Mixed-race

The term mixed-race refers to people whose ancestries come from different races.

I found out that those mixed-races are more excel in their career compare to those whose ancestries come from the same race.
Example of those mixed-race people are Nicol David, Tiger Woods and Barack Obama.

Nicol David
Nicol David is a Chindian ( a chindian is a person of both chinese and indian ancestry) daughter of Ann Marie David and Desmond David. Her father is an Indian Malaysian engineer, and her mother is a retired Chinese Malaysian school teacher. Nicol David is one of the most successful squash player of all time. She won world champion three times and world junior champion twice.

Tiger Woods
Woods was born to Earl and Kultida (Tida) Woods. Earl, a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran, was of mixed African American (50 percent), Chinese (25 percent) and Native American (25 percent) ancestry. Kultida (nee Punsawad), originally from Thailand, is of mixed Thai (50 percent), Chinese (25 percent), and Dutch (25 percent) ancestry. This makes Woods himself one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch.  
Woods has won fourteen professional major golf championships, the second highest of any male player, and 65 PGA Tour events, third all time. He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour. Tiger Woods is to golf what Sergey Brin and Larry Page is to search engine.

Barack Obama
Barack Obama was born  to Ann Dunham, a white American from WichitaKansas of mainly EnglishIrishand smaller amounts of German descent. Obama's father was Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo(The Luo (also called Jaluo and Joluo) are an ethnic group in Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania.)from Nyang’oma KogeloNyanza ProvinceKenya. Perhaps it is too early to judge the achievement of president-elect Barack Obama, but the fact that he is the first black president is undeniable.

Conclusion
Since we know the advantages of mixed-race, we should respect other races.

 

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous said,

    Not denying the important of ethnic diversity, but is 3 examples really substantial evidence for the case of mixed-race individuals?

    on December 4, 2008 at 12:55 AM  


  2. Yaya said,

    As a mixed race person I am glad to hear good things about mixed race people. However it is important to be careful. The theory you are espousing is called "hybrid vigor." Hybrid Vigor is the belief that humans of mixed racial or genetic ancestry are smarter, healthier, and more beautiful than monoracial people. I think it is a dangerous position to take, however appealing it may be to mixed people who have been castigated in the past. As a response to racist theories of racial purity it seems to be effective but it can also be used and has historically been used by racists/colonialists/dominant groups to give preference to mixed race people (especially those mixed with blood of the colonizer) over monoracial members of colonized populations. Something to think about

    on December 5, 2008 at 9:46 AM