Is anyone out there bi-racial, and do you find yourself with an identitly crisis at times?

Question

I am half white and half hispanic. It is confusing at times. I feel like I am completely different; I actually enjoy that sometimes and hate it at others.

Answer 1

I'm half black and half white, but my mom is really pale so I just look white. I HATE that I am not more obviously noticable as a mixed-race person and that my kids will look even whiter than me ( my husband is blond with blue eyes), but since that is my life's biggest problem, I still count myself extremely blessed. You have to look at the big picture and stay positive, ya know?

Answer 2

All the time!! I know it's not like being mixed race or anything, but i am Irish born, yet grew up over here in the UK. I identify equally strongly (I think) with both cultures yet there are times when I can't say where I am from, or whether I really am Irish or English. I have a love-hate relationship with having two cultures, and that is with two that are actually pretty similar. I dread to think of how people feel when they grow up with two completely conflicting races e.g. English and Jamaican or something

Answer 3

my mom is 1/2 polish, 1/4 irish, and 1/4 english . my father is black. i am very proud to be mixed. i actually look puerto-rican(most people think thats what i am) and my mother gave me her blue eyes, my dad gave me tan skin. why should u have an identity crisis because its hard for other people to grasp the concept that u are more than one race? besides, what is wrong with being more than one race. isnt this the year 2006? i embrace all sides of my raciall ethnicity. i get criticism for being "too white acting" or "too black acting" but i dont care thats how i am going to act because thats what i am. some people think u should be confused so they are going to try to make u feel confused, but as long as u know what u are , why are u confused?

Answer 4

I am Native American and White.
I had a blond mother, sister, and brother, but I was the dark haired, dark skin kid and then my folks divorced when I was 6.
In California and Nevada they looked at me as being either Hispanic or black because I tanned threw my clothes and my hair was short.
Mom would bobby pin my hair and it was very curly.
When I moved to Hawaii...the natives their called me a Howie.
Some of the other mixed raced kids called me white.
Now I am 48 and they don't call me anything other than by my first name.

Answer 5

Hell yes!!!! Half white and half Dominican. Growing up was hard never really fitting in with whites or Hispanics. I consider if you are half something and half something else you are a completely different race. We are under the radar because we cant be stuck with any certain stereo type. Our poss abilities are endless!!!!!!!! And our genes are fresh

Answer 6

I'm not, but I have had, and still have several friends who were black/Mexican, black/white, and white/Mexican. All of them, at one time or another, problem have mixed feelings about who they are, but they all realize that that's who and what they are just like I'm British, Irish, and Sioux Indian. It may not make me look like anything other than white. But I'm not one set ethnicity either. You just have to be what you are. If you feel more black, be black that day. If you feel more white, be white that day. It doesn't matter unless it matters to you.

My husband's friend is black/white. His skin and hair is black, but his facial features are white. His demeanor is more white also, and his girlfriend is white. He says some days, and you can see it in his behaviour, that he feels more black or more white sometimes.

A friend of mine is white/Mexican. She's darker skinned, but all white other than that. And the only Spanish she knows is what we learned in school almost 10 years ago! I don't think she's ever felt more Mexican. I think she's more white in the way she acts.

I went to school with a guy who was black/Mexican. He looked more like a black/white mix, and just told everyone he was mixed, never specifying what mix unless he was specifically asked. I think he was ashamed.

Also, my husband's cousins are white/Mexican mix. His white aunt married a Mexican. They're both a pretty good mix of white and Mexican. No major characteristics of one or the other. They're happy the way they are and there's no bad feelings on any of our part for it. They're family, whether they look like us or not.

Answer 7

Utopian as it may sound I believe that there is only one race, Human. The idea that ancestory or "blood" takes precedence over upbringing and cultural acclimation is why one Jewish grandparent would get you into a Death camp, and American citizens of Asian descent were herded into Prison camps. Your heritage is certainly a thing to take pride in, but ultimately it's what you make of yourself that defines who you are.

Answer 8

Hi lettie, im sure you are a little hottie. Be happy with what you are and dont let identity crisis gets in your way. Be glad you are alive.

Answer 9

came to u.s. at 11 grew up here now 23 ... identity crisis can happen

Answer 10

Do you think this "bi-racial" condition came about by choice or is it hereditary?