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Originally Posted by Coda
See, that's something that really disappoints me about the changes in society since I was young.
When I was a kid, this... just wasn't a thing. I went to school with white kids, black kids, Hispanic kids, Asian kids, Middle Eastern kids, Native American kids... We were all just kids. Sure, race was a concept that we knew about, but it really didn't come into play in anything. Anyone could be friends with anyone. We were all learning the same things and taking the same classes. There was no reason to think that skin color or eye shape or hair texture was something worth discriminating over. It gave us the opportunity to learn about the foods or stories or cultures of another part of the world, so that was cool, that was good, that wasn't a reason to look down on someone.
To this day I still generally can't tell you what race someone is at a glance. It's something I have to actually try to pay attention to.
And yet I see the younger generations making such a big deal over pointing out what race people are, as if that mere fact alone is supposed to influence how I treat them. That goes entirely contrary to the ideals I was raised to believe, and it makes me sad that it's the best time in history for everyone and yet I can't go on Twitter without seeing someone screaming about it.
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I grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood and the school I went to was relatively new. That meant that for the first 4 years of my schooling I was the only ethnic child in my grade. (And maybe one of two or three in the whole school) I don't blame the kids, I blame the parents mostly for not teaching their children that people come in all different colors and that it's not "scary" or "weird" for someone to have brown skin.
I didn't see another biracial kid in school until maybe 7th grade. And we kinda had our own little group. We eventually became the "goth"/"emo" kids, though. So we were *actual* spooky, black-clade weirdos without our ethnic background even coming into play lol.
It frustrates me beyond belief that some people seriously think that they can easily tell someone's ethnic background based on the way they look! I know that this is not true, as I've experimented a bit. For a while, I would tell people I was Tamil and I would wear straight wigs... and not *one* person, not even actual Tamil people could tell that I wasn't even Indian!
It's really frustrating. It's also sooooo soooo annoying that there's so much hate for "white" people these days on Twitter and Tumblr and even Facebook sometimes. I've heard so many people shit on white people lately just for being white. I had a friend who had severe white shame even as a kid. I don't like this whole "us vs. them" mentality that's coming up nowadays. People bring race into things that are not even race-related. All these years, I struggled with my ethnic identity having come from a multiracial family... And it hurts to see people be so cruel.
When I came home from the theaters after seeing Logan, I went to Tumblr to share how much fun I had, and the first post that came up for Logan was; "I'm so happy to see Laura rip apart all those white people"...
And it was like... weird? Because Laura herself is white???? I mean, she's Hispanic, but still white?
I don't know why it feels like we're going backwards in society and not forward anymore!