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Post by jojoscircus on Mar 19, 2005 12:24:05 GMT -5
How close could you be to a parent if you look nothing like them and are in a totally different racial group? Would you be just as close as any father/child or mother/child or would there be some divide. Like in the case of Halle Berry who is biracial- her mother is white and considers her daughter black. So because Halle is 'black' she tends to have black boyfriends and a black culture. But this is so strange because we are talking about her mother, the woman who grew her inside of her body and whom she shares 50% of her genes. Weird, huh? From what I've gathered it seems they are close, but it is strange to have a mother who is a different 'race'?
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Post by mike2 on Mar 19, 2005 22:04:38 GMT -5
Halle Berry's mother was culturally brainwashed into believing the one-drop rule. Because Halle had a black father, her mother encouraged her to be black instead of white. Thus Halle's present behavior. I think the notion of her mother entertaining such propaganda is despicable. Halle should be able to celebrate both parts of her racial heritage.
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Post by quartermetis on Mar 20, 2005 14:16:24 GMT -5
Its not strange if you grew up that way. Look at a lot of the African American, and Latino households where both parents are of the same "race" but one is a different color than the other, that might seem strange to someone who grew up with both parents the same, but not to the child who has known nothing else. Most of the problems in interracial households come from the outside sticking their noses in where they don't belong, and trying to impose their views on to prefectly consenting adults and the children they decided to create and have to raise.
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Post by CooCooCachoo on Mar 20, 2005 18:13:05 GMT -5
The process you speak of, is imprinting. ...You can literally have a goat on a farm think it's a duck, if there are no other goats to hang around with. ...It's the same reason dogs are so "people attuned". Some dogs, honestly believe they are people.
As for children of mixed marriages, or racial differences, failed imprinting isn't at any increased risk. There's no societal epidemic.
If anything, problems with imprinting would turn up in adoption. And they do. ...But it's much more of an age thing, then a race thing. (Adopted children who are older have a harder time feeling affection, and a bond, even from very loving parents.)
So it's not really an issue. Kids bond fine. ...Kids really don't care.
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