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Like i've never heard one of my mexican friends say anything like "dude i'm 1/16 bla bla etc." its just so confusing to me why white people are so ashamed of their own ethnic identity that they have to relay on trivial percentages to try and find something to connect to?
Like i've never heard one of my mexican friends say anything like "dude i'm 1/16 bla bla etc." its just so confusing to me why white people are so ashamed of their own ethnic identity that they have to relay on trivial percentages to try and find something to connect to?
Maybe your Mexican friends are all 100 percent Mexican.
I'm 1/4 German, and the rest is all British Isles (as far as I know).
A lot of people who identify as "white" do have some native American heritage, particularly in Texas and Oklahoma.
Like i've never heard one of my mexican friends say anything like "dude i'm 1/16 bla bla etc." its just so confusing to me why white people are so ashamed of their own ethnic identity that they have to relay on trivial percentages to try and find something to connect to?
mexican isnt an ethnicity dude, it's a nationality. i am a mexican citizen. am also white.
Like i've never heard one of my mexican friends say anything like "dude i'm 1/16 bla bla etc." its just so confusing to me why white people are so ashamed of their own ethnic identity that they have to relay on trivial percentages to try and find something to connect to?
i'm not ashamed of my "ethnic identity" at all...i find it quite interesting to learn about my heritage and ancestors...and like someone else mentioned, maybe your mexican friends are 100% mexican....this seemed like an odd question.
I'm a proud American but also proud of my heritage - half Polish and half a mixture of English, Scandinavian, French and others. (I call myself Heinz 57. )
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In my experience, it's because black people or Hispanic people don't know exactly what percentage of which country they are from. How's a black person going to know which countries they came from, unless they migrated here recently? Anyway, not only white people do it, lots of half white people do it too, or if they're mixed. I'm half asian, the other parts are all German, Irish, Cherokee, and Mexican.
Like i've never heard one of my mexican friends say anything like "dude i'm 1/16 bla bla etc." its just so confusing to me why white people are so ashamed of their own ethnic identity that they have to relay on trivial percentages to try and find something to connect to?
It's not shame, its pride. 1/2 Cherokee and 1/2 Irish AFAIK
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