Is it normal to not identify with your race?

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Ok I am white, but all my friends are black and they all use the word "nigga" to call each other. Now i have started to do this too and I usually call anyone black nigga now if it's a casual situation. Not like I call everyone nigga just black people I see. I act more like a typical black person and I like to carry around 'fro combs just cause they're cool and stuff like that thought of as black culture. I feel more black than white now, and that's something I'm ok with, but is it normal?

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  • nikkilynn25
    11 years ago | pl

    You better be real careful using that word wigga...

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  • GothamCityDiva
    11 years ago | pl

    I will also say that you are not identifying with being black - as not all black people say nigga or carry 2 combs - but you're instead identifying with your environment and the people you are around. Yes that is normal but to generalize a whole race over a few you have met is not.

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  • Meditated
    8 years ago | pl

    phoney asss white boys....
    from vanilla ice to 2014 ya'll will neva learn

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  • Avant-Garde
    8 years ago | pl

    I'm biracial. I don't identify as any of the ethnicities in me, with the exception of Native American, where I feel a connection. Yet, I still don't identify as being Native American.

    It saddens me that the only way you could identify with Black Americans, was by adding the term "nigga" to your vocabulary. A Ebonic variation on a derogatory term that still has power, albeit a stupid and thuggish one. That's not something to be proud of.

    Having a fro comb, when you don't have a fro, may be interpreted as being disrespectful or stereotypical. Personally, I think it is odd to have one if you don't have a fro.

    Also, be very careful of who you call a "nigga". There are many black Americans, who feel that white people can't say the word "nigga" especially, to a black person.

    There's nothing wrong with feeling kinship with an ethnicity that is not your own. But, you should feel it for the right reasons, not the wrong.

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  • GothamCityDiva
    11 years ago | pl

    If you're comfortable with who you are I don't see a problem with it.

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