OP - please define what you mean by the term and your child finding more peers in college?

We are in the Seattle area. I definitely hear the term wasian. Never heard hapa used. My dd’s high school friend group is mostly wasian (5/7 kids, my dd is Chinese). My other dd has a mix of wasian and non-wasian friends. We live in an area that is almost 50% Asian so there’s also plenty of Chinese-Indian kids and Indian-white kids.

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Anonymous wrote:More common to use this phrase on the west coast.

West coast calls it hapa. I first heard "Whasian" from my kids who went to MCPS. They are whasian.

-40 yr CA resident who grew up in SoCal

CA calls it hapa, Pacific NW here and we called it mixed. No one I know between San Diego and Vancouver calls us Wasian. Fascinated that it’s a thing.

Wasian is not a thing, except among the white liberals of DC who need to give everyone a made up name for their perceived grouping.

This is not a DC thing.

Ask your kids.

Just asked. My HS daughter said everyone uses Wasian. Not at all an insult. She never heard of HAPA.

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Anonymous wrote:When Wasians marry Wasians, they can end up with kids who don’t look like their siblings depending on how the genes mix.

oh weird. i never thought about that.
meaning one super Asian looking kid and one super white kid?

Or spanish/middle eastern looking.

Genetics are interesting.

The girls tend to look more Mexican with lighter skin, which kinda makes sense because most Mexicans are mixed with native American blood, and they are descendants from Asia.

What??

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Anonymous wrote:More common to use this phrase on the west coast.

West coast calls it hapa. I first heard "Whasian" from my kids who went to MCPS. They are whasian.

-40 yr CA resident who grew up in SoCal

CA calls it hapa, Pacific NW here and we called it mixed. No one I know between San Diego and Vancouver calls us Wasian. Fascinated that it’s a thing.

Wasian is not a thing, except among the white liberals of DC who need to give everyone a made up name for their perceived grouping.

This is not a DC thing.

Ask your kids.

Anonymous wrote:My kids refer to themselves as Wasian.

Same. Op is misspelling the term.

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Anonymous wrote:When Wasians marry Wasians, they can end up with kids who don’t look like their siblings depending on how the genes mix.

oh weird. i never thought about that.
meaning one super Asian looking kid and one super white kid?

Or spanish/middle eastern looking.

Genetics are interesting.

The girls tend to look more Mexican with lighter skin, which kinda makes sense because most Mexicans are mixed with native American blood, and they are descendants from Asia.

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Anonymous wrote:DC is waisian and seems to have made a lot of waisian friends, way more than in HS. Do your waisian kids bunch together in college or mix more with the Asians? or is their friend group more mixed?

What is waisian?

a misspelling

Anonymous wrote:Common term at TJ for sure.

Term was in use at TJ 20 years ago at least. But I haven’t heard it since.

Anonymous wrote:DC is waisian and seems to have made a lot of waisian friends, way more than in HS. Do your waisian kids bunch together in college or mix more with the Asians? or is their friend group more mixed?

What percentage of the HS is Wasian, vs what percentage of the college?

Anonymous wrote:When Wasians marry Wasians, they can end up with kids who don’t look like their siblings depending on how the genes mix.

This happens whenever very different looking people mate. Shocking!

Anonymous wrote:We like the word "human"

The pride of Greendale!

Anonymous wrote:We like the word "human"

We like the word "autotroph".

Anonymous wrote:What about whipanic? White & Hispanic? Not very uncommon anymore.
My DCs are whipanic and they tend to gravitate towards any Spanish speakers.

Herpanic or Thempanic.

Anonymous wrote: My understanding Is that this is not referencing mixed race, this is kids that are white that are unusually strong in STEM and hang with the Asian kids that are very strong in STEM. Heard it 15 Years ago from a young cousin on the west coast whose Asian friends called her that.

Not denying your experience, as it makes sense to call an "honorary" Asian "wasian", but white-asian mixed people do call themselves Wasian. It's extremely documented.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wasian

Waisian is phonetic corruption that some people use, more often in the "weeaboo" sense you are describing,