ethnicities and races. No big deal! Anyone who thinks that you should be any one thing in particular probably thinks you should act a certain way as well. Those are not people you want to go anywhere near.
drmoose@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Human! Colorblind is the only way to go.
There is no race culture, period. There’s regional, community or occupational culture but having specific racial features does not magically alter your brain chemistry or define your identity.
Don’t fall for this stupid nonsense - be cosmopolitan, be colorblind.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Same as anyone, tbh.
Identity is internal, always.
The only question is if you can get anyone else to go along with it. If you’re Irish, pale and otherwise unremarkable, good luck convincing anyone you’re black, much less a specific African ethnicity, you dig?
For folks that are multiethnic, there’s a different challenge. It isn’t so much that, depending on what ethnicities are involved, you can’t get people to agree at all, it’s that some combinations are rejected by both/all of those groups, or have trouble with their identity not fully matching the culture of those ethnicities.
That’s true even when the two groups are the same “race”.
There’s also the ugly truth that in many parts of the world (not just places once colonized my Europeans and/or part of the slave trade) there’s a one drop mentality still in place.
Here in the states? You’ll be up against it if you have any African ancestry that shows. Even if you just look dark enough for someone to assume that heritage, you’ll get pegged as black, and good luck with it since it doesn’t really matter what race the other person is, they’ll have an opinion on what you “really” are.
It’s bullshit, but the world just hasn’t moved past it yet.
So, when it comes to your self, your inner being, it’s more useful to identify as whatever your culture is than race or even ethnicity, when you’re multiethnic. Just don’t play the game at all, reject the bullshit and build your self based on more reliable factors.
If you want to partake in the racial cultures your appearance and heritage match, go for it. Chances are you’ll have hassles with any/all of them, but it won’t be all the time.
Lemme give am example.
My sister in law has a dad that’s very dark skinned, and is a descendant of slaves. Recently enough that his grandmother was a slave. Her mom is descended from german immigrants that came over sometime in the late 1700s or early 1800 (the dates in family bibles contradict). So, her mom is white, and was raised with a good bit of the German immigrant culture.
She identifies as multiethnic. She embraces both known heritages and their associated cultures. She doesn’t feel the need to pick one. And she’ll fight over it too. She has fought over it. My favorite quote of hers is “I’m fucking American, deal with it”. And she’s so fucking right :)
Now, compare that to one of my cousins. Dad is the same mix of German, Irish, and miscellaneous European descent that I am. Mom is black, light skinned, and embraces black american cultures. My cousin says he’s black, but also accepts and enjoys the other parts of his heritage.
There’s no single answer for you. You are, identity wise, whatever you’re willing to claim and enforce. If you’re dark skinned, you’ll have a harder fight enforcing that you’re “white”, no matter how much of your ancestry is from people with pale skin. But you can enforce it, and make that identity work. But, if you’re very dark skinned and lay claim to (as an example) whatever polish heritage you have and say you’re polish, you’ll likely have less fighting to do.
If you’re more asking what boxes you check on forms, it really is about skin color more often than not, here in the states, and in some other places from what I’ve heard.
satanmat@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You don’t look human ??
You are a beautiful human being
No I don’t know you, I don’t need to.
Race is a construct, how you identify? As a country-ian.
American, German… etc.
Be a hoopy frood.
jeffw@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What do you identify as?
That’s all you need to ask. It’s not a test with a correct answer. Your answer can even change if you learn more (I.e.: you were adopted and learn something about a parent)
adrianhooves@lemmy.today 6 days ago
can@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Internalized racism is a thing. But you can overcome it. You’re human and no one gets to choose how you identify but you.
jeffw@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What is it that makes you feel not human?