In USA, identity is a mixture of: race, ethnicity/language, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, etc.
Each person can choose own identity, even switch, and its up to the given community to accept the person or not.
Blackness and Whiteness identities are negotiable
Each person can choose own identity, even switch, and its up to the given community to accept the person or not.
Blackness and Whiteness identities are negotiable
.There is identity that the person wants/claims for himself. Then there is identity as others see him. These might be different.
.Indians have something similar. -Tamilians migrated to Mumbai & settled in a large colony I have visited & spoken at their college. They claim Maharashtrian or dual identity, know Marathi.
-Saraswat Brahmins left Kashmir settled in Blore & speak Kannada.
-Saraswat Brahmins left Kashmir settled in Blore & speak Kannada.
.Syncretism of identity is due to many factors:
Migration
Inter-marriage
Conversion
Climbing social ladder: South Asian Muslims become Ashraf by Arab mimicry.
Hispanics in US have identity crisis over whether to classify as Whites.
Creole cultures.
Migration
Inter-marriage
Conversion
Climbing social ladder: South Asian Muslims become Ashraf by Arab mimicry.
Hispanics in US have identity crisis over whether to classify as Whites.
Creole cultures.
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