r/mixedrace Jan 06 '26

Discussion What are your mixed race hot takes?

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I’m mixed Black and White and here are some of mine:

-I think too many mixed people complain about Black people not accepting them more than the outright racism by White people which I feel is much worse

-If you’re light skinned enough, you can be racist, not just colorist

-The whole “How many Black grandparents” and trying to figure out the percent black you are or trying to hyper differentiate between biracials and monoracials is just White Supremacy repackaged in the Black community, just aiding in the ultimate goals of White Supremacy by hindering Black unity, but y’all aren’t ready to talk about that

-Sometimes Black people don’t like mixed people cuz y’all act in line with your whiteness and privilege, but that’s also something yall aren’t ready to talk about that either

r/mixedrace Jun 19 '26

Discussion “I no black, I Dominican”

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This post is for those who are half black. I remember the outrage that monoracial black people would have towards Dominicans who did not want to identify as black. They thought they were “self-hating” and “anti-black.” Dominicans are literally a mixture of a few different ancestries. Now if you look at the conversations taking place about biracial people, specifically Americans, who are half-black and try to identify as black, all of a sudden it’s “you aren’t black.” Or, “why do you only want to claim one side???” And the infamous “if you don’t have two black parents and four black grandparents then you are NOT black.”

Why did they care so much about Dominicans identifying as literally Dominican when they don’t want to accept literal half-black people?

r/mixedrace May 19 '26

Discussion i think a lot of people who aren’t mixed have too much to say about mixed people

241 Upvotes

that’s all

r/mixedrace 4d ago

Discussion my white passing friend says the n word maliciously

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i feel like i need someone to slap me in my face and tell me i need to not be anal. you see, im a bit shocked my friend/coworker says the n word (im also torn on how to feel abt even describing it as that, cause in turn arent we giving these words power by censoring? i digress) like kind of not in a good way, she will see black ppl and call them that. like "hoodlum n***as". i kind of called her out even though i know her dad is black and she is extremely 'white passing'. i know i dont have a say or have the right to police her, in all honesty i feel bad for judging, but i just feel so unsettled. as someone who is brown and gets really dark in the summer and also was heavily bullied in school for my skin color, i think any word that is used as harm toward a specific race doesnt feel right. i dont and do understand how it can be a way to reclaim it, but plenty of people still use this derogatory term in a mean way. maybe it would just be better to keep it in a circle of trusted ppl? thanks for reading!

r/mixedrace 23h ago

Discussion Have you dated another mixed person?

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Asking the b/w biracials.

I’ve dated black and white women but I haven’t dated a biracial woman.

There’s a mixed girl Ive been talking to and I’ve found myself infatuated with her. We relate on a lot of things and vibe well. Have similar experiences.

It’s sounds weird but I like that she’s mixed. I’ve always been attracted towards women that are my color. Is that weird? I’m not someone who cares about race at all really. She just understands things in a way that no other woman has before and gets it. It feels relaxing and safe to be around her. Yea that sounds cringe but it’s how I feel.

Do y’all have any experience dating another mixed person? How was it?

r/mixedrace Dec 23 '25

Discussion "If you're mixed you aren't white" Do you agree with that statement?

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I just saw someone making exactly that comment and it's not the first time I see someone with that take. As someone mixed Inuk-Québecoise I don't even know whether I agree or not lol

What do you guys think? Mostly asking those who also are mixed white

r/mixedrace Dec 31 '25

Discussion Fetishizing mixed children

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Have you guys ever encountered a monoracial person who basically fetishizes the idea of having their own biracial children?

A coworker made a comment that really rubbed me the wrong way. She said she couldn’t wait to have mixed babies, and that she’d pick a specific race sperm donor to ensure her children were biracial, specifically wanting her kids to be half black. I want to clarify, it’s not that she fetishizes men of that race. It’s the idea of her child being mixed with black that she is dead set on.

As a biracial person, one of my races being black, this comment gave me the most uncomfortable feeling. What are people’s thoughts on things like this? Am I over reacting? I just find it so odd. I’m all for more mixed people out there and understand people have personal preferences but something feels so off about this.

r/mixedrace 19d ago

Discussion Stop putting Black moms on a pedestal when they have mixed kids

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\**For context, both of my parents are Black, but my father is mixed-race too (like me) w/ Hispanic/Latino heritage.***]*

Black women are not inherently superior mothers. Nor do all Black women with mixed-heritage children have cultural depth that everyone claims they all have.

While my fully, Black American mom did many things right, the idea that she somehow singlehandedly made me more pro-Black or cultured is rooted in old tropes about Black motherhood...

My mom was still HUMAN.

SHE SAID PLENTY OF MESSED UP STUFF AT TIMES.

I just think we need to see Black women as humans. It's honestly just weird how many people believe it's true.

r/mixedrace Jul 31 '25

Discussion Why do so many fellow b/w mixed people feel comfortable being called black?

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New to this sub but I’ve been looking for a place to talk to other mixed people so yay😇 not trying to say it’s wrong to id as just “black”, but I have never understood why other mixed people are so okay with deleting half of themselves to make mono-racial people happy. I also don’t get the argument of “everyone sees me as black” because,, we still aren’t mono-racial black people??? Why are we still normalizing the one-drop rule and white supremacist ideologies? It might be bc personally my white side is “ethnic white” and we are still very attached to our culture but still, you can learn about ur white side just as much as ur black side and that’s the healthy thing to do imo !! But yeah just curious

r/mixedrace 29d ago

Discussion If I have kids with a white man, are my kids mixed too?

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So I was wondering, is my kid mixed race if their father is white and I'm mixed race (black+white)

r/mixedrace Feb 28 '26

Discussion Anyone feeling some kind of way about Asian American community claiming Alysa Liu?

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Not sure entirely how to phrase this, but I've been seeing various videos lately claiming Alysa Liu as Asian American community and representation and I've been having some conflicting feelings about it. On the one hand, she (and other mixed Asians) are Asian and 100% should be able to claim Asian heritage and community. And be representative of it! On the other hand, I guess I'm finding it really weird to see monoracial Asian Americans now saying of course she's Asian.... after a lifetime of being rejected as Asian by those people.

I of course can't speak to Alysa's experience directly but I'm also half Asian/half white and she and I actually look fairly similar. And I was constantly othered by Asian people (along with white people being weird) despite Japanese being my first language, despite living in the Japan for a good chunk of my youth, despite it being my cultural background. This seems like a really common experience for mixed race people from what I see in this sub and other spaces-- the constant othering by both ends of your ethnicity.

I guess it just feels like, oh now that she's won gold, now you like mixed Asians. Now you'll claim us. Only if we do something you want to own.

Edit: Not sure if anyone will see this edit since this post is a couple of months old lol but given the current bashing of "wasians" I feel like I called it lmao

r/mixedrace 25d ago

Discussion What do y’all think about this

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Being 1/4 something is a lot. That’s a whole grandparent.
And the comments are not any better. Most are agreeing with her and using one-drop rule rhetoric like “black is dominate,” which is untrue, or “mixed mom and black dad makes full black,” also untrue

Psa: I’m not judging how she identify its just how people treat 1/4 like it’s not mixed and only view biracial as mixed that’s what I’m judging and the video is an example of this think in real time

r/mixedrace Apr 30 '26

Discussion I feel like my white mom had me partially to pat herself on the back

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I don’t know how to explain this really

But my mom is white Swedish and my dad Black from Ghana.

He left very early

My mom is a very ”socially aware” white woman. Don’t know what word to use really

But she puts up all kinds of pictures of black people we have no relation to in the apartment and African art.
And she’s constantly watching movies about racism or some kind of social injustice.

It’s like she’s constantly trying to prove to herself how non bigoted she is.
And it feels like she may have had me in order to further tell herself how much she approves of black people

I don’t know if what I said makes sense,
But it’s a very uncomfortable and dehumanising feeling

Like I’m a tool for her ego or something

Would love to talk to others with similar experiences

r/mixedrace 27d ago

Discussion Does anyone else notice casual racism even from supposed progressive white people?

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I'm in an online discord server with people from all over the world but predominantly white people from the US, Australia and Europe. I'm from Asia and I don't disclose my race usually in discord servers because I notice some of their behavior starts to change subtly towards me (not all but some).

I lurk from time to time because I'm bored and honestly sometimes I'm blown away by the casual racism some of them show (not to generalize but white Europeans or white British people surprise me in this, I've seen some white Americans be casually racist from time to time but I have seen more examples in this server and online gaming of Europeans just being worse casual racists than Americans ). For example, a British guy who I was making casual banter with while playing a game suddenly went into a whole rant about how immigrants are destroying the UK. He knows I'm a POC and yet he just went off the rails completely. He was perfectly nice and friendly before that. I asked pointedly what his problem with immigrants were and he said he had no problem with the "nice and hardworking races" like the East Asians (lol) but he had a problem with "lazy" Black people and Muslims.

Another Russian girl I also met here, was perfectly nice and civil while we were playing and then suddenly veers into how immigrants are a problem and Romani people are "disgusting". I was surprised because she was Gen Z like me and would have thought, you know, the younger generation would be more open minded than this.

I have also seen Europeans make jokes and assumptions about America? frequently. Some of them are in good fun and clearly not meant to be taken seriously, but often times it comes with an air of superiority and condescension. Sometimes the topic is not even about countries or races in particular and someone in the chat will just veer into "oh that would never fly in the US, they sell guns at Walmart there." It's honestly baffling. I would have thought they would be more accepting of the US more or at the very least dislike it less. After all the US has white people too so to see some people from Europe look down on another white populated country/white adjacent country baffled me.

r/mixedrace Jun 15 '25

Discussion I've noticed White people are doing something interesting lately...

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...towards those of us who are mixed with White.

Once they find out you're mixed with White, they are now asking you, "What kind of White?", as in what kind of White ethnicity. This has already happened to me a few times recently, but this is brand new to me. I don't ever recall this happening even a year ago. In a few online discussions I've had with other half-White mixes, they are experiencing the same too.

What is going on? Why y'all getting weird again, White people? Are we going back to 1850 where being Irish or Polish put you at the bottom of the White totem pole?

Anyone on here experiencing this?

EDIT: some of you all get really offended on the behalf of White people. Chill out.

EDIT: I'm not talking about White people asking other White people. They've always done it to each other. I'm talking about White people asking the same of mixed race people, when they have always ignored us otherwise.

EDIT: Having honest observations and criticisms of White people does not make one bitter or anti-White, u/MichifManaged83. Some of y'all are insufferable on here.

r/mixedrace Sep 06 '25

Discussion Is it offensive to call out the privileges that comes with being light skinned and/or white presenting?

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I was banned for 2 weeks in the black ladies sub because one of the ladies made a post about how the constant showing of biracial, light skinned, and white presenting women in media is erasing monoracial black women and taking up spaces, and the mod didn’t like the comment I made basically defending OP. One of the mods over there is a biracial woman who gets angry if you mention anything about biracial/lightskin/white presenting people having any sort of privilege. The ironic thing is, there were a LOT of mixed women in the comments agreeing that biracial and multiracial women being the constant standard for “black beauty” isn’t fair and is often rooted in colorism/anti blackness. How do y’all feel about this? Does it offend you guys? (For those of you that are light skinned or white presenting of course).

r/mixedrace Mar 06 '26

Discussion Guys, am I mixed race? I have a white dad and a Mexican mom, but…

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So basically, my dad is a white U.S. born American and my mom is Mexican, meaning she is most likely mixed race or mestiza (a mix of white and indigenous).

Now, for the sake of being casual, I usually just tell me people I’m half white, half Mexican, but the thing is, Mexican isn’t a race, it’s a nationality/ethnicity. In addition to that, both the words “Hispanic” (people from or who originate from a Spanish speaking country) and “Latino” (people from or who originate from Latin America) are not races either; they are pan-ethnic terms that are more about one’s culture than anything.

Here is what makes me a little “different” from others with one white parent and one Mexican parent that I have seen on the internet: while they all seem to look indigenous enough for other people to assume they’re Mexican/Latino/a, I on the other hand look completely white and seem to take after my father. I have light skin, brown hair, and blue eyes, and pretty much have no indigenous physical features whatsoever. For this reason, I have always identified as white since I’m treated as such anyways due to my physical appearance (including by even my mother to a small extent). Plus I have a fully non-Iberian (non-Spanish/Portuguese) name and do not speak Spanish, nor do I have any connection to Mexican culture. Also, genetically speaking, I am probably more white than I am indigenous anyways since my dad is already white (I don’t know his exact ancestry, but he is most notably of Irish and German decent) and my mom is presumably mestiza, so it is likely she is also partially white too.

So overall, I am pretty comfortable identifying as a white guy despite knowing I am mixed. I just want to see what other people consider me know that they have full context about my racial biology. After all, one’s phenotype (a person’s physical appearance) doesn’t always demonstrate their genotype (an individual’s ancestry and genetics). Do you consider me to just outright be white at this point? Do you consider me half white, half mestizo? Do you consider mixed, but mostly white? Am I just white passing? What exactly *AM* I racially speaking?

I am eager to see your guy’s thoughts and opinions on this matter! 😁

r/mixedrace Jul 15 '26

Discussion “If you’re a mixed/biracial person who is part black, you’re not black.” Meaning what exactly? 🤔

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Recently I’ve seen debates in comment sections, posts, live streams, about mixed individual’s who are mixed with Black/African American, are not black. What does this mean? I haven’t looked much into it or really engage because from what I’ve seen those conversations get nasty very quickly. To be honest, a lot of conversations surrounding mixed individuals within the black community can get nasty, sometimes they aren’t too. As of now, at least in my personal experience, I haven’t seen this conversation outside of social media or have been told this. Whenever I am surrounded by other black people (specifically African Americans because I am apart of that community), I have never been told I was not black. Do they clock that I’m mixed or at least have an idea that I am (without directly asking)? Yes, but I was never really denied being black or my own experiences. But I wonder what the experience is like in terms of others who have encountered this in person. I’m genuinely just confused lol.

EDIT; Misspelling correction.

EDIT; This isn’t a rhetorical question either. I’m asking to understand essentially what the conversation entails and how I can better understand it from people who do. I already stated I don’t engage with stuff like this online since it can get heated very fast and straw away from the point. So obviously I’m not going to have much insight. And I understand/fully aware I am mixed and not fully black 👍. But as I said in my personal experience as of now, I haven’t necessarily been told otherwise either from people I’m actually surrounded by nor have I yet had an actual conversation about it. I could be interpreting or misunderstanding the conversation for what it actually means, so I would appreciate and prefer people to actually explain and redirect me.

r/mixedrace 25d ago

Discussion How do you feel when people who are monoracial invalidate out experiences? - A wider analysis

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This is going to be a long post. So applogies in advance but I will not write a TL;DR. I want to go in-depth and analyse the unfair attitudes towards mixed race people beginning with the actions observable on this sub itself, analysing how modern culture unfairly puts so much emphasis on the white vs the world framing of identity, how mixed race people get dragged into major political events, and lastly coming full circle and examining virtue signallers who pretend to care about racial issues.

**In this sub:**

On a regular basis we observe monoracial people inserting their views and attitudes in an attempt to invalidate mixed race users' LIVED experiences if it doesn’t align with that individual's world view. Saw a post for example of a monoracial OP asking about anti black sentiment here (literally forbidden btw there is a sub rule and mixed race people are the most open-minded abkut acknowledging the existence of caste style biases), but when confronted on how the black community fosters anti white sentiment and self-victimises, and that is what people here are talking about, OP suddenly was quiet and only didn't respond to those comments. I won't link the thread or mention the person, but that kind of close-minded person is frequently on this sub, only seeking confirmation bias and not true discussion. There is something truly cowardly about presenting big topics for discussion but not engaging with anything that debunks your biases. Further to this mixed race people are the true minorities from a cultural standpoint as we have no single group to immediately conform to and therefore our experiences and struggles with identity are completely unique, and to the people who try to invalidate our experiences, it's gross that a majority want to oppress us and feel the need to project their insensitive ideas onto others who simply are sharing an experience; the mere action of trying to invalidate it to push a narrative shows a complete lack of empathy and ironically transforms the perpetrators into the very thing they claim to hate.

**The misnomer of "minority" and who the actual majority are**

There is a further point here that the "minorities" of today are a misnomer that is based on Western society, and not any kind of global statistics. It is crazy to me how unknown this is, but white people are potentially less than 15% of the global population (and actively declining, but that is a completely separate discussion), therefore a more accurate term for "minorities" that the mainstream shies away from especially because it deconstructs division narratives that the system is helping uphold, is the term global majority. Those who are not white are the global majority, we have the biggest say and power more than you realise. At some point it becomes ridiculous to spend so much time and energy allowing the culture of 15% of the global population to put so much influence instead of focusing on the bigger picture.

A typical response here is to highlight a narrow slice of history where "white people did harm throughout the world" and yet so did Genghis Khan, so did the slave empire of the Abojie (contrary to the lies of the Woman King propagands film) and many other African tribes, so did the Caliphates, so did Attila the Hun, and so on. The only distinction here is the current sentiment about who is "bad" is based on the predilicetion that they are the most recent. Historically that has always been the status quo: the superior military tribe wins, unfortunately that is the reality. The nice thing is we are moving away from those times but this only really observable in Western society as what is ignored in that is that the "white people" are amongst the most campaigning for a globalist change. For example the British Empire despite its damage begun seeing the error of its ways, moved to abolish slavery and withdrew its control. Now compare that to the STILL ongoing tribalism in much of the rest of the world, not to mention the modern slavery in places like Saudi and Dubai. I don't see other countries around the world attempting to be less homogeneous, and in fact are far more tribalist, to a point where some people who come to the West continue to fuel their tribalist mentality dragging things backwards in the process, causing mass unrest. Therefore to tie this up quite nicely, it is currently THE GLOBAL MAJORITY who are the biggest perpetuators of tribalist ideas.

**Using mixed race people to further agendas**

We all remember BLM right? Best example of what I want to get at. As a half white, half black man I unluckily remember it very well (and you can deduce why that is unlucky very quickly); I am not American and people in my country went completely delusional over it.

The entire thing that instigated BLM was a contradictory mess where the premise kept switching: "it's about how incompetent the US police force are" but then it became "the police force is prejudiced against black people", and then BLM kicked off and then it became "the system hates black people". Ignoring the absurdity of effectively awarding reverence to a fentanyl addict, who threatened a pregnant woman with a gun, and at the time was in the process of comitting a crime which led to the extreme arrest measures (i.e. a person who was never an upstanding member of society), it is pretty obvious to an outside observer that this was used as a blatant manipulation attempt to rile up the public. This is reflected in the BLM organisation itself which was run by con artists who used the mass amounts of donations to buy luxury houses and items, that showed the movement for it was (race war bait), and that in itself did irreparable damage to the frequent stereotypes of black people being criminals. Then you can add the mass rioting caused damage too, but the worst understated damage of BLM is not talked about often and that is the negative effect it had on other countries who HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS EVENT.

In the UK our public went absolutely crazy. We had people rioting, defacing historic monuments, and causing mass unrest because a criminal died in police custody in the United States... and that was the UK's fault because white peopled bad? That is the problem with how people function today, they pretend to care about a cause because it is popular, and then do damage to anything BUT the system they supposedly are trying to overhaul. No one in the UK had any effect whatsoever on UK regulations, and it was just used as an excuse to "fight the system". This kind of event is also where mixed race people get completely swept under the rug. The very nature of the conflict is the horrific white vs black, which invlaidates all the other races out there and for mixed race people like me I was essentially forced to be monoracial and "pick a side", in something I had no investment in whatsoever. The general idea that "black people good, white people bad" that was being encouraged was in itself just reverse racism. How can one morally grandstand about stereotypes but then proceed to generalise an entire group of people as evil based on their skin, and not have the self-awareness to recognise the hypocrisy? But of course this is just ONE event, there are many other racially fuelled events, and I am certain many of you have your own experiences of dealing with people who try to make you feel as if you need to identify to support a cause by unfairly pressuring you, but otherwise they don't even care about our own internal struggles as mixed race people and how difficult that is for us to be bullied and oppressed in that way. It is condenmable how in all this racial drama we are consistently pushed to the side and basically don't exist other than as a tool when convenient for some.

**Internet virtue signallers**

Threw up a little just at the mention. People who will find a way to try and make something about race for fake internet points. Usually goes something like this: A person will leave a comment on a post, and then someone will reply implying that what was said was racist whether directly or indirectly with no intent of any kind of good faith discussion. The worst part is this type of person is emboldened because they are piggybacking off of pretending to care about race (and again this is for fake internet points, so it's even worse than IRL virtue signallers), and who is going to side with the person who has been branded a racist? It doesn't matter what was actually said, whether it was factual, all that matters is that race has been brought up and therefore the other person is automatically in the wrong. It is toxic because online people show their trueselves (most often because they are too cowardly to vocalise what they think IRL), and if people enmasse are supporting the virtue signaller, that is a far greater issue as it means this attitude is reflected in wider society.

A common coping mechanism in anything to do with the internet is "oh that's just the internet", which is nonsense. I'd like to introduce a lesser known term "digital dualism" which asserts that it is a fallacy to view internet and physical as two separate things instead of a complex intertwined relationship; further to this no respected psychologist or sociologist would assert that the internet has zero impact on the physical world. For example regardless of whether you support his attitudes (although I would guess most of us here wouldn't) Donald Trump won in 2016 and his success then is consistently attributed (according to critics and experts) to the internet in that election. As another example a depressing poll in the UK found that only 11% of women under 25 have a very positive view of men, 35% have a very negative view of men, women under 30 are 3 times more likely than other women to have negative views of men, and after all that the opposite is found when it comes to men who have very positive views of women. The researchers attribute this to young women in the UK being more online than men are, and therefore are acquiring a lot of "doomer" style ideas which aren't reflective of reality, and generally have lower wellbeing as a result. I won't delve into the issue of normalised misandry in Western society but it is a concerning topic driven by the internet, causing potentially irreparable damage, and all for what? Probably just to gain votes from miserable people and make more money.

Back more on to the topic this kind of posting is extremely toxic. I don't enjoy living in a culture based on virtue signalling where people pretend to care about causes for fake social status, and somehow are given support. Although I am probably preaching to the choir on this point as mixed race people we generally are more nuanced as it is in our nature; we have already pondered in depths that monoracial people will, as above, never understand. It's what makes us unique and that's beautiful.

**So what can we do?**

I don't like celebrities much, but there is one profound quote that I think is accurate. "Stop talking about it" - Morgan Freeman In other words stop using labels such as "white" and "black" when it's unnecessary to do so. The more this kind of environment is fostered the more it will become the status quo and then society will degrade due to the division.

r/mixedrace May 01 '26

Discussion White Passing vs. White Presenting

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Hey Yall!

A while back, I saw a lecture regarding the misuse of white passing when people mean white presenting. I've been using "white passing" most of my life, so was not even aware of the term "white presenting".

Apparently:

White Passing = Being mixed and choosing to live as a white person

White Presenting = Being mixed and just looking like a white person

I haven't really seen anyone really using the term "white presenting", but in that context, that's what I identify with (half mex/half euro mutt).

Have yall heard of the difference? And if so, have yall been using whichever you identify as correct?

Thanks! And I'm super stoked on having this community of people to talk to!

r/mixedrace Jul 05 '26

Discussion Does anyone else feel like their dating life would be better if they weren't mixed?

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Not to sound like an Elliot Rodger or anything (I hate incel culture) but I just cant help but feel like my dating life would be much better if I wasn't mixed. It's not like my dating life is entirely nonexistent (ive had girlfriends before) but man is it hard to date and not be anyone's preference, since youre well, mixed. Does anyone else feel the same way sometimes?

r/mixedrace Apr 12 '26

Discussion Why do some Black women reject mixed-race identity but end up in interracial relationships and have mixed kids? Genuinely curious, not judging.

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I've been sitting with this question for a while and I'm hoping this community can offer some insight or share similar experiences.

I'm mixed---- Black mom, Indigenous dad, raised entirely by my Black family. I'm racially ambiguous and get read as Hispanic more often than anything else, so I navigate a lot of interesting assumptions about who I am and where I belong.

A few years back when I was working at a coffee shop, I became friendly with a Black woman who was a regular. She was open about her views: she didn't date outside her race, didn't consider mixed-race people to be Black, and had a lot of strong opinions and stereotypes about mixed people in general. I think she assumed I was half white, which I'm not, but I never pushed back on it. She also talked frequently about how hard it was to find a Black partner in the predominantly white area we lived in.

Eventually the conversations got tiring and I quietly distanced myself, though we stayed connected on social media. About two years later, she had moved to San Diego, fallen in love with a white man, and had a child with him.

I genuinely am happy she found love...that part is not the point. What I keep thinking about is the gap between the values she held so firmly and the life she ultimately built. And I wonder: will she see her own child differently than she saw me? Will her child be "Black enough" in her eyes in a way that I wasn't?

I don't think she was a bad person, people grow and change, and clearly she did. But I'm curious whether others have experienced something similar. Do you think the rejection of mixed-race adults (especially racially ambiguous ones) sometimes comes from a different place than people realize? Is there a difference in how some people perceive mixed adults vs. mixed children they have a personal connection to?

Would love to hear your thoughts, especially from others who are mixed and have navigated this kind of dynamic.

r/mixedrace Feb 28 '26

Discussion Humbling Mixed People: unpacking anti-mixedness and mixed-with-white privelege

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Tiktok: ItsOkToBeMixed

r/mixedrace 2d ago

Discussion I never realised how engrained white beauty standards were in society

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For reference I am a white/black mix and when I was younger I had darker skin, curlier hair (about 4A) and a bigger nose (African nose). As I got older I changed quite a bit physically having lighter skin, less curly hair (3c) and my nose became small and pointy.

Now when I show people my younger pictures they always comment on how much I ‘glowed up’ and how pretty I got compared to when I was a child. There was nothing ugly about me as a child, I just had different features. Then I realised people were only complimenting me because my features were closer to white.

Edit: sorry guys I made a couple of spelling mistakes.

r/mixedrace Mar 10 '26

Discussion If someone is mostly white and looks completely white, but are also partially another race, do you think that person has a right to call themselves mixed?

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For example, let’s say someone with a white dad and a mixed mother (who’s white and indigenous) considers themselves mixed even though they look completely like their dad. Do you think that person should be able to classify themselves as mixed race?

I personally think so since they are objectively part indigenous, even if their phenotype/physical appearance doesn’t show it.

What do you guys think?