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Mixed Relationships and People On The Rise
The changing concept of “race.”
Saw this article on the blog Mixed American Life. America, and the world, is indeed changing when it comes to seeing more and more mixed relationships and kids. Glad to see it. Love does’t know color or ethnicity. Here is an excerpt:
President Obama is biracial, and in media, multiracials are everywhere. More than ever, they’re touting their mixed heritage.
Comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are biracial, half-black and half-white. They made their names playing black characters on MADtv. But last year, they premiered their own show, where they take on multiracial issues with glee.
But taking on such issues doesn’t always go smoothly, as music diva Beyonce discovered in a commercial for L’Oreal. In it, she declared the secret to her skin was a “mosaic of all the faces before it.” The screen flashed the phrases: “African-American. Native American. French.”
The backlash was immediate. The singer was criticized for abandoning her black identity. But the multiracial community embraced her.
It’s not just that there are more multiracial and biracial people. The government is now counting the group differently. For the first time in modern history, the 2000 Census allowed us to check off more than one box for race.
The last Census showed 9 million people, about 3 percent of the population, reporting more than one race. That’s an increase of one-third from the decade before.
“The youngest age group, kids under 5 [years old], 7 percent are identified as having more than one race group,” says Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center. “If we look at the elderly, over 65, it’s only 1 percent.”
That means more people are choosing spouses outside their own race. The change, Passel says, comes from evolving attitudes. Over the past few decades, he says more people have simply come to view intermarriage as no big deal.
“More than two-thirds of people in our surveys, when asked how they’d feel about someone in their own family marrying someone of a different background, said they’d be fine with it,” he says.
Ask young people — those under 40 — and the number rises to more than 80 percent.
To read the full article go here.
Mixed Couples – Lewis Hamilton & Nicole Sherzinger
Formula 1 driver, Lewis Hamilton (Mclaren Mercedes team, ok I am a huge F1 fan and Hamilton is my favorite) has been romantically linked to singer Nicole Sherzinger for some time now. Both are actually mixed. The British Hamilton’s Mom is white and father is black and Sherzinger has a Filipino father and a mother who is half Hawai’in and half Russian.
Mixed People Monday – Melissa Harris-Perry
This is one sharp lady.
The MSNBC talk show host and college professor has a white mother and a black father, though she self-identifies as black.
Mixed People Monday – Odette Annable
The actress (“Golden Boy,” “House”) has a Cuban mother and a father who is of Italian and French descent, was born inBogotá, Colombia and raised in Nicaragua.
Mixed Couples – Dirk Nowitzki & Jessica Olsson
Good looking couple.
NBA star Dirk Nowitzki & Jessica Olsson, who recently married, are expecting their first, probably tall, child.
Mixed People Monday – Tia Carrere
A diverse heritage.
The actress, who was born in Hawai’i, is of Filipino, Chinese and Spanish heritage.
Mixed Couples – James Earl Jones & Cecilia Hart
“Luke, I am your father.” I couldn’t resist.
James Earl Jones and his wife, Cecilia Hart, who is also an actor, have been married since 1982.
Mixed People Monday – Colin Kaepernick
The guys is a true baller.
The star San Francisco 49ers quarterback, was adopted, but his biological mother is white and his father is black.
Mixed People Monday – Bruce Lee
None better.
Man I was a huge Bruce Lee fan growing up. So had to throw my old hero in here. The American–born actor was born to a Chinese father and a mother of Chinese and German ancestry.
