Multiracialism

Throughout history, there have always been controversies over the color of a person’s skin. Someone else’s race always makes a difference even if huge corporations say it has no effect on getting a job. However, race does matter. At the same time, race has been changing ever since the first European settlers came to America. Social order used to be based on wealth, especially transformative assets, so African Americans had a disadvantage from the start. Nowadays the United States is moving toward equality and the idea of a multiracial community has come to form socially and culturally.

Ever since foreigners have come to America they have been subjugated to prejudice people and discrimination. It is because this that interracial marriage is looked at as taboo. It is not so much about two different marriages; it is how America reacts toward them. But in my opinion, multiracialism is the only method to reach racial equality and get rid of a division. When it gets to the point that no one really knows what race they are, then people cannot suppress other people because of race. When it gets down to it, people just focus on the skin color of a person and not at what is important. I know from a real life experience. I am a Mexican American, but I do not look prototypical Mexican. I have white skin and whenever I tell someone that I am, they are instantly dumbfounded. That is not the reaction I should receive, but its what I get just for the fact that I am Mexican. Hopefully, people can stop caring about someone’s skin color and there will be no more conflict between different races.

According to the course book, South Africa endorses apartheid, which is a state-sanctioned and legally enforced policy of racial segregation. In my opinion, this law would regress multiracial politics and hinder the country’s development. At first, the thought of multiracial was stigmatized and limped into a response to social and cultural pressures. Now, times have changed and more and more people are willing to go find someone who they truly love as opposed to endogamy. By definition, endogamy is the custom of marrying only with one’s racial, ethnic, or social group. I am not trying to state that endogamy is a bad thing, but if marrying outside of one’s race changes peoples perceptions about other races, then so be it. People do not need to live in a society where they are intimidated to have relations with people outside their race. As time has gone on, there have been more marriages between races and not as much of a stigma. Today, people hear about the “multiracial community” everyday, whether it is in the popular press, academic literature, marketplace, and the creation of multiple multiracial organizations.

The way it looks, it seems that history is repeating itself. Americans first went after Blacks and Indians, next they discriminated against Asians and Mexicans, and finally Americans are going after the multiracial community. So according to history, multiracialism should soon be on its way to equality. All in all, I believe multiracialism is a great thing and might be the only way to ever solve racial equality.