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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was hoping OP was black and white or black and asain. White and asian is no fun, I want a minority in the mix.[/quote]

I am biracial, black/white, you can ask me anything ...[/quote]

How do you percieve yourself?  How do you process how others percieve you?

What do you wish your parents had done (or not done) re: your racial identity when you were growing up?[/quote]

I consider myself African-American, if that's what you mean.  I think most strangers perceive me as African-American as well.  African-Americans probably suspect that one of parents is not black because of my features and hair.  I've never been sure whether white people have that same perception - but they certainly know that I'm not white.  I think my parents did a great job with the racial identity issue.  My mom is white, which makes a big difference because the mother is so influential in how a home is managed and children are raised.  So on the one hand, my upbringing was culturally somewhat different than my AA peers.  On the other hand, my parents made it a priority to raise us around other AA families so we would be able to identify with AAs.  They never tried to tell us we were "both races" or that we didn't have to choose one race or the other, or anything like that - they told us we should just consider ourselves AA because that's what they world would consider us.  Others may disagree with this approach, but it saved me and my sibling a ton of racial identity angst that I know many other biracial children had to work through.[/quote]

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