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As the soon-to-be mom of a "mixed-race" kid, I say it is up to the kid to decide. But according to the latest census results, more and more Americans are choosing to call themselves multiracial instead of the old way of only choosing one side.
I agree and would raise my child to have an understanding of the beauty of each culture. There are so many AA/Latinos in NYC I was just wondering if they identify with both cultures. I think a lot of it may have to do with which side of the family they were most influenced by.
True Latinos show heritage to a Romance language country. South American dark skin is not the same as African Black (or shades of which is due to the proximaty to the equator - countries on the equator have the darkest skin while people near the poles have very light skin). So to answer your question is not that simple as color. But usually the darker the skin color either leads to an Indian or African without testing for European genes. Most of African looking blacks in spanish speaking countries were brought there as slaves of the colonists from Spain.
If you look up the history of South America you will find that due to the Spaniards nearly 75% of the population died to numerous reasons.
Its similar to the USA
It would be like excluding blacks from being Americans because of their skin color.
Its a little racist to exclude Blacks from Spanish speaking countries
The issue of the perceived color of Italians has changed completely over the course of my lifetime.When I was growing up in an Irish ghetto we were taught by family and Irish nuns that Italians were non white.It was totally ignorant of course but Italians were considered "colored".Marriage between Irish and Italian people was strongly discouraged and was quite rare because Italians were considered another race.When I was a kid my older sister married an Italian guy and the fighting,screaming and name calling that went on is still a vivd memory for me.I mean real knock down battles ! Within a decade attitudes changed dramatically and the Irish/Italian wedding combo became quite common.
Are you like 97 years old or something? Italian and Irish intermarriage has been going on for a VERY long time now.
QUESTION: If a woman is ethnically/culturally African-American, and multiracial (60% African/ 40% other), and has a child with a Puerto Rican man (mixed appearance), what is the child? AA or Latino, or something else? Is the child's designation more about nature or nurture?
The child is both. Just like the President is actually both black and white. To be super technical the child is actually racially mixed and ethnically/culturally mixed as well.
We have a tendency in this country to try to neatly stick everyone in a box. Some people just can't be put in just one box.
The issue of the perceived color of Italians has changed completely over the course of my lifetime.When I was growing up in an Irish ghetto we were taught by family and Irish nuns that Italians were non white.It was totally ignorant of course but Italians were considered "colored".Marriage between Irish and Italian people was strongly discouraged and was quite rare because Italians were considered another race.When I was a kid my older sister married an Italian guy and the fighting,screaming and name calling that went on is still a vivd memory for me.I mean real knock down battles ! Within a decade attitudes changed dramatically and the Irish/Italian wedding combo became quite common.
That's hilarious to me since Irish were not really considered White either for a many years...
I agree and would raise my child to have an understanding of the beauty of each culture. There are so many AA/Latinos in NYC I was just wondering if they identify with both cultures. I think a lot of it may have to do with which side of the family they were most influenced by.
New York City is a bit different from most cities because it's one of the few that has a large black Hispanic population. No matter how much people want to argue over the semantics of "blackness," most Puerto Ricans and Dominicans have West African heritage, which in some way does serve as a cultural bond between them and African Americans/West Indians.
I mean, who are the Mexican/Nicaraguan/Guatemalan equivalents of the following people (who largely identify with and have been/were embraced by the AA community):
Angie Martinez
Rosie Perez
Christina Milian
Big Pun
Fat Joe
Zoe Saldana
Jennifer Lopez (semi-revoked)?
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