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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Indeed all of you are spot on. I am, I have come to understand, in a "mixed race" marriage. People routinely see me with my child and assume she is adopted. My husband is an American Born Asian, and I am "white", and again and again, I come across funny little half-implied tropes and memes. I actually have had people ask me where my daughter is "from" and I have thus far resisted the urge to point to my crotch. So I let them off the hook with a "if I wasnt there myself, I would not believe it either". I am very troubled, though, by some of the comments I have received that are clearly an attempt to indicate that in some way my mixed race child is ok while other mixed race children might not be. In other words, if my husband was black, I would be treated even differently. Im in sort of a hazy middle ground where, for whatever reason, Asian is not considered as much "not white" as "black" is. Or something like that. I dont know. I know I cannot explain it completely, but I am very aware of the nuances. I have known my husband since we were kids, so I keep forgetting that other people see him as in any way "different" from or "other"than me.[/quote]
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