What Constitutes URM?

[naijacardriodoc]

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[AnatomyGrey12]

What the heck happened? Here I come with some joke about Blake Griffin's red hair and then I get to the end of the thread and I be like

 

[24blue8]

Ok. what is your point? They can't discern btw a poor white person and a rich white person either.


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I think the poster is trying to say that the difference between a well to do minority and a poor minority doesn't matter to many. They will first see you as a minority and the rest simply may not concern them.

The President is half white and went to Harvard and there are unfortunately some people who only see the color of his skin and want to hear nothing more. It's relevant to acknowledge that regardless of socioeconomic background, different minorities bring their own relevant story (culture, hardships, discrimination, language etc) to the field of medicine and simply coming from a higher income bracket does not erase that or negate what a person may experience on a daily basis.

Being mixed can be a unique experience as well and percentages don't surmise or delegitimize what that person has lived through.

PS. Jidenna is half white. He has spoken/written in length about how much he stood out in Nigeria based on his appearance and how he was targeted for kidnappings along with his mother (who is white american).

His father
http://i66.tinypic.com/9j0y9d.jpg
His mother
http://i64.tinypic.com/2zpqo95.jpg

 

[naijacardriodoc]

I think the poster is trying to say that the difference between a well to do minority and a poor minority doesn't matter to many. They will first see you as a minority and the rest simply may not concern them.

The President is half white and went to Harvard and there are unfortunately some people who only see the color of his skin and want to hear nothing more. It's relevant to acknowledge that regardless of socioeconomic background, different minorities bring their own relevant story (culture, hardships, discrimination, language etc) to the field of medicine and simply coming from a higher income bracket does not erase that or negate what a person may experience on a daily basis.

Being mixed can be a unique experience as well and percentages don't surmise or delegitimize what that person has lived through.

PS. Jidenna is half white. He has spoken/written in length about how much he stood out in Nigeria based on his appearance and how he was targeted for kidnappings along with his mother (who is white american).

His father
http://i66.tinypic.com/9j0y9d.jpg
His mother
http://i64.tinypic.com/2zpqo95.jpg

Uhh many Nigerians have gone through what Jidenna has been through by simply coming from/ living abroad and returning. This happens in many countries when you are perceived as wealthy. His experience wasn't that unique. He was actually flamed by many Nigerians for making that comment bc it was obvious he didn't know much about Nigeria. Ppl aren't targeted in Nigeria bc of skin color....it's more about wealth and how flamboyant you are about it. There are Nigerians that are wealthier than Jidennas family that have nvr been kidnapped or targeted. And his family isn't the first mixed family to return to visit. Lol Many Igbos in Nigeria look like Jidenna without having mixed parents actually some are even lighter and more ambiguous than him. It's a known fact about this particular ethnic group.


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[naijacardriodoc]

I think the poster is trying to say that the difference between a well to do minority and a poor minority doesn't matter to many. They will first see you as a minority and the rest simply may not concern them.

The President is half white and went to Harvard and there are unfortunately some people who only see the color of his skin and want to hear nothing more. It's relevant to acknowledge that regardless of socioeconomic background, different minorities bring their own relevant story (culture, hardships, discrimination, language etc) to the field of medicine and simply coming from a higher income bracket does not erase that or negate what a person may experience on a daily basis.

Being mixed can be a unique experience as well and percentages don't surmise or delegitimize what that person has lived through.

PS. Jidenna is half white. He has spoken/written in length about how much he stood out in Nigeria based on his appearance and how he was targeted for kidnappings along with his mother (who is white american).

His father
http://i66.tinypic.com/9j0y9d.jpg
His mother
http://i64.tinypic.com/2zpqo95.jpg

There are some unfortunate ppl that only see skin color, but they are myopic and I don't like to associate myself with such things that's why I ignored that poster. He/she obviously lives where that occurs a lot and I didn't grow up in a race-obsessed world nor did my parents or my quality education teach me to always look at things through that lens. I've spoken more about my ethnicity than my race. My experience as a Nigerian may be different. We are taught from a very young to be confident about our culture and that we are the best. To be quite honest, nothing less than that. My race and ethnicity weren't issues where I grew up. It was celebrated and I'm very thick skinned about it. I don't care about anonymous posters trying to troll about race. Being a minority isn't a monolithic category and I'm very unmoved by a poster who is trying to point out the contrary. ️


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