All of the Above: Beyond the World of Black and White

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Can you guess what they are?
Amerie
Cassie
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Tyson Beckford
Vin Diesel
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 All of the Above Beyond the World of Black
and White
By Lien Tran
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Table of Content

• What does it means to be mixed?
• Who is mixed? Me or You?
• The numbers are increasing!
• Positive aspects
• Negative aspects
• Mixed-race within the Media Academy
• Bill of Rights
• What Ive learn

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What does it mean to be mixed?

• Multi-racial or mixed-race describe a person or
  group of people who are mixed with two or more of
  a different race.
• There are many different terms to describe a
  person of mixed race.
• Terms like such as
• Mulato and Mestizo in Spanish,
• Métis in French, are used for people of
  multicultural descent.
• Asian Americans of mixed racial ancestry have
  been referred to as
• multicultural
• mixed-race
• biracial
• Amerasians
• Hapa Asians an ancestry

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Who is mixed? Me or You?
Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Mariah Carey are all
example of a mixed-race people.
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Numbers are Increasing!

• According to the 2000 census, the total
  populations of the United States were 281, 421,
  and 906.
• With only 2.4 of the population considering
  themselves mixed, thats a 95.2 difference from
  the ones who consider themselves one race.
• From a survey, ranging around 3 million people,
  it showed that their estimates of the multi-race
  population, in 1997, are higher than the previous
  estimates of the Census Bureau.
• With the results that they got, it is presented
  that the expectation of the population counts of
  single-race groups of people will decline to 3-6
  for Whites, 3-7 for Blacks, 15-25 for Americans
  Indians, and 4-9 for Asians and Pacific
  Islander.
• So if the numbers marked for single-race is
  decreasing, it means the numbers for mixed race
  are increasing!

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Positive Aspects

• People with mixed Asians and European origins
  have become synonymous with exotic glamour.
• Eurasians may possess genetic advantages that
  lead to greater health and, as a result, enhanced
  attractiveness.
• According to studies, it was first to find that
  Hapa faces are related to as more beautiful faces
  than Japanese or Europeans faces.
• It seems the more individuals are of mixed decent
  achieve fame, the more natural is seem that
  society embrace the mixed look.

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Negative Aspects

• They feel depressed, have trouble sleeping, skip
  school, smoke, and drink alcohol.
• Based on national surveys given to 90,000 middle
  and high school students, the results found that
  young students of mixed-race are at higher risk
  for stress-related health but the results didnt
  find an answer to why they suffer but the most
  common reason why they could be is because they
  struggle with self-identity.
• The study of the survey also found that
  mixed-race students are most likely to reported
  to having sex at a younger age, having access to
  guns, getting drunk, considering suicide and
  suffering various aches and pain, than one-race
  students.

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Mixed-race at Media Academy
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Bill of Rights
I have the rights -Not to justify my existence
in this world. -Not to keep the races separate
within me. -Not to be responsible for peoples
discomfort with my physical ambiguous -Not to
justify my ethnic legitimacy I have the
rights -To identify myself differently than
strangers expect me to identify. -To identify
myself differently from how my parents identify
me. -To identify myself differently from my
brothers and sisters. -To identify myself
differently in different situation. I have the
rights -To create a vocabulary to communicate
about being multiracial. -To change my identity
over my lifetime and more than once. -To have
my loyalties ad identification with more than
once group of people. -To freely choose whom I
befriend and love.
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What Ive learned
From my research, summing up all the facts,
statistics, and graphs, I learned that mixed-race
is a big part in the community yet no one seems
to speak about it. I also learned that mixed race
students and/or children are most likely to be
trouble maker, which I find to be very
interesting. I learned that there are another
internet world for mixed-race, which I think is
amazing. That way, mixed-race people can go to it
and talk to others mixed-race and share their
experience.