yu mean when light an shadow / mix in de sky / is a half-caste weather?

[doublefourtime]

Edina: I'm gonna have a mixed-race baby! I'm gonna have a mixed-race baby, darling!
Patsy: It doesn't make any difference, it's still a baby!
Edina: It makes a difference, darling, a mixed-race baby is the finest accessory a person in my position could ever have, sweetheart! Oh, my God, it's the must-have of the season! It's the CHANEL of babies!

Comments

[ozeterrier]

So I shouldn't waste any money watching an animate movie about cars who talk?

I'm an only child too!

Do people ever think you're snobby and a spoilt brat?

[doublefourtime]

Right on the button! Disney's definitely been plumbing the depths of lame in recent years.

Hey! Hmm. Maybe a little when I was younger, but I was (am?) more one of those really quiet and polite, socially awkward, knows-how-to-act-around-adults kids.

The spoilt thing pisses me off though, because if anything all my siblinged up mates had more things than I did, if we're talking all the cool fads/electronic crap kids get bought. My parents were never into that stuff and I always got books!

[sky_dreamer47]

Oh, Half-Caste. That brings back bad memories of GCSE English poetry... not that I had much of a problem with Half-Caste itself, just a lot of the other poems.

I sort of think of myself as an only child - my half siblings (who are mixed-race, by the way) are all considerably older than me and only one of them was still living at home when I was born. When I was younger, they kind of felt more parental than anything else. It's only really now that we all feel like siblings.
None of my siblings have ever had any problems because of being mixed-race, as far as I know. But then again, they don't look mixed-race. One can only really tell through our surname, maybe, and even that isn’t terribly foreign.

[doublefourtime]

Oh? Which poems? I quite liked the poetry from "other cultures" (or whatever it was called - I need to dig the bloody thing out).

One of my other friends has a couple of much older half-siblings, too (from her dad's first marriage). I don't think they're very close, though.

But then again, they don't look mixed-race.
Ooh, yeah. That's interesting. I probably look completely Asian to people, whereas (in my experience) people who are Caribbean/white are usually identified as such. Or Chinese/white. Hmm.

[sky_dreamer47]

I enjoyed the "other cultures" section. I can't remember their names, but I didn't like a few of the older poems. Analysing poetry is just not fun for me in general, heh.

Yeah, my siblings are from my dad's first marriage and their mother was white. She left my dad when they were all quite young though, and she never came back to see them or anything. After a couple of years or so, my father re-married to my mother and so she's been more of a kind of mother to them. :)

[darkmemories]

Hmm. I have an older sister (6 years my senior). It kinda felt like I was an only child from about the age of 10. My sister was out the door by 16 and we didn't really see her for a few years. In fact my parents had to hunt her down. But thats a completely other story. My sister says I'm the favourite child. I guess I did get kind of spoilt. :/

[doublefourtime]

Huh. Man, I'm marvelling at all these different family types, 'cause all the ones I've known intimately are so... "traditional", I suppose. All my mates have siblings that are close together (or, well, in the case of one who has eleven siblings, they're all a year or so apart).

I don't think "spoilt" is a bad thing if the kid doesn't turn out to an annoying little snotface. :D

[mrsjadephoenix]

If this is at all interesting

[doublefourtime]

Wow, that's a fascinating thing about your parents and grandparents.
So it's a cultural thing rather than staight ethnic-appearance.

I think I usually default as "white man/non-white woman" too, I didn't realise it was so odd until that incident and since I've been reading literature on the subject.

Oh! I was going to attended to that British/American distinction, because (for no reason) that point struck me halway through writing. But I forgot.

'Asian' usually refers to Indians/Pakistanis/Bengalis, while I think Chinese/Japanese et al are usually 'East/Southeast Asian'.* But in forms 'Chinese' tends to have its own category, and Thai/Korean/Japanese is lumped in 'Other Asian' accompanied by "please specify".

* Well, that's what I say, if I'm not sure of actual ethinic background.

[mrsjadephoenix]

Thanks for the clarification. That kind of makes sense to me. I did think that 'Asian' referred to Indians, Pakistanis, etc. here, but got confused when it sometimes seemed to include Thais. Just goes to show that any racial/ethnic lines that get drawn are pretty arbitrary when you inspect them closely enough.

Another random thing: I've had a few friends who were only children, but most of my friends have a sibling of the opposite sex (i.e., are part of a brother/sister pair) - I'd never thought about that before but it's kind of interesting. I've also had a few friends who are of mixed race (a girl with a black dad/white mom, a guy with a Korean dad/white mom, and a guy with a white dad/Chinese mom), so I've always been kind of interested in this sort of topic. And now I suppose I have even more reason to be, as the way things are going, I may at some point have mixed race children. BUT NOT YET.

Leanne's mam is mixed-race, so there's an ethnic friend for you

[biginjapan]

EXCUSE ME, STANDING ON ONE LEG, I'M HALF-CASTE. God that poem, great memories of GCSE English and my teacher trying to do that Jamaican-y accent.

My family: mam, dad and older brother as I imagine you know. Mam is the oldest of 15 kids so I have shiiiiiiitloads of extended family on that side, and my dad is the only child of two dead grandparents so there's nowt there.

What else was I going to ssaaaayyyyyy....

[biginjapan]

Oh yeah, it's always just jab-jab-jab with a pointy stick at McDonald's, ISN'T IT?!?!?!?!?!

Exactly the thought I had after I pressed "Post".

[doublefourtime]

I think that's poem's a teacher rite-of-passage thing. And it's especially hilarious when the teacher's a tiny sixty-some white woman.

Amaaazingly, that one wasn't meant to prod. I won't like though, it's a bit of bonus it did. Pure coincidink.