Beyond Identity » Hapa

Race Ebonics – Different names, the same people!

Ross — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:00:09 +0000

All around the world, proud individuals of mixed ancestry, heritage, religion and heritage define and identify themselves that are particular to their country and culture. Some of the words are offensive but they do not in any way reflect the ideas, aims and principles of the Beyond Identity family. We are people because of other people, nor inferior nor superior to one another. We are all equals. One people, different faces, different names, one humanity. We are the expression ‘Cradle of man‘.

Afatasi: Mixed ancestry between Samoan and White
Afrasian: Mixed ancestry between an African and Asian
Afro-Asian: Mixed ancestry between an African and Asian
Afro-European: Mixed heritage between Africa and Europe
Africasian: Mixed ancestry between an African and Asian
Ainoco:Mixed ancestry between White and Japanese
Amerasian: Mixed ancestry between American and an Asian
Amalgamation: Archaic term for the intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races
Anglo-Asian: Mixed ancestry between an English and Asian
Anglo-Burmese: Mixed ancestry between Burmese and European
Anglo-Indian: Mixed ancestry between an English and Indian
Atlantic-Creole: Mixed ancestry between European and African
Bastard: A person of mixed blood
Baster: People with a mixed racial and ethnic heritage
Biracial: People of white and black origins
Blackanese: Mixed Black and Asian
Blackinese: Mixed ancestry between Black and Chinese
Blacktino: Mixed of Black and Latino
Black Dutch: People with mixed racial. cultural and ethnic heritage
Black Indians: Mixed heritage between African and Native American
Blasian: Mixed ancestry between Black and Asian
Blaxican: Mixed ancestry between Black and Mexican
Brown Skin: A political, racial, ethnic, societal, and cultural classification not limited to people of mixed heritage.
Bruin-ou: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
Bruinmense: People with mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
Burgher People: Mixed ancestry between Europeans and Sri Lankans
Bushie: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
Cablinasian: Causcasian/Black/American Indian/Asian Mix
Caboclo: Mixed ancestry between White and Amerindian
Cafuzo: Mixed ancestry between Black and Amerindian
Capie: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
Castizo: Mixed ancestry between White and Mestizo
Chewish: Mixed ancestry between a Jew and Chinese
Chestnut Ridge People: see Melungeon
Chindian: Mixed ancestry between the Chinese and Indian
Cholo: Mixed ancestry between American Indian and Black African
Chino: Mixed Asian and African American ancestry
Coffee Coloured: People of mixed race with a brownish skin texture
Colored: People of mixed blood or black
Coloured: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
Con lai: Half-breed
Coolie: Mixed ancestry between Black and Asian Indian
Creole peoples: Locally-born people with foreign ancestry
Creoles of color: Mixed-race blacks residing in the Gulf Coast and Louisiana area of the pre-existing indigenous population of Spanish Guinean originating from the island of Fernando Pó
Daburu: The mix of races, cultures and ethnicities
Dougla: Mixed race typically African and Asian India
Eurafrican: African and European ancestry
Eurasian: Mixed ancestry between a European and Asian
Jingoism: Judging one’s own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism.
Gado Gado: Mixed
Goffals: Mixed ancestry between Ndebele/Shona and White
Griqua: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
Haafu or Hafu: Half Japanese
Halfbloed: Mixed Blood
Half-blood: A person of mixed blood
Half-breed: A person of mixed blood
Half-caste: People of mixed caste
Half-Chat: People of white and black origins
Halfling: People with a mixed ancestry, racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
Halfrican: Half African/ Half White
Halvsie: Mixed Japanese Hapa: Half Hawaiian or half Asian, half Caucasian
Hapa: A person of mixed Asian or Pacific Islander racial/ethnic heritage
Hasian: Half Asian
Honhyeol: Mixed blood
Hotnot: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
Hun xue: Mixed blood
Hybrid: Fusion or mix of race, ancestry, race, culture and ethnicity
Indo: Mixed ancestry between a European and an Asian
Kablungajuit: Mixed ancestry between White and Inuit
Kailoma or Vasu: Mixed ancestry between European and Fijian
Kleurling: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
Lai Má: American mix
Lobo: Mixed ancestry between Black and Amerindian
Louisiana Creole: People of mixed ancestry
Luk kreung: Mixed racial heritage, literally means half-child
Lumbee: Products of mixed unions
Malaynese: Mixed ancestry between Malay and Chinese or Japanese
Marabou: Mixed ancestry between black African/European and an Amerindian, specifically the native Taíno
Melungeon: Mixed European, African, and Native American ancestry
Miscegenation: Mixing of different racial groups
Métis: A person born to parents who belong to different groups
Mischling: Mixed person
Mixedasians: Mixed Person
Mixed: People of mixed origins
Mixed ancestry: People of mixed ancestry
Mixed-Bloods: Individuals of mixed European and Native American ancestry who are not of Hispanic descent
Mixed race: People of white and black origins
Mongrel: Fusion or mix of ethnicity
Morisco: Mixed ancestry between Caucasian and Mulatto
Mudblood: A person of mixblood
Mulatto: Mixed ancestry between white European and black African
Mule: Fusion or mix of horse and donkey
Multiethnic: People of mixed ethnicity
Multiracial: People of white and black origins
Mutant: A mutation or mix between race, culture and ethnicity
Mutt: Fusion or mix of ethnicity
Nguoi Lai: Mixed-race person
Octoroon: Mixed ancestry between a Quadroon and a European
Pardo: Mixed ancestry between for black and white
Passing: A person of mixed-race heritage assimilating to the white majority
Peranakan: Indonesian Chinese
Pointee: Mixed ancestry between an African and Caucasian
Polygeneric: Neologism from Greek, poly-, (many) and genera (races)
Quadroon: Generally three quarters white and one quarter black
Quintroon: Mixed ancestry between an octoroon and a white parent
Race of the Future: All the races are blending to become one race in the future
Rojak or Rujak: Mixed vegetable/fruit salad
Romani people: An ethnic group of Europe tracing their origins to medieval India
Gypsies: An ethnic group of Europe tracing their origins to medieval India
Redbone: Racially mixed ethnic groups in the the Sabine River region of Louisiana and Texas
Réunion Creoles: A name given to those born on the island, of various ethnic origins on Reunion Islands
Rhineland Bastards: Afro-German children of mixed German and African parentage
Sri Lankan Moors: People of mixed heritage in Sri Lanka
We-Sorts: People of “mixed-race” origins who claim descent from the Piscataway Native American population
Zambo: Mixed ancestry between Black and Amerindian

>> Ross Rayners <<

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Beyond Racial Identity

Ross — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:51:29 +0000

No matter where you are in the world, at some point or the other you will be accosted with an idea, a thought, a concept or a word that designate a distinction between people either based on race, color, creed, religion or belief. More often than not this serves as signpost of brewing and growing exclusion. At some point in history this was obviously possible and the world was defined in narrow margins called black and white.

We still live in a society that emphasis differences based on intolerance, a righteous determinism that demeans the importance and significance of uniqueness and diversity. People fear that which they do not understand. This shared human trait has been part and parcel of man since the dawn of mankind. History reveals that this control drama of man has taken many shapes and forms since the day of mythical man.

It is practically illegal to be a race, color, creed, religious or philosophical determinist, thus the new battle ground for this fear lies squarely and primarily in the redefinition of human identity. Long gone and distant are the days of an identity or group identity defined by race, color, creed, religion or philosophy. The synthesis, natural evolution, mutation and synergy are to varied and eclectic to still cling to archaic identity of being white, black and.

In the beginning the difference may have been stark and sharp. In time this became an illusion, not that the difference was no illusion in the first place, for we all are human first and foremost. The illusion in the minds of people started taking a knock with the birth of mixed race people. In various parts of the world they are either called colored, mixed, biracial, multicultural, mulatto, multiracial, hapa and; which only reflect cultural, geographic or historical bias. Fortunately the name, word or concept does not matter; the principle is the same, a fusion of people. Get up, and get ready for in the near feature – we will inhabit in world where racial purity will be an anomaly. The human race of the future will be a fusion, a mixture, hopefully just people, beyond identity stereotypes.

>> Ross Rayners <<

Mixed Race, Pretty Face?

Internet Source — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:17:22 +0000

Eurasians may possess genetic advantages that lead to greater health and enhanced beauty. Actor Keanu Reeves and supermodel Devon Aoki have more in common than fame, fortune and good looks, both are also part Asian. Known in popular culture by the Hawaiian term hapa (meaning “half”), people with mixed Asian and European origins have become synonymous with exotic glamour. In Hong Kong and Singapore, half-Asian models now crowd runways once dominated by leggy blondes. In the elite world of Asian fashion, half-Asian is the new white.

The trend may seem little more than an effect of 21st century globalization. As more individuals of mixed descent achieve fame (think Norah Jones and Tiger Woods), it seems natural that society would embrace the mixed look. Media exposure, however, doesn’t fully explain the perception of hapa beauty.

Eurasians may possess genetic advantages that lead to greater health and, as a result, enhanced attractiveness. That’s according to a study, the first to find that hapa faces are rated as more beautiful than European or Japanese faces. Researchers say the finding may extend to other racial mixes as well.

The experiment by Gillian Rhodes, a psychologist at the University of Western Australia, found that when Caucasian and Japanese volunteers looked at photos of Caucasian, Japanese and Eurasian faces, both groups rated the Eurasian faces as most attractive. These visages were created by first digitally blending a series of faces from each race into “composites” to create average, middle-of-the-road features typical of each race. Past studies show that “average” features are consistently rated as more attractive than exaggerated features such as an unusually wide forehead or a small chin.

Read full article here…

>> William Lee Adams <<