Many mixed-race people who have, at least, one black parent identify as black in the Western world. In Africa, it's not the same... mixed race people in Africa, especially those with white fathers prefer their father's identity & rightfully so, one usually claims the identity linked with their father's surname.
What we as black people assume is that mixed-race people who were born under black culture should simply adopt black culture & forsake their other heritage. Virtually leaving little room to express themselves in full so, in time, they grow resentful of the culture they were born under. My theory is if someone is not of full blood, they should not be considered any of the identities they are a mixture of. Then you say "Maybe when an individual has no identity to go home to, he/she goes rogue & becomes a menace to society when lacking something to hold on to." This might be so in unstructured societies with no identity & direction but where there is a clear identity & national ideology, such mixed race individuals find it easier to "find their place".
This is why in the case of South Africa, "non-racialism" with clearly racial undertones is almost anti-coloured (mixed-race) people. Where a land with a clearly Eurocentric or clearly Afrocentric policy & society would allow mixed race people to live more stable existences & not always question themselves when they know they live for & within a culture true to itself.
What we as black people assume is that mixed-race people who were born under black culture should simply adopt black culture & forsake their other heritage. Virtually leaving little room to express themselves in full so, in time, they grow resentful of the culture they were born under. My theory is if someone is not of full blood, they should not be considered any of the identities they are a mixture of. Then you say "Maybe when an individual has no identity to go home to, he/she goes rogue & becomes a menace to society when lacking something to hold on to." This might be so in unstructured societies with no identity & direction but where there is a clear identity & national ideology, such mixed race individuals find it easier to "find their place".
This is why in the case of South Africa, "non-racialism" with clearly racial undertones is almost anti-coloured (mixed-race) people. Where a land with a clearly Eurocentric or clearly Afrocentric policy & society would allow mixed race people to live more stable existences & not always question themselves when they know they live for & within a culture true to itself.
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