Trapped in the Borderlands

The Borderlands to me is a direct interpetation of how I feel about my life and my diversity culturally. Whether people believe on not I am not just a black female I am also part indian, white and puerto rican. Most of the time when people label me as being just black it offends me because I believe that thats not what I am. I consider myself to be a Mixed American and it hurts when people say things like "you not mix you just black or thats what you think you are." Its shame that it takes for people to see my family for them to really believe that I am what I say I am.I also hate dealing with people who tell me that I need to choose what traditional beackground I want to follow. I personally try to at least combine certain tradition from each part of my heriage but people look at me as if Im trying to make everyone happy instead of how I look at it as being diverse.The only person who seems to understand me besides my family is my boyfriend and I think thats because he is mixed himself. But to make a long story short I guess I'll always be struck in the borderlands as long as I live.

Enthnocentrism

My personal opinion would be No,and to tell that person to go into some other country who actually practice this type of tradition because thats not how things are done in the United States of America. In the eyes of enthnocentrism I would have to understand that it is apart of that person's culture and accepted it as it is. I believe that people get offended sometimes because they are only thinking of their own beliefs and feelings and never think of how they would feel if it was the other way around. When I hear about things that other cultures do that our culture doesn't do I try to think from the other point What if someone told me I shouldn't do what I believe in how would I feel?