Blog 12

To put it in simple words, no not all multiracial people identify as Multiracial. In lecture, it was mention that "Individuals with multiracial identities may choose to identify by a single race". Giving multiracial individuals the choice to pick their own race they want to identify as is good and bad. Good because it's their decision of what part of themselves fits but bad because it's important to not forget you're not just one particular race but to embrace both. In lecture we had a discussion on reasons why some multiracial people may identify as one race. One of the reasons is maybe the race they chose to identify as isn't on the list of options or census. They would have to choose other. For example, in lecture it states that, "white, some other race" was the largest in the demographics. That's because people who are Hispanic/Latinx or Asian wasn't account for. 

Some major similarities comes from the article Johnston & Nadal (2010) Multiracial Microaggressions. One example from Johnson & Nadal was, "You must not be related to either one of your parents because you do not look like them" (2010). Being told you don't fit in the description of a certain race because of your appearance is discriminatory. People tend to make assumptions if you're lighter or darker than your parents. A difference between multiracial people and monoracial people of color is that monoracial people of color are often talked about because of the way they look and multiracial individuals are often confused on placement of where they can attend from being more than one race. For example in the same article from Johnson & Nadal they give the example of, "A multiracial Asian/Black client is asked "Why are you here?" when attending an Asian American community mental health center" (2010). It must be confused and harmful for the Asian/Black client to try and get more experiences and cultural information on one half of them.