A person who has a African-American parent and a Caucasian (or White, European, etc...)parent are called Mulattos. I am looking for defenitions of other mixed ethnicities. For 40 years I was told that I was Mulatto. Then it was brought to my attention that one of my parents is part Spanish. So I'm checking to see if there are other "Names" or "Defenitions" for mixed backgrounds. Someone PLEASE enlighten me...
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Check out this URL it might help. It is a list of Ethnic groups
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Oh, PANCHA, how you love to tread in controversial waters...\n\nThere are quite a few classifications of the human race but, as a few have already pointed out, the four 'core' groups are Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, and Australoid.\n\nGiven that, I imagine Hispanics would be considered, primarily, Caucasian.  Racial sub-classifications exist, but tend to be used to define a type of people who have, on a genetic level, undergone some 'restructuring' as a result of 'extended' procreation of one race with another.\n\nAs a side note, these sub-classifications should not be confused with the 'hybridization' the we see so much of now, particularly in North America.  This 'hybridization' does not add to 'biological' racial diversity, as it is nothing more than sudden 'admixing' of heteroracial genetic material, as opposed to the creation of new genetic attributes brought on through the process of evolution.  In this, 'hybrid' combinations of raciogenetic traits diminish 'biological' racial diversity to the extent that they flaw the genetic combinations, created and strengthened by evolution, of the core racial stocks.
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My son was born in Poland. His mother is polish, I'm Dutch. The time his mother and I were married we raised him bilingual. He know speaks both languages fluently, so he can understand both sides of the family. I think it's important to keep connected with your roots this way (too)
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Each of us is formed from the great and varied pool of genes floating around in all of our ancestors. Hundreds, thousands of them. I can't remember the exact numbers but the odds of having DNA from your great gramma are slim. But, not impossible.\n\nActing or thinking Arab is something that would have to be learned, that is not genetic my dear lady.My father and mother looked nothing like their great grandparents. I know because they kept photos for us to look at. But they might still have some of their genes or DNA floating around in them.\n\nI once read a story about a white women who gave birth to twins. One was white like her and her husband and the other was dark with very tight curly hair like an African American. Her husband was a bit put off wondering if she had dallied around and even her parents were judgmental. BUT, after doing some genetic testing of family they learned that one of her parents had a distant African American ancestor that had been accepted as white. So here were the genes coming into play after about six generations. It was her own mother who criticized her and unknowingly passed the genes to her.\nSo,  anything can happen.....
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1)Yes, we still live in a racist country.  I am a 46 year old Black woman who has experienced quite a bit of racism bcos of the color of my skin (caramel) without any knowledge of who I really am.  I have traveled quite a bit within the states as well as other countries & honestly cannot see much of a difference.  Point in case...I've even traveled to Africa & have been faced with questions like "what are you?".  I think that I offended the one asking the question bcos I said "I'm an American".  They responded "do you mean African-American?" to which I responded "sure if thats how you would like to phrase it".  2) Yes my parents had a hard time but they "dealt with it" by being active in the civil rights movement.  My great-grandmother would never let me work in the fields when I visited saying " no way, your Mom & Grandmama would have a fit & besides those days are over for your generation".  She was right, however there are others here who seem to forget that.  With regards to "us guys" still living in this country...this is our country & we'll fight for the right to live here....in peace.
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cute question, shows good off the wall thinking, keep asking more, some people will think your just being a smart ass but I like the question.  \nP.S.\nIs someone from Egypt that now lives in America and African-American after all Egypt is wholly a part of Africa yet many are more Caucasian in appearance?
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love has no face once again it's all in the emotion...My mother prefers me not to date of another race. and for the record I'm african american (politically speaking)..(ghettolitically speaking) I'm black mixed with some island. just making you guys laugh..I didn't listen to my mom I like to explore exploring is good, ask Mageallen(sp), Noah, Rosa Parks, Malcom X, DR, M. Luther King, scienctist..we need to explore at some point in time. If it wasnt for or mix and variety in choice's half of us would'nt be here today..wether it's because someone decide the world was'nt "Flat"..or I'm not going to sit in the back, or what eva you guys catch my drift..I prefer to date whom eva is going to treat me right. no matter what race.
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Wasn't that show interesting! I could look at henry's parents and tell that he wasn't all black even his great great grand mother looked like she was german! but i am not that surprised by Oprah she looks asian to me! So does mae jamison. honestly the fact that there are a lot of white people that could have black in them did not surprise me at all. there were alot of blacks that passed and went into society with out being discovered that went on to procreate children. So it is very possible for that to happen. i think henry's family wanted to stay 'above " the colour line that is why he was on a crusade to prove his black ness I found it ironic that he wasn't as black as he thought he was.
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This is one of the great flaws in labeling people, especially using politically correct terms.\n\nLogically, if someone with Irish ancestors is an "Irish-American", and someone with Italian ancestors is "Italian-American", then someone with white ancestors from South Africa is "African-American".\n\nMy friend Janus is very dark skinned, but was born in England to family from the carribean. Nothing sets her off like calling her an African-American. She'll tell you quite properly that she's English!!\n\nI have no idea what to call my friend who was born in India, raised in Tanzania, Toronto and New Jersey, and now lives in San Francisco. Perhaps "Well travelled" is the best description!
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While heritage is important it does not define you.  I have the same problem.  I'm half Hispanic and 5' 10" (unusual) and all the dark features of being Hispanic.  My Hispanic father died before I was born so I raised by Caucasian mother and Caucasian stepfather.  When I vacation in Mexico or go to ethic markets they shake their heads in disappointment because I don't know the language.  It used to really upset me.  Until I realized that I can respect my heritage but it does not define me.  \n\nI hope this helps.
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In my humble opinion, in today's world just about everyone dates 'interracially' to one extent or another. Or maybe nobody does???  Follow me here...\n\n1500 years ago, the Englas and the Saxons were killing each other whenever they could in what is today Europe. The Englas would not bread with the Saxons because they didn’t want to 'water down' their bloodlines. Today, we do not call people Englas or Saxons, they are the Anglo-Saxons. Likewise, Scandinavians didn’t bread with the Celts and Italians wouldn’t bread with the Irish. Then why am I Italian, German, Irish and Hungarian? Because sometime ago, someone broke with tradition and mixed bloodlines. \n\nSo if I date a French or Spanish woman, then am I not mixing 'races'? So then what is the difference between me dating a Spaniard or an Asian or a Greek or an American Indian or a black woman? Skin pigmentation? A few minor differences in bone structure? Isn’t there a difference in bone structure and pigmentation between an Italian and a Irishman? I can answer that!  Yes there is! \n\nSo would you be "Interracially" dating? Yes! You would be. So what?!? \n\nThen again, regardless of the color of your skin or the structure of your cheekbones, we are ALL A PART of the humane race. So then, no! it's not interracial. \n\nI guess it all depends on how you see others. Me, I believe ALL people are a part of the humane race. So 'Interracial' dating would be impossible... Unless you are dating a guy from another species, and I sure hope that is NOT the case. lol.\n\nI hope this helps.
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You have to go back in time a little. Pre slavery days. Before there were any black people in North America. There were the Native Americans. We called them "red man" They called the invaders "pale face" "white man". But you have to remember. That the black man coined the term themselves. They didn't like being called Negro. So they insisted themselves that they were "black". There's your origin of the black man. The white man didn't give him that name. He did it to himself. \n.
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My grandfather told me about a cousin who did this back in the forties. The cousin went up North to live and didn't contact anyone.  My grandpa went to visit him one time; the cousin made him come at night and he had to enter the house through the back.  After that no one ever saw the cousin again.  My mother told me about some Blacks who "passed" for a time in order to get a better education, but then returned to their families once they were done.  I can see why some Blacks would pass in earlier times, but not now.  I don't agree with what they did, but to some extent I understand why.  Personally even if I could "pass" I wouldn't; I love my family, my people and my culture too much.  People who "pass" had to stay away from all Black people.  Can't take a chance on someone's "Blackdar" finding you out!
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ya know that is kinda racist - everyone is somehow mixed with another group of peoples - such as my grand grandmother was a native amercain - and my great grandfather was a scott.  Doesn't really mean anything what "race" you are.. it doesn't affect your abilities or anything.."All people are created equal"
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From the age of 5; I always deemed one either for my name or my mixed heritage.\nMy father is white from Port Arthur,TX and my mother is from Matehuala, Mexico. \nMy unusual name both first and last got me in lots of trouble. My mixed heritage kept me from being fully accepted by white society. I look hispanic, but I speak very good english. It throws people off that are white because I don't look white. It throws mexicans off because my spanish is not so good and english very good.\nMexicans do not care that I am half white. White people look at me as halfbreed and do no want their daughters near me. I am not very handsome, but it does give me pause that some white women look past me almost all of the time. \nI am a likeable person. I have no criminal record. I am kind to others. \nI hope to see a day when this goes away, but given the current immigration issues in US, I am not holding my breath. \nPrejudice is an old concept and so long as it exists a man and a woman of different worlds will very rarely meet and have a beautiful life together.
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I am Mexican, and 'we' were conquered by the spaniards... on my father's side, my grandparents, both, were spanish... on my mother's my grandma's father (=greatgrandfather) was french but he married a mexican, and my grandfahter was mexican too but his father was spanish... Blonde, white skin, browneyed... by these physical features nobody would say I'm mexican... but I am!  \n\nDictionary aid...\n\nRace: a group, especially of people, with particular similar physical characteristics, who are considered as belonging to the same type, or the fact of belonging to such a group.\n\nRace: (group of humans) one of the groups into which the world's population can be divided on the basis of physical characteristics such as skin or hair color.\n\nI think I'm 'mestiza' which means a mix of races... and it is hard to get to what group I belong...\n\nYou've made me think... and the only answer I have by now is 'mestiza'  Sociologist always have witty concepts... lol!
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No one on this planet is 100% percent anything because I am pretty sure down every body's gene pool there a mixture of  different races. I am disturbed by this question because it sounds like  you are trying to imply if Beyonce's mother was just a Black woman, which she appears to be because Black people come in all shades and colors, that Beyonce would not be pretty which is untrue. Beyonce's mother parents were French speaking Louisiana creoles and most of them are considered Black.  My grandmother, who have both Black parents, is lighter than Beyonce's mother ,have longer hair than Beyonce and her mother,  have blue eyes and I myself have dark skinned parents but I am light as Beyonce's mother. I have friends who are albino with green eyes that have dark skinned parents and know that their ethnicity is Black. My point in saying this is that there is no certain way a Black person should look.