Essay On Mixed Race

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People are not just black,white, brown or yellow. They are all a mish mash of races and colors. People who identify as “multi racial” make up 6.9% of America’s population, and this number is growing fast (Pew Research). However, people of multiple backgrounds are still viewed as weird or different. People have a need to categorize others. Sometimes this is necessary, censuses help make statistics that can prevent discrimination. But sometimes people take it too far. When people don’t fit into a category of stereotype that people picture, their natural instinct is to force it upon them. Mixed race people are often in situations they are forced to explain themselves or their parents to friends or strangers.
Mixed race people may feel different from their parents based on skin color . The definition of parent in its most general form according to Webster is a person who
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One of society's weakness is it fetishizes foreign things and ideas. A good example is the Asian school girl or the exotic Latin woman. Mixed race people are no exception to that. If you look up mixed race the first thing the search engine subs in is mixed race babies (Google). The sheer fact more than one person has specific taste in a baby’s race is worrying. This is not a random thing, plenty of people have things like “ Oh mixed babies are so cute” or this is said to mixed couples “ Your babies are going to be so cute” Or a mixed race woman has someone tell her that she should have a baby with x race because the babies would be so cute. Of course when the babies grow up they have to deal with being asked “What are you”. That leads to asking he or she speaks a language of said race or if the should be white and black which 6% are (Pew Research), they are subjected to the tragic mulatto story, where the white master rapes a black slave then he or she was born as if they were not meant to be. Which that person might take very