I don't know if I should post in this thread, because I'm not sure if I'm a POC. In Brazil, I'm white (says so on my ID card), but I'm right in the middle of the chart. When I was in New Zealand, lots of people thought I was Mexican (presumably because I had a goatee at the time, lol). Lots of "white" Brazilians who think of themselves as white are surprised when they're suddenly Latino/a when abroad.
I always find it funny that whiteness is such a fucking made up concept.
My maternal grandfather was black/indigenous but I pass as white so I usually just kind of lurk in discussions like these so I don't drown out other voices. I'll never think of myself as white but it's obvious why people see me as white.
Most of my ancestry on my father's side is , but on my mother's side it's all northeastern, and one very sus native Brazilian woman + Portuguese man couple in the 1800s, which carries quite a few nasty implications. If you used "50% or more European" as a criterion for whiteness in Brazil, I'm sure only about 1-2% of the population would be white, lol
Essentially, the "race" part of our IDs is just a good ol' brown paper bag test.
I don't know if I should post in this thread, because I'm not sure if I'm a POC. In Brazil, I'm white (says so on my ID card), but I'm right in the middle of the
chart. When I was in New Zealand, lots of people thought I was Mexican (presumably because I had a goatee at the time, lol). Lots of "white" Brazilians who think of themselves as white are surprised when they're suddenly Latino/a when abroad.
I always find it funny that whiteness is such a fucking made up concept.
You may not be white within the "American context."
Race is a bit fluid and, by extension, whiteness.
My maternal grandfather was black/indigenous but I pass as white so I usually just kind of lurk in discussions like these so I don't drown out other voices. I'll never think of myself as white but it's obvious why people see me as white.
What, did they declare you 50% or more European, and thus white
Or is your European ancestry is just the most dominant DNA, but it doesn't surpass 50%...
Either way, you can consider yourself mestizo or something...
Most of my ancestry on my father's side is
, but on my mother's side it's all northeastern, and one very sus native Brazilian woman + Portuguese man couple in the 1800s, which carries quite a few nasty implications. If you used "50% or more European" as a criterion for whiteness in Brazil, I'm sure only about 1-2% of the population would be white, lol
Essentially, the "race" part of our IDs is just a good ol' brown paper bag test.