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luvsterriers
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24 May 2012, 9:14 am

Anyone here mixed race?

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24 May 2012, 9:23 am

Both my kids are

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24 May 2012, 1:05 pm

I try to keep the footraces separate from the bikeraces, less collisions and swearing that way

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24 May 2012, 1:12 pm

I am. I'm half Dutch and half Filipino.

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24 May 2012, 1:33 pm

I'm half white half Korean

Do you have family still in Philippines?

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24 May 2012, 1:41 pm

Yeah, I have an aunt and cousins who live there. A lot of my Filipino relatives live in Ontario but I only see them a few times a year. I see my mother's side (Dutch) of the family more than my dad's side (Filipino). I was raised more "white" I guess you could say or maybe even "Dutch" or "European" because my mother immigrated here when she was 15 years old with her parents and older brother. My grandma also lived with me for almost my whole life (she died a couple of years ago) and my mum and her constantly spoke Dutch around each other. My dad also immigrated to Canada when he was in his early 20's.

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25 May 2012, 12:00 am

*raises hand*

Does this come with free food? :razz:

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25 May 2012, 12:53 pm

Irish, German, Scottish.

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25 May 2012, 5:44 pm

asian (Japanese) and caucasian (family tree traces back to Wales in the 1800's)

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25 May 2012, 6:35 pm

<-----raises hand.

Does it come with free drinks? I'm black and Asian.

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25 May 2012, 6:41 pm

Free drinks sounds good to me... mine's a pint! :lol:

English, Irish, Antiguan (Afro-Caribbean) here. I'm basically light brown but with caucasian features, so if I haven't shaved for a while I get taken as Pakistani instead - if the local Muslims are unusually friendly I generally figure it's time I had a trim as I'm looking a bit 'devout' :lol:

Oh and 100% Yorkshireman

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25 May 2012, 8:05 pm

Haha about the drinks. I think it should be mixed drinks though.

I'm anglo (British), Mexican (Spanish and North American Indigenous), and Native American. I don't know if Mexican and Native American should be two distinct races, but the govt. makes the distinction in ethnicity forms and many Americans fail to draw the connection between some typical non-anglo "Mexican" features (like dark skin and black, straight hair) and common features of the Indigenous people of North America. According to the Mexican govt. census of 1921 29% of Mexicans were Native American and 59% were a mix of NA and white.

I always have to choose between these ethnicities on govt. forms:
a) White (non-Latino)
b) Native American (non-Latino)
or
c) Latino

So I guess I'm just Latino.

I have dark hair and eyes, light skin, and freckles.

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26 May 2012, 4:55 am

Zinia wrote:

Mexicans and Native Americans certainly share a lot of common ancestry, but I think there is enough distinction between the two groups to count them as seperate ethnicities. First being that the average Mexican has far more European ancestry than the average Native American. And there are so many, and their culture is distinct enough from the two races they are descended from, that it becomes useful to think of them as their own, relatively new, race rather than just thinking of them as a mix.

Father's people are Mexican, mother's are Russian Jews with a few other kinds of white mixed in. I look entirely white until you put me next to my mother's side of the family, I have brown eyes while they all have blue, and my skin and hair are a few shades darker.

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