I really have no problem with my race. I mean, the four different races that make me up. (Black, white, indian, and my mum swears that I have filipino in my 'cause of my eyes :D) I have insecurities like any other person.

The only real issue was with the people that still seem to be stuck in the old times when any other race other than white was considered the Devil. But I fully understand that people have their opinions and times were different then. However, it infuriates me when it's not even the people that has BEEN there, but other teens who don't even know me can make assumptions and judgements soley based on my skin color. It caused me to push myself very hard and become very obsessive compulive, etc. It pushed me over the edge.

But that's life. I've learned to not take those things to heart and live my life.

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I'll be honest.  I hate black people's hair. Or perhaps it's the stuff used.  I really haven't been around that many black females in my adult life, mostly males. But black people have better skin than white people.  As a group, you look younger for longer.  Very white people can't hide their imperfections as well/ at all.  All of mine show, especially if I stay out in the sun, or now that I'm on the computer. 

i think everybody looks beautiful in a different way.

i wish i had longer eye lashes though when i was a teen, but not anymore with the help of mascara!

Your put on this earth the way you are for a reason.....

plus your beautiful

Be proud of who you are! Why is that so hard for people to do these days? Geez.

I love when people ask me what I am. No it doesn't matter but to me it just means they're looking and thinking about me. There's nothing wrong with that.

Where are you from? Sometimes I think that plays a big deal on how people think about themselves because I live in San Diego and no one cares what you are, what they are, just because everyone is used to seeing everything.

And of all races, why white people? hahahahahah

I'm jealous of white people because they can wear clothes that I (a Mexican girl) cannot or else i will look silly, it sucks.

The next time someone asks you "what are you?" Tell them you are human. I say this because I view humanity as one race rather than a division of "races". We are all brown if you think about it, just different shades of it. This stems from a Christian worldview perspective. God created Adam and Eve. The whole of the human race [including you and I] are descendants of this first couple. The genetic makeup present in all humans was transmitted to all of us from generation to generation with Adam and Eve as our first parents.

Well, I'm half white and the other half is also white. I'm really friggin white... But anyway. I've had discussions like this before with friends. In particular I was talking to a Taiwanese, a half Turkish half English, and a half Dominican half white girl. They were complaining about this and that, which was fine, everyone complains now and again. (I try not to complain about my physical appearance, not for any reason other than it just makes me feel worse about whatever I'm complaining about.) However, this one time I mentioned something about my hair, which is naturally frizzy but not curly. However, they immediately said to me, "Well, you don't have room to complain, you're blonde!" What am I supposed to say to that? "Well, you all weigh at least 30 pounds lighter than me, but you all complain you're fat! How am I supposed to feel if you're fat, obese?"

As far as envying other races, I always thought Asian's lucked out with hair that seems to be just naturally silky, shiny, and straight. Also, all of my Arabic and Indian friends seem to have the most lovely eyes. 

I remember wanting to have green eyes. Just something different... But I am fully black and they wouldn't look good on me.

You should be proud of who you are. It's easy to say but hard to do, especially when you have not only images telling you what is beautiful and what isn't, but racist @$$holes imposing their narrowminded ideas on you. You have to find what's great about you naturally.

I'im not sayin there is something wrong with playing with your looks. Tyra Banks isn't blond nor does she have long hair, but she rocks that color and that weave on every show. So screw that.You can be proud your looks and play around with it too.

@Lizbeth8207@xanga - "You don't have to pick sides" <-- you shouldn't have to, but in my experience, people will just pick for you.

I am all black (unless you count the West Indian and Cherokee blood I inherited from my great-grandparents), and I've even been asked what my racial background was, which is pretty weird because to look at me, there's nothing confusing about my features.

Anyway, I agree with the grass is greener thing, especially with hair texture. It always seems like everyone else has it better off than we do, but it's just tradeoffs: my white friends wash their hair every day, I wash mine once a week--but it takes like 3 hours. Their hair blows in the wind and falls back into place; mine blows in the wind...and stays in whatever position the wind blew it into. But my hair can do awesome tricks (like wear micros for 3 months or hold flat twists or cornrows or waterfalls or double-french rolls or other various funky styles) that theirs can't.

You're right about most black celebrities being light-skinned with light eyes--that skin tone issue has been a long-standing one in the black community, and still is one today. It's changing though! There are a lot more black people in the media who have curly hair instead of long, straight hair like Tyra wears, which I think is pretty cool.

Why do you get offended when people call you black? There is so much richness and beauty in each "half" of your heritage--what a shame to devalue it like that. Sounds to me like you need to learrn to love yourself--all of you, not just the white or "whitewashed" parts.

"Sometimes I really just can't stand it and I tell them I'm Asian just to keep them wondering."

hahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahaha nice

I think we all struggle with accepting ourselves at one point or another in our lives.. eventually we just have to realize that we are what we are and that is what makes us beautiful. :)

I have never heard the term "mulatto" but I did screw up and use the term "colored" for an African American person once and seriously offended them. I didn't mean to- I honestly didn't realize it was bad/negative... 

I am white, but my Grandparents adopted a biracial little girl when she was just born and she has been with us all of her life. I lovingly call her "My little brown biscuit." :)