Being Othered In Your Own Community | Biethnic Struggles Part 1
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- I would especially love to hear the thoughts of those raised by two parents from different ethnicities (example: Nigerian mom and African American dad or Jamaican mom and Liberian dad). I imagine there's even more layers to your experience and I'd love to create a space where we can discuss that.
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I know your struggles. My parents are Jamaican and came up here to the US in the 80s. I was born in the US. I feel like an outsider in both communities. I feel like i suffered from identity crisis
I can definitely relate. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve stopped trying to be affirmed that I’m Liberian or American enough. We are who we are and that’s just that ✨
@@AiahVarh exactly
@@AiahVarh You do realize
By definition you are not a African American
Black American/African American is they own ethnic group
You just a African
You explained yourself so well and I hear parts of my own story in yours.
I am glad to see more discourse around in group marginality. Thank you!
I’m so glad this resonated with you! 🩷
I'm liberian, mende and vai, are you conga or from the tribal background
The short answer is Dan (Gio) if I follow the tradition of taking on our father's tribe. The long answer is that my maternal grandfather was both Mandingo and Vai, while my maternal grandmother was Kpelle. My paternal grandfather was Dan, and paternal grandmother was Vai. So, my ancestry traces back to 4 of the tribes.
@@AiahVarh haha the funny thing is your largest single majority tribe is vai, as you have one vai grandparent and one half vai grandparent so you sre more vai than anything but still a good mixture, I personally don't follow the whole taking fathers tribe and most liberians tend to marry people within theirs mothers tribe based on what I've noticed, imagine somebody has a paternal gio grandfather but all their other grandparents are vai, my father is mende and mother is vai but, imagine I had a kid with a vai women, then technically by the whole paternal logic, my kid will be mende, despite only having one mende grandparent and only being 25 per cent mende lol. But today in liberia most people pf mixed tribal background will tell you they are mixed, I think years ago it was mainly the people who had americo liberian fathers and tribal mothers who only acknowledge being americo liberian, due to the discrimination back then.
@@vaimende thank you so much for your insight on this! It makes complete sense for me to acknowledge the prominence of my Vai background. I’m currently trying to learn more about Liberian history so this is super helpful as I delve deeper into my family’s ancestry. Are you currently based in Liberia or another country?
@@AiahVarh I was actually born in the uk and 37 years old now, my vsi heritage is from Cape mount. I have followed your channel now and its good to see other liberians born abroad like yourself, having a strong interest in. Liberia.