My question is hard to explain, but…
Does the “ethnic minority” label only go for single-race minorities? Or are mixed race people eligible enough to get the race card and even act “opressed”?
This is better suited for IMHO than General Questions.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
It’s not an act.
Some people do make it out to be an act.
In case no one else wants to tell you, the way you phrased this is rather offensive.
I mean, unless you’re not aware that there’s no actual card.
I did hear actually about this once…
I am technically mixed race, thought why not spew the question out
How though? The thing is I never see any vocality on mixed race groups. Mixed race bunch are just another left out group, kind of like hermaphrodites, bisexuals, people with schizophrenia, etc
I’m not sure what you mean by putting scare quotes around oppressed, or by the term “race card,” as if being a minority was in general beneficial.
Mixed-race people don’t generally put themselves in the minority category. They are put in that category by the larger society. Biracial people of with black and white parents are generally categorized as black in American society. (They may be categorized otherwise in other societies.)
My niece and nephew are bi-racial. Their father is black, from Guyana in South America. My sister is white (Irish-German). I believe they self-identify as black, because American society regards them as black (just as it does Barack Obama). They may receive some benefits from institutions such as universities or businesses wishing to seek diversity. Not being them, I am not sure if that is outweighed by discrimination due to their skin color imposed by the larger society.
Leaving your questionable wording aside… It depends on the race mixture and who you ask.
A black/white mix can get hate from both black and white people for being both black and yet not black enough.
Do you play the “race card,” since you can? If not, why not?
I have no idea what this means.
Is kind of funny, because I barely do this shit. But I been putting in more effort lately. That and using my autism as another attention-seeking card for that matter too.
I think I see a similar situation with bisexuals and people with high functioning autism.
By “vocality” like more speaking on them, that’s all.
Even then at the same time it seems as if mullatos are the only biracial group America fetishizes.
You realize, I hope, that even using the usual American definition for “races”, almost all “black” Americans and a fair many “white” Americans are mixed race?
Would that be the ones who get beaten to death, or the ones who get shot?
Right, most of America doesn’t accept it that way.
My dad of Mexico is white and my mom from Argentina she’s I think not Native American, but they’re similar to Native Americans.
I forget the name.
I think she’s a Pardo, but I am not too sure.
Idk, are mixed race people as likely to be brutally treated?
In the eyes of the racists of the world, people who can’t pass as white aren’t white, and they treat them just as poorly as people who consider themselves non-white and non-mixed.
Are you trying to say bisexuals and people with high-functioning autism are both… using these qualities to seek attention? Like, they’re just attention whores?