So when you're mixed, does it truly take another "mixie" to understand your point of view on life, love, friendships? I have a mixed friend who swears that he can only date other mixed women because they understand his plight in life. I think this is silly, but maybe he has a point?
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Pretty effin' anal and narrow-minded, I think.
No... you can't fully understand another person, or how that person wants to be understood, unless you're identical.
But there is such a word as empathy, and it's been invented for a reason. It's called abstract thought, and humans are as a species very capable of this.
But this concept of identity and having ones identity understood has long been so misconstrued. There should be a term for that; one-issue-personality.
I mean all the respect to those, who relate to a certain aspect of a personality and explores it. E.g. "What is it being a mixie?" - valid question. But when that becomes a tirade of "As a mixie..", "Mixies do"/"Mixies don't" it becomes much more than an aspect of life, it becomes the prism that everything is looked upon.
Everyone's experience in life is different, and that is what makes us different from one another. It gives us the prism we see life through, and rarely do you find two prisms exactly alike. But why should you? If the identical prism was that important, psychology would drop of as a profession. Just because you haven't travelled the same route, doesn't mean you can't get very far with a map and a sense of the path travelled.
Being a mixie is a definite sign of diversity, but that seems to be pretty lost on a guy who finds diversity tiresome.
ps what ever happened to "complimentary personalities" or "opposites attract"?
- Guess they got expended, when there were such a thing as a comfortable template.
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