Identity distractions

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Right on.

I think that you have probably just made a great insight about yourself: that this "race" obsession you have had is just a distraction from your real issues. So stay focused on your real issues, and put "race" aside.

To change the subject slightly: One of the hottest babes on the planet is actress Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games, and a zillion other recent movies) who looks thoroughly White (blue eyed,often-but-not-always blonde, light skinned) and yet upon close inspection she does NOT look thoroughly White ( she has slightly wide cheekbones and has a slightly Asian look in her bone structure). She looks like many Russian women (some of the hottest of whom also have that combination of European coloration with a slightly Asian bone structure).

It's interesting that folks in Iceland think you're a native. The most famous Icelandic person since Lief Ericson is the singer Bjork who also has a distinctive look that combines (what are usually thought of as) Asian with European features.And I am not the only male who finds Bjork pleasing to look at.

Whether, and how, Jennifer Lawrence has Asian DNA I dont know because she seems to be of thoroughly British Isles ancestry (Russia borders Asia, and Bjorks Viking ancestors came from Scandanavia where there is some Asian/Lapp gene flow). But I digress. Race is not really the issue. Its body image.

My point is that you DO have glamorous role models for your facial type. So I would recommend that you change your thinking: build on what you have (nothing wrong with what you have) rather than try to "change" your facial type.

There is no such thing as biological race or being "biologically white." Race is a social construct that exists specifically to create and enforce a hierarchy of power, privilege, and oppression. It does not exist outside of that context.

I can't do much about my real issues right now. So I focus on distractions. I don't like my face shape because it's pear shaped. My lower face looks more prominent than my cheekbones to me. Jennifer Lawrence's face isn't pear shaped. My cheekbones are pretty mediocre. I pretty much have mediocre white cheekbones, while my wife face is Asian. Worst combination ever.

There is no such thing as biological race or being "biologically white." Race is a social construct that exists specifically to create and enforce a hierarchy of power, privilege, and oppression. It does not exist outside of that context.

What makes me seem like a self-hater?

Good luck telling black folks, ("African-Americans") that they're not really black. That it's all a social construct. They'd beg to differ with your matter-of-fact assertion. Even if it's a social construct, it's based on something, and it has meaning for better or worse.

Verdandi, you go to hell with your self-righteous declarations. Man, you live in a bubble.