In the U.S as well as all over the world, we are creating new races by joining one race with another race. There are millions of interracial relationships and marriages, bringing the world, millions of mixed children of all types of different races. One of the biggest problems that biracial children are finding their identity (Collins. 2011). "What are you?" is one of the most commonly asked questions that biracial children have to answer to. Being unable to give a one race answer causes problems for both the child and to whoever they are talking to. Many people do not understand how someone can be two or more races (Smith.). In their eyes you can only have one race and knowing that the child is mixed with a race that they dislike can
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Biracial children must learn to cope with the problems that come with being multi-cultural and the people who are against the race, that the child is mixed with should learn the beauty and fascination of being mixed with two different …show more content…
Being exposed to different cultures can help a child understand their parents’ differences in culture, tradition, and beliefs which will enrich a child of knowledge, and less ignorant than others. Even if the child is just one race, they can still learn and enlarge their minds of culture with their own or other cultures as well. For some racial children, it is easy for them to only adopt to one culture more than the other because of how they were raised, spending more time growing up as their dominant race that they’ve grown up with rather than their other race, making “the other race” weaker and less aware of the culture that’s not being taught. While others may be strong in both cultures, growing up with the dominant culture, but also being exposed and educated on their other race as well which is well known for being a cultural duelist (Diringe. 2015). Being a cultural dualist is having a strong sense of both cultures, even though one may consider themselves to be a little more Irish than Hispanic, for example, because of their surroundings, but as long as they still try to educate themselves on both cultures and traditions, they won’t be taking one race
Biracial children must learn to cope with the problems that come with being multi-cultural and the people who are against the race, that the child is mixed with should learn the beauty and fascination of being mixed with two different …show more content…
Being exposed to different cultures can help a child understand their parents’ differences in culture, tradition, and beliefs which will enrich a child of knowledge, and less ignorant than others. Even if the child is just one race, they can still learn and enlarge their minds of culture with their own or other cultures as well. For some racial children, it is easy for them to only adopt to one culture more than the other because of how they were raised, spending more time growing up as their dominant race that they’ve grown up with rather than their other race, making “the other race” weaker and less aware of the culture that’s not being taught. While others may be strong in both cultures, growing up with the dominant culture, but also being exposed and educated on their other race as well which is well known for being a cultural duelist (Diringe. 2015). Being a cultural dualist is having a strong sense of both cultures, even though one may consider themselves to be a little more Irish than Hispanic, for example, because of their surroundings, but as long as they still try to educate themselves on both cultures and traditions, they won’t be taking one race