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What in the world is a pure race? Race is but a majority of bloodline percentages. Who today can claim himself to have only Chinese, British or Pakistani blood? In fact, one can say that he is of any race, but ultimately we might as well say we all are Africans - that is where our ancestors all came from, after all.

People of the conventional "mixed race" ought not feel any identity crisis coming on the search for "race". To put it quite bluntly, "mixed race" is quite a racist term by itself, which I think has some degree of continental-scale racism involved.

The identity crisis, as I see it, is a society illness. One can grow up thinking he/she has two races, no race, or just side with a race and be fine. It is society that questions the validity of one's chosen race or lack thereof, to cause the individual to grow up to have serious doubts over self-ethnicity.

Just look at the white Americans. How many of them can profess to have solely German roots, Spanish roots or perhaps English roots? Amazingly, they have no problems with it, so I guess the mixed races should not have them too. However here I would like to bring up my point on continental-racism. White Americans are unembarrassed for the very reason that you cannot easily tell apart their mixed roots. For Asians too, a Korean-Japanese is not easily told apart. It is only as geographical distances grow, the distinctiveness of a mixed blood is seen more and more easily e.g. Malay-Japanese, that one may be presented by society the question - "What is your race?"

Do not doubt your ownself, mixed races! Even the man born to both Chinese parents may have varying, insignificant, but still present strands of Malay and Thai blood, so mixed race as we see is such a huge phenomena, the "mixed" label ought to just be removed for convenience's sake - we all might as well be race-less. It is no problem, really.

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