If you’re in a multiracial family you know something about diversity.  But, do you really?

Yes, of course, a family composed of people from different races or of people who are themselves a product of multiracial households are at one level very diverse.

But, look more closely. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines diversity as: “the condition of having or being composed of differing elements.”  Is your family composed of differing elements?  Is it composed of differing elements any more than a uni-racial household?  Isn’t every family no matter how much they look alike composed of very differing elements?  Isn’t each family member so very different and unique personality-wise?

I ask this because it also raises the other (and related side of the coin), which is this: in a multiracial family, just because people may look a bit different, it doesn’t mean that they are truly any more different from each other than the members of a uniracial family.  Stated another way: just because I’m White and my son is biracial doesn’t mean I’m really any more different than him than if we were both White or both biracial or both Black.

And, this brings me back to the opening of this piece and leads to the question: if you’re in a multiracial family are you really diverse?