Race Change

I didn't think this belonged in the racism topic but if it does, you're welcome to shut it down.

Nowadays, people are having surgeries and using skin products so that they can look like a different race. People are changing thier noses, eye shapes, and style so they can seem more "white" Taking extra measures to make their skin is lighter so as to avoid stereotypes and race issues.

Is race change okay? Is it shallow?

Hmm...I do often wish I looked more like a different race, however, these are extreme measures.
However, I don't really find it shallow, I guess I see it along the same lines as gender change and things like that.

My friend's Uncle met a Vietnamese woman while he was fighting over in the war. The ended up falling in love and got married. She moved to the States and had surgery to make her look more "American".
I never knew she had it done until a couple of years ago (I've known her for about 20 years now), but I have to admit that it lessened my opinion of her at first.
She is very rich in her roots, even teaching them to all 4 of the kids that her and her husband have, so I cannot understand why she would have wanted to have the surgery anyway.
I can understand that cosmetic surgery cannot change bone structure, but she still looks very Vietnamese to me.
Maybe she did it because after the Vietnam war, Vietnamese people were not accepted socially in this country. Maybe she thought she *had* to have it. I really don't know the reasoning.
All I know is that regardless of what race she looks, she has always been a beautiful person and very kind.

I don't know why people can't love themself for who they are, not what thay are. I'm right against surgeries.
I mean, sometimes you need surgery, but just to have surgery to be thinner(unless you're like 100 pounds over weigh, that I could handle) or whiter(this that a word) or something like that, I just find that shallow and pointless.

danye west.:

Well I hate being half black and I try to completly get rid of that me. I straighten my hair to look more "white". I hate getting my hair braided. I don't like telling people I'm half black. I get all tense when people acknowledge the fact that I'm half black but that's something I'm not going to change. God made us the way we are for a reason, and frankly I think we should just deal with it. Race shouldn't matter. Skin colour isn't everything, funnily enough.

I think skin bleachers should be banned and only used if you have vilitigo, to even out the skin.

I can understand why people wanna be something their not, but we just have to love ourselves for who we are.

I'm like that.

I hate being 'half cast'.
I hate it even more that my friends don't stop rubbing it in.

It sounds silly, but I don't feel... normal.
Not when I'm in a mainly white country anyway.

danye west.:

Same here. I totally hate it. Why can't I be one race >_> Especially when I'm refered as "half-cast" by people. Makes me feel like I'm half a person. Hmph.

I just hate it being an issue.
You never look at a white person and think 'Oh, they're white' but if they're Asian or whatever, you notice it and question it.

danye west.:

Well I hate being half black and I try to completly get rid of that me. I straighten my hair to look more "white". I hate getting my hair braided. I don't like telling people I'm half black. I get all tense when people acknowledge the fact that I'm half black but that's something I'm not going to change. God made us the way we are for a reason, and frankly I think we should just deal with it. Race shouldn't matter. Skin colour isn't everything, funnily enough.

I think skin bleachers should be banned and only used if you have vilitigo, to even out the skin.

I can understand why people wanna be something their not, but we just have to love ourselves for who we are.

I'm mixed race, too. I hate it when people think I'm black, and associate me with all the other black girls in our school who listen to rap and rnb and stuff. My mum has some black friends who don't think it's appropriate for me to dress the way I do and listen to music like MCR.

Hey I think its fine.
Its just how a person wants to look, perhaps it will
Make them feel better

I think it should be taken the smae as any other form of cosmetic surgery,

if the person feels that it will make them feel better about themselves then why not?

if its because they arte suffering racism then its a shame that they should feel pressurised into such extreme measure

but to be honest i dont think racists or racism will ever completly go away, its just something modern people have to deal with.

Painful Reality:

I think race change is totally up to the indivual and how 'needed' they feel it is. If their race is really making them feel miserable and worthless, then the option to change and love yourself more should always be there.

However, I think that people really need to consider before doing it. It shouldn't be done on a 'wim' and you should be sure there is a reason behind it other than wanting to be paler or darker. If you try to love yourself how you are but still feel your race is an issue to you personally (other people shouldn't matter in your decsion as, by changing, you let them defeat you) then it should be avaliable to help.

Agreed. So many people do not take many things into consideration though

I think that race change is shallow, I mean u were born the way that you are for a reason and people are stupid if they can't accept that.

Bernie Mac.:

Same here. I totally hate it. Why can't I be one race >_> Especially when I'm refered as "half-cast" by people. Makes me feel like I'm half a person. Hmph.

That's wrong. I know lots of mixed people and I would never say something like that to them.
Technically speaking we're all mixed. (In America) No one is a 'pure' anything anymore.

Personally I would never want to change my race, but if someone really wants to it is their decision. They should definitely think it over a lot though and not rush into it.

double o sevenfold.:

Well I hate being half black and I try to completly get rid of that me. I straighten my hair to look more "white". I hate getting my hair braided. I don't like telling people I'm half black. I get all tense when people acknowledge the fact that I'm half black but that's something I'm not going to change. God made us the way we are for a reason, and frankly I think we should just deal with it. Race shouldn't matter. Skin colour isn't everything, funnily enough.

I think skin bleachers should be banned and only used if you have vilitigo, to even out the skin.

I can understand why people wanna be something their not, but we just have to love ourselves for who we are.

thank god im not the only one. i usually hide behind a lot of make up.