Tag Archives: Laotian

European, Laotian

My name is Lane Raymond Luangxay. I’m half European and Half Laotian. My father is Laotian and my mother is white.

When I was younger I never really thought about what it was like to be half. I always thought of myself as just a regular kid. As I grew older I began noticing it more because people would point it out.

I have strong Asian features and alot of people will assume I speak an Asian language. In high school I only had white friends because I felt like people who were full wouldn’t like me because I’m not full. I didn’t really embrace my Asian side because I felt like I wouldn’t be liked as much, but I realized i was wrong.

I was wrong for feeling like I had to choose. Continue reading →

German, Polish, Thai, Laotian, Vietnamese, Chinese

Hi, my nickname is Miyu, and I’m half Asian and half European.

My dad is half German half Polish and my mum is Thai, Laotian, Vietnamese and Chinese.

A lot of people ask me if I’m Japanese because of my name, and because I like Japanese stuff. But I just married a Hispanic guy, whose last name is Amaya.

I grew up in Germany. But we also have houses in Thailand, where my mum’s family lives. Now I live in Texas, where my husband lives. Continue reading →

Laotian, White Anglo-Saxon

I’m Tim Singratsomboune, and I find multiraciality to be awesomely captivating.

Son of a nominally Buddhist, Laotian-refugee father and a nominally Protestant, working-class, general-White-American-stock mother, I have always found the mixing of two cultural worlds in my identity to be more of a positive. Hapa-ness just adds another interesting layer to an identity.

My parents divorced when I was young and I was raised by my mother. Sadly, my father never really tried to integrate me or my siblings into anything Laotian. He wanted us to be American.

And although I grew up under the influences of my undeniably American mother, I’ve always personally felt as much an outside observer to average, White American culture as I have to Laotian culture. Continue reading →