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the mixed concept of being too non white to fit in with other white dancers

but being too white to do traditional dances

#endos dni #mixed #mixed race #quapa #hapa #mixed race struggles #multiethnic #mixed struggles #dancer #dancing #⁺໒꒱ིྀ༝ thepurityofme

gonna copy off other peoples answers here because I'm having an identity crisis LMAO-

How do other Natives that are indigenous to different parts of the world answer the race question box found in most U.S applications?

theres only

White (or the fun Caucasian), Black, American Indian or Alaskan, Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and Asian.

Like, I'm Purépecha and Chichimeca. I'm native to Mexico. But I'm American. I live in the US and identify as 'Merican. So, like, am I Native American? I am indigenous to the Americas so like, does that count? But I'm not Native American as in, my tribe lives in the territory that was decided to be called US and is federally recognized as a Tribal Nation.

So...

WHAT THE FUCK SHOULD I CHOSE LMAO FUCK

#i bet real caucasions struggle with this lmao #as well as Natives that live on the borders of countries with different race labels #I'm so glad i can skip out on the race question usually #its just that its so fucking conflicting #this shows that race is a stupid social construct and that its not inherently “biological” holy shit #i have never been able to respond the question without feeling guilty or worried i answered “wrong”#native #native struggles #mixed struggles

I need help with my hair, but don't know how to ask without seeming like one of those white girls pretending they have curls.

I know I don't have curls, my hair is just fairly wavy. However my hair is extremely thick due to my hispanic heritage and my scalp isn't getting the moisture it needs

#salem speaks #sigh #hair products #hair problems #mixed struggles

seeing Alysa liu,a woke wasian who protested against her coach's encouragement of her eating disorder, win in a predominantly white girls with eds field Is so amazing to me.

I'm a dancer,not a figure skater,but I think the two go hand in hand. I've always felt too white to fit in with the other dancers,but not enough of any of my other ethnicities to do any traditional dances. So seeing a mixed Asian girl win,in like what I said is predominantly white women is so inspiring to me. Aaaa alysa liu the woman you are <3

#alysa liu #olympics #endos dni #mixed struggles #mixed race struggles #mixed #mixed race #indigenous #hapa #quapa #wasian #⁺໒꒱ིྀ༝ thepurityofme

What are you?

A phrase I never stop hearing

A question I dread as if it were knives

Entering my head and not words.

I know a feature is more definitive than a life lived

I know I'll never be fully anything

I know that I fumble around in the dark

A child without knowledge of herself

I know I know I know

When asked I give half an answer

Mostly this, some of that

Shame has always disgusted me

And still I answer, I know I know, strange

I know I know, I don't look like it

A face is no identity

It's heritage, something deeper,

Years leading up to one

My heritage isn't my face.

I repeat this, I know

But because they say so

A face is the only marker of a history.

#Growing up mixed #Mixed struggles #poetic #original poem #poem #poetry #poems #poets on tumblr #spilled poetry #spilled ink #writers and poets

I DIDNT SPEND MOST OF MY LIFE THINKING MY INDIGENOUS FEATURES AND DARKER SKIN TONE WERE UGLY AND WANTING TO BLEACH MY SKIN JUST TO BE TOLD I AM WHITE

GODDAMNIT I HATE TIKTOK

#i want to quit tiktok and never return but that would validate them #so now i have to stay out of spite #mixed struggles #mixed race #indigenous

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very random but I felt a significant moment of validation of my Asian-ness when I actually understood the mahjong scene in Crazy Rich Asians lol

this whole thing with Elizabeth Warren’s Native heritage is bad for all parties involved, but also exposes a conundrum that remains unresolved among mixed people: how much heritage is enough heritage to proudly own and embrace? 50 percent? 25? 12.5? her one Native ancestor was 6-10 generations back. that means she is, at best, 1.5% Native. if I knew I was only 1.5% Black, I would not go around harping about it, but that’s the thing; not everyone feels that way, and there is no written rule about this. she is obviously proud of that 1.5%, but...

(if I had time I would write an op-ed about this lol)

if you are going to claim minority roots you should wholeheartedly embrace, defend and advance those roots... not simply claim it for the sake of self-identity. i personally felt this strongly enough to move across the country to the south side of Chicago for medical school. Warren is getting slammed by Natives because her heritage is not seen as enough by some, and regardless, because she is seen having made minimal contributions to Native causes. these are not unreasonable gripes, hence a messy situation that will likely continue to hound her.

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