People from India have been considered just about every race, and race really shouldn't matter in many aspects of life, but heritage is important. When a person is of mixed race, there often becomes a "third" culture that happens. This post found on Mixed Folks.com, is great.
Maria
P.
P. Root, PhD, is author of
The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier
which you can purchase through Interracial Voice and Amazon.com
Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People
By Maria P.P. Root
I HAVE THE RIGHT...-Not to justify my existence in this world.-Not to keep the races separate within me. -Not to be responsible for people's discomfort with my physical ambiguity. -Not to justify my ethnic legitimacy. I HAVE THE RIGHT...-To identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify. -To identify myself differently from how my parents identify me. -To identify myself differently from my brothers and sisters. -To identify myself differently in different situations. I HAVE THE RIGHT...-To create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial. -To change my identity over my lifetime -- and more than once. -To have loyalties and identification with more than one group of people. -To freely choose whom I befriend and love |
The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier
which you can purchase through Interracial Voice and Amazon.com
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