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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Good post! 
I can speak to what you have in bold, because my niece has experienced that identify crises, her father being Hispanic. Even though a good and decent man, she still struggles with who she is.
One day she was crying and saying, putting her hand up to divide her face, "Half of me is white and half of me is Hispanic. I don't know who I am."
I felt sorry for her, because I don't know what that feels like. All we can do is assure her of our love.
It does render a good example of why some people are opposed to bi-racial marriages. It may not effect the parents as much as it does the children. And in some instances, it effects neither parent nor child.
But for this child, it is a traumatic issue for her. Something she lives with every day of her life. |
Of course the same reaction can come from having a pimple on her chin from a teen girl. I would say if kids are having identity crisis it's because the adults are sending out messages that their identity is not OK.
We have a bi-racial grand daughter. She loves herself plenty being one of those kids that got the best of all races looking very French Creole pretty (my husband is Cajun, I am Mexican, son's wife is mulatto). I think she is the perfect example of the nice creamy caramel we will all be in a few generations.
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