I'm guilty of raising a 'colour-blind' child. I remember being very pleased about this when she was about 6. Someone knocked on the door. 1
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She looked out of the window & said it was our (white) neighbour. It wasn't. Was a black man of same build & baldness selling windows. 2
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I asked her if she didn't notice they had different skin colours & she genuinely didn't. Realised how 'learnt' racism is then. 3
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But this would now be seen by some as a terrible failure on my part not to bring her up with an awareness of race. This makes me sad. 4
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Didn't teach her about diff sexualities either.She just knew most ppl had opposite sex partner, some same sex. Homophobia bewildered her. 5
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Lots of ppl are POCs and I wd not hv known it if they hadn't told me. White/brownness is v much a subjective category 2. 2 some
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4 eg, Parsis are white bcoz Iranians are white. 2 others, not bcoz Indian (non-white) tho some think Indians are white. Others
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say Iranians are brown. Some say Argentina is a very "white" country & most Argentines are 'white.' 2 others, they are 'Latinos'
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There certainly is a spectrum & self-identification more a thing.
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I hv no probs w how any1 identifies, just 2b clear. Just wanted 2 stress that 'race' isn't always an easily definable thing.
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