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Malay-born Chinese, English, Australian

March 1, 2012
Hapa, Mixed Race, Multiracial
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Hello all. I am Josephine and despite my French sounding name, I have the stereotypical Hapa background (Asian mum, White dad).

I have had the good fortune of (until recently) living in a part of Australia that is highly influenced by its South East Asian surroundings.

It wasn’t that big a deal growing up, although I did occasionally hear racist comments in the schoolyard. None of my friends mind my racial background (we went to a school that had a large international student population) and I have quite a few Hapa friends.

The unfortunate thing is that my Chinese grandparents are highly traditional and don’t really accept my father as part of the family. Read More

Japanese, Lithuanian, English, Argentine

January 24, 2012
Hapa, Mixed Race, Multiracial
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It’s a mixed bag with Asians who believe me when I say I am Japanese (1/4). Many actually think I am half, because I look a lot like Becky, a hafu singer from Japan. I think I look Japanese.

My mother is a Japanese-Jew! I like being different, and I love being a Japanese Jew because I am truly super-unique just like my personality. I’ve been labeled “weird” all my life, and I think it comes from my unique ethnic background. Read More

Taiwanese, Greek, English, German, Native American

January 19, 2012
Featured Stories, Hapa, Mixed Race, Multiracial
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I am proud of my multi-racial culture now more than ever. Growing up, I experienced a great deal of racism. Some of it was blatant and out in the open, some of it was in a more subtle passive aggressive way with looks or veiled comments.

My brother and I were different than the other children in our predominantly Caucasian neighborhood. For awhile, we were the only children of color around. People didn’t know how to categorize us.

The pain that comes from feeling ostracized and not belonging created deep wounds, but also great character. I was able to find my own identity through an outlet of art and creative expression. Read More

Japanese, English

December 17, 2011
Hapa, Mixed Race, Multiracial
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To Caucasians I look Asian, to Asians I look Caucasian.

I was bullied for being different when I was younger and began to resent being Asiatic.
I used to watch the flight path on the plane flight to and from Japan and at exactly the half way point I’d look down and wonder if that was where I belonged.

As I grew, I learned to embrace both cultures and as a result I got my dream job at Disneyland Paris.

I am now comfortable admitting I am Hapa, and do so to everyone that asks (which they do… all the time)

Vietnamese, Scottish, Irish, English

October 6, 2011
Hapa, Mixed Race, Multiracial
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Born in Australia to an Aussie Mother and A Viet father who immigrated from Vietnam in the 80s.

We travel frequently to Vietnam (every second year) so I am very used to both cultures and at home I eat Asian food.

In my younger days when I went to Vietnam there were no white people at all and Vietnamese women would always come up to me and pinch my cheeks so hard and always talk about me looking English. Read More

Korean, English, Irish, German

September 23, 2011
Hapa, Mixed Race, Multiracial
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I am proud to be Hapa because I feel it is becoming the defining American experience, to be multiracial.  The U.S. was founded by immigrants, and continues to be the destination dream country for expatriates around the world. The face of America is one of ethnic diversity and multicultural identity.

Being biracial I am faced with the challenge of having to “choose” between whether I am White or Asian.  I feel that if I was 3/4 of one race, and 1/4 of another, it may be easier for me.  But I have even heard for some, whose racial makeup is so, they still claim the 1/4 of their heritage as their nationality.   Read More

Korean, English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, German

April 21, 2011
Hapa, Mixed Race, Multiracial
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Hello everybody, my name is Michael Jurney. My mother is Korean and my father was of mostly English, but he is also of partial Scottish, Scotch-Irish and German ancestry.

My father was stationed in South Korea after the Vietnam War, he met my mother and they’ve got married and moved back to the United States. I was born in Seattle, Washington.

Growing up was very hard for me and also was very hard for my mother. My father had a great job but he quit to do gold mining. Everything went downhill after that. I was a hobo growing up after my father lost his job. My mother could barely speak English, and she never teaches me Korean. My father was very stiff and ignorant person, also he never support the family.

I’ve learn to speak Broken English when I was younger. I’ve been over 15 different schools from K-12. I was force to go to special education due to my learning disability and speech disorder. Read More

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