I've read many times that people struggle being bi-racial. Got both sides in you but some how not accepted be either 100%
Any people here that have issues with that? How does the racial tention affect you.
Now this can also apply in a less visible way like having 2 nationalities and when ur in 1 country they say ur more of the other and vice versa.

I am half white + half chinese.

With chinese people it's a very mixed bag. Lots of them purposely exclude me from going to events with them or having that much of a voice in their community just because I am not full Chinese. But then others ones are extremely accepting.

I don't have any problems fitting in with white people tho although whites are weird af

Half Wolof, Half Valencian (Spanish)

Black people always called me that "white boy", i wasnt ever allowed to say the n word and throughout childhood I had to always prove my blackness, but obviously i dont care about that anymore

Im the token black friend around my white friends. Im literally too black to be white and too white to be black. Also latino people sometimes claim me and sometimes not. It depends. My puerto rican, dominican, and costa rican friends treat me like any other latino but some of my mexican friends still see me as a gringo.

I mostly hang around asian people, because even though im not asian, they've never made me feel like i dont belong

ive learned it much easier to be rejected by people who are racially different from you than to be rejected by your own race. Hence why i have such a huge chip on my should when it comes to anything related to the black community

25% French
25% Lebanese
50% Afro-Trinidadian

Probably best to put it that way - both my parents are from Trinidad, but they're from very different ethnic backgrounds. I guess, growing up in Trinidad, it wasn't as much of a barrier as it is in the US but there's still very much a sort of everyday racism and institutionalized racism isn't 100% as eliminated as one would like to think. I also feel like I had a problem connecting because I didn't grow up with my father's family at all - also, my mom's family rejected me from the start because I was black, whereas they had all mostly kept it very pale. So I didn't have a lot to connect with in terms of black culture, what I did learn was mostly from the multicultural diaspora of Trinidad itself. Life in Trinidad itself was just a mess for me because I was always different (psychological disorders, LGBT) and these differences made it harder for me to be part of general society because for the most part, I don't think Trinidad is at a place where it will accept those differences.

So coming up to the US at 18 was like a dream come true for me, because I was coming to a place that seemed more progressive. Being mixed here hasn't been an easy experience either because of course, I'm brown skinned which therefore just paints me as black (most people can tell I'm not straight-up black but that doesn't really matter), but I actually find people are more tolerant of who I am, I guess. Still, I have a really hard time fully connecting to the black experience a lot of my peers here seemed to have had and I'm obviously not fully welcome among white circles because my skin color is a barrier.

I guess for the most part, I feel like being mixed hasn't really done me any favors. It's been just another reason why I feel isolated from society. But it's also been a major defining part of my personality in that I feel like I've definitely been drawn to aspects of both cultures and they've become a part of my everyday experience and my traits.

Thanks for ur story guys. Really interesting.

Really depends on how secure you are of yourself

Yeah I get that feeling too. Too white to be accepted by Asians and not white enough to be accepted by Whites.

Half white half Hispanic.

Not white enough for the white kids and not Hispanic enough for the Hispanic kids.
I also have insecurities with my appearance because of it. I have my white Mother's bone structure and eyes, but my Father's strong nose and eyebrows. It makes me not know where I stand a lot of the time and I strive to appear white rather than Hispanic. Sometimes I don't even tell people I'm Hispanic, and I even use a different last name on Facebook because mine is way too Spanish.

My great-great-grandparents were Dutch so does it count?

In all seriousness, it's interesting to read these stories.

I actually wish i was in your position. I grew up not speaking any spanish, and i have my father's last name which isnt hispanic, and I look like a pale african with spiral curly hair. It sucks because everyone who is not latino thinks all latinos are suppose to look a certain way and since I dont, they pretty much block out half of my identity. I find myself trying to be more hispanic, and speak more spanish, to overcompensate for my appearance and lack of culture

I've never had much issue; however, my experience is 100% black being raised by black parents even though I'm biologically biracial. In the US it's not only accepted but often expected for a black biracial to self identify as black and my personal experience just happens to fall in line with that already existing social norm. I imagine it's tougher for people with parents/cultures of both races involved in their upbringing and lives.

This is me also!

My dad is white and my mom is Hispanic (she has pretty dark skin and people have assumed she's black or Indian before).

I personally have my dad's light skin, but have a lot of my mom's features. I don't immediately look like either one though.

Most of my family is latin (even on my dad's side, most of his brothers and sisters married people of latin descent) and I even lived with my grandma on my mom's side for a lot of my childhood (and my grandma looked very indigenous, spoke Spanish as her first language, and was very culturally Mexican).

I never really have thought about being a mix of different nationalities and cultures too much in the past. I've always considered myself as latin, and I usually answer that I am hispanic or Mexican when someone asks my ethnicity or when someone asks what I am. At the same time though, whenever I answer that way, people always ask me if I am joking and then when I say that I am being serious, I am usually answered with "oh, I always thought you looked a little different." I don't think anybody ever means anything by that, but it always makes me feel awkward.

At the same time, I notice whenever I go anywhere with my mom, people look at us strangely and always ask if we are together; and apparently, when I was really little and my mom and grandma would take me out, they would get all kinds of looks and comments that implied that they were the help or nannies or something (my mom recently told me this).

I'm pretty proud of the background and culture. Although, I do feel like I'm just a little too white to be completely Hispanic in culture, and I'm definitely too Hispanic to really be white (I've also heard some incredibly offensive things white people say about Hispanics and Latinos). I've just tried to ignore cultural differences over time and try to be respectful of whoever I am speaking with and try and understand their culture and way of doing things tbh. Although, filling out the census is usually really confusing.

It’s funny how we can be so paradoxal in this sense.
Many of us do not wanna boxed into a category and feel they should not need fit a mold but somehow the sense of wanting to be a part of something is equally strong. So it’s not just outsiders that wanna label someone it’s you yourself too as belonging to a certain “group” is sheltering and a feeling of safety.

Interesting thread.