Is half Asian (Indian)/half Caucasian a “person of color”?

[Anonymous]

Truthfully, it depends on what they look like. I have a friend who is a rather light skinned Indian whose husband is Caucasian, and I really don't think anyone would consider her daughter to be a "person of color". She looks like a slightly exotic white person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. For diversity enrollment, maybe
2. It depends on skin color OP

This is it. It really all comes down to skin color.

[Anonymous]

Yes, just have the 23 and me ready

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another person speaking from experience, I think it's contextual for a lot of us mixed people.

In a group of blonde, blue eyed Christians? I'm definitely a POC. In a group of dark Southern Indians, I'm not really a POC.

How about in a group of blonde, blue eyed atheists?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One-drop rule says “Yes”

Despite what people claim, the "one-drop rule" was never really a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Of course. If you go to Alabama would this person be considered white? Obviously not.

I wish people who have no true knowledge of what the deep south is like would quite pretending like they know. People in Alabama would think like everyone else does, if the person in question is light, they would be taken as white, if the person is darker, they would be thought of as a person of color. I should mention that my 94 year old Venezuelan born grandmother lived in Mississippi from 1946-1970, and literally received NO prejudice at all, and yes everyone knew she was Venezuelan.

[Anonymous]

DC’s private elementary school has a diversity mandate of 50%. Yes, your child would be considered a POC as well as diverse.

[Anonymous]

Among a few people I know who are very light-skinned - and could easily pass for white - it depends on whether there is an advantage to doing so.

A person of color when it gives one an edge and white when it would be advantageous to use that persona.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Of course. If you go to Alabama would this person be considered white? Obviously not.

I wish people who have no true knowledge of what the deep south is like would quite pretending like they know. People in Alabama would think like everyone else does, if the person in question is light, they would be taken as white, if the person is darker, they would be thought of as a person of color. I should mention that my 94 year old Venezuelan born grandmother lived in Mississippi from 1946-1970, and literally received NO prejudice at all, and yes everyone knew she was Venezuelan.

But there are white people in Venezuela. Actually, there are white people everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Truthfully, it depends on what they look like. I have a friend who is a rather light skinned Indian whose husband is Caucasian, and I really don't think anyone would consider her daughter to be a "person of color". She looks like a slightly exotic white person.

You might be talking about my daughter - when I picked her up from after care one day, a rather rude child said incredulously "Wait, YOU are her mom????"
(I'm the Indian half of her parents). Her skin tanned up quite a bit this summer, so now she looks rather Mediterranean (still not Indian).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One-drop rule says “Yes”

Despite what people claim, the "one-drop rule" was never really a thing.

Care to elaborate, because I think these three slave children would beg to differ.

Rebecca, Charley & Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans by SMU Libraries Digital Collections, on Flickr

[Anonymous]

No, I heard that Asian Indians are considered Caucasians.
They certainly are different than the Chinese-y Asians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I heard that Asian Indians are considered Caucasians.
They certainly are different than the Chinese-y Asians.

You are wrong. No Asian, by definition, can be Caucasian.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are half and half, and maybe people would refer to them as POC but I don’t think in those terms. They’re just American. Their ethnicity is mixed. Half Indian and half all the mixed/Europeanish things I have on my side.

My kids are also half and half, and I do think in those terms. They are mixed, but no one would call the Caucasian (i.e. white). The world will see them as having "color" and I have raised them to recognize that.

+1 my kids are half east Asian, half white. The world will treat them based on their looks, which is not white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, just have the 23 and me ready

lol.. I'm East Asian, and took a 23andme test which stated I had some shared genes with Native Americans. So I said to my spouse, "Maybe we should claim our kids are part Native American". I don't think that will fly, though.