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

[Anonymous]

Say white and Asian
I would have said half white half Asian but I like pps answer of both.

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Tiger woods isn't considered asian? The rock is also half black and asian but not considered asian?

[Anonymous]

I’m happa (half Asian/white) and I always put both or mixed. If the question only allows one answer I leave it blank.

My kids are 1/4 Asian 3/4 white and I put both or mixed for them too.

[Anonymous]

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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!

I guess I'll defer to you on this what white people think thing...this is all super uncomfortable and I haven't done a poll, but I am white and I don't think, if pressed, any of my white family/friends would consider 50% black to be white. Basically regardless of what you look like unless a rare, rare outlier would it even be s possibility. And if they knew you're heritage, no way. Mixed race, all the way. Poll 100 white people on what race Markle is? I don't think you're getting "white" from many. This is the country of the one drop rule. A good portion of white Americans are on the fence about Italians and Jews being considered white, so I am skeptical the pendulum has swung that far in the opposite direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

I guess I'll defer to you on this what white people think thing...this is all super uncomfortable and I haven't done a poll, but I am white and I don't think, if pressed, any of my white family/friends would consider 50% black to be white. Basically regardless of what you look like unless a rare, rare outlier would it even be s possibility. And if they knew you're heritage, no way. Mixed race, all the way. Poll 100 white people on what race Markle is? I don't think you're getting "white" from many. This is the country of the one drop rule. A good portion of white Americans are on the fence about Italians and Jews being considered white, so I am skeptical the pendulum has swung that far in the opposite direction.

* your heritage

[Anonymous]

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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.

You are a garbage human being if you think college discrimination against Asians is "paranoid garbage". There is overwhelming evidence that Ivy League Universities and other selective schools have systematically and continuously discriminated against Asian-Americans in the college admissions process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tiger woods isn't considered asian? The rock is also half black and asian but not considered asian?

Blasian

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Anonymous wrote:Wasian. It’s a thing.

Is that ok to say? I heard teens saying casually that someone is Wasian. I hadn’t heard that before.

[Anonymous]

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

This is the correct answer.

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Anonymous wrote:
We are white European and Asian and in Europe it’s called Eurasian.

Here too, if your origins are European...

Huh? No. Eurasia is a different region; it doesn’t mean you’re European and Asian.

[Anonymous]

I have 1 Asian grandparent and 3 white grandparents. I’ve always considered myself white but sometimes on papers I’ll put down multiracial but to be honest, I don’t know which is right. My kids will be 1/8 Asian, are they multiracial or just white?

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Anonymous wrote:I have 1 Asian grandparent and 3 white grandparents. I’ve always considered myself white but sometimes on papers I’ll put down multiracial but to be honest, I don’t know which is right. My kids will be 1/8 Asian, are they multiracial or just white?

Just white, especially if you don't have any Asian culture in your household.

[Anonymous]

I just tell my son, you are mixed, half Asian and half white. If you need to be specific because some people are either curious or nosy, tell them your parents family background is from whatever countries they immigrated from. If they were Native American Indians, just say that. If they were from Congo, just say they were from there.

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Anonymous wrote:

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

[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.

Yes, I moved to an area where there more Latinos and some Latinos think she looks like them.