Any mixed-race people here on wrongplanet? :)

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I'm 7/8 Hong Kong Chinese and 1/8 American, but I've been living in England for the last 6 years

On my mother's side, I am Irish, German, Slovakian, Polish, and Native American. On my father's side, I am English. However, I was born and raised in the United States.

I'm Italian and Lebanese =)

A little German too, and a smidgen of other European things on my mother's side.

My skin is normally olive but I get very very dark in the summer if I'm outside a lot. My natural hair is very coarse and curly dark brown but I get it straightened because I don't want to deal with it T_T I'm very short and curvy (not fat - literally a 0.6 hip to waist ratio) and I've got eyes that change between amber and dark brown =) The Arab is mostly evident in my face.

American, German, Swiss, and Native American.

How unlucky of me though.

1/2 British, 1/8 Chinese, 1/8 Slavic/Bosnia, 1/4 Portuguese 2/8 French.

But because our NT society loves to shove people in boxes I'm "white"

lol. i can´t believe this topic is still alive

It's quite sad that people of biracial background who appear "white" are more accepted into mainstream society than a sibling who is darker skinned. A bit like a high functioning Aspie who is better treated than his/her low functioning sibling with ASD. Ethnicity is yet another socially determined hierarchical spectrum.

Is that really so? Can you give examples?

. It my differ somewhat from are to area. I've definatly noticed this pattern in Southern Ontario where I live ( I'm Anishinaabe and Scotish). I don't have any siblings but I have noticed that when my hair is darker or I am more easily read as First Nations I am treated differently than when my hair is lighter or covered. People are more likely to say things like "but you're not like that" ( after saying something stereotypical) or, "but I don't even see you as Indian". The extent to which I am openly harassed or followed around by security also changes. This is similar to the way that people respond if a situation occurs where I reveal that I have a disability: "but you don't look autistic". Both are irritating.

Chinese American. YES!

In my school there were Anglo-Indian (mixed Indian-English) sisters. One was quite "Caucasian" looking with blue eyes. She was popular and had many friends. Her older sister (in my class) was dark skinned and was shunned having no friends (but she was more academically inclined than her younger sibling).

But was one more sociable/dressed better than the other one?

As long as governments find ethneticity (sp?) important enough to have tick-boxes on forms, and as long as people feel the need to point out that they are X% black and Y% white instead of talking about how their Somali and Irish culture in their homes have influenced them.


Is 'race' about the genetic traits or the social environment/culture? If it is about genetics, then why are different caucasian nationalities in the ancestry considered multiracial? Or different asian nationalities in the ancestry considered multiracial? But black is always black, not multiracial?

I look Indian (the country), but my heritage (or the culture I grew up in) is not. Does that make me 'biracial'?

Besides, I thought all humans were the same race or species.

I'm Han Chinese with some Turk (Uyghur or Kazakh) thrown in. Can't be verified since we lost all of our family records in China when grandpa came to Taiwan with the army. But all the people on my paternal side look sort of...mixed? Caucasian? Turkic?...compared to my maternal family who look Chinese.
Me? I'm somewhere in the middle. I inherited my father's tall stature (he's really tall for an Asian guy) and his nose. The others I got from mom

West african and dutch with some jewish- and a hint of asian blood as well.

Pure Japanese on my father's side. Mixed Cherokee, Irish and " a dab of Spanish" on my mother's.
It's impossible to know the true ratios on my mother's side because it's uncertain which of my great-great grandmother's husbands fathered which children, and my great grandmother got pregnant due to rape and died at 13 giving birth to my grandmother.