are you of mixed ethnicity?

 

do you feel like you belong to one country more than to another?

 

do you speak the different languages your parents speak?

 

what is it like for you to be of mixed ethnicity?

 

 

well, my mum's filipino and my dad's german and i was born and raised in germany.

unfortunately, i don't speak tagalog (filipino language), but i try to blend in as much as possible whenever we visit family in the philippines.

still, i don't really know where i belong. of course, since i grew up here, germany feel more like home, but it's not that it is home. i'm the german kid when i'm in the philippines and the asian kid when i'm in germany. well, they actually can't really tell where i'm from. people thought i was spanish or hawaiian or south american, so... i don't know. :nice:

it's just weird sometimes. at least in my case. i wouldn't want to change anything about it because my mixed background gave me an open mind about things. :smiley:

 

and i'm trying hard to learn a bit more tagalog for my mum.

 

I'm not of mixed ethnicity. My parents are both germans...but I would find it really interesting to be raised up like you are. If my mum would've been raised up in another culture than my Dad was. If we would go to the country my mum's roots are. That must be really interesting I think. And you probably become more open minded...yeah

 

sometimes I think about the fact how I would handle it if my children will be of mixed ethnicities one day...I think I would raise them up with both languages. I find that so important and cute hehe...I've seen such families and the children could talk to their parents in both languages...that was so cool.

filthy mudbloods...

^ hahaha, right. guess i'm a bastard.

so what.

filthy mudbloods...

 

Lol.

Yes. I'm half russian and half korean, but I basicly lived in Canada like my whole life. So yeah I've never been in Korea neither do I speak the language, and I don't like Russia that much, I mean it's very cool to visit, but I wouldn't wanna live there, but I speak the language pretty good I guess...Oh my dad and I, are like huge sports fans, but we always seem to be cheering for diferent teams because of that:dozey:. Whenever I tell people what I am they usually go like :shocked2:"No fucking way" But most of them think it's pretty cool:P

^ that's an interesting background! :nice:

I am half german and half french....

 

I feel more french than german....

 

I am going to learn how to speak french and german...

Well I'm not a mixed ethnicity. I just the the plain old white European Australian who has descended from convicts from Ireland. Thats pretty much it.

I'm not a mixed ethnicity. My family is from Sweden since way back.

Umm let me see... as I was born in South America its pretty obvious that I'm a mixture of Spanish, Amerindian and black people. Not directly but from hundreds of years ago... You can also find an English, a French and a Hungarian surname back up in my genealogical tree, so yes I guess I'm pretty mixed. :rolleyes:

 

but I totally feel from my country... just because the culture itself is very mixed.

im half Sri Lankan and half Lebanese

I think I might be English due to being Sri Lankan:shrug::D

 

used to be able to speak French,Arabic ,and Singhalese, now I can only speak a little of each :shame:

:Dthats it!!

Amy that's freaking cool!

One of my best friends is Lebanese she tried to teach me the language, I remember learning how to say " Go dip your head in the toilet" or something:smug:. But I forgot how it goes :shame:

 

^ that's an interesting background! :nice:

 

thanks :D

@Grace:

 

I'm Hispanic, but some people think I'm Italian because of my last name (ok, I have the curly hair, the olive skin, the wide eyes; you know, the Mediterranean look, which I got from my grandpa, whose grandpa was from the Canary Islands).

YET my dad gets mistaken for Filipino or Chinese, my mom for Hindu or Peruvian, and my sister as Filipino or Hawaian :lol:

I feel like the odd one out sometimes... :shame:

 

I think about my kids, who will likely be of mixed race, I wonder how I will help them deal with being bi-racial, bi-cultural, bi-lingual. But as you say, it facilitates understanding and cherishing other cultures, languages, nations :nice:

 

@ Coldplay.obssessed and BerrymanGirl: wow, those are amazing mixes you girls have!

MY parents are mexicand, and so my grandparents, my mixed etchnicity could have been more clear like 500 years ago :P

all my family is chilean, one of my grandmothers was italian and that's it...I'm so chilean :P

I'm totally finnish but one of my dreams is to marry a guy who at least speaks a different language than i do.. Finnish swedes work fine because they usually speak both finnish and swedish fluently. :lol: I guess i just want my future kids to be fluent in at least 2 languages. It would be such a good thing for them to know about many cultures and languages :nice:

A lot of us Aussie folk are mixed ethnicity, I'm quarter German and at least quarter British for a start.

It's discussions like this that make me sad. :disappointed:

 

I can't really be called anything other than American, really. All of my relatives that moved here from Sweden and Italy are dead. I never met them. I know that on my mothers side, there are Germans. On my father's side, Italians, Poles, Swedes, and...that's about all I can think of.

 

I wish my family would've practiced a little cultural preservation, but at the same time, we live in a culturally rich area. Sure, it's not New York City where tons of different groups of people are congregated together, but Appalachia is really an amazing place. Not a lot of people realize that.

 

So, really, I don't identify with a specific nationality other than my own, but I feel closer to the Appalachion region than I do my entire country.

i myself am pretty much german, with french and most of all irish ancestors ( we got our irish surname from that). but i got a kid with a tibetan guy, so i'm raising a kid with different backgrounds, which of course provides some different twists to everything. it works ok so far, my son gets tagged as chinese/ japanese all the time, but he is adorably cool with that, so my interventions in that direction have worked out.

as his father lives in india, i can only teach him the meager stuff i know in tibetan, which bothers me a lot, but it's kinda difficult to learn tibetan in germany.

as i sucked in english in school, but am doing ok now, after spending some time in english- speaking countries, i am positive, that he might still/ hopefully pick it up later in life.

i myself am pretty much german, with french and most of all irish ancestors ( we got our irish surname from that). but i got a kid with a tibetan guy, so i'm raising a kid with different backgrouds, which of course provides some different twists to everything. it works ok so far, my son gets tagged as chinese/ japanese all the time, but he is adorably cool with that, so my interventions in that direction have worked out.

 

That's so cool! where he was born?

 

I also want my children (if I have any in many many years in the future) to have different backgrounds. :nice: (but also to be born and raised in the mother's country or my country, so they don't feel like they don't belong anywhere and they feel roots near)

he was born in germany :). i just thought of my cousins, that i have in the united states. one married a jewish lady, one is hanging out with a japanese lady, and their sister is about to give birth to her first child with her hubby, who is a canadian chap of african decent.

we give our best to overcome racism, don't we? :blush:

but all of us face a lot of strange comments and prejudices still. so it's not as romantic and easy as it may sound in everyday- life.

I'm totally finnish but one of my dreams is to marry a guy who at least speaks a different language than i do.. Finnish swedes work fine because they usually speak both finnish and swedish fluently. :lol: I guess i just want my future kids to be fluent in at least 2 languages. It would be such a good thing for them to know about many cultures and languages :nice:

 

ohh I'd love that too, but if I stay in this country it's not gonna happen... there's not a lot of foreign people here

ohh I'd love that too, but if I stay in this country it's not gonna happen... there's not a lot of foreign people here

 

Ow you never know! You might meet some nice foreign guy at uni or something :nice:

I like this thread a lot, and I will have some input in it.. being mix raced myself