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

[Anonymous]

Why are we pretending phenotype doesn’t govern in America? People are not walking around with DNA tests.
The child will be considered what the child looks, which may or may not match the child’s self-identification.

A lot of half-white/half-Asian people seem to be really eager to be considered white. But if you look Asian, people will consider you Asian.

[Anonymous]

I’m marking mine as white so they aren’t discriminated against the way most Asians are in college admissions.

[Anonymous]

Are they not considered just Asian like how mixed black and white kids (Barack Obama, Halle Berry) are considered just ‘black’ by the general public?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are we pretending phenotype doesn’t govern in America? People are not walking around with DNA tests.
The child will be considered what the child looks, which may or may not match the child’s self-identification.

A lot of half-white/half-Asian people seem to be really eager to be considered white. [Especially on college applications, as they know the Harvard admissions office is run by racist pigs.] But if you look Asian, people will consider you Asian. [Especially those racists on college admissions committees.]

[Anonymous]

American

[Anonymous]

Hapa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are they not considered just Asian like how mixed black and white kids (Barack Obama, Halle Berry) are considered just ‘black’ by the general public?

As I explained above, it’s phenotype. White people considered Mariah Carey white long after she had said repeatedly that she considers herself black and
had revealed her black father. White people love to argue that Meghan Markle isn’t black, even though Stevie Wonder can see her mother is very much black. I am in a black/white mixed race marriage. People think one of my children is Latino and when the other straightens her hair, they consider her white. Both proudly identify as black, but people (esp whites) actually argue with them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we pretending phenotype doesn’t govern in America? People are not walking around with DNA tests.
The child will be considered what the child looks, which may or may not match the child’s self-identification.

A lot of half-white/half-Asian people seem to be really eager to be considered white. [Especially on college applications, as they know the Harvard admissions office is run by racist pigs.] But if you look Asian, people will consider you Asian. [Especially those racists on college admissions committees.]

PP here. Feel free not to alter my post with your paranoid garbage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are they not considered just Asian like how mixed black and white kids (Barack Obama, Halle Berry) are considered just ‘black’ by the general public?

And also black and Asian kids tend to be considered black, speaking (ahem) from personal experience. Which is expected given the racist "one-drop rule." Tbh this is fine with me, since I don't really look Asian (I look somewhat racially ambiguous) and I identify more as black.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid will say he’s half-white and half-Asian. I notice that I, as the Asian contributor, tend to say he’s Asian, while my white husband tends to say he’s white. I don’t know if that many half kids who look white enough that no one would guess there were Asian genes mixed in. Though, I think a lot of times mixed Asian-white kids look Latino.

My brother dated a Mexican girl that looked Asian, everyone called her “chinita” which means Asian girl.

[Anonymous]

why can't they be both if they are both. You can check more than one box. - half Asian half Euro woman but sometimes I check other and write Human on the line.

[Anonymous]

For school application can you choose Caucasian or Asian or have check other ? What is the proper way ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are we pretending phenotype doesn’t govern in America? People are not walking around with DNA tests.
The child will be considered what the child looks, which may or may not match the child’s self-identification.

A lot of half-white/half-Asian people seem to be really eager to be considered white. But if you look Asian, people will consider you Asian.

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Please. I have bi racial kids and consider them more Asian but realize growing up in the states they will self identify more as mainstream white. While living abroad in a major Asian city I encountered tons of biracial kids at my intl school and they preferred identifying as Asian which was the main race in the country where they lived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we pretending phenotype doesn’t govern in America? People are not walking around with DNA tests.
The child will be considered what the child looks, which may or may not match the child’s self-identification.

A lot of half-white/half-Asian people seem to be really eager to be considered white. But if you look Asian, people will consider you Asian.

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Please. I have bi racial kids and consider them more Asian but realize growing up in the states they will self identify more as mainstream white. While living abroad in a major Asian city I encountered tons of biracial kids at my intl school and they preferred identifying as Asian which was the main race in the country where they lived.

Which “major Asian city” did you live in? I taught at international schools in three major Asian cities and the desire to be white was ubiquitous in all three. You’re trying to play on what you figured would be ignorance of Asia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When given the choice, we pick "multiracial" or select both Asian & Caucasian.

This- half Asian/half White person