Talk:Multiracial
From Academic Kids
"White" being a race is mostly used in USA. We should not generalised this term and apply it internationally. You are Irish, English, French, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, South africans.. and not White, Asian, Black... how do you justify the word "asian" to describe someone from asia anyway.. An Indian will look very different from a Chinese..and yet you just call them asians.. This way of classifying people is an American way of doing things and its degrading. I feel that it should not be taken as a norm of the whole international community.
2000 US census [1] (http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&geo_id=01000US&qr_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_DP1)
- Population 281421906
- Other than white 69961280
- Mixed ("two or more races") 6826228 = 2.4% of total, 9.8% of not-white
2002 US census [2] (http://eire.census.gov/popest/data/states/ST-EST2002-ASRO-03.php)
- Population 288368698
- Other than white 55722532
- Mixed ("two or more races") 4181064 = 1.4% of total, 7.5% of not-white
Total population 6946792 greater but 2645164 mixed-race people fewer. Any reasons why? Andy G 15:02, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- The US only conducts censuses ervery ten years. There was no 2002 census. The 2002 is an estimate based on a long complicated methodology liniked at the bottom of the page. The 2000 was the official census numbers. My guess without reading all the methodology is that they are discounting mixed-race responses like Scottish and English or Swedish and Norwegian. But that's just my guess.Rmhermen 15:05, Oct 24, 2003 (UTC)
I read some of the methodology. Looks like "White" and some-sort-of-hispanic was the main combination that got removed from "mixed-race". I've written it into the article. Andy G 22:48, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Mixed Race
The section of this article pasted below undermines the credibility of the entire article. Some of the language in this section has racist overtones, "unfortunately...identified himself as black." This section does not add any information to the article.
Mixed race
Probably the most famous mixed race person was Bob Marley. He had a white English father and black Jamaican mother, though unfortunately he was brought up by his single mother and so identified himself as black.
Mixed race relationships were illegal in many places in the past, and are still frowned on in much of the world.
This piece was added to multiracial because the mixed race link was redirected to multiracial before. I have now transferred the piece to the new mixed race wiki. This piece may be irrelevant, maybe not, but it does not have rascist overtones. It is Bob Marley's identification as black that has rascist overtones (I am a fan). I consider your comment blatantly rascist, something I oppose--Scuiqui fox 01:31, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Stop being anonymous?
"It is Bob Marley's identification as black that has racist overtones (I am a fan)." Now how's that? I offer my apology for apparently misidentifying the racist overtones. I must have misunderstood your comment. Perhaps what's *racist* is subjective? As I reread the comment, without further explanation from you, it sounds like you are saying identifying as black is unfortunate, this made me uncomfortable. What did you mean? --still anonymous
from Mixed race
Mixed race describes the marriage of 2 people of different races, or the children who are the product of a mixed race relationship.
Mixed race
Probably the most famous mixed race person was Bob Marley. He had a white English father and black Jamaican mother, though he was brought up by his single mother and so identified himself as black.
Mixed race relationships were illegal in many places in the past.
