Are you sure you are 100% pure blood not mixed with anyother races, lots of American Aficans said they are 100% black but they look difference from the African blacks.
I am an asian myself,I am not really sure am I 100% asian.
I born in Chinese small city, history book said there are a lots of Middle easterns lived in there 400-200 years ago, so I might mixed with little middle easterns blood. And I have a big circle eyes,not the almond shape eyes.
and the one drop rule,if you have one drop is not white then you are not white, like the one 1/4 asian has blue eyes and white facial still a asian .I know lots of white people have American Indian blood and latin blood, are they still white?
because white people said if you have 5% other races blood, you are not a white anymore.
2007-03-16 23:41:08 · 7 answers · asked by chan l 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I have always considered myself "mixed" even though others consider me "white". My grandparents were all from Eastern Europe, but some lived near Mongolia. Some of my family members have Asian features (such as high cheekbones, eye shape, etc.) My guess is that years before my grandparents were born, there was intermarriage. To answer your question, I don't think anyone is "pure anything" and the sooner we realize that we are all part of one human family, the sooner we can have peace on earth.
2007-03-16 23:46:48 · answer #1 · answered by la buena bruja 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am a mix of English, Irish, German, Turk and Native American. I think that the one drop rule was an old rule stemming from racism that applied to anyone with black ancestry. I cannot trace my Turkish roots I only know what I have been told by family members. I am unable to trace my Native American roots also. This is not uncommon because Native Americans were so scattered and the old roles or censuses had their Indian names only. One cannot be registered as Native American unless they can prove ancestry. Anyway I look very white so I am white. I think that the Native American and Turkish blood makes me different inside. I do not fit well with most whites. So many of them are basically racist. Of course I live in the rural south and it could be that racism is just more prevalent here.
What was your question??
2007-03-17 00:37:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term "one drop rule" refers most directly to racist laws in the US South, it is not some sort of objective truth. The only meaningful definition of "white" is "someone who is generally perceived to be 'white' in a particular social context". There is no such thing as "100% Asian" in any objective sense.
Your genotype (blood) and phenotype (physical characteristics) are what they are, but your race is in the eye of the beholder. In other words, race is a social construct.
People whose recent ancestors are all from the same ethnic group tend to have similar physical traits because they share more genes. In any particular culture, those traits are used to put people into different categories we think of as race, but those categories vary depending what culture you are in. Every single one of us have different mixtures of bloodlines that trace back all over the planet. We ALL share ancestors in Africa, if you go back far enough.
It may be true that you could have different-looking eyes because you have some ancestors who migrated from further west more recently then other Chinese, but even among people whose ancestors have all been from eastern China going back a 1000 of generations (who knows if any such person even exists!), a certain amount of genetic variation is possible.
Supposedly there are genetic tests based on that can help you figure out this sort of thing, but there is no way of really knowing how accurate they are. And as other people have raised, does it really matter anyway?
2007-03-17 04:33:02 · answer #3 · answered by dowcet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an Asian and am from the Philippine Islands. My country has been occupied by others races and been migrated to by many more. I have been told that I have a small percentage of Chinese blood in me. Many from my country are mixed in such similar way or another. And I believe it's true with any other individual in this world.
And, this is just a general observation and not an attack to your question: Isn't it funny how we have been so used to describing people according to their apparent "racial origin" and yet in the very essence of humanity, we are all the same?
2007-03-17 02:10:50 · answer #4 · answered by OnThe36th 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know I am 100% white, although I find nothing bad in having more races in your blood. But I am not American, I am Greek, and generally Greece has never been multi-racial, plus I know much of my ancestry line and the population data from the villages where I come from. Still, I repeat that I would be perfectly happy to have mixes from other races, and biracial people are usually very beautiful.
2007-03-16 23:52:43 · answer #5 · answered by cpinatsi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't really care about my blood line. I am who I am, and my ethnic origin will not change that. I assume that I am mostly white, but I do have some Native American Indians in my family history. What difference does all this make?
2007-03-17 03:41:40 · answer #6 · answered by Sabrina 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i believ saying you 100% something just causes racism i believe well know that its almost impossible to say your 100% anything because there has always been migration and love and lust have always been there anbody who says there 100% anything should be marled as racist just remember computers that store everybodys deatails have not always been there and for example like the only people who can realy say there realy american but not 100% are the native americans because arnt the white americans surpossed to be from england just chuked out for ther radical ways of believeing in god or maybe searching for a new life look at history it shows us that everything is not conclusive
2007-03-17 03:07:58 · answer #7 · answered by queenbea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋