Lol at you man
@Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha and
@Bonk arguing about mixed and black.
TBH you’re both right, but a lot of the time it just depends on the way the child has been brought up and when you ask them.
For example my nephew on my bothers side is white mum black dad but he refers to his black side. My nieces are white dad black mum and they refer to themselves as mixed. It’s because my brother is culturally more African and also my nephew is fully in Uni and rolls with black people. When he was younger he said he was mixed, on the other hand my nieces are 7 and 9…so it’s also when the person in question defines themselves.
I personally refer to black mixed people as black. But I’m born and raised Londoner, but I also lived outside of London for over 10 years and not really heard any different tbh.
Edit: I disagree about Barking and Dags though. I lived around there. That’s east London through and through.
Yes, that’s the thing about trying to force classifications on British born blacks. Even within families - people identify as different things. In my family, my brother and I identify more as African than my sisters and that’s because we used to go to African history summer school in Brixton and we read a lot of black/African history. And I know people who were born and raised here that are even more African than me.
Then you have tons of Caribbeans born and raised here that are straight up yardies and some that don’t even care about it and prefer just being British.
The same is applicable to mixed race people - it’s mostly an individual thing and what the individual is comfortable identifying as.
Asians are also like that.
Honestly, classifications with British born non-ethnic British people is very fluid and you can’t just wake up in your house and go on the internet and start classifying people on what you think they should identify as. And that’s basically why I don’t take internet noise seriously. It’s hot air for the most part because it has no bearing on reality.
All my mixed friends and the ones in my extended family identify as black. Ditto the average mixed person I meet. And I have also met a handful of mixed people that identify as mixed.
Also, the British system and ethnic British people also classify them as black regardless of the political correctness. So, it’s better to let them identify with what they feel comfortable identifying with rather than saying they’re outrightly not black due to idiotic insecurities.
Lol, Barking and Dagenham have always been Essex and both places used to be home of the skinheads. London just expanded into those places in the last 20 yrs. I remember when I used to go down to Dagenham in the early 2000s as a kid to visit my cousins with my parents because my aunt bought a house there (when blacks started moving there from London in droves) - it used to be proper Essex in everything. White flight and black people populating those places is why London expanded into it. Both places never used to be crowded/rowdy with that many black people back in the day. There weren’t even London buses out there back then. Funnily enough, London has now expanded deeper into Essex today, all the way to Chafford Hundred and you can get buses from London to those places. Back in the day, it wasn’t like that - just c2c train from Upton Park or Liverpool Street.
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