is there any multiracial people out there who feels they don't fit in any of there races enough??

Question

im mexican,native american,white,chinese and filipino but for some reason when i hang out with mexicans i dont feel mexican enough they say im native but when im with natives they say im mexican i just don't know what to say anymore. Im mostly mexican though but i never feel like im enough

Answer 1

Something I found helpful: Get involved! Get involved in your community, especially in cultural activities. The more people see you fighting for cultural rights, the more you know your history, the more you will feel a part of that culture and the more others will see you as such. This can be true for more than one culture as well. It may be uncomfortable at first but give it a little time, it'll work out well. And in the begining don't be ashamed to not know, if you don't know something just fess up. Sooner than later you will find yourself teaching others those things and that is a great feeling!

Answer 2

I'm a Heinz 57. I look mostly white, but don't identify with anyone race. I learn what I can about all races, all the history I can, and just consider myself a human being.
I always say that I have no right to be prejudiced against anyone because, who knows, I may be related to them.
If you live in America, say you are part of the great melting pot. There are many of us out here. You are not alone.

Answer 3

i myself feel the same way. I'm 43.75%black
25%Cuban
25%native American
6.25%white
i feel that i can't fit in fully with any of them. i look half white and half black. The people are jealous because my hair is different than there's, and they call me a wanna be white boy. I get stares from white people. I can't speak Spanish so the Latinos think that I'm a wanna be and i don't know any natives accept for my family. my black side of the family are always saying that i should just act black but i don't feel 100% black. my Latino side and native side i have never met. But from my personal experience with people of different races the Latinos seem to accept me more. when i fill out a paper and it says race i put other and someone all ways has to comment on it and I'm sick of it. Also the black side of my family has a problem with me liking girls of all races and not just black. i just feel like going mad because of them and some days i just feel like I'm nothing.

Answer 4

I know what your going through. I'm Puerto Rican, Italian and Irish (50% PR, 45% Italian, and 5% Irish) and I go through it all the time. I'm light-olive skinned, have brown hair and hazel eyes & I look both, passable for Cuban mostly. However many white people look at me weird because they see me carrying the Puerto Rican flag keychain and stick their nose up because I look "white" to them and they believe I should behave like them or they try telling me they are mixed too (culturally but not racially). Hispanics treat me with absolutely no respect and dismiss me because I'm not "pure" latin or because I don't speak Spanish; I probably get the most racism from them alone. Blacks just categorize me as "just another white boy" and leave it at that while Asians and Indians treat me as just an "American" without regard to my background. It pisses me off because I grew up wishing I was 100% white (because I was raised around whites) and now I come to accept myself as mixed, but I still go through a lot of grief with people, in college, work, service as a customer, its everywhere, even my own family. My father's side has nothing to do with me (he's PR), and my mother's side is ignorant and dismisses my Puerto Rican heritage simply because they don't like my father, and shove Italian down my throat, esp my grandfather, who is a racist. There's days I'm proud to be mixed, but other days I feel like crap. Just be proud of yourself, I know what your going through. One day our true essence will shine whether the "pure" types like it or not.

Answer 5

I'm African and European and feel like mostly, I am myself! I really do not need to feel that I strongly belong in one group. I recognize that the world sees me as a an African due to the fact that I was born and raised there...but other than that, what makes us FIT is our understanding of people- not THEIR understanding of us necessarily.

Answer 6

i just answered a question similar to this. im biracial my mother is white (polish & german) and my father is black. when i was growing up i didnt feel like i fitted in either i looked different than both sides i was darker than my mothers side my hair was different i have full lips & a broad nose but on my fathers side im lighter than them & my hair is different than theirs. u just have to accept who u are & realize no1 is 100% of any race we are all mixed with something

Answer 7

Yup

Answer 8

Everybody feels they do not fit in sometimes. Just be the bes of whatever you are!!!

Answer 9

I am 100% american and i feel out of place when immigrants are telling me how lazy americans are