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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Truthfully, it depends on what they look like.  I have a friend who is a rather light skinned Indian whose husband is Caucasian, and I really don't think anyone would consider her daughter to be a "person of color".  She looks like a slightly exotic white person.  [/quote]

You might be talking about my daughter - when I picked her up from after care one day, a rather rude child said incredulously "Wait, YOU are her mom????"
(I'm the Indian half of her parents). Her skin tanned up quite a bit this summer, so now she looks rather Mediterranean (still not Indian). [/quote]

How do you know her question was based on race? If the child is of day care age, it likely wasn't. I am a white mom of an (adopted) Asian child, I've had kids who know us both (as well as my white husband) say to my daughter, "I didn't know you were adopted." These were elementary-age kids. It's happened a few times, and I always laugh inside that they never saw the disconnect of our skin tones and looks. Most young children do not. [/quote]

PP here, this was a second grader, and it was definitely based on looks because she did a double take and looked back and forth between us.  [/quote]

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