View Poll Results: Does how others perceive you ethnically shape how you identify yourself?

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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wadaad View Post
    Over here its more South Asian or something that I get mistaken for...but I neither thought myself as African American or some kind of Indian. You'd have to be pretty rootless (like someone who grew up in an orphanage or something) to be swayed so much by people's perceptions.
    It's different when you are more than one ethnicity, and have to choose one over the other like in the case of someone who clearly looks one and not the other or is mixed race for instance.

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    ^^ 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'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wadaad View Post
    ^^ 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.

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    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;

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    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?
    After visiting anthroforums, I've understood that I don't know how to identify myself in ethnic/racial terms.
    So I go with civilizational ones instead. It's easier.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    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.
    Why did anyone consider you Sicilian in the first place?
    when you claim to be also Polish and Portuguese;

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    Quote Originally Posted by 101DT View Post
    Why did anyone consider you Sicilian in the first place?
    when you claim to be also Polish and Portuguese;
    My last name and appearance probably.

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