@chameleon54 wrote:
@johcaschro wrote:
"Naomi is only half Japanese"
Which half of her is Japanese?
What nationality is her other "half"?
Is that anything like a blonde, blue eyed, self-identifying aboriginal person being only half (or other percentage) aboriginal?
Just wondering.
Thats something I often wonder about too. If an " aboriginal " is 25% indiginous Australian and 75% European blood are they predominantly Aboriginal or European ? Obviously they are mixed race as we all are if you go back far enough in our ancestory, but shouldnt they be identifying with the 75% European blood, more than the 25% aboriginal ? Shouldnt they feel " the shame " that the rest of us are supposed to feel just because 230 years ago some white dudes from somewhere completely unrelated to my hereitage went exploring in a leaky wooden boat and ended up doing some " bad things "
It has become fashionable ( and profitable if you can tick that box and get on the government gravy train ) to have a % of indiginous ancestry, a bit like having a convict in your families past. Basically the blond blue eyed aborigines are exactly the same as you or me. Get over it, get on with it and stop playing the race card.
Make a success of your life for who you are as a person, not becuase you claim to be some " special " minority that gets extra support and money thrown at you because of some quirk in your families past history.
I believe the other half of Naomi is Haitian or something like that.
As for people and what race they identify with, I would have thought people who are mixed race or nationalities would identify with both or else with their more predominant one if they were brought up in that culture.
For example, my mum was born in Australia, lived here all her life, she just called herself Australian.
Her dad was (supposedly) French canadian & she was very interested in that, and keen to see Canada, but she was still Australian as this is where she lived.
I do wonder at people such as Barack Obama, who is always called black. He isn't black, he's more a light brown as far as colour goes, and he is also half white as far as genetics go. he is as much white as he is black and from memory, was brought up more by his white mother.
Similar with Megan Markle as far as genetics go. Surely they should identify equally with both races?
I find it all a bit distasteful as i think these days, people identify them as 'black' and mean it as a matter of pride, as in 'first black president' etc but I am old enough to remember the stories of a friend of mine from South Africa in the 1970s. If you had the least bit of black blood you got labelled black or coloured and she was actually not allowed in some places as she was 'coloured'. People today may think they are being complimentary to others by labelling them as black or whatever, but it is still classifying someone sometimes based on just a minority % of genetic makeup. Can't see the point myself. Tell it how it is, as every race & nationality is interesting.
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