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

[Anonymous]

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

Blasian

He said he's caublanasian.

[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

Tiger Woods identifies as Asian. He made a big deal out of it when he started becoming famous, and sportscasters changed how they refer to him. It's true that people assume dark skin = black/African American...but that's changing. Woods was actually important to making that happen.

Similarly, Obama is considered black because after a lot of soul searching he chose to identify that way. He wrote about it in his book.

My kids are mixed but look totally white. Like people don't believe they are my kids. 5yo DD is starting to ask questions to figure it out. I don't think she will want to be seen as just white.

[Anonymous]

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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.

DP.. In Europe, such folks are referred to as Eurasian.

[Anonymous]

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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.

My half Asian/White boy said he's Wasian. IMO, it's NBD. If someone takes offense to this, they need therapy.

[Anonymous]

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

Here too, if your origins are European...

No, you are wrong, Eurasia refers to the geographic area that encompasses the region that borders between Europe and Asia--if you go to areas like northwest China or some of the "stan" countries. Eurasian refers to people from that region.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Tiger Woods identifies as Asian. He made a big deal out of it when he started becoming famous, and sportscasters changed how they refer to him. It's true that people assume dark skin = black/African American...but that's changing. Woods was actually important to making that happen.

Similarly, Obama is considered black because after a lot of soul searching he chose to identify that way. He wrote about it in his book.

My kids are mixed but look totally white. Like people don't believe they are my kids. 5yo DD is starting to ask questions to figure it out. I don't think she will want to be seen as just white.

My kids are 50% Asian but also look totally white. And I too am considering marking them as white on college admissions bc discrimination against Asians is real.

[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.

The whole point is that you don’t know by looking at somebody who looks white what their actual genetic makeup is. I don’t believe for a second that if you saw Mariah Carey on the street without knowing her background, you would think there goes a black or mixed person. She looks white and is white in America in every day life because people go by what they see.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Play your violin elsewhere. I don’t give a shit about your problems and don’t doctor my posts.

[Anonymous]

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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.

[Anonymous]

My kids are 3/4 white, 1/4 Asian. DS looks completely Asian. DD looks completely white. I have always identified as both bc that's what I am. They are both also, no matter what they look like on the outside.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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

Blasian

He said he's caublanasian.

And Kamala Harris is IndoJamaican which magically translates as African American.

It's all black magic, OP.

[Anonymous]

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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.

The whole point is that you don’t know by looking at somebody who looks white what their actual genetic makeup is. I don’t believe for a second that if you saw Mariah Carey on the street without knowing her background, you would think there goes a black or mixed person. She looks white and is white in America in every day life because people go by what they see.

Interesting...I would never say Mariah is white by a long shot. If you saw her in the 90s there is no possible way anyone could come to this conclusion.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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My kids are half Latino, but have light skin. They identify as Latino, because the Puerto Rican culture is a major part of our lives. They spend summers there, we cook Puerto Rican food from scratch, we are bilingual, we celebrate using both cultures (I'm Midwestern Caucasian).

Culture plays a big part in how a person identifies.

[Anonymous]

I'm both. White and black people think I am non-white. Asian people think I am white. Latino people think I'm Latino.