I chose this picture because I felt it most represented my topic because the name of this picture was “diversity”. And diversity plays a big role with my topic. Diversity means- a range of different things. And within my topic, mixed people and children can rank from anywhere between just two races, or maybe even five or six races. It all just depends on what race your parents are too. Also within my topic, I am asking, “Do mixed raced people and children necessarily have to take the race of their father when filling out school papers or job applications?” and this picture is explaining and showing that being mixed is okay, and I feel it means that any time you just want to break down because you don’t truly know what ethnicity you would classify as, it’s important to still stay strong and just work through it. Maybe one day, someone will make a change and have a box to check for “us” too.. And not just consider us as “other”.

Mixed Race, Mixed Feelings

I chose this article because I felt it tied in with myself in many ways. One way, is because I myself often feel like I am caught in between two worlds. Sometimes I feel that mixed raced people often get discriminated by people because they don't feel that my races mixed are meant to be. But that's just one person's opinion. This article helped me to find out that defending yourself and defending your race is just going to be apart of life for a mixed person. Also when defending yourself, your letting your true feeling show and come about. So not only are people "seeing" what you're doing but they are "hearing" what you are doing too. The saying "actions speak louder than words" really stuck out to me when I read this article because you can't only just speak how you feel, but showing and getting the point across to people that "I am this race and I am going to embrace it" is the type of attitude you need to have as a mixed person. Now my question for all of you is... If you were mixed, and someone tries to tell you that you're a certain race and you know what you truly are, what would you do? And how would you feel? http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio

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