Is it better to be mixed race?

[Bozkurt_Karabash]

No, being "mixed-race" does not increase fitness. That is just genocidal propaganda.

J. Richard Udry, Rose Maria Li, and Janet Hendrickson-Smith Health and Behavior Risks of Adolescents with Mixed-Race Identity. American Journal of Public Health: November 2003, Vol. 93, No. 11, pp. 1865-1870.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.93.11.1865




http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi...JPH.93.11.1865

Also see: http://majorityrights.com/weblog/com...f_race_mixing/

What about mixed race people who don't identify as mixed race? I'm probably Mixed Race genetically yet it has never passed on my mind to identify just as "mixed race". I am turk and we have different influences.

[Curly]

What about mixed race people who don't identify as mixed race? I'm probably Mixed Race genetically yet it has never passed on my mind to identify just as "mixed race". I am turk and we have different influences.

From what I understand, most Turks are genetically majority Caucasoid, with traces of Asian and/or African. I doubt that you have enough non-Caucasoid admixture to truly be considered "mixed-race".

[Bozkurt_Karabash]

From what I understand, most Turks are genetically majority Caucasoid, with traces of Asian and/or African. I doubt that you have enough non-Caucasoid admixture to truly be considered "mixed-race".

Turks have 0.2% East African and around 6% East Asian.

[Siegfried]

Turks have 0.2% East African and around 6% East Asian.

That is as of the whole population. If your family comes from a village or a small settlement, it is unlikely that you have very much variation in your ancestry.

[Marmie Dearest]

No, being "mixed-race" does not increase fitness. That is just genocidal propaganda.

J. Richard Udry, Rose Maria Li, and Janet Hendrickson-Smith Health and Behavior Risks of Adolescents with Mixed-Race Identity. American Journal of Public Health: November 2003, Vol. 93, No. 11, pp. 1865-1870.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.93.11.1865




http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi...JPH.93.11.1865

Also see: http://majorityrights.com/weblog/com...f_race_mixing/

Okay but are these mixed race adolescents who are for whatever painfully aware of the difference between their culture ...like I'm imagining this is MUCH more of a problem when you have a white single mother with a child who is half black, but the father is not around (and I throw this out, because I think this happens more than it should with this particular mixing) ...so the child is troubled by the fact that they may even look black but their mother is white, and they had no link or unity with the culture of the father.

That's why I think the "mixed race" thing is so circumstantial and applies only to certain individuals in situations where the two cultures are SO DIFFERENT or one parent is missing leaving them wondering about the other side of their heritage.

Plus, bringing this up again, I doubt my Argentinian friends think of themselves as "mixed race" in the first place because of having both European and Native American genetic influence. One of the daughters is actually Argentinian and Chilean, and her mother says she was "born responsible" that she was always this serious, cautious responsible child - the opposite of what you're talking about. I'm not "mixed race" (unless you're European and think all American mutts are mixed race if they aren't 100% from a specific European country) and I have never been that serious, responsible or well-behaved. On the other hand, the "born responsible" girl has a brother who is more impulsive and playful, and therefore more likely to get into trouble. This has nothing to do with their race, but with their individual personalities.

I just know too many technically mixed race people in real life to give that much credit to what you're trying to argue here, unless you're specifically referring to an absent parent of half of the child's heritage, or where the child doesn't quite look like they fit being black or white, or where the cultures are SOOO different that the child is confused (I would imagine this would happen, for example, if a Christian or atheist American woman of any race married and had children with a conservative Muslim from Saudi Arabia).

[Dead Eye]

I remember watching that programme on Channel 4 and i remember myself laughing at the ridiculous claims they were making but i was crying on the inside.

The sad thing is though that many people who are clueless about race will just blindly go along with anything they are told that goes hand in hand with their anti racist views.

The only thing that i can say about if its 'better to be mixed race' is that mixed race offspring tend to be immune to certain diseases but are not immune to the diseases that their pure race parents are.
Not much of a gain if you ask me.

[Dead Eye]

Double post

[Taiga Lake]

I don't think so, i'm mixed race (Sami) so i have to infuse European and Asian cultures together because that's what we are genetically too

[Carlito's Way]

yes just take a look at latinas, they the baddest in the world

[Zephyrus]

Is it better to be mixed race?

No it's not.
It creates mostly confused, racially frustrated people.