It’s really hard to be two things at once, or at least from a Westernized perspective. |
“Being mixed race and being American is really weird because Americans, and I say this as an American, they like to do this thing where they put literally everyone into a box. We see it on the Census, we see it in schools, standardized testing, anything you could possibly label, Americans like to label. Mixed race people will present this as a cognitive dissonance. It’s really hard to be two things at once, or at least from a Westernized perspective. So when we want to check two things off it kind of becomes a little hard. So I think it’s distinctly more difficult in America to be mixed race than it is in a lot of other places.” —Julia Muhsen, Columbia College sophomore
Caroline Wallis, “Blending shades of self,” Columbia Daily Spectator, November 5, 2015. http://features.columbiaspectator.com/eye/2015/11/05/blending-shades-of-self/.
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