I Changed My Blog's Title Again

Because the last one sucked.

That is all.

(Hooray for ridiculously short blog posts!)

It's Almost Like A Serious Post

Almost, as in, it is. But don't worry, I haven't gone emo. Nor have I decided to stop posting very silly things.

But there is something I've been thinking about lately. And that's race. As in, specifically, my race.

It's not actually an issue, and it's never bothered me before. It still doesn't 'bother' me. 'Bother' is not the right word.

I just don't know what it actually is.

All my life I've put 'white' on all those forms that ask ethnic origin, I've thought of myself as essentially 'white' (on the very rare cases I ever care to think about my race; after all, I'm the type of person who doesn't even notice race most of the time), and so on. When I was young, I didn't even know any of my ancestors weren't British, I just assumed I was 'tanned'.

Aged about 13, I found out my Grandad was PROBABLY Brazillian, but nobody knew exactly who he was. And I found that kinda cool.

But recently, at university, I get asked quite often where I'm from, because I don't look British. And it got me thinking about what I should be doing. On forms and such, I always put 'white'. But should I?

I mean, technically speaking, I'm a quarter Brazillian and three quarter's British, and white British at that, so surely I am white? But I don't look it. So surely I'm not. After all, 'ethnic origin' just really describes the pigment of your skin (as retarded as that is; I really don't see why 'ethnic origin' should ever be on a form at all, it's like they're worried about furfilling a quota or something...).

It doesn't really matter, which is lucky, because I still have no idea what 'race' to describe myself as. I mean, I'm not even 'half-caste', because I'm a quarter-caste, technically speaking.

It's just a wierd thing that plays on my mind. It doesn't feel right saying I'm white, when I don't look it, but it doesn't feel right saying I'm anything else either.

I wonder if I can petition to make 'Leigh' a race of its own...