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Multicultural families

Here's where to share your experience of raising a child or growing up in a multicultural family.

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aren't they just the best!

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kateandfelicity · 10/11/2005 13:32

Hi everyone...

I just wanted to write and gloat with everyone on just how exceptionally beautiful multicultural / mixed children are!!!!

dd is 6 months... she is 1/4 vietnamese, 1/4 Amercian, 1/4 socttish and the rest is english, irish, spanish and morrocan.

Mummy may be biased, but she thinks dd is the most beautiful thing... asian shaped eyes... but big like mine... they are slate grey/blue with flecks of brown in the middle and shes got light brown hair...

for more gloating satisfaction pls see. www.mymane.net (see album Felicity Grace Robinson)

thought would be nice to see lots of other pics and stories of other families... to sort of celebrate our moggy family (did think of calling her Mog... but then, I do want dd to have SOME friends at school!!!

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stinkweasel · 13/01/2006 00:50

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JennyLee · 13/01/2006 00:51

My baby is caucasian get a life, it was said tongue in cheek the hybrid vigour good lord!!! that is a phrase about plants which are cross polinated so I thought it was amusing to apply it. anyone for a sense of humour, I am caucasian too. good grief you can trust human nature to find ugliness in everything. As it is a thread about how lovely multicultural babies are joining in and going yes we are pretty good is said in good humour and not in the way you chose to take it sheeesh!!! every way, I was just talking crap being positive and applauding ourselves and you turn it into this ugliness come on!!!

flutterbee · 13/01/2006 00:51

I have a beautifull mixed race baby (dh is ghanaian I'm english) he is indeed the most fanatstic baby in the world better than anyone elses but THATS BECAUSE HE IS MINE. As I said in my last post I know a lot of people who think that mixed race babies are the prettiest but I have to say thinking about it NONE of them have babies.
My nephew and neice are both white and although I don't get the same rush of love with them as I do with ds I still look at them and think my god you are beautiful......infact......I think that with all babies

I find it very alarming that anyone can say that one specific group of babies is better than another that is just stupid.

How about I start a thread that claims that only one culture babies are beautifull. I'm pretty damn sure I would be booted off MN for a statement like that and would probably have to change my name to adolf to do it.

JennyLee · 13/01/2006 00:52

No I just explained can you not see???? it was said in the spirit of humour and positiveness

Meanoldmummy · 13/01/2006 00:53

It won't wash I'm afraid. You made a very ugly and offensive prejudiced remark. Had I started a thread raving about how much more beautiful and superior my blonde blue-eyed pure-race children are I would not have expected people to tolerate it. You should stop writhing and apologise, because you are in the wrong.

stinkweasel · 13/01/2006 00:54

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JennyLee · 13/01/2006 00:54

Hello has anyone been listening to my explanation it is tongue in cheek , not deadly serious. in the spirit of the earlier posts. the thread was titled arent multicultural familes the best?? so people can say no not really or yes definately or maybe yes, maybe no.

flutterbee · 13/01/2006 00:54

I don't think your humour comes accross very well in your posts then, sorry but that's coming from a Mum of a multicultural baby.

Meanoldmummy · 13/01/2006 00:56

"they just better in every way and cuter and more beautiful"

You did say this, and it isn't humorous, it's hurtful, divisive and nasty.

JennyLee · 13/01/2006 00:56

weel if some are saying they are infuriated I wnat then to understand what was meant, multicultural does not mena non white so where is that coming from?

JennyLee · 13/01/2006 00:57

ooops spelling gone awry that does not mean that good spelling is any better or worse than bad spelling in case there are any pedants out there, I mena in case anyone gets offended or anything

Meanoldmummy · 13/01/2006 00:58

I think the fact that you stipulated that these children are more beautiful and cuter than non- mulicultural children suggests that you meant an element of visual difference. You are splitting hairs. The fact is that you really can't make what amounts to a racist remark on mumsnet and then laugh it off. Or I don't think you should be able to, anyway.

JennyLee · 13/01/2006 00:59

Not divise as multicultrualism encompasses all cultures

flutterbee · 13/01/2006 00:59

Jenny you need to understand that the way you have worded you "funny posts" have just not been funny they have come accross as pretty shocking and rude. I understand that you meant no harm I really do but I do think that you need to apologise and think more carefully about the way you word things in the future.

Meanoldmummy · 13/01/2006 01:00

Utter rubbish. My children aren't multicultural, they're British. I don't regard that as being to their detriment, and you have implied otherwise.

JennyLee · 13/01/2006 01:00

Not divisive as multiculturalism encompasses all cultures and backgrounds and races, did not specify, not racist

Meanoldmummy · 13/01/2006 01:02

You are missing the point. You stated that children of mixed race background were more beautiful and better than other children. However you try to twist it now it's clear that that was your point. And it's indefensible. You are stubborn as well as bigoted.

JennyLee · 13/01/2006 01:02

No my family is british too and multicultural and all colours and so really if you say multicultural familes are the best that takes in everyone no one was excluded, if you are that intent on analysing it. I know what I meant and I explained

stinkweasel · 13/01/2006 01:03

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Meanoldmummy · 13/01/2006 01:04

Yes, but my family is plain old indigenous white British and not multicultural at all, which is why your statement labelled them as less beautiful and inferior. There's no ambiguity in what you said at all. It's crystal clear, and it's offensive!

stinkweasel · 13/01/2006 01:04

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JennyLee · 13/01/2006 01:05

No it is not,and then if anyone says 'my baby is the most beatiful child' or my 'kids are the most smart and talented' , well people say that sometimes don't they? they are being racist and bigoted?? don' tell me what I meant I am telling you yet you want to think the worst??

Meanoldmummy · 13/01/2006 01:06

If they were to say "my baby is more beautiful than yours because my baby is of mixed race and yours is 100% English" then yes, that would be outrageous.

JennyLee · 13/01/2006 01:07

No it isnt do you thing my dad and husband are inferior ?as they are white?? yet married to ethnic people? multcultural families have white people in them you know , sometimes, stop twisting it

JennyLee · 13/01/2006 01:08

yes but i did not say that and that would be a different context and different person, not me so stop it I am not a bigot

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