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

[Anonymous]

Yes for private school. You are a white person of color.

[Anonymous]

No. You're in the suck it up buttercup category.

[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.

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

Half white, half Indian adults in the District? Or other half/mixed adults in general (the latter, for sure, but the former... maybe we need a meetup?!)

[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.

PP here, this was a second grader, and it was definitely based on looks because she did a double take and looked back and forth between us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

PP here, this was a second grader, and it was definitely based on looks because she did a double take and looked back and forth between us.

NP here. In both scenarios it would be about race though...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

PP here, this was a second grader, and it was definitely based on looks because she did a double take and looked back and forth between us.

NP here. I happen to be an Asian adoptee and kids definitely know something is amiss when an Asian kid has two white parents. Anyway, PP, a similar thing happened to my family. I have one full Asian child and one half white-half Asian. When my full Asian kid has been with her white dad, kids have said, that's your dad?? And once when I was with my half Asian kid, who looks more white than Asian, I've had kids assume that I wasn't the parent even though I was standing there waiting to pick him up.

[Anonymous]

Americans are crazy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Americans are crazy

Americans are also increasingly more likely to be mixed-race and have diverse heritages than most countries.