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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best thing you can do is diversify the people you associate with.  I lived in a “luxury” building at one time with a large Asian population.   It was a high tech area with a lot of Asian workers here for a couple of years or long time.

They never talked to anyone non-Asian and traveled in groups.   They never acknowledged your existence.  Some of them were candid in their not wanting their children to make friends with white Americans.  The kids weren’t introduced to anything but Asian things. [/quote]

That's horribly racist. I'm sorry, PP. [/quote]

NP and I’m the white mom of a mixed kid and some Asian parents will go out of their way to avoid us. Others will decide we’re sufficiently Asian in our values when they’ve known us long enough at whatever activity they approve of and then we’re allowable friends, but then I end up on the receiving end of snarky criticisms of other kids.

Because DH is Asian, he isn’t fully accepted by the white dads we know from other “Asian unapproved” activities, so as a family we’re sort of on the outside of everything. It is not remotely surprising that we gravitate towards other mixed, 2nd generation families. [/quote]

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