Was at Indian-Egyptian couple's baby shower. Seated with Korean-White couple & their baby. I couldn't help but think if these two babies got married in the future, their kid would be Arab, Indian, White, and Korean!
Best thing a parent can do for their kid is procreating outside the race!
Best thing a parent can do for their kid is procreating outside the race!
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Imagine an ecosystem where a majority or even plurality of the population is mixed race! That's going to be New Jersey, California, Florida, Texas soon.
Back then, maybe 10% students were mixed, maybe 10% couples we knew were inter racial.
Now almost half my students in NJ are mixed race. Last 5 weddings I've attended were inter racial.
Though race, like caste, is not an objective biological reality, so much as reproduced by endogamy and belief...so, a lot of mixed folks in the Americas are still quite likely to see themselves as "white" vs "other" due to socially constructed & valorized categories.
"White" itself is a construct created by ending the previous intra European endogamy practices.