Why do mixed people get such little respect in society?

Question

Why is it that when it comes to mixed people, people won't accept them unless they consider themselves or say they are "one race". For instance, some blacks don't like mulattos unless they just consider themselves black and are into black culture. In my own experience being latino and white most latinos don't like me unless they either assume or someone tells them i'm "full" latino. I notice the same with eurasians where most asians don't accept them but whites do but only look at the "white side" of them (same with latin/white mixed people).

The only time mixed people are given credentials is if they are "super-sexy models" and its only mixed people who are acknowledged as one thing (Halle Berry, Alicia Keys who are biracial but seen as "black", Cameron Diaz who is Cuban/German but seen as another "blonde", Alfonso Ribeiro who isn't accepted as latino just because he appears black he's actually Dominican, and so forth...)

And nobody dates mixed people unless they are

"designer breeds" and only act and think one way. (A black/white girl who only considers herself black and doesn't interest her white side, a latino/white boy who speaks spanish and is ghetto or "looks latin", etc...).

Whatever happened to "best of both or many worlds?". Obviously people have no trouble making interracial babies, but have a hard time accepting them for what they ALL are.

Its not open discrimination, I have a lot of diversity where I live too, problem is the diversity where I live doesn't integrate (and mind you i'm on the east coast)

Answer 1

Jealousy and everyone Black & White is afraid of thier childrens future and destiny. I think it is great of course
Alfonso Ribero is considered latino to Dominican but if you talk to some Latinos they have what they think is a specific look for latinos already and if you have features which look more afican they think it negates our native and European Blood..Also some latinos only accept so called traditional mestizo values of classic latino look..in the caribbean this is not as prevalant as in some other places in Latino America. If they think this is bad look at clelebrities kids and other towns like in DC/VD,Orlando,ATL, NYC etc... I think it is the wave of the future and most of my family will be right at home.
In Virginia there were mixed people dating back to the time when this country began at Jamestown who's records and knowledge were oppressed by white supremacists by the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 in Virginia...which made it illegal for any mulatto or native American or mix to claim anything other than colored now regulated to the simple designation black. This was done so relationships could not be formed by people of color and non-white people ant to destroy the rights of people of color under the system of Jim Crow and the evil of segregation.The guy who created it even got an award from the evil Adolf Hitler himself for his "work" in the United States. this was to do with the record number of mixed people living freely and intermingling in Virginia. why do you think there are mixed people who look like Pharrell or Chris Brown.

http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/encounter/projects/monacans/Contemporary_Monacans/racial.html

There are major racial issue between those who are black and white and now in the middle Latinos and mixed in Durham NC and surrounding areas..its like the 60's down here.

Answer 2

Wowsa..so is your part of the country living like 40 years behind mine? It is suuuuuuper rare for there to be anyone who is 100% anything around here...so i don't think most of that stuff is an issue around here. Maybe I'm blind..but I hang with plenty of mixed-race people and they never complain. But to say that - I had to sit here and think - now who's mixed? Because I never think about it!! For the last 14 years, I've lived in places where people that look like me are close to a minority - and it's super cool. My office now is the most diverse place I've ever worked..and it's so interesting - to get so many perspectives. I'm just baffled every time you do posts like this b/c race doesn't seem to be an issue where I am. I'm surprised they haven't done away with the word yet anyway b/c aren't the majority of people these days mixed anyway?

Answer 3

I think this goes back to the idea that we like things in neat and fit categories. Being human, for us to understand things well we have to be able to say one thing *is* another thing, and this applies to races as well, even if it's not true. If someone is black or white then it is easy to call them one thing that fits the stereotype. If someone is mixed then they don't fit into a 'category', and only someone who has enough prestige (ie famous people) can 'create' their own category. The rest get treated as outsiders of sorts. Unfortunately this is human nature. Anthropologists don't believe in the concept of race and frankly, I agree. To say that there is no such thing as race and that there is only one category eliminates differences and eliminates differences in respect.

Answer 4

People put themselves and others into us and them. It is a survival strategy that worked in the past. It is like when you were a kid and when playing with two others you almost always divide up into two against one. In sociology we call that in and out groups. So whatever we can use to divide us into us and them we use.
Also there are a lot of people that believe they are a pure race ( a fallacy of course) but they see those of any other group as them and so that they can feel better about themselves and how they are, they put the others down to build themselves up.

Answer 5

Simple.Mixed people generate mixed feelings amongst others and the outcome has to be a sort of 'mixed respect' which is less than a normal respect.Remember,all cultures treat such people as bastards(pardon my saying that but there is no other equivalent word for it )and deep down abhor them.Rest is just an amplification of this root cause.Note:- no offense meant for anybody,people,caste,class or whatever.

Answer 6

we are different. people like to put us in a category of being other. i am not other, but human. needless to say people think we are pretty, good hair, good skin, hot. lol. but then again, they often say we are other, multi-racial, etc. not one race, not one person, sometimes treated less than human. for me i wasn't white enough, native american enough, or black enough. i was always smart, pretty, etc. but not treated nice enough, like a person, but called half breed. i was treated like scum. lol. but its getting better. you overcome. you know! and yes i am often seen as black, but if you look at my myspace, i am not just black, some idiot would have to believe that. the color of my skin, and the curl and browness and coarseness in my hair, means i'd have to be some kind of mix. i decided i can't reason with ignorance. i noticed a lot of darker girls have wanted to be light like me or have my hair texture. so i don't sweat it. i am black enough for me. even if i am a mix, oh well.

Answer 7

are you in high school? coz that seems like the sorta thing that would go on in high school coz every one is still immature. once every one grows up, it won't be like that any more.

i think that people are more beautiful when they are born of two completely different races.

when i moved here(australia) and went to high school, it was hard to fit in coz i looked different but as soon as i finished high school and went to college i made friends instantly with every one from my class. i'm still friends with them even though it's been a few years since college.

in the adult world, it's completely different.

Answer 8

it's just how it is son....! i'm multi racial and i only claim one race b/c on a application it only asks for one race....can't check multi....