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

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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.

One time, I brought my adopted Asian daughter to a Latina girls' science event, because it just sounded really cool, and she was able to participate just like everybody else, because they thought she was HIspanic.

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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.

One time, I brought my adopted Asian daughter to a Latina girls' science event, because it just sounded really cool, and she was able to participate just like everybody else, because they thought she was HIspanic.

As opposed to skin color-obsessed Anglos, we Hispanics focus on the "content of your character" and all that soft stuff.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This. Culture is really the key. I am black and there are people in my family that are basically white (blonde, blue/green eyes, fair skin) but they identify as black. It's really a culture thing. The reason some people may struggle to identify with one race is because their life is geared towards one culture more. Doesn't always happen like in Obama's case, however I can see why he would identify as black. If you are white and Asian and you don't do anything remotely related to Asian culture I'm not surprised. One of my teachers was Asian/white and identified as completely Asian.

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People are missing a key point here. Self identification and identification by others can be different. How a hapa kid self-identifies is likely to be based on how much exposure they get to their Asian heritage. If they feel culturally Korean or whatever, they'll likely identify as at least being part Korean. How they look (phenotype) will determine how others identify them.

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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.

Which parts of Europe? I’ve been all over Europe and have never once heard someone say that. Eurasia is a distinct region, not someone who is European and Asian.

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Anonymous wrote:People are missing a key point here. Self identification and identification by others can be different. How a hapa kid self-identifies is likely to be based on how much exposure they get to their Asian heritage. If they feel culturally Korean or whatever, they'll likely identify as at least being part Korean. How they look (phenotype) will determine how others identify them.

How other people identify them doesn't matter, and can be completely false.

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Anonymous wrote:People are missing a key point here. Self identification and identification by others can be different. How a hapa kid self-identifies is likely to be based on how much exposure they get to their Asian heritage. If they feel culturally Korean or whatever, they'll likely identify as at least being part Korean. How they look (phenotype) will determine how others identify them.

How other people identify them doesn't matter, and can be completely false.

You are clueless. Of course it matters. I'm living it every day. It doesn't matter how I see myself, if I have to suffer the negatives of peoples' biases towards the race they see me as.

Do you think a guy who identifies as white but gets pulled over by a cop who thinks he is black and driving in a white neighborhood is not affected by how others see him?

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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.

Which parts of Europe? I’ve been all over Europe and have never once heard someone say that. Eurasia is a distinct region, not someone who is European and Asian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_(mixed_ancestry)

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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.

He can identify all he wants, but I don't think most people see him as an Asian golfer. One of my college classmates mentioned that she attended some of his very early golf games, and people used to call him the 'n' word.

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Well I heard the story about discrimination against the Asians during college admissions , so I checked with school my kids attending and found out one of my kids are marked white and one Asian . It just happened that my spouse marked Asian and I marked other kid white well basically based on our race . I Never paid attention as I thought it doesn’t really matter what race you are . So here is my question will HS transcripts show the race ? Obviously on application for college we will mark multiracial now that we know colleges pay attention to it.

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I'm half white, half south asian - multiracial/biracial/other are the boxes I tick when I need to

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Anonymous wrote:People are missing a key point here. Self identification and identification by others can be different. How a hapa kid self-identifies is likely to be based on how much exposure they get to their Asian heritage. If they feel culturally Korean or whatever, they'll likely identify as at least being part Korean. How they look (phenotype) will determine how others identify them.

How other people identify them doesn't matter, and can be completely false.

You are clueless. Of course it matters. I'm living it every day. It doesn't matter how I see myself, if I have to suffer the negatives of peoples' biases towards the race they see me as.

Do you think a guy who identifies as white but gets pulled over by a cop who thinks he is black and driving in a white neighborhood is not affected by how others see him?

OP of the key point post. Exactly. It definitely matters how other people view you! Not to drag out this overused word, but that's some real privilege showing.

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The child’s race would be Asian.

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Asian mom to mixed white-Asian kids here. I don't think I've ever seen a half-white, half-Asian kid that looks fully white. People may think their kids do, but you can always tell there's a little something else mixed with those white genes. I've even seen it with kids who are 1/4 Asian.

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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.

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.

Np. Clearly, you weren’t alive in the 90s. Tommy Mottola marketed her as the white woman who could sing like a gospel great. The white answer to Whitney. No one knew Mariah was mixed/black and Mottola made a fortune off whites going crazy over her records. In fact, blacks talked about that white girl who could saaaang. We didn’t know she was black either until she divorced Mottola after he cheated with J. Lo.