I consider myself multiethnic, but I know many of my friends just think I'm on crack. My genealogy consist of several widely diverse European cultures as well as Native American (Lakota) ancestry. I just think I am who I am, and I'm proud of my multi-face ted background, but it's difficult to find ONE, SINGLE place. I've always lived in communities where I've been whitewashed and I feel Tufts is very much the same environment. But, my question is, am I multiethnic because I consider myself to be, or am I n ot because others don't consider me to be so? Any comments are welcome.
Thanks,
Ryan

I do not think any one else may consider my identification as
interracial, but I most certainly do. My father is from Sierra
Leone and my mother is African-American. My stepfather is
Dutch and I was raised with most of his values. Unwelcome i n
my father's homeland because of his relation with an American
black woman,and scorned in American society as an outsider due
to societal constructs of race and class, I see many ways to
identify ones' self. They would entail societal, environmental,
and historical experience.

A general posting of thank you, for all who sent me your words
of encouragment and exchanged ideas.
P.S.
If I didn't respond it's because I was on break and their have
been problems with our server.

A general posting of thank you, for all who sent me your words
of encouragment and exchanged ideas.
P.S.
If I didn't respond it's because I was on break and there have
been problems with our server.
Natasha Sabino, please mail me a gain, couldn't figure out your
address to reply. not through the post, but direct.

It is very hard to say! Most people who are don't think they are so does that make them right? Who knows? Our country is fulled with so much and that is recognized! "Are you black or are you white?" Can somebody be something else? Can they be what you don 't see? Like I said before are we colors? Would we dare say are you yellow or red? Is anyone pure? How can you tell? Interracial is the celebration of so many things! So many backgrounds and colors! We are all mixed! How can we be sure of who we are?

I believe that the definition of interracial can not be entirally defined. The definition can be widely used. I believe that any beautiful individual with numerous ethnic backgrounds can be considered interracial. People with the heritage and knowledge of more then one race can be an amazing individual. I am interracially married and I will love the day that we have these beautiful interracial children. Interracial is Gods blessing!!

It seems to me that we are much to concerned with racial classification. Someone will problably call me naive, but I think in the United States we should replace the current cumbersone racial indentification nomenclature to reflect our common national her itage, i.e., American or Other. (Other indentifies you as a non U.S. national) Your particular ethnic association need not be identified. The continued emphasis on racial or ethnic association has given some of us a reason to not accept each other as just simply another American, who happens to be of another racial group. Since there is no ethnic group that is racially pure, the constant attention to ethnicity and racial association is counterproductive to solving some of the other problems we face in th is country.

Interracialism, to me means simply to correspond across
supposedly and traditional status-quo established lines of
racial separation, whether done by via plutonic, romantic
or any other means, so long as there can a mutual
corresponden ce of fairness and understanding. Racial
pretences artifically enhance a seperation that transends
the superficiality of skin pigmentation, culture, language,
etc. And though there is a long history of such practices,
this does not ma ke them right; just long practiced, for lack
of anything better, especially for those with little or no
self-esteem.

I just wanted to say that this obsession with definitions is
a major contributing factor to the (minor but irritating)
negative side of growing up inter'racial'.
If you feel you are mixed, you are. If not, not. Who am I
to tell you differently?
If this is not clear enough to make my point, are there any
inter'racial' kids out there who are not sick to death of
people foisting restrictive and/or discriminatory definitions
on them?
I had a very interesting tim e reading your site, thanks.

HELLO! I see that many people talk about HISPANIC OR HISPANICS as a race.
Well,been HISPANIC is not been of one race,or culture,I will explain.
A person from Spain is a european or white.
A person from Mexico can be a indian,Mayan or Aztec,can be of european descent,or a mix of both,what we call mestizo.
A person from Puerto Rico can be of european descent or white or could be of african descent and be black,that person can also be a mix of both
and be a mulatto.
Can a descendant of europeans a descendant of indians a descendant of africans and a mix of them all be of the same race?
Can somebody who speak spanish,and somebody who speak an indian dialect be of the same culture?
Do you get the point?
The census uses the following line when writing about Hispanics:HISPANICS MAY BE OF ANY RACE.
That, does not do it.
Each of us should be proud of our own race,but at the same time be respectful of all the other races,and America (USA) will be even greater.

I am engaged to someone of African-American/European descent
and I am of multi-Eurpopean descent, but we both have a mix of
the same native American descent Lakota and Cherokee.
We both have started a movement among our friends to check "other" when asked about race. We have decided that if you
are an American then you are not of any pure race that is why
America is called a melting pot. This country have showed by
our accomplishments what interracial realtionships/mergi ng
(not necessarily romantic) can accomplish and we have
showed by some of our biggest social issues what happens when
we are divided. RE: Drugs, Civil war, crime, poverty. Most
of these issues are rooted at least partially in racism. I
hope we learn to look at our past in color and see what that
has done to us as a nation. I blame our lack of knowledge of
the accomplishments of people of color on the fact that our
textbooks are just now starting to graze the frin ges of what
people of color have contributed to this nation. There are no
pure races any more and there is probably a reason for that
like evolution and natural selection. Because of this neglect
I can understand why some people may no t be as proud of
themselves and their background as they should be. They don't
know their history. We need to remember to pass the stories
down to our children. To give them a sense of identity and
then maybe we wouldn't need labels l ike black, hispanic, white...