Acting "Black" and Acting "White"?

Question

I am getting sick and tired of hearing that one person is not acting black enough, or another person is acting too white. Why can't acting black be a positive thing rather then being known as loud, obnoxious and among other negative things.

Through out my life, many told me that i acted like a white girl, so I tried to shed the image by acting the way that "they" wanted me to act, in reality I was falling into the trap of what society wanted me to be, rather then becoming my own person.

Anyways, I’ve learn and came to the realization that there is no such thing as acting or being a certain color. I think who we are and what we do in our lives are basically influence by where we were bought up and who we encounter with in our daily lives..

Also, I just have to say that just because you are a certain color doesn't necessarily mean that one shoud be limited to listing to certain "types" of music.

What do you think.

Answer 1

Racist brainwashing crap, good for you for deciding for yourself, KEEP IT UP. When will society learn that skin color does not have to do with personality? It's making me sick.

Answer 2

You have to stop a moment and consider a few things.

A race of people, while it might not be right, are generally stereotyped because others have seen many doing a certain thing, acting a certain way...etc.

An example would be Irish in the early part of the 1900's. They were stereotyped as cops, drunks, flat footed, potato eaters, which pretty much still stands today. Mostly because a majority of those Irish, when first in the US, lived up to that reputation. Does that make it right to group them all into those categories? Absolutely not, but hey, that's life.

As for black and white, it's a war that will never end.

White people see blacks in one kind of light, and blacks see whites in another. Rap music is considered black music mainly because it is almost 100% black artists. Sports, again, mainly black athletes are at the top, so again, they're stereotyped.

Whites tend to be thought of more as either educated more, or else rednecks, one of the two.

There is a definate destinction on the behavior of blacks and whites IN GENERAL. Again, not to stereotype, but it is a fact. Black famillies act different around each other than most whites, and of course, vice versa. Blacks tend to live in different neighborhoods than whites, and while I hate to say it, in many cities, those neighborhoods are often considered "poorly kept" and so on, again, lending to the stereotyping.

One word of advice, however, is to stop worrying about it. No matter how hard you try to please others, it will never be enough. Be yourself, worry about YOU, and not everyone else, and your life will be easier in the long run. Prove the rest of them wrong, and act how you feel you should, not how you think they feel you should.

You are your own person, and you, unless you believe in God, are the only one you have to answer to in the end.

I hope I didn't offend you in any way, but that is how I see it.

Answer 3

Believe me I have been told plenty of times that I act to white by my former boyfriend and by close friends . But the thing that I learned is that acting a certain way doesn't make me any better or worse . The Ironic thing to me is that I am neither black or white fully . I am what people call (black Indian ) . My mother is half black and Indian but she married my father was fully black . but any ways point being. My color has nothing to do with my life as much as it use to . Of cores I still get the very often stare when I'm the only dark complected girl around a hole group of white girls but it doesn't bother me anymore ,because I now who and what I am .

Answer 4

I agree. I have not heard this term in a very long time. But I am getting old. Some 20 or so years ago I think it had more to do with you were acting like a ghetto gang member and most people gave it a color label.

Be who you are as long as it is positive and trying to do the best you can and don't worry about what anyone tells you are acting like.

Answer 5

Well a person can be trying to act black or white,like for example when whites are friends with blacks they sometimes tend to not pay attention and act like like that person but not realize,like for my self I'm black I tend to act different between both races in order not to start confrontation so no one could say I'm ac ting either black or white or even another race.Ever since I started doing that no one has ever seemed to say stuff like that to me,it really works.No one can't change who you are as a person,just act like your self or however you wanna act,avoid people who say that kinda stuff those are the kinda people you don't wanna be around and when people say your actin black or white its not neither a positive or negative its an opinion,just be your self.I've been through the same thing.

Answer 6

I totally agree with you. I am from boston, and the school i go to is evenly mixed between african americans and caucasians etc. And it is a smaller town so you would know everyone since you were a kid. Now where i live, almost everyone has boston accents, so when my friend who happened to be african american started talking like he was from the south, i was taken aback. I knew he, and many others, just talked that way to sound more "black". Why wouldnt you just talk like yourself. Be unique.
I am Italian, and i LOOOVVEE jazz and R&B! And i dont think there is anything wrong with that. I cant believe that people would even think twice about what music certain people would like.
Now, i am not saying that racism doesnt exist, it sure does. But i think society tends to view it more as Caucasians against African-Americans, and not the other way around. I wish that we could see that we are all human, why should it matter how much pigment is in our skin.

Answer 7

sounds to me you live in a place where I would not want to live.
But yes, you seem to see the light.
Stop going out with people that "act", this will help you quite a lot.
Just be a person. I am "white" but I act like me. I am just a person, I follow no fads and I would be the same person regardless of whatever colour I was. Do the same and it won't matter what colour you are.
There are gays who are always thinking about what sex they are, there are religious people who are always into their religion and so on and on, Just be a person, never too much into anything.

Answer 8

Only actors should be allowed to act.
Simply because when others act they simply act badly.

Honestly, the media feeds on stereotypes and most people are so TV addicted and reality divorced that they can not tell the difference between their TV fantasy and reality.
This disconnection with reality is true of almost everyone.

Answer 9

I think that a lot of people in our society are very stupid. It's kind of like a German person not acting enough like a Nazi or a person from the Deep South not acting like a KKK member. It's all based on stereotypical ideals brought on by our own ignorance. Truth is that we persecute these people because deep down we're truly afraid of them. Once they get to know the people they fear, they/we can start to go on with their lives. I hope that helps.

Answer 10

I've never understood how one "Acts black/white" I've been accused of not acting my color and that is the craziest thing I've eve heard. There is no one way to live. People live their lives the way they want to and should be happy. There will always be those uneducated people who make comments like that but you just have to let them live in their ignorance.

Answer 11

exactly society is a pack of insecure people living in an a nimal like society of uniformity so as to not be felt alone or left out when in reality to make a lonely peg fit in the vast yet gridlike wooden block it must first skin off its excess wood or lose who it is in essence