What is child’s race if one parent is white and one is Asian?

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......No, the point is that Hispanics never had that skin color obsession that you Anglos had.

We have other problems, but not that one -- which explains why most Hispanics are mixed race.

Now, if you want to keep promoting old stereotypes and bs, admit at least that you see yourself as black first and Latina second if at all. When was the last time you read an adult book in Spanish by a Hispanic writer?

You're another race-obsessed anglo.

I'm the white mother of 3 mixed race kids - my DH's family is South American. I don't know where you grew up but, from my MIL's stories, there absolutely IS 'skin color obsession' in Hispanics. I can't count the number of times it's come up among the women in my DH's family. It was an especially hot topic when it came to the color of babies in the family and the sunbathing of teenaged family members. My MIL was thrilled that my kids are so 'white' - not like her nieces/nephews whose parents are 'dark'. She, apparently, was called 'dark' growing up and negatively compared to her 'white' sister. I should note that my MIL's family was wealthy by South American standards and they were all proud they were 'Spanish' - with the implication they had no 'Indian' blood. DNA testing has proven them incorrect and the older generations refuse to believe the testing.

Although I don't know why it matters, the last book I read by a native Spanish speaker was The Alchemist by Paul Coelho. I've also read The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. In my years after college, I also read most of what Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote as well as the novels of Isabel Allende. Oh, I've also read Don Quixote by Cervantes which is actually one of my favorites but I'm a 'classics' kind of girl.

Paulo Coelho is Brazillian and writes in Portuguese not Spanish, smarty pants who doesn't understand the difference.

Whatever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wasian. It’s a thing.

Wazian, but only if they can tell you a faster way to drive.

Seriously folks, its all a cultural construct, some worrying about it.

Spoken like a white man. Many things are cultural constructs (money, war, politics) but still have real consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^agreed. Many women who have darker skin are super insecure. They insist that they are of Italian descent - even though they look more Native American. I have been told that I’d never be poor in Latin America (I’m not poor in the us) because of my whiteness. And the non-lily white women are always gossiping about the lily white women. I guess lily white means slut. Smh.

White american women are perceived to be more sexually liberal by people from more uptight conservative religious countries in the americas.

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Anonymous wrote:When it benefits white people, Asians are considered white

terrible, but i laughed

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When it benefits white people, Asians are considered white

terrible, but i laughed

Terrible and wrong -- when it benefits Black people, Asian Americans are considered white.

Witness the Harvard case and college admissions.

[Anonymous]

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......No, the point is that Hispanics never had that skin color obsession that you Anglos had.

We have other problems, but not that one -- which explains why most Hispanics are mixed race.

Now, if you want to keep promoting old stereotypes and bs, admit at least that you see yourself as black first and Latina second if at all. When was the last time you read an adult book in Spanish by a Hispanic writer?

You're another race-obsessed anglo.

I'm the white mother of 3 mixed race kids - my DH's family is South American. I don't know where you grew up but, from my MIL's stories, there absolutely IS 'skin color obsession' in Hispanics. I can't count the number of times it's come up among the women in my DH's family. It was an especially hot topic when it came to the color of babies in the family and the sunbathing of teenaged family members. My MIL was thrilled that my kids are so 'white' - not like her nieces/nephews whose parents are 'dark'. She, apparently, was called 'dark' growing up and negatively compared to her 'white' sister. I should note that my MIL's family was wealthy by South American standards and they were all proud they were 'Spanish' - with the implication they had no 'Indian' blood. DNA testing has proven them incorrect and the older generations refuse to believe the testing.

Although I don't know why it matters, the last book I read by a native Spanish speaker was The Alchemist by Paul Coelho. I've also read The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. In my years after college, I also read most of what Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote as well as the novels of Isabel Allende. Oh, I've also read Don Quixote by Cervantes which is actually one of my favorites but I'm a 'classics' kind of girl.

Paulo Coelho is Brazillian and writes in Portuguese not Spanish, smarty pants who doesn't understand the difference.

Whatever.

I knew it, I knew we had a 5-year-old among us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is that child ever considered white?

It depends. If he/she looks like a Caucasian/white person, he/she is white. If he/she looks like Asian, nah.

Case in point,

President Obama, half white half black, is black
Tiger Woods, half Asian half black, is black

This... but officially, such a person is mixed race.

-signed a mom of biracial white/asian children.

"Officially" they are black. I consider "officially" to mean "for all intents and purposes." If you are part black in this country, you are black. Biracial Asian/white kids are given much more leeway to identify as biracial.

-signed a mom of biracial white/black kids who are considered just black by their friends and by my adult friends.

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Anonymous wrote:How about adopted Asian kids being raised in white families?

. Huh? So if a white couple adopt a black kid then would u even ask that question?

Because OP started the stupidity, and here we gladly keep it alive.

My adopted Asian daughter is often perceived as being Latina.

One time, I brought my adopted Asian daughter to a Latina girls' science event, because it just sounded really cool, and she was able to participate just like everybody else, because they thought she was HIspanic.

As opposed to skin color-obsessed Anglos, we Hispanics focus on the "content of your character" and all that soft stuff.

This is laughable. Hispanics are very obsessed with skin color and tend to be very racist against darker skinned Hispanics and blacks. My black friend's Hispanic husband is always telling her how lucky she is to marry his so she could have lighter skinned kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about adopted Asian kids being raised in white families?

. Huh? So if a white couple adopt a black kid then would u even ask that question?

Because OP started the stupidity, and here we gladly keep it alive.

My adopted Asian daughter is often perceived as being Latina.

One time, I brought my adopted Asian daughter to a Latina girls' science event, because it just sounded really cool, and she was able to participate just like everybody else, because they thought she was HIspanic.

As opposed to skin color-obsessed Anglos, we Hispanics focus on the "content of your character" and all that soft stuff.

GTFOH.

Love,

Black Puertorriquena with “pelo malo” who has met with more discrimination from fellow Latinos than from anyone else

Exactly!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about adopted Asian kids being raised in white families?

. Huh? So if a white couple adopt a black kid then would u even ask that question?

Because OP started the stupidity, and here we gladly keep it alive.

My adopted Asian daughter is often perceived as being Latina.

One time, I brought my adopted Asian daughter to a Latina girls' science event, because it just sounded really cool, and she was able to participate just like everybody else, because they thought she was HIspanic.

As opposed to skin color-obsessed Anglos, we Hispanics focus on the "content of your character" and all that soft stuff.

GTFOH.

Love,

Black Puertorriquena with “pelo malo” who has met with more discrimination from fellow Latinos than from anyone else

Funny, the only times my Hispanics kids and their friends have been discriminated in school it's always the same black Puertorriquena nurse who sees Hispanics as whites and insults them as "slave-owners."

El problema no es el pelo, es lo que hay debajo.

OK, that settles that! There is no well-documented and long-entrenched anti-black racism among Latinos. It is all anti-white racism because...you claim to know a school nurse. Good anecdote.

No, the point is that Hispanics never had that skin color obsession that you Anglos had.

We have other problems, but not that one -- which explains why most Hispanics are mixed race.

Now, if you want to keep promoting old stereotypes and bs, admit at least that you see yourself as black first and Latina second if at all. When was the last time you read an adult book in Spanish by a Hispanic writer?

You're another race-obsessed anglo.

DP. You are absolutely lying to yourself to say Hispanics never had the skin color obsession that Anglos have. Eva Longoria grew up being called the ugly dark one in her family because she was darker than her siblings. Lighter skinned Cubans go out if their way to distance themselves from Afro-Cubans. The colorism in Hispanic culture is well known. But carry on with your revisionist history.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wasian. It’s a thing.

Wazian, but only if they can tell you a faster way to drive.

Seriously folks, its all a cultural construct, some worrying about it.

Spoken like a white man. Many things are cultural constructs (money, war, politics) but still have real consequences.

There are real consequences to the way we have constructed race, sure. If someone wants to point out that a person with one asian parent can suffer from racism, I can dig that.

I am not sure how fighting that racism is advanced by obsessing over the question in the OP though.