why do people do this?

Question

why do people of mixed white/black heritage always say they are black? or mixed white and something else, they always say they are the other thing.

Answer 1

When they are black and white and they say they are white no one will listen to them. I think it is a way of avoiding the discussion of why you say your white but you look brown or black.

Answer 2

I have a few friends who are mixed and most of them say they're black because they identify as black.
They however tell me that they've been rejected as being too light-skinned by blacks, and have too many black features, by whites. The thing is, to me, they're all beautiful.
I have only one friend who doesn't volunteer. She can easily pass for white. In school one bubblehead who thought everyone in the classroom was lily-white caucasian started talking about blacks negatively and I got really heated but my friend didn't say a word.
Maybe she was sick of fighting all the battles and just knew better than me that there are fools everywhere but it worried me that she never said anything to that moron.

Answer 3

Because other cultures are more excepting of mix then Americans? Or is this just one of those things to bash white people? Personally I have many friends of mixed origin.

Answer 4

I know a guy who is 1/2 black, 1/2 white. He had a hard time accepting himself! He said the whites don't accept him and the blacks don't accept him. He is a gorgeous man, inside & out. (He looks a little like a white Lenny Kravitz!) What would you call yourself?

Answer 5

People of mixed face sometime favor one ethnicity over the other based on the strongest figure in their family.

Answer 6

I don't know. Sometimes I wonder the same thing. I wouldn't deny any part of my heritage. But that's just me, maybe others feel differently. Good luck. 2D

Answer 7

I know know. The mixed people who do this usually identify themselves with the side they most resemble. Or some identify themselves with the race they most "act" like.

Answer 8

I guess because being almost 100% white is pretty normal, anything else is considered different. I wonder why, too.

Have you ever noticed there are people who call themselves African-Americans and Asian-Americans, but no Polish-Americans or Dutch-Americans? Canadian-Americans? Turkish-Americans? Or people like me, a German-Irish-Scottish-English-Welsh-Lithuanian-Polish American.

Answer 9

Maybe they are embarrassed to be white or think its boring.

Answer 10

I'm not sure why. Maybe that's just what they feel comfortable calling themselves.