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Multiracial Americans surge in number

If you want a good glimpse of the multiracial experience in America, get inside Louie Gong’s skin.

“I’m Nooksack, I’m Chinese, I’m French and I’m Scottish,” Gong tells viewers of a multimedia piece he placed on YouTube to help spark discussion of multiracial issues. “... When I was a kid, I drank my Ovaltine with real milk, and my cousins and I liked our fried rice with salmon.”



As America was settled and evolved over the past 2 centuries, people, from all over the world went there to settle. These people were part and parcel of the growing country and eventually intermixed, through marriage and etc., and the Heinz 57 became the norm: I am part German, French and English. Most Americans are a mix of more than one culture, ethnic group, or race. During the past century, the look of America has changed somewhat in that so many Americans are not just multi-ethnic but multi-racial. The phenomenon is happening all over the world, including to a great extent, Europe.

As it was during the past two centuries, the blending together of various cultures, ethnic groups and races is not easy. It is not going any more smoothly in other parts of the world.

The question here is a simple one, ala Rodney King: Why can't we all just get along? Why can't we respect each other? Why don't we make an effort to know about each other?

Because whatever we say, we are not doing this. I see many problems daily, here in Europe and in America, and in othe places. Lack of respect, lack of acceptance, lack of interest in getting to know and understand people of another culture, etc.

What is the problem? Why is it so difficult?

Why is it so difficult for people from different ethnic groups, races, religions, etc. to blend and live together in peace and harmony?

When people can accept their own multi-racial background...only then can they expect others to accept it. You know where I am going with this!!

Nope.....not a clue...really Please explain...

Oh, now I remember...yep....don't bother...I remember

Very simple people hate because of your name or the color of your skin,where you were born ,you don't think or believe in what the think ,they don't act as they do, they are so many reason i see it here in the fourms when people talk about subjects about people they don't no but just fourn an oppion about then from what they read.But it will never change and it is so sad

Am I just an idiot....why will it never change????

you are not an Idiot because if you are I am too but it just such when you see it,I think people just like to hate i guess to them it makes them feel better but it so sad and they don't evn know it and the worst part the get up on there soap box and say thast they are not like that and i see it day after day .For me there only one person to judge me and that god and when that times comes I take what ever he says

The article I quoted here talks about how America is becoming more racially blended than ever....some day we will all be blended....and how can we continue to hate each other then?