And how do they decide?
If one of your parents is black & the other is white, what do you feel you are ? more black or more white?
2007-01-17 00:31:26 · 12 answers · asked by andylefty 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
\\When a white French man marries a white Italian woman, what should the child think of himself? //
I knew a French girl who was like that and she considered herself more Italian than French, even though to me she seemed 100% French.
2007-01-17 00:53:25 · update #1
in my experience most people seek what is not there or what is furthest from their own reality , so in the example you give i would imagine it would depend entirely on location ie if a mixed race person lived in England they would seek out the origins of say Africa or wherever her family origins began , alternatively if a mixed race person lived in Africa they would seek out their family origins in England .
it's nothing to do with culture it's just human nature to be curious about what we don't know .
2007-01-17 00:41:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You make sure the child feels equally about both. Why would you identify more with your mother or father?
The issue is what people treat them as. Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Halle Berry, James Blake (tennis player), Hines Ward (football),... All are interracial but have been referred to as African-American. But they are not and unless you understand that you won't understand the people that they really are.
Basically, they do have to, nor should, decide to be one or the other, because the fact of the matter is that they are both.
When a white French man marries a white Italian woman, what should the child think of himself? If it doesn't matter in this case because they are both white, why should race matter? The heritage comes from the culture, not the skin.
2007-01-17 00:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From waht I can see most seem to identify with the black side assuming they are of European / Black heritage . I dn't know how they decide. Quite frankly I see them as equally black and white. I don't see the point in siding with one race or the other , logically it does not
make sense.
2007-01-17 03:15:51 · answer #3 · answered by strapping6footer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most identify more with their minority heritage, because the majority often still treat them as an outcast.
I wonder if that means a mixed-race person in, say, Nigeria would feel more white than black?
2007-01-17 00:40:58 · answer #4 · answered by gvih2g2 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
With living around the st Paul's district of Bristol UK which has a very high concentration of Jamaicans its hard for them if they fence sit so to speak they get it from both sides, if they hang with the whites they are call sell outs and bigots and if they hang with blacks oops sorry coloured side they have a free ride as they run riot
2007-01-17 02:38:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully my child will feel equal.
It is up the parents to install knowledge about both sides of their heritage, and ensure that they grow up in a multi cultural area.
2007-01-17 00:35:06 · answer #6 · answered by ஐ♥PinkBoo - TTC #1♥ஐ 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm Welsh and English
probably I identify with my English side
2007-01-17 00:35:06 · answer #7 · answered by Vinni and beer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they seem to side more with the non white for reasons un known to me,perhaps they feel outcast
2007-01-17 00:36:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think that would depend upon the individual, wouldn't it?
2007-01-17 00:41:30 · answer #9 · answered by PSAF 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
probably with whichever will help you out most at the time.
2007-01-17 00:35:15 · answer #10 · answered by tomhale138 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋