Ethnicity as Lived Experience

Discussion Board Forum #10 – Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity as Lived Experience – “Difference between Race and Ethnicity”

What is the difference between race and ethnicity? What is your race/ethnicity? Do any of you have a multiracial identity? Do people ever ask, what are you, meaning they cannot figure out your race/ethnicity?

Tiger Woods is a good example of having a multiracial identity. As a child, he was tired of people identifying him as only black or only Asian. He wanted to include all sides of his family heritage in identifying himself, so he came up with a name to encompass all that he is: CABLINASIAN (Caucasian, Black, Indian, Asian).

I’m sure many of you can come up with a clever name for yourselves to include all of your roots. For example, Blaxican (Black + Mexican), or Mexinese (Mexican + Chinese).