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I was watching the Tyra show and this was one of the many topics. As an Haitian/Jamaican child. In the eyes of the world I am African American or Caribbean American. So to those that are Bi racial Tri racial and so on. People will put them as African American or Latino or anything else.

A constant question is should they have their own race title/ categories

Like Octoroon , quadroon and so on?

especially when it comes to celebrities who are mixed like tiger woods and Hallie berry who are mixed and considered African American.

There is a documentary called Bi racial not black Damn it that enters these fields of questioning as well and should be watched.

No I don't think they need their own name or classification. First of all, the point of naming peoples' race is a physical description. But just by saying someone is mixed, or black and white, or eurasian, the mission is accomplished. Even if you go by nationality like, French-Japanese or Haitian-Canadian,then it still is, although the nationality titles can get confusing since it could also mean a person comes from one country and is a citizen of another, and in some countries, like America, the race of most of the people isn't a given so it still leaves you in the dark alittle as to the race of the person. So mixed people DO have a name, "mixed", "bi/multi-racial", or listing what ever they are mixed with. There, they already have names for mixed people and the whole mixed people thing is blowed way out of proportion anyway.

And I'll have to disagree with that option about them being neither. They aren't neither, their both. When you have a culture in your background then you just do simple as that. I'll take being mixed black and white in the US since that's what I'm most familiar with. I"ll use President Obama as an example. In the culture of America, we have the lovely one drop rule were if you are mixed black and white then it automatically registers as the person being black. I'm not going to lie, even though he's mixed my mind still goes "BLACK!" and here's why. The whole "I'm neither, I'm bi-racial" wouldn't work because first of all, that would get a huge side eye from black people. What's so bad about being black that you'd rather make up a whole new category for yourself rather than claim black? I don't know who in this forum is foreign but in America, accepting your blackness is a big deal given that we've been taught by society since we were small children that black=bad. So if a mixed person says "I'm not black, I'm neither" then they won't be able to get out the whole sentence before the rest of us side-eye them for disowning blackness. And obviously Obama is 1/2 white, but when he was running Fox treated him like a black man, when old white people didn't vote for him, they were not voting for a black man, and when he receives death threats, it's because they don't want no n***er in the White House. I don't know how racial classifications work in other countries, but here, oour racial climate doesn't work like that.

It may be different for other races-mixed-with-white in America because other people assimilate a little better in America.