[quote name='DarlingNina']I'm proud of my mixed heritage, but sometimes it's a pain in the butt. A lot of times, I feel like I don't fit into any group. Growing up, I mostly had white friends because that's who I lived around, and that's mostly what I went to school with. The black girls that were in my class didn't like me for whatever reason. They'd pick on me calling me Chinese (when I obviously don't look Chinese). I have very asian eyes, so I'd get a lot of "what are you" questions. It's funny, everyone who asked me what I was assumed that I was Hawaiian and when I tell them I'm black and asian, they look like they're disappointed for some reason.
Once I got into high school, I started hanging out with more african-americans and that's mostly all my friends were in high school. However, I still never really fit in their group either. I had a couple of good friends, but some of their friends didn't really like me cause I didn't act like them. Even my best friend always harassed me for who I was attracted to. I'm 25 now, and I stopped caring about what group I'm supposed to fit into or who I'm supposed to like. I'm like a mesh of all the different things pulled from both cultures, and I've embraced that. I now like being unique.
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One of the weirdest things I ever had to deal with due to my background happened in college.
One day a group of us guys went to the gym to play basketball. Everything was fine, but some people who didn't attend the college came in and were not allowed to be on campus in the gym. Now, 90% of the guys were black. My dad is the head of security for the college and comes in a politely asks the non-students to leave because that is college policy. Now, my dad is where I get my German heritage from, so you see where this is going. One of the those guys starts saying my dad is racist for kicking them out. Now the guys at the college knew me and my dad, but the outsiders didn't. After I hear that I immediately go up to the guy point out that he is my biological father and say that is my dad and he's doing his job, and to call him racist is absolute bullshit. The guy realizes he made a mistake that I wouldn't let him forget and I never saw his face again.
I normally am a level headed guy, and let most stuff roll off my back, but that was one time I was angered beyond belief. It took quite a bit for me to restrain myself because it wouldn't have looked good if I got into a situation with my dad being right there and me being a starter on the basketball team.
The ignorance of the situation really bothered me.