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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). [b]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' (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]

It is scary how authoritative some posters claim to be on all race-related matters. Mixed-race kids can also face issues that kids identified with a single race don't encounter, such as being made to feel as if they fully don't belong to either group.  [b]For kids who are part Asian and part white, that can include, at times, "what are you" comments from white kids or comments from Asian kids that they aren't "real" Asians or that any academic challenges they face in school must be due to their white ancestry. [/b]

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I'm  not saying that AT ALL. I know that I have more learning to do, because honestly I don't think I know anyone who claims they are "done" learning on this.

Of course I acknowledge the bolded even in my last post. These are certainly shit things to deal with, [u]they should be eradicated[/u]. But they don't rise to the level of being hate crime harrassed or violence that OP's husband seems to think is just around the corner. That's what I am saying. To acknowledge that there isn't nuance to the fact that there is some level of privilege for these kids though, is frankly problematic as well.

The new book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson is brilliant at looking at how different ethnic groups had to find a space in this black/white hierarchy this nation was built on and all of that still put black folks at the very bottom. And before anyone says "yes but this post IS ABOUT ASIANS", I get that too obviously. But racial prejudice and racism don't exist in a binary vacuum of just two ethnicities at a time. It is still all relevant to look at. There should be unflinching looks at this stuff otherwise it just reinforces the hierarchy. Its tough and tricky to get through, for certain. If anyone is a fan of the TV show Insecure, they even broach this in their last season for a minute. [/quote]

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