Responses on: "Do you wish to make comments about this survey?"

Informant #152222: no

Informant #152230: I think for most of these it really does depend on how a person was raised and what they experience and encounter in life due to their multiple races. Good survey.

Informant #152251: # 14 is a little confusing. The question is asking about a multiracial person's likeliness to enter an interracial marriage? This question and its responses lack detail in that the multiracial person is 2 or more races so what exactly constitutes an interracial union when a multiracial person is involved. For some other questions, the responses are leading and not diverse enough.

Informant #152254: Although multiracial children may have problems in finding their identity, I believe they are more likely to be acceptable and understanding of the various racial and diversity issues that our modern American society faces today.

Informant #152260: The answers are too specific. On alot of the questions, I feel that the answer "Depends" should be left by itself. Because I am biracial and have alot of mixed friends I can relate to, if not all, alot of the questions. The answers are more indepth and there are alot of factors that may not be present. Other than that, it was a great survey.

Informant #152263: I thought the questions were hard to answer because they were very general, and I felt it depended a lot on and individual level. The questions could have been more clearly constructed.

Informant #152264: I took a class that dealt with racial identity which may have changed how I answered some of these questions.

Informant #152265: I am a multiracial child. In school I did not know where i belong cuz i was more of one race but i looked like the other. So i did not know where to go in groups or people would be shocked when they found out i was the race that i did not look like.

Informant #152278: I'm a single-race kid, so I can't fairly comment on alot of the issues they may have faced growing up. One of my friends was multiracial, and she seemed to have more self esteem than I did.

Informant #152281: To many options that say "depends on". Should just be one or the other.

Informant #152305: I wanted to rate more depends but didn't like the "depend" but didn't like the depends options

Informant #152309: First, other issues (such as colorism or socioeconomic status) might confound these answers. Secondly, when one makes the assertion that multiracial people have identity issues, so do others. For example, there is the Racial Identity Model for People of Color (Helms, 1994?), which means that others go through their own identity plight surrounding race. Just food for thought. Good luck!

Informant #152331: I put what I personally believe and perceive with my limited scope because I am single raced. However I think this is completely subjective beause each case varies.

Informant #152344: Great questions! Good Luck!

Informant #152346: I found this survey to be very interesting. I am bi-racial myself and I discovered that I never really thought about a lot of those questions that were asked and it was very interesting to think about. My dad is African-American and my mom is White and I know a lot of what I dealt with reflected on where I lived, which was mainly a white community. Good survey & good luck!

Informant #152399: Very difficult to generalize the answers to these questions. I think the parents/parenting style weighs very heavy on the outcomes of childrens identity and self esteem, albeit married or single.

Informant #152457: no

Informant #152626: Too broad with answers

Informant #153201: No

Informant #154978: Everything depends on the location of the child and the child's upbringing.

Informant #155720: no

Informant #155734: Really good topic

Informant #158908: i think everyone should be equal. but race is not born in people, it is taught

Informant #161741: Great Survey

Informant #482184: the party would have to wait for the recommendation made by its youth wing beorfe deciding whether disciplinary action would be taken against Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir.///--NSTMukhriz commented on the quality of AAB's speech, and the Youth wing's has to make recommendation. Was it because the Youth wing prepared the speech and so they are given the right to respond to comments on their work? Was it because Mukhriz is a member of the executive committee of the Youth wing and so he has surrendered the right to personal opinion of whether a speech is colourful or not? Is there no democracy for self expression in the Youth wing, and so the Chief of that wing has the right to control the thought of the people in the oranization?If disciplinary action is to be taken because the statement of Mukhriz was 'disrespectful' of the president, then the statement of his father TDM against AAB was downright contempt. If AAB cannot take action against TDM, then AAB is practising double standards to take action against AAB. Now Najib is waiting for the youth wing to recommend action against Mukhriz because he is a member of the committee subject to Youth wing's control, then TDM should be under the direct control of AAB. Is AAB waiting for his own recommendation on TDM to take action? Does AAB have to await his own report to act?If he has given his own report to himself not to act, then how can he act against Mukhriz even if the Youth wing say action against ukhriz should be taken?Is AAB going to say 'I don't know', that is between the Deputy and the Youth? Is AAB in control of the party that he claimed he was? One wonders.

Informant #482720: Dear Shayne,I am very moved by your comments, and I feel ptrepomd by them to dig deeper into my own behaviors and attitudes. Especially the comfort of holding on to negative images of oneself.Thanks to you.Some time back at work, our staff formed a white identity study group in preparation for offering dialogues about white identity to our students. One thing I discovered as a participant in the original group was how much difficulty I and the other white participants had in naming and owning positive attributes for whiteness. I think on the one hand, we feared being seen as politically incorrect to name positive attributes of whiteness sounded too much like white supremacy. Moreover, in addition to the ego comfort that you described about holding onto negative stereotypes, there was also a sort of ego boost in denigrating whiteness we could feel that we were good ones good white people, which made us better than other members of our group.Obviously, all this kept us caught in our egos, and did nothing to contribtute to the goal of working for racial equity and understanding. We concluded (even though we/I do not consistently act on this insight, of course) that until we were able to claim the positive things about being socialized as a WASP, we could not genuinely work to overcome the negative things that our identity creates in the world.So, when does our race/gender group meet again? I miss you folks.Love, Charles