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Yeah people are ridiculous about this. I'm very light skin, but can tan beautifully. My dad was a dark Dominican, and my mom is medium brown Dominican . I actually took after my great grandma on my dad's side who was full Japanese. Yes, Dominican Republic has a full Japanese community. I just identify with my culture, not any race,
Yes , I wish people would get back to identifying with ethnicity. I’ve noticed the African American community is just obsessed with skin tone and phenotype 😂
I am too, I feel like there's a biracial supremacy that was created by the black community,where people think that they're the only ones who are mixed,when plenty of multiracial people globally have the same amount of black as a biracial or even less, so why in the hell is biracial the standard for mixed? Plenty of us mixed Latinos are only 50% black like a biracial or even less and also mgm Americans or Caribbeans can be only 50% black yet nobody mentions us when talking about mixed race? Why is biracial the only mixed race?I think it's because whiter combinations can call themselves "biracial" this is why the standard is white passing!
I agree! I'm multiracial where both my parents are mixed. Carribean, Malaysian and English (white). It's interesting how black people will tell me that I look 100% black yet other races do not see me as fully black. I think the goal post has moved when it comes to "looking mixed" I read somewhere how the standard of a mixed race woman is now someone who looks like Jenna Fumes (basically more white passing) it's strange because mixed can look like anything!
Right ! People are trying to move the goal post as a humbling tactic. They’re trying to say “you’re not special, you look like me!” ☠️ meanwhile they don’t realize that they’re insulting themselves by saying that
I can tell that you have an admixture from the profile picture. Many Caribbean people have other mixtures even if it doesn't "show" so to speak. People love to use the ideology that certain features and characteristics should "show" in someone's face, hair, etc. to determine things.
I have one white grandparents on my dad’s side. Aesthetically I look mixed and have always identified as black. My friends and boyfriend always refer to me as multiple racial which I now accept. I totally agree with you that mixed people should embrace their admixture and ignore the haters.
Yes like let’s say someone is a 33/33/33 mix like jhene aiko. What’s she supposed to do. She’s not a 50/50 biracial . Yet she’s also not monoracial. why are we forced to just pick one side and then pretend like the other parts don’t exist?
They try to move the goal post each time because this is something they can't attain for themselves. I heard a woman on RU-vid say chilli is not mixed and she doesn't look mixed . She says she looks black and that's a 100 percent black woman.
Yes! And let chili get chosen for opportunities over them. Suddenly it’s “texturism and featurism.” The colorism argument is used against light skins while the texturism and featurism argument is used against dark skinned mixed women
That’s weird because she never looked fulled black to me. She the same mix as the girl who played Ashley banks from fresh prince. I guess they claim them because their none black parent is dark skin south Asian but want to kick the ones like yara shahidi and Laura Harrier out the community. They always picking and choosing who they claim as black! Smh 😩 it’s so exhausting!
I’m 16 years old and ever since I can remember I’ve always been asked about my racial background. “What does your mom or dad look like?” “Where are you from?” “You don’t even look that black” and even comments about my hair being different because it doesn’t look like Afro hair. Ive been told I have “good hair” by black women which makes me uncomfortable. I’ve been accused of my hair being fake because it’s long even having black girls get jealous because I don’t hate my hair like them. When I found this channel I finally found people who I can relate to and it made me feel like I wasn’t alone. Thank you so much for creating this channel! 😁🙏
Its funny because my dad has red hair. When I am under the sunlight my hair turns reddish brown. But it usually looks black. Growing up everyone could look at me and tell that I was mixed because of my hair. Also my skin color changes based on sunlight. When I am lighter people will still know that I am mixed. But when I'm tan I get told that I look fully black. I have had people from Africa point at me and call me mulatto. I used to get called "mulatto" as if it were my name by people that I knew. They didn't ask if I was mixed.
Another awesome video per usual 😊. Chrissie always says if you look black even if you’re mixed or biracial then you’re black or if you’re biracial and you look more white then you’re white, she says phenotype is more important then what you’re DNA says, smh. I feel like that’s why a lot of mixed or biracial people don’t claim their non black side because of what people have told them about how they look or how they feel about how they look about themselves
❤💯👏🏼🎤On point as usual. Sharing this video as well. The attacking of features on anyone has got to stop. and I agree with you about people from other countries, such as Africa, Jamaica, or wherever else in the diaspora, starting crap with American Blacks !🤬 First of all, there’s too many Black people who have fought for civil rights, who are mixed and white presenting, but chose to fight for the black race, So I’ll be damned if I let these younger generation of colorists crybabies bully me! TF! There is plenty of representation of darker complexion people. Stop the cap.😅 Blessings beautiful. 🤩 🥰
Exactly! We’ve been coming together for the longest time so I don’t understand why we are now suddenly “replacing” them. It’s like uh, you pushed us to the forefront !
Right ! Those people are making the one white parent rule the standard of mixed race when mixed people are more diverse than that ! There are blasians, creoles, black and Indian mixes, etc
@@ExoticalsUnited I’m not even talking about Blasians , Douglas, or Blaxicans. People will say that biracial people like J Cole, Tia&Tamera Mowry, Shamar Moore, and Barack Obama don’t look biracial because they don’t have really fair skin skin and 3a hair. The biracial’s like Mariah Carey and Megan Markle are genetically more white then they’re black. When people see a real 50/50 biracial they say they don’t look biracial because they’re used to 60/40 and 75/25 biracial’s being the face of biracial people(black&white).
@@ExoticalsUnited I noticed you mentioned Paris Milan and Chrissie as having foreign backgrounds. Could you tell me what they are? All I know is that Chrissie and Paris Milan were born in the states but it is possible their parents are from another country.
The multigenerational race mixing is so interesting that we can have more than just 50/50 I’m Dominican 🇩🇴 and I have a higher % of European dna, plus I also have more than 2 races in me. Multigenerational mixed are usually more mixed than Biracials… cause they are first generation, we are MULTIGENERATIONAL….Meaning we haven’t stopped mixing for many generations.
also, I call it cultural jealousy. i've noticed that a lot of MGMs who grew up ONLY in a mono black community are jealous of people who have admixtures yet embrace their other cultures and have fluid identities . i've seen this issue happen a lot in the creole community (for example giselle byrant from real housewives, robyn dixon from real housewives, and a lot of creoles ive met in real life). no shade to creoles, thats just where i see that issue happening the most. im sure it happens in other groups as well.
@@krystalmiles1937I guess it depends on who the mother is . But I feel like those women can’t complain about MLS people replacing them if they’re constantly creating them 😂
❤❤❤ I agree everyone has there own beauty promote that I especially loved your video on unconventional beauty if we all worked on ourselves and stop tearing others women down for things that all of us have no control over the world would be a better place. I’ve been wearing my own wooly hair for many yrs and I’m going to continue too I found the beauty in what makes me unique wooly hair has its own beauty I wish more women would try to work on themselves and stop listening to negativity from community more and more channels like yours are gonna be made your voice is being heard. I’m dark skin but my youngest son is light skin and my dad is brown and I have tons of light skin family this topic needs to be on the table. Also I’m not dark skinned enough to some the rabbit hole never ends keep going this needs to be discussed
I'm black and mexican and I've had people, who assume that I'm black and white, say that I dont look black and mexican. Or, when my father was alive and when he came around they saw he was a dark-skinned black man they acted like they were so thrown off! Black and White people be trippin!!!! Cuz, for some reason, mexican people can tell I'm part mexican or assume I'm mexican or some other latino. It's just a weird dynamic!
right. i've noticed that when i'm around latin american people they can see my ancestry but usually monoracial black and monoracial white people only see the black/white mixtures
I’m black passing but I have very ambiguous features at the same time similar to Solange slightly or soraven and when I mention my grandad is white and I have Indian and Persian admixture some people get so angry at me. I usually don’t bother unless people ask cause it’s awkward as hell.
DNA is strange, my most recent white ancestry goes back 11 generations so far from research I've conducted (paper trail) but, there are definitely people who look like Tyrese with recent European ancestry yet they are considered more "Pure" based on their phenotype alone 😂
Yup. When it comes to being mixed race there are three main experiences you’ll have an identity crisis over 1. Your phenotype 2. Your genotype 3. What your different sides think of you This is an experience that mono unambiguous people of all races don’t have. They can walk into a room full of people of their background and blend in or be accepted. They have the same family backgrounds, eat the same cultural dishes on the holidays, listen to the same music etc. we do not have that experience 😂
I’m only 16% but everyday I get asked if I’m mixed or if I’m from Puerto Rico or DR. However I look identical to my parent who has a biracial mother so maybe that’s the reason…growing up it did make me feel like an outcast
Wow wow wow, the first 2 minutes really hit home. I hate how biracial/mixed automatically means white and we are expected to look as ambiguous or close to european as possible. So many of us are are not mixed with white. Also, i hate the division created by Black spaces to divide those of use who are mixed with white and those mixed with non Black AND they pick and choose when my Black is black enough (usually in comparison to a person who is Black and White). Also, dividing us by who has a Black mother and who has a Black father and what we “usually experience”/ “how they turn out” those STEREOTYPES and GENERALIZATIONS are so harmful and I think it was a way to divide MGM folks.
Oh! Wow! A black coworker once told me that I looked like a bird and I asked her what she meant and she told me it was because of my nose. You just made me realize that it might be because of my nose bridge. I’ve been told that the bridge is very straight. I think I have an Arab type nose. You can’t really see my bridge on my profile pic but I never really liked my nose bud for a guy I guess it’s ok. 😏
Alot of that, probably have to do what bullying in School. I recently saw a video where Funky Dineva said, he and other children would bully haitian kid's in school.
I do claim my small percentage of indigenous American dna. Why? Because it’s my dna and it shows up in my features. As well as my European dna. I can go to the beauty supply store and buy hair that matches my natural texture. People of other ethnic groups mistake me as one of them. Caribbean, Ethiopian. Getting asked what I’m mixed with. Having two black parents and mixed ancestry is a blessing. Beauty is a blessing. All beauty is no matter the skin tone or features.
Yeah. Since people already notice it and they’re going to gaslight us anyway we might as well admit it . Like. Yeah, some of us do have admixtures or are actually mixed race . And who gon check me? ☠️ and yes, some people do look “exotic” or we look mixed. Who gon check me?! ☠️
@@ExoticalsUnited❤ I heard your voice saying EXOTICAL TAX!! After I read that. I love how you say that. I love your channel. Your videos are so uplifting. ❤️🥰
It just seems like there are super white people and super black people who are hell bent on keeping it that way. But the future is mixed whether they accept it or not 🤷🏽♀️❤
You mention that 1/4 black people are more accepted as mixed but I seen them get referred to as white online even if they clearly look mixed like Tamera's kids which is odd to me. Some 1/4 black do look white but not always..
Yeah I feel like now they’ve seen their hypocrisy so they’re trying to change it up a bit by expanding what whiteness is. But in my opinion if someone wants to identify with ALL of their family members they have the right to. whether they’re more black or more white
I noticed the same with Jessica Alba everywhere. She talked about how she got bullied growing up by white kids for not looking white enough and almost didn't get the role for fantastic 4 because they didn't think she looked anything like Chris Evans. And I saw a TikTok video where it said her grandma was 50/50 native & white, her grandfather was 100% native. Yet...somehow she's just white...because she has a white mother...?? She looks mixed to me And her Dad even took a DNA test on PBS years ago, he was more Native & Black than European, so idk how he's "white" either, her dad looks straight Indian.
@@Ronsquaremy Jessica Alba was born to a Mexican father and a white American mother. She’s of majority European heritage but she does have mixed race ancestry. Her DNA test showed 72.7% European ancestry and 22.5% Native American ancestry. The remaining admixture was Sub-Saharan African, North African/Middle Eastern, and South Asian ancestry.
I have a clear mid western accent and I’m a racially ambiguous male. I often get unambiguous African American women asking me if I’m American? 😮 And I know what they really are trying to ask me, but I’m like, Yes I’m American, but my father isn’t black.
if you have 25% or more of another race then yes, in my opinion its not even an argument anymore you are undeniably mixed race and thats the end of discussion lol
EXACTLY OMG! the whole "were all mixed race" talking point is BS. Sure, a lot of people may have smaller amounts of admixture (like a few percent) and that is fine if they want to embrace that. in fact- i encourage that because no one should hate their race whether they're black or white. but if everyone were truly heavily admixed at 25% or more? the whole colorism texturism featurism thing wouldnt even be a conversation ☠️ and there wouldnt even need to be a differentiation between "light skinned", "dark skinned" "unambiguous" "ambiguous" etc.
Yep, 25% makes a *big* difference. People would ask me: - Is your dad white? - Where are you from, ethnically? - Are you from the islands? I'm a little over 30% non-black, and it's very apparent in my phenotype. I have light skin and eyes, and relatively keen features. My hair is a mixture of kinky and curly. I have such an ambiguous phenotype despite being majority black because I'm the product of many mixed race people on both sides of my family. My dad was nearly 50% white, even though both of his parents were socialized as black. It's honestly a bit of a relief to stop pretending I have the same experience as an UABW. From dating prospects to jobs, it would be disingenuous to ignore the privileges my phenotype affords me. That's why even though I'll always be a strong ally for UABW, I'm going to focus on finding community with people who I can more readily relate to.
