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

[Anonymous]

I honestly had no idea there were so many other half white, half Indians on DCUM, or generally. Who are you people and how come we've never met?!

I know a lot of young mixed couples, but no half adults in their 30s, 40s, etc.

[Anonymous]

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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).

How do you know her question was based on race? If the child is of day care age, it likely wasn't. I am a white mom of an (adopted) Asian child, I've had kids who know us both (as well as my white husband) say to my daughter, "I didn't know you were adopted." These were elementary-age kids. It's happened a few times, and I always laugh inside that they never saw the disconnect of our skin tones and looks. Most young children do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would he/she be considered for diversity enrollment in schools?

TIA

Compared to Warren, certainly.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I love American racism.

[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.

Yes, but she has a darker skin tone, brown eyes, black hair. definitely doesn't look like a Northern European.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I honestly had no idea there were so many other half white, half Indians on DCUM, or generally. Who are you people and how come we've never met?!

I know a lot of young mixed couples, but no half adults in their 30s, 40s, etc.

They don’t exist. Fake news. Most ethnics stay with their own kinds. Ww

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly had no idea there were so many other half white, half Indians on DCUM, or generally. Who are you people and how come we've never met?!

I know a lot of young mixed couples, but no half adults in their 30s, 40s, etc.

They don’t exist. Fake news. Most ethnics stay with their own kinds. Ww

Go away stupid troll. Plenty of mixed race couples in DC--you just probably don't see any of them because you never leave your basement.

[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.

But I don’t see this as a detriment. Yes, they will not be seen as “white”.....but I can’t think of one example in which they would suffer because of this. Maybe bc I live in a diverse area with every shade of brown and tan. My daughters have friends and classmates of every ethnicity and race, and they’re all mixed or from Iran or Korea or India or Poland or wherever.

[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.

But I don’t see this as a detriment. Yes, they will not be seen as “white”.....but I can’t think of one example in which they would suffer because of this. Maybe bc I live in a diverse area with every shade of brown and tan. My daughters have friends and classmates of every ethnicity and race, and they’re all mixed or from Iran or Korea or India or Poland or wherever.

Well, if you're unable to see the racism that comes with a child looking "different" then, that's your narrow perspective, but it is not the rule. Racism comes in many forms, even subtle ones. In my area, students who look Asian definitely suffer from negative stereotypes of some white adults thinking they are robotic academic automatons.

[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.

But I don’t see this as a detriment. Yes, they will not be seen as “white”.....but I can’t think of one example in which they would suffer because of this. Maybe bc I live in a diverse area with every shade of brown and tan. My daughters have friends and classmates of every ethnicity and race, and they’re all mixed or from Iran or Korea or India or Poland or wherever.

Well, if you're unable to see the racism that comes with a child looking "different" then, that's your narrow perspective, but it is not the rule. Racism comes in many forms, even subtle ones. In my area, students who look Asian definitely suffer from negative stereotypes of some white adults thinking they are robotic academic automatons.

Well just going back to the “world will treat them based on their looks, which is not white” comment: I see the world as multi cultural and global. I don’t see the world and the future as the white America of the past. I’m very comfortable with my daughters’ place in it.

[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.

But I don’t see this as a detriment. Yes, they will not be seen as “white”.....but I can’t think of one example in which they would suffer because of this. Maybe bc I live in a diverse area with every shade of brown and tan. My daughters have friends and classmates of every ethnicity and race, and they’re all mixed or from Iran or Korea or India or Poland or wherever.

Well, if you're unable to see the racism that comes with a child looking "different" then, that's your narrow perspective, but it is not the rule. Racism comes in many forms, even subtle ones. In my area, students who look Asian definitely suffer from negative stereotypes of some white adults thinking they are robotic academic automatons.

Well just going back to the “world will treat them based on their looks, which is not white” comment: I see the world as multi cultural and global. I don’t see the world and the future as the white America of the past. I’m very comfortable with my daughters’ place in it.

Congratulations on seeing the world from that place of privilege. Not everyone has the same luxury.

[Anonymous]

My husband is Bangladeshi and I am very fair. I don't tan at all. Anyway we live in Miami. I stand out the most! They both blend in well here. I get stared at a lot. I thought it was because they're trying to figure out if my husband is Latino but it happens when I am alone too. I do remember being asked if my husband is darker when we were visiting Atlanta.

[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.

But I don’t see this as a detriment. Yes, they will not be seen as “white”.....but I can’t think of one example in which they would suffer because of this. Maybe bc I live in a diverse area with every shade of brown and tan. My daughters have friends and classmates of every ethnicity and race, and they’re all mixed or from Iran or Korea or India or Poland or wherever.

You'd be surprised of the things I've heard educated people that live in DC say about minorities. Blatant racism is probably not common but there are subtle things that people say all the time. Not only that white people aren't the only ones that have negative feelings about different groups. It's helpful to have talks with children while they are young so it's not such a shock as they get older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I honestly had no idea there were so many other half white, half Indians on DCUM, or generally. Who are you people and how come we've never met?!

I know a lot of young mixed couples, but no half adults in their 30s, 40s, etc.

Where do you live? I live within the District and there are other half adults here.

[Anonymous]

At the end of the day everyone knows, deep inside, there really is only one meaning to the "person of color" and that's African Americans. It's because racism in the US is viewed through the prism of the historic white-black relationships. The word "color" in reference to skin carries tremendous cultural, political and economic baggage and that is why the other "colors" such as East or South Asians or Middle Eastern or Latinos or even Native Americans don't fit into the term "person of color" neatly. The non AA "people of color" occupy the same place as the Italian-Americans did 100 years ago, people who were seen as "swarthy" by the predominant Anglo-German white Americans but still extended the benefits of "white privilege."