Two of my favorites are recent. One was my supervisor making that woo woo woo noise people do by putting their hand over their mouth when mentioning something native american. I was so offended I was almost speechless. She said all our songs sound the same. I said, how could they, they are different languages.
The other was when my coworkers didn't understand why I didn't want to be marked as white on our stats for work. They said if you are white and native american wouldn't you just rather pretend you are only white? lol. I didn't even want to explain. I just said in future when they are doing the work report thing I want to be considered as an other since I'm mixed race but not enrolled. None of them could grasp it.
Ugh, I HATE that "woo woo" noise thing. I remember my family and I went to a bonfire at one of my Dad's coworker's house. When he introduced my Dad to a group of strangers, one of the men did the "woo woo" thing and everyone cracked up except for my Dad, who almost punched the guy in the face. Instead, we just left.
Ahh, yes. The problem of trying to identify your race on censuses when you're mixed-blood. I never write white because, well, I'm not just white and I definitely don't identify as white, so I always identify as "Other" or "Native".
Also, a lot of Non-Natives think all our songs sound the same. They just don't have the same kind of connection to it as we do, and they haven't experienced it like we have either. It really makes my blood boil when they make fun of our music, though. For example, earlier this year my high school class went on a trip to Ontario and on the way we stopped at a gift shop that was playing Aboriginal music. A group of guys were standing around and making fun of it, saying it sounded "stupid" and "creepy". I just wanted to slap them!
My best friend says that only white people do that woo woo thing with the hand. he makes a lot of jokes on it, especially when we encounter racist dolts (they actually DO that, and or call him chief, I would say "only in the South" except Ive read enough on here to know it sadly isnt:-/
he also louldy proclaims himself white and follows this with-well damn-I want MY white privilege! one can only hope a few who hear it go look up white privilege;-)
Two of my favorites are recent. One was my supervisor making that woo woo woo noise people do by putting their hand over their mouth when mentioning something native american. I was so offended I was almost speechless. She said all our songs sound the same. I said, how could they, they are different languages.
The other was when my coworkers didn't understand why I didn't want to be marked as white on our stats for work. They said if you are white and native american wouldn't you just rather pretend you are only white? lol. I didn't even want to explain. I just said in future when they are doing the work report thing I want to be considered as an other since I'm mixed race but not enrolled. None of them could grasp it.
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Ahh, yes. The problem of trying to identify your race on censuses when you're mixed-blood. I never write white because, well, I'm not just white and I definitely don't identify as white, so I always identify as "Other" or "Native".
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It really makes my blood boil when they make fun of our music, though. For example, earlier this year my high school class went on a trip to Ontario and on the way we stopped at a gift shop that was playing Aboriginal music. A group of guys were standing around and making fun of it, saying it sounded "stupid" and "creepy". I just wanted to slap them!
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he also louldy proclaims himself white and follows this with-well damn-I want MY white privilege! one can only hope a few who hear it go look up white privilege;-)
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