Comments on: Mixing together

By: Marcia

Marcia — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:14:03 +0000

Hi everyone, I’m new here. I also attended the People in Harmony meeting on Saturday. I must say I learned a lot from the discussions we had and was very stimulating to see other individuals and organisations working towards a more “visible” mixed race discourse!

I’m mixed myself and my background is in sociology. I must admit that no matter what mix you are it seems that there is that ‘something extra’ in the process of identity construction. Being in between two or more cultures and racial worlds is something experienced by only some people (not necessarily mixed race but also those whose racial heritage and cultural upbringing are different – e.g. Iranian individual born and raised in Japan).

Anyway, Mixtogether, keep up the good work! I must say my mother’s family did not approve my parents marriage and it took us a long time to rebuild a good family relationship. It is doable but requires understanding..

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:52:55 +0000

“nb i also tend to agree with DI. Those from a multiracial/ethnic background havenâ€™t got a â€™special extraâ€™ identity crisis that noone else has.”

Well, that’s not quite what I meant. What I meant to say was that the issues are similar, but I don’t think we can say, “They are exactly the same”.

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:01:13 +0000

I think we only helped Sir Mix-A-Lot with bold, blockquotes, and italics. But not the red, which is what Sir asked form…

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:59:15 +0000

Ravi, you putting the thing in red without explaining how it got red is really cute, but not helpful Kind of like how I wrote WORD in italics without writing out the steps.

By: Ravi Naik

Ravi Naik — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:54:03 +0000

The red thingy for quoting:

text

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:19:13 +0000

I don’t think Sunny is going to do the button thingy. This request goes back two years, but my jaanam has not been listening…

By: persephone

persephone — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:53:57 +0000

Desi at 31 & mixtogether – Thanks

PS Sunny plse also do put on the buttons

By: mixtogether

mixtogether — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:58:37 +0000

Sunny, canâ€™t you put up buttons of various HTML functions so that we can just highlight stuff and make it happen magically without having to type in all the codes

Word to that.

By: mixtogether

mixtogether — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:57:36 +0000

Desi Italiana, well… i like big butts… and I cannot lie!!

By: mixtogether

mixtogether — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:56:39 +0000

Oh no, that was the word then and it's still the word now... I've been heard now I can fly like a bird now... it's occured now!

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:55:32 +0000

Mixtogether:

Can I call you Sir-Mix-A-Lot?

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:54:28 +0000

Sunny, can’t you put up buttons of various HTML functions so that we can just highlight stuff and make it happen magically without having to type in all the codes

that’s it

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:52:48 +0000

So I am also either 1) too lazy to type in HTML codes or )an HTML code doofus to even understand some of the codes and how to insert them in…

Just italicize what you want to quote, if you can’t do red.

WORD

By: mixtogether

mixtogether — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:35:49 +0000

OK, STRONG is bold but not yet red… but it will do

By: mixtogether

mixtogether — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:34:03 +0000

text?

By: mixtogether

mixtogether — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:33:37 +0000

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/character_famsupp_213.html

Thanks loads!

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:00:33 +0000

Mix and Persephone:

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/character_famsupp_213.html

By: Ravi Naik

Ravi Naik — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:50:28 +0000

Being a minority can cause particular problems, whether these folks are mixed or not. Many times, second generation (and even third, fourth, etc) folks who are not â€˜mixedâ€™ donâ€™t feel like they fit in in either camp (country of origin and diasporic location), as I mentioned in my comments above.

Excellent comments, Desi and Kulvinder (#25).

By: persephone

persephone — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:50:50 +0000

ref 28 me too

By: mixtogether

mixtogether — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:43:46 +0000

Would anyone tell me how to get quotes in red??? X