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Demspotis -> RE: Interracial (5/11/2012 2:01:05 PM)
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They are North Americans, so yes "interracial" means Black/White.
North America is a little more complicated than that. There is the Native American element, and there are relationships among them and European and African people, and there are people even whole communities, descended from all three. Then there are interracial people descended from those unions. Anyone involved with us interracial people (myself being Euro & Native) is in an interracial relationship.
Beyond that, for over a generation, people have been able to come to North American countries from almost everywhere in the world, and so it is possible to have almost any imaginable mix here now.
As for people from India, they're not all the same, and some of them, though granted not many, are indistinguishable from Europeans... northern Europeans, even. To illustrate in reverse, I have two white friends (one Irish-American) who converted to Indian religions, both of whom I have personally witnessed struggling to convince people from India that they were not from India, too. They get scolded! "You should be PROUD to be from India! Why do you pretend?" When in reality, they might well prefer to be Indian, and often dress in Indian clothing... Another example, I have a book on the Panjabi language of northwestern India, on the cover of which are shown two young Panjabi boys, one of whom bears a striking resemblance to one of my childhood best friends, an Italian-American.
In any case, the majority of Indians and Europeans are essentially part of the same Eurasian racial spectrum, and there's actually a significant amount of overlap in appearance. So, it's subjective and political and otherwise open to dispute whether a Euro/Indian relationship is truly inter-racial, or just from different ends of one shared spectrum.
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