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| | I take a deep breath, anticipating the questions ahead as I explain that I'm half Irish by my mother and half Indian by my... |
| | I don't mind that people are surprised by the Irish-Indian combination. It's unusual, I admit. And fair enough, I don't expect them to look at my black hair and mocha skin and think, She's Irish. |
| | | So what to make of my hodgepodge DNA? In our increasingly multiracial and multicultural generation, you can no longer assume, for example, that a Farsi-speaking Iranian girl isn't also a Dutch-speaking Amsterdam native. |
| | | Personally, being biracial is not really a problem; it's being tetra-cultural that's tricky to navigate. Even if our society rid itself of the ridiculous concept of race, people would still be drawing on their cultures for identity. |
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| | I don't think there is yet a place in the society for us multicultural folks. Various application forms ask us to check off our race but consistently offer only eight choices: Native American, Native Alaskan, African American/Black, Asian, White Non-Hispanic, White Hispanic, Hispanic Non-White, Pacific Islander. Maybe some identities fit neatly into these categories, but mine definitely doesn't.
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