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Does this not seem problematic? At least perhaps, inconsistent?
If love, according to AfroRomance, is more than skin deep, why would you need to go to “AfroRomance” to find an “interracial partner”?
The ad setup seems so strange to me. Strange, literally, not judgementally. Yet.
It caught my eye, until I saw that it was distributed by the UK’s Guardian. I became fully intrigued.
21st Century Britons are No Longer Either Black or White
To summarize, people of different cultural backgrounds are more and more frequently bearing offspring. This leads their children to be “mixed race”, which is a very controversial term for some.
There is belonging associated with the label of “Afro-Brit” or, “Chinese-Brit”. A sense of identity comes along with the label. “Yes, that is what I am. I am this.” There is also the culture — along with values, norms — that may, or may not, be specific to a certain demographic.
With the increase of specific labels such as those above, or the countless other communal tags one can put beside their name, comes stigmatization.
A Chinese-Brit is not a plain ol’ Brit. There’s an attached part which, while it conforts some, I believe is harmful.
To address the cultural watering-down: no culture is fully pure. Even within religions, there are several variations to practice, and each of the three main ones have been around for millenia. Culture changes and so, therefore, do its practitioners.
What, furthermore, does it mean to be a practicing African? Or a devout Japanese?
I personally see no use for these labels, other than to distinguish and marginalize “minority” groups from the supposed “majority”, which are (for the most part, and increasingly) the apparently continent/nation-less white.
When was the last time you heard the term, “Polish American” or “Norweigan American”?
