Christina Barrett - February 22, 2019
PSY 201 N2 - General Psychology (Online) - Professor Gardner - Module Review #2
Mixed Race
I disagree that the book does not address mixed race and notice they avoid important values and processes that are important to mixed race. One reason it is important is because the US seems to mostly have mixed race and it's the leading world power or used to be. Scientists could try to "fix" mixed race babies with their technology from stem cell research. What if we were all striving to be twins? Twins strive to be different. People parent different races differently, even mixed race families. All humans adapt, and so that is also involved. Evolution is always a possiblity. Who knows how long it takes, in different ways, too? People survive by natural selection, and people find mixed race people to be cleaned out, it sees. Babies do have something with their mom but warm up to strangers after the newborn/infantile stage. People like to mate different kinds of people, like if they want someone "tall, dark, and handsome" or "dumb and blonde." People can't tap into the resources that other cultures possess, and it gets in the way of mixed race people. For instance, rats can get smarter living in a maze. We share genes, still, over the fascination with chimps possibly sharing a lot with humans more than prettier animals. Chimps look like the opposite of the human ideal but still are fascination as gorillas, for example, or like walruses or sea manatees. Gender differences pervade, but it may somewhat be cultural. People are better off getting a social workout than being "alone in a crowd." Sometimes, dark cultures have fair people, too, fairer even than some Northern Europeans. We take time to mature and therefore need to have a chance to play to our strengths. We mature in different ways. Some people are diagnosed with mental disorders, and mixed race was the poster image for this. Also, learning to feel good before puberty and then the following adolescence might be a way to be okay. It would be interesting to see what other races feel, like how other animals feel. We become adults and people start to discriminate unassuming people of mixed race, which could mean even Sourthern Europeans. We age in different ways, too. The Bible says, “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material." Leviticus 19:19. Even the Bible needs more explaining. Maybe, everything in it isn't true, and it also says, "No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord." Deuteronomy 23:2. Jesus changed the Old Testament arleady for us. However, we also know we do not marry into the throne in the US. We are allowed to marry who we want, but every race seems to have a problem and not match if it isn't white and Caucasian. A lot of the US is probably becoming more mixed. Southern Europeans are racist because they are upset they are a second separate race from Northern and Middle Europeans. They try to exclude other races that are not all white and Caucasian, even if you used to be treated well. People went ahead in fear and accepted Southern Europeans over Asians. The Middle East has been labeled Caucasian, too, now. It might be where all or most cultures come from, other than "black" African cultures. Even Native American indians who either have European or Asian are accepted, and they are part Australoid I heard. I also heard Polynesians and other islands probably are Asian and Australoid, and Indonesians are all Asian, Taiwanese. It is hard to find for sure how old Europe is, other than at Wikipedia, and I've heard more than one thing. The textbook probably does not see mixed race as an issue. They act like it is going to come up eventually, but, like I've been explaining here, people usually don't make the best of it. It's interesting half black half white people have such fair hair sometimes. Half Asians, however, usually possess strong Asian features to different amounts, sometimes look all Asian maybe. Mixed Asians might be left out socially, in ways full Asians aren't. People are probably stuck with why they don't accept mixed Asians like other mixed races. I personally admire people mixed with more than one non-European race. They often look more white, I think, than other mixes. Mixed race, therefore, is not a sin. The book hints at mixed race being important subconsciously. People often say someting is racist if there are no African Americans in a movie or something, though. Maybe, they need to talk about it with a psychologist/counselor. One freedom people do not have is to be free racially somethow, but people can be racist and get away with it and things like threatening their well-being culturally in the US or Middle and Northern Europe. I've seen dark non-Europeans get upset at whites/Europeans, usually African Americans, not so much bad from Middle Easterners, save for the militial concentration hovering there from the US while I was growing up and knew about as a preteen, onto adulthood. The Bible also does not find it very important, maybe something exciting to play with. I know Jewish people are strict on marriage, like from The Fiddler on the Roof. So, mixed race is an even touchier topic than racism, as no one gives a care what happens to them. It's always about pure non-white/Caucasian races when racism becomes important, but it becomes important for other people to make fun of mixed race people or bump them off if they are not perfect, like if they are a little sad or a little overweight or something. It's too bad. There is a forum called Stormfront that is a good outlet for people who care about how white they are. Mixed race just never seems to come up. It's hard on South Asians who look whiter than North Asians but maybe not as old of a culture. If the textbook knew it was hard on mixed white / South Asians, it might make more sense. So, who is the racial outcast? Native American indians and Polynesians or mixed white South Asians?