#identity-erasure

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[fuckyeahmixedbeauty]

I'm biracial and I'm still learning that I'm not "half and half" but whole. How can I explain this to my friends when they start saying .. "But you're bald white" etc.

Get new friends.Em

[fuckyeahmixedbeauty]

Any advice on how to explain to my mother it's okay to identify differently as her? She doesn't seem to think thats possible. Both of my parents are Mediterranean/Middle Eastern/Latin (father isn't around)

You could try using examples on about how you experience life differently than her, whatever those may be. But I do not have too much personal experience with this, so i will post if other want to chime in.

[fuckyeahmixedbeauty]

For you to post a link to an article of a parent forcing a racial identity on her children is insensitive to the struggle some of us mixed kids have with people forcing us into identities that we don't feel comfortable with.

I posted the article because when you're any part black the world sees you as black and the mother doesn't wanna pretend for her children like that's false. It's very different from being "forced" into other identities. It's not like wanting her children to id as white, something they'll never be accepted as. Don't know if you read the article but the parent is very conscious and open minded. I doubt she is causing her children harm in that way. But you are free to disagree

[fuckyeahmixedbeauty]

Why don't you want people to say Caucasian?

People can refer to themselves as Caucasian if they have ancestry from the Caucasus mountains - people who have Russian, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Iranian, Turkish or Armenian descent for example, are Caucasian (they're a few other countries as well, but I cannot remember off hand)However if someone is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, Italian, Polish, French, Swedish or any other western/southern/Northern European descent, then they are technically not Caucasian.

[uppitylittlehomo]

That Awkward Moment...

when you realize that one of the people you follow is a disturbingly arrogant, identity-erasing, "my opinion counts for more than how you identify...but I'm not being offensive. It's just my opinion!" type of person. It's mildly depressing. Oh well.

Unfollowed.

Tip: You may not understand different identity categories, but that doesn't mean you get to say they aren't real, are invalid, don't matter, or anything along those lines. Your lack of understanding is not proof of non-existence.