Mixed / Biracial People?

Question

How do you feel about being Mixed or Biracial? Did you know all your life, or did you find out at some point? Honest answers, please! :-)

Answer 1

well to me growing up as a biracial girl I didnt feel any different then the other girls untill I reached middle school where this one guy was making fun of my hair (when i straightend it) he said "how can a black person have such straight hair" and he then said I was wierd cause I have straight hair like white peoples cause im black and black people are not suppose to have hair like that.. basically it was a load of bull.. but of course young and nieve I was I got upset and never wore my hair like that again.. or at least gelled it like  how it was.. throught middle school that is.. another experience I had was when I was with the black kids at highschool and I would be "excluded" from things because they said I was not "black" even though I looked black.. they even said "there are 4 black people with us" (not inclduing me) and I then said im black and they all laughed.. i was heartbroken and well obviously I ditched them as "friends".. when i was with my white friends they were talking about there backgrounds and where there from i said i was part jamaican/trini and Irish they looked so shocked that I was part white.. and then one girl asked "arnt you black though".. yah it was not a great experience.. .but I learnt that some people can just be ignorant.. I knew all my life that I was biracial but I started to know I was different during middleschool and highschool.. im not by any means "confused" or anything like that, I know my place in the world and am happy to be a biracial canadian.. My twin sisters experience is quite similar to mine but we didnt go to same highschools though.. I realised that I had 2 parents of different races when i was like 4 years old.. me and my twin sister had the same skin color but our parents color was different from ours and there skin color was not the same like "most" people, so we asked them why and they explanined to us it.. but of course at 4 you wont understand why lol.. so we asked again at 6 and I think it was around there we finially got it after that my sister and I truly knew we were different and that its not the "norm" we did feel self consience about it but I didnt as much as my sister.. she was afraid to invite people over, i didnt care at all.. but she got over that though.

Edit: it is RARE to find another biraical girl like me that I get along with, either they feel that there more better then you because there hair is less "curly" and there skin is less "darker" or something like that.. basically they act like there better then me.. even my twin sister has noticed this.. we once were friends with this other biracial girl i forget her name, but whenever we were at her house she would ask us how come we dont have "green eyes" like her and that most biracial she knows have that and then she would tell us that our hair was nappy and that her hair is more better.. it was always a competition for her.. well we dropped her as friends and now I heard shes a drug dealor and crack head.

Answer 2

yea i knew all my life.

i love being mixed. but then again i sort of cant imagine being anyother way.

Answer 3

On the streets, there's no such thing as Mixed or Biracial.

If you look like a supposed race to someone walking by, then you are assumed to belong to that category.

I should know, as I was born from a Filipino mother and a White Australian father. I am treated as a Filipino.

Answer 4

tu e brutto....

Answer 5

I didnt find out i was biracial till my dad told me a few years ago. My dad is Romanian (Romania, not rome, in europe) and my mom is mexican. I have light skin, lighter hair and was even born with dark red hair but i thought it was just a typical thing since many mexicans have Spanish due to the mixing of native mexicans and the spaniards since the conquistadores. Anyway, Americans categorize me automatically as mexican, specially cuz i have a little accent. But latinos think im white.... rather funny.

Answer 6

I'm black and white.I've never faced real discrimination.Maybe it's because I look whiter than most mulattoes.I really don't have any black features and I'm just as white as any white person.I get mistaken for just being white.I don't know.Maybe if I looked more like a black person I would probably have a different perspective.Besides that I don't really care.

Answer 7

i've always known but never gave a deeper thought until i started blossoming into the beautiful healthy woman i am today.

white/filipino

Answer 8

Im Mixed cos my dad is white (european) and my mum is african wiv indian ancestry. Im proud of what i am and feel unique. I knew that i was

mixed since i was a child

Answer 9

well i'm italian,irish,portugese,african american,native american

I felt rare!

i use to search the internet at age 10 to see if I can find mixed girls like me!

i still do feel rare though!!!

I feel unique!!!

i found out at some point , i dont have any biracial friends but I have seen and heard some on internet and in real life

I live in  a black neighborhood ;)

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it's like Mrs.Eward Cullen took the words out of my mouth loL!

Answer 10

Most people on this planet are bi-racial (I like to say "multi-cultured") How do you think Brazilians came about...or Hawaiins...or Puerto Ricans? Why should you feel anything but human? Stop letting these ignorant people affect the way you feel about yourself.

Answer 11

Well kids are pretty much oblivious to differences or races even gender to a certain point or till it is pointed out to them by adults. I think mixed people are beautiful.

Answer 12

I'm mixed Filipino-Spanish & I'm very proud of it. I learned it since childhood & up to now we still do bi-cultural practices though we're more hispanic.

Answer 13

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Well I'm WHITE, AND IM MIXED RACE. And no I don't look Caucaisan, I look mixed-race. But I nevertheless call myself White, and I have allways known this is what I was.

And before you dismiss it as an anamoly, consider that 3% of mixed-race people identify as White directly, and another 13% say they would  if they could  (be accepted that is).

So check it out, one out of six mixed-race people is like me.  Wanna learn more?

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