Why many Yankees or Gringos say: I am half Mexican and half Irish, I am 1/4 Cherokee and 3/4 German, etc?

Question

All Human Kind is Mixed... so WE all are Mixed breed, mixed blood, mestizos, etc.

Answer 1

White people in America go different ways about this. Some of them believe (wrongly IMO) that "white" is a discrete category, and that things like "Irish" and "German" or whatever don't really matter. Some white people see "whiteness" as being equivalent to "mainstream" "boring" or "standard" and prefer to identify as something more specific - in the US, where most white people are mixtures of various European and Eurasian ethnicities, people get a lot of identities to choose from! Other white people, perhaps by virtue of being the offspring of recent immigrants, don't see "white" as being a discrete category and feel closer to, say, Irish people than they do to "white" people as a whole.

Answer 2

We Are Not All Mixed Breed...I don't Know Where You Got That From....Black People Are 'Pure Breed'...Chinese People Are 'Pure Breed'....Maybe You're Thinking Cuz Adam And Eve....Really Don't Know Where You Came Up With This...White People Are Really The Only People With A Majority Of People Being Mixed..........

Answer 3

I got no problem with 3/4 German. And I like the Jeep Cherokee.

Answer 4

People are interested in their ancestry and geneology. My mother's family came from the Pomeranian region of Germany, so I'm half German, and my father's family came to American in the 1850's from Bohemia (later part of Czechoslovakia and now called the Czech Republic) to farm. All of America is populated by immigrants, then and now. The only natives are the Native Americans.

But although we may call ourselves half this and part that, we're Americans. America started out being the great melting pot, although I don't know what you'd call it now.

Answer 5

I have a Mexican friend who says she's 1/4 German.

Answer 6

I agree, we are all immigrants and we are all mixed and related depending on how far back you want to go. I find it irritating that some people identify themselves with thier race. Usually I just think "so what". I never say I am proud to be white. That would be like saying I am proud to have light brown hair. I didn't do much to achieve that hair color.

Answer 7

Its said because it give you a past,of where you come from.......I dont push it onto people though like others do and if it matters,1/4irish,1/4german,1/4-polish,1/4 hungarian with a dash of blackfoot indian etc etc etc mix it all together and viola!!! Me

Answer 8

Cherish the diversity and customs as long as they don't attempt to usurp American culture and customs. We should consider ourselves Americans first, and our individual backgrounds should just add an interesting flavor, not take over the dish.

Answer 9

I really haven't heard a Yankee say such a thing....

But a few Mets and Red Sox players most likely have said such things.

Answer 10

As he receives older he will probable locate it extra handy to call himself "white" or "Mexican." that's although he's delicate figuring out himself with. American lifestyle would not rather settle for the concept of somebody being the two "white" and "Mexican."