If you don't say you're half-Black, they'll think you're Mexican, Arab, or even Filipino. I find African Americans to be the most ignorant when it comes to identifying phenotypes.
I was impressed by how hard it was for African-Americans to recognize the African features in the streamer Tota, even though he’s literally 1/2 African. Most African-Americans thought he was Mexican, Polynesian, or something like that. This makes me believe that most Africans can’t recognize mulattos through phenotype unless it’s something extremely stereotypical.
I’m from Brazil, a country where the majority of the population has more African ancestry than Indigenous ancestry, and here the minority of the population that has more Indigenous admixture than African is usually irreducibly treated as “white” and “rich.”
Does the same thing happen in the Caribbean?
According to my test on Genera, I am 65% European, 31% Indigenous, and 4% Sub-Saharan African, and it’s a bit sad that my mixed origins are not understood, because I’m always considered the “privileged white” and as if I were less Brazilian than other Brazilians.
Does the same thing happen in the Caribbean?
