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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. I'm glad people are able to discuss racism openly...but my questions remain: [b]Are other parents of (partially) Asian kids worried about anti-Asian harassment in schools?[/b] Is there anything we can do as parents to prepare to respond to such hate incidents? Many thanks, to all of you out there sharing your thoughts on this...which is just the tip of the iceberg called racism.

We have talked to our children that they might encounter "hate" like these incidents in the news...obviously what an ignorant person says doesn't define them; they can report to a teacher or another trusted adult in school, or to us. [/quote]

In all practical matters, no. I honestly feel like what they are likely to encounter, if they do at all, are going to be ignorant AF microagressions (which add up surely and are exhausting but are decidedly not as dangerous as a real hate crime/ violence). You are also putting your head in the sand to not realize that being half-white (which I assume from these posts that the kids are, please correct me if I missed it) won't convey a significant amount of white privilege.[b] The combo of 'passing'[/b] (not intentionally, but just by accident) and the concept of the "model minority" is powerful- it should NOT be, we know that, but in reality, in this current society, it is.[/quote]

I have yet to see a half Asian child passing for white. And i've seen half Asian kids with blonde hair and blue eyes. It was still very clear that they were partially Asian.[/quote]

OK well there are plenty of kids who do and/or what I believe is more common is because we are ethnically mixing more and more (which overall I think is a good thing as long as we aren't washing out cultures but celebrating them all), people might be able to tell you aren't only white but also have no idea what your actual ethnicity is. I am white on both sides but there is definitely some N. African and/or MENA genes mixing around our gene pool because several of us have that racially ambiguous look. My best friend from childhood is half Chinese, half Scottish and people guess all kinds of ethnicities for her (mostly white ones actually) but rarely get it right. It happens.[/quote]

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