fic: Kindred - Part 5/5, PG-13 [gen, team]

TITLE: Kindred - Part 5/5
SUMMARY: "Ronon and I are...different," she confessed. "Lian saw it. You have accepted us, but all the same, we do not fit among your people."
CATEGORY: team, drama, action-adventure
RATING: PG-13
DISCLAIMER: Nothing to do with Stargate Atlantis belongs to me, I'm just borrowing them for the moment.
NOTES: Sorry about the delay in posting the last chapter! Feedback would be appreciated.

Kindred - Part 4

( Kindred - Part 5 )

questions about race

Does the "one drop" rule still apply in American society?

Rachel Luttrell is half-black and is considered a person of colour.

Jason Momoa is (I believe) one-quarter Pacific Islander and seems to be considered a person of colour.

I just read in an article/meta that Angelina Jolie may have Iroquois blood, which - according to the author - would make her a woman of colour.

I'm 100% Chinese blood and probably would be considered a person of colour in the US. I wouldn't describe myself as 'a person of colour' because the term 'person of colour' doesn't really exist in Australia the way it does in America. I'm an Australian with Chinese background - what Australian Chinese laughingly call "the banana syndrome: yellow on the outside, white on the inside."

Somehow, I doubt that the African-Americans would ever describe themselves as "coconuts" in the same manner. Or if they did, it certainly wouldn't be a laughing matter but a cause for shame.

I guess part of me is curious as to why the Chinese don't seem to have half the trouble integrating into Western society - and are often denigrated for "stealing" the jobs, educational places, and opportunities off white people - that those of African (or, in Australia's case, Aboriginal) descent have. Is it related to the slavery/blackfella angle and dispossession/dislocation? To skin colour? To the culture and customs of the background society? Social cohesiveness?

I'd love to hear people from non-white backgrounds give their experiences of "integration in Western society" as it relates to their racial background.

ETA: I don't mean to cause offence with my language or the statements that I made in the post. I've used as neutral terminology as I know how, given that I'm an Australian trying to speak to a (predominantly) American audience. If I've given offence, I sincerely apologise.

fics for 'Truth Or Dare' and 'Porn Battle IV'

Truth Or Dare:

TITLE: Allies Of Mind
PROMPT: Teyla & Jonas
FOR: raisintorte

( Allies Of Mind )

TITLE: An Expansion Of Experience
PROMPT: Teyla and Cadman
FOR: wojelah

( An Expansion Of Experience )

TITLE: Risks
PROMPT: Teyla/Lorne
FOR: ubiquitous_girl

( Risks )

TITLE: Flavours
PROMPT: John/Teyla, fruit
FOR: Porn Battle

( Flavours )

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...I feel like apologising for being prolific. Especially since so many people just watch this journal and don't comment. I'm like the crazy metro-hobo of LJ: "Oh, god, she's posted fic again! Don't meet her eye! Don't meet her eye! Maybe she'll go away if we ignore her!"

Does anyone else in the universe have this problem, or is it just me?

*sigh*

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