It's funny but not haha funny.

I was raised a French Catholic. I didn't fit in. As I grew older it had been rumored I was also part aboriginal (BlackFeet). As I grew older I learned that I was part French, part English, part Scottish, part Irish, part German, part Danish (this is my "purest" lineage) and part Ojibway. The list is probably even bigger than that but those are the ones I know of for certain. I don't fit in with any of them either but I am most recognized as either French, undiscript native person or Italian (as far a I know I'm not part Italian).

Why do I say this? Because when I'm made aware of racism or racist actions I'm often indifferent unless of course it's systematic racism or blatanly harmful. Not because I think these things are good but because I'm such a mix I can't get behind an "us" against them mentality. I have no "us" to belong to and odds are I'm part "them" anyway so I can ultimately only be angry at the individuals not the groups they belong to.

Why do I write this? As a Metis I'm considered an aboriginal person and on occasion it is "suggested" to me that I should be appaled at the treatment of my people. I think to myself, "How can I do that? I don't know who my people are." Just because I fit within a broad definition of "aboriginal" it doesn't make every aboriginal person my people. I'm part Ojibway not Iroquois, not Mic Mac, not Black Feet, not Cree or the rest.

So I have decided to just be myself and my unique mix of these groups but I will say that occasionnaly it would be nice to belong to something but I don't so I live as the outsider making my connections based on who I am and not what group I belong to...well in my little world anyway^_^