Found out I’m mixed race not white

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Long story short but an online dna test has discovered one of my parents isn’t biologically my parent. I have found the name of my biological parent and also talked to other “new” relatives online after making contact with them.

I now have a slightly daft question……I don’t know what “race” my parent was. I mean I do, but I don’t know the name/label/category. They were South American, from (British) Guyana and an indigenous American. So what race are indigenous Americans from South America?

Not Latino as British Guyana I don’t think is a Latino country. Not Afro-Caribbean as they weren’t from Africa or the Caribbean (though there is some African ancestry in the mix according to my dna results which makes sense as there were a lot of African slaves in Guyana in the past. So my dna results are like 50% European, 5% African and 45% Indo-american. But is indo-american a race?

Yes. When white people leave their homes and move abroad for a better life, whether permanently or temporarily they’re called expats, and more recently Ukrainians or Hong Kongers. The red carpet is laid out for them in vast and blatant contrast to the way people of a darker hue are treated and demonised, even the melanated people who are/once were part of the British Empire/Commonwealth, and including the ones who were invited to the U.K. by the U.K. Government. Most non-white people are negatively referred to as immigrants, economic migrants, asylum seekers and even aliens in some cases (KKK/Jim Crow land)! Never expats!

It is you who views racial identity as divisive, this is a you issue.

I feel no division from fellow humans for knowing and naming someone's heritage.

It really is not simple at all. People have a drive to understand themselves and racial identity is a part of that picture.