Anyway I'd like to hear others' experiences. Did you ever change how you identified because it was inconsistent with others' perceptions? Do you actually start perceiving yourself the way others do, consciously or otherwise?
Anyway I'd like to hear others' experiences. Did you ever change how you identified because it was inconsistent with others' perceptions? Do you actually start perceiving yourself the way others do, consciously or otherwise?
^^ I've seen that happen with mulatto siblings, the darker one was more 'urban inner city youth' and the lighter one was more whitewashed and behaved completely 'white'.
And it's undoubtedly because the darker one felt like because they are viewed as black they have to fit the standard society sets for what it means to be "black" (which is unfortunate because I am a firm believer that stereotypes should never be the default/standard people feel they must be held to in order to be an authentic member of their ethnicity/race), and the one who looked more white felt that they had more right to act "white" or what society perceives as such.
In my case I almost feel like half of my heritage is off limits to me.
The way i see it,
There are certain Anthropological facts that cant be denied or twisted;
Who tries to defy the laws of Race and its strict scientific standards of Anthropology
is a clown and deserves nothing but ridicule;
Also I always keep in mind that if my dad's side knew I was part Cape Verdean, they'd essentially stop considering me a Sicilian American. It's all contingent on their prejudices.
I look like I am from the region that I come from. Whereas my sister looks hardcore baltid, she looks a lot different than most of my family. I've been thinking that she looks more like a German woman, everyone talking in childhood that she is Švabica-meaning German girl. but now after seeing theapricity I think she is baltid race. But in the terms of my region neither I am not swarthy. You never know who your ancestors, you will be surprised how your child one day look like when it is born.