VERY UNIQUE PERSON

[alacranera]

NOT REALLY A WRITER BUT IVE CREATED THIS TO TELL A LITTLE ABOUT MYSELF HOPING NOT TO SUFFER CRITICISM AS I HAVE ALL MY LIFE.IM A UNIQUE PERSON HAVING BEEN OF THE WHITE RACE,A RACE THAT I DIVORCED AT THE AGE OF 10 I BEACMAE MEXICAN.ALOT OF WHITE PPL JUDGE ME AND GET ANGRY WITH ME BECAUSE I SAY THAT BUT THEY DONT UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE VERY VALID REASONS FOR DIVORCING(PER SAY) THE WHITE RACE,AND TO ME MY PPL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE MEXICAN PPL.IM NOT SAYING THAT THEY ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES WHAT I AM SAYING IS THEY WERE THERE FOR ME WHEN I NEEDED THE LOVE AND NUTURE NOT PROVIDED BY MY OWN KIND.AND THATS HOW I BECAME WHO I AM .WHETHER IT IS RIGHT OR WRONG I DO NOT KNOW FOR SURE NOR DO I CARE THAT IS JUST THE WAY IT IS.WELL I GUESS THATS ALL I HAVE TO WRITE HERE ( I SAID I WASNT A WRITER I WISH I WAS THEN I COULD WRITE MY OWN BOOK BUT AM LOOKING FOR A WRITER) ANYWAY I AM OPEN FOR OPINIONS CONSTRUCTIVE OR OTHERWISE.

LA ALACRANERA(MEANS THE SCORPION IN SPANISH)

[greatenchantres]

`First of all, Mexican is NOT a race, it is a NATIONALITY.

It means like you are going through an identity crisis.

So you can be both white (i.e. a member of the caucasian race) AND Mexican (of mexican nationality or citizenship).

Now like it or not, you cannot "divorse" what you are. Your genes are your genes, and from the look of it, blond hair and all, you are pretty much caucasian. So unless science breaks through in the next decade or so, and manages to change your DNA, you were born white, you ll die white. Make friends with your color.

I can call myself Cleopatra Queen of the Nile. That does NOT make me Cleopatra...

So you can call yourself whatever you want, but I would be carefull not to offend people.

Some people are offended by what they understand as "culture vultures" or "wannabes".

I like the natives, but I can never be anyhthing else than the thing I was born.. that is Greek.

So I can have admiration for them, and express it, but If I go out there saying that "I divorse my Greekness and I am now a native" some might laugh and some might be insulted.

I am not proud of what certain members of the white race have done. (Among other things they have enslaved the Africans -and some whites as well but thats another story- and they have tried to wipe out the natives).

I cannot identify myself with them though, first of all I am Greek, not English, Dutch, French or Spanish, so .... my nation does not have THAT blood on its hands, and then, this is NOT me.

So, while I critisize and clearly see the past, and I understand the wrong doing of the white man... hey... not all your fingers in your hand are the same...

Generalization is a fascistic practice. Generalizing and saying that all white people are crap, is just as bad as creating general stereotypical ideas about members of other "races".


To recap... genetically I am Greek, nationaly I am Greek, racially I am caucasian, culturally I am mostly Greek, but philosophically and morally I am HUMAN.

Certain things, you just cant change sweetie, one of these is the blood that runs in your vains

Be friends with your self, and accept who you are.

I am not saying so because I feel that being white is a great thing and a thing to be proud of...

I am saying this because I think it is essential for ALL people to feel good in their skin, be proud of their heritage, and not having to hide their identity.

[melina101 (deleted)]

`right on I agree with the above post to be proud of their heritage and not having to hide their Identity.I am German,English and Cherokee possibly Choctaw in the same line as the Cherokee from my dads side of the family and proud of it.I connect more Spritually with the Native side of me but am definitely proud of my other nationalitys as well.My Mom doesn't know anything about her ancestry and heritage not because she doesn't want to know its just my Grandpa never thought it important to talk about which is sad now that my Grandpa is gone my mom is left wondering where she came from and no one can tell her anything.Because shes the last one and only one living now all my grandpas family is passed on and theres no one left except my mom.I know everything of my dads heritage because my Aunt traced our family tree and we have it somewhere or someone has our family tree.