Declaring Ethnicity

[Nick086]

I'm still waiting for a place to open called Hunky's white bread.

 

[May 20]

Without attempting to toot my horn, tsq, that's what I do teach my children. Yes, we are all one race (and I do think that is important), but we have different ethnicities, customs, beliefs, traditions, etc. Honoring both our similarities and our differences is important. How can I look at my children and say, "It doesn't matter who you fall in love with and marry," if I don't teach them we are all the same? But how can I expect them to respect others' value systems if I don't teach them to honor the differences, too?

I'm trying to really hard to walk my talk. Leaving this world better than I found it does matter to me, not only for *my* children, but for all the children.

It looks like any disagreement we have purely semantic maybe?

I think so.

 

[Enterprise1701]

I was just filling out an application and at the end it asked me to choose my race/ethnicity. I would choose "White/Caucasian" while my wife, being Vietnamese and Lao would choose "Asian/Pacific Islander" I've thought about this before, but with us expecting our first child in March of next year, what exactly will he or she choose for this option? Most of the time these are drop down menus or radio buttons with only one selection being possible, which makes me curious as to how someone of mixed ethnicity is supposed to choose.

On a side note, this also made me realize that my child will be the first non-Caucasian in my family in pretty much...ever. The same goes for my wife's side as they have never had anyone outside of their ethnicity int he family. Considering how far back I know my family line goes, that's pretty awesome IMO.

I dunno what your child will do about single-choice drop-down menus, but I hope they grow in a place where non-singular-race/ethnicity never invokes discriminatory responses.

You may or not find this information useful, but for half-European/Caucasian/White and half-Asian, there are the identifiers "Eurasian" and "hapa". Or simply, "biracial" or "multiethnic". Or, since this is a Star Trek forum, "human" or "sentient being".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_%28mixed_ancestry%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapa