In your school, how common were mixed-race children and what sorts of mixes were they?

[WhatsGoingOnBigGuy]

Every black and hispanic person in the US is basically mixed by default with the former having roughly 15-20% Euro admix and the latter obviously being usually 50-65%.

That being said, there were only 3 kids in my school I was aware of that visibly had parents of different races. 2 being twins with a White father and Asian mother, and the other a girl with an Asian father and White mother. My school was probably 98% White so I didn't see much. There was huge euro diversity though.

[Mortimer]

Very uncommon, but largely White/Mexican or Latin American of some form. There were also a few half White half Pacific Islander children I remember as well and also a few half White half Roma children. There were probably others as well I imagine, although the school was very much predominantly White (as a note I went to school in the US).

Really? How did you got along with them? I wouldnt have thought you met Roma in Canada or the US? Usually people say they never met a Roma. Were they good people?

[calxpal]

Really? How did you got along with them? I wouldnt have thought you met Roma in Canada or the US? Usually people say they never met a Roma. Were they good people?

Yeah I knew a few part Roma (half or quarter Roma) in the US, in Canada I haven't met any. A few were good friends and one of them was my closest friend for a while, she was very nice and fun and loyal for a while, but to be honest but she wasn't perfect, and her sister was cool too. Unfortunately I've lost touch with them now and they don't talk to me anymore, but I know they worked hard however they did have a little bit of trouble with discrimination. So yeah they were good people for the most part, they were nicer than most people I met. I hope I can communicate with them again.

[Mortimer]

Yeah I knew a few part Roma (half or quarter Roma) in the US, in Canada I haven't met any. A few were good friends and one of them was my closest friend for a while, she was very nice and fun and loyal for a while, but to be honest but she wasn't perfect, and her sister was cool too. Unfortunately I've lost touch with them now and they don't talk to me anymore, but I know they worked hard however they did have a little bit of trouble with discrimination. So yeah they were good people for the most part, they were nicer than most people I met. I hope I can communicate with them again.

Nice.

[Mortimer]

Yeah I knew a few part Roma (half or quarter Roma) in the US, in Canada I haven't met any. A few were good friends and one of them was my closest friend for a while, she was very nice and fun and loyal for a while, but to be honest but she wasn't perfect, and her sister was cool too. Unfortunately I've lost touch with them now and they don't talk to me anymore, but I know they worked hard however they did have a little bit of trouble with discrimination. So yeah they were good people for the most part, they were nicer than most people I met. I hope I can communicate with them again.

Go a bit more into detail please. Thanks. Im now very curious.

[Petalpusher]

Those who i encountered during my years were i think all from oversea territories, so the Thierry Henry or Varane type. In my football club, same kind but more, some with Portuguese/Cape verdan background as well, and one actual mulatto who ended up playing for a big European club.

[alnortedelsur]

I mentioned it in other threads already, but since that's this thread topic, here we go:

Back in Venezuela (when I went to private high schools in Caracas), in a class of around 30 students, like 8 to 12 students (like one third of the class) were full/near full European (3-4 white people of recent Spanish origin and Spanish surnames, 3-4 with Portuguese surnames, 3-4 with Italian surnames, and maybe one person in the class of German origin (it wasn't unusual), and occasionally there were someone in the class of some more "exotic" European origin like Croatian, Greek, etc), like another third part of the class (8-10 students) were castizos, and the rest of the class (like 8-10 people or so) were more mixed people (a mix of balanced mestizos, mestizo-leaning triracials, etc., with maybe 2-4 people with more obvious African traits).

Those of the around two thirds of the class who were not part of white/near-whites had Spanish surnames in most cases.

Is funny that I'm mostly of Spanish descent on my Euro side, but for having an Italian surname, my classmates often assumed that I was part of the "Italians" (ie. people of full or mostly Italian stock) in the class, lol

When I lived in Palo Negro (a satellite city south of Maracay) on my puberty (I was living in there when I was between 10-13 years old) there were less whites/near whites and castizos (maybe 3-5 white people, and 2-4 castizos in the class), compared to the private schools I attended in Caracas, but most of the rest of the class was more uniformly a mix of mestizoid-leaning triracials and more plain mestizo looking people (for what I can remember). People with more obvious African traits (like looking 30-40% black or above) were also minority of maybe 3-4 people in a class of about maybe 30 students. Something like what I'm going to show when I open threads of Aragua and Carabobo, and show schools in interior (non-coastal) towns and cities of those two states.

[Ellethwyn]

Not common in my elementary school, but in high school there were a few. Mostly latino/white.

[White Swan]

I'm from one of those places where it was noticed if a single black kid was in class, and the few who went to my school were known as "bad boys", but icky because of their behavior, always getting suspended for being rude and violent. We had one 1st Gen chinese girl whose mom made us Chinese food once a year. Once I was in middle school I found myself in a group containing the few multicultural girls there were, a Japanese, a Romanian, and an Arabic girl, all 1st Gen. I didn't have enough worldview to do this on purpose, it just happened, I was the white girl in the group lol a few of my white friends tagged along occasionally, but most of them were mainly in the popular group and I was too shy to go with them so I accumulated these other shy girls. They were shy because they weren't white/newer to English/etc. I think I felt most comfortable on the sidelines for several reasons. I realize now lol. Glad I had them as friends even though I'm not into diluting cultures with multiculturalism. Good life experience.

Culture shock when I moved to Florida, I could go on about that, but they were not "friendlies" as the multiracial girls in my group in school were. Retrospectively, they made sure to comment to eachother how I was from what they saw as a "small town" which to them meant "white". They also told me outright that I wasn't supposed to be there, I wasn't "cultured" enough to fit in.

[calxpal]

Go a bit more into detail please. Thanks. Im now very curious.

I know they were unfortunately taunted at school a few times for their parents being immigrants (not just about being part Roma) and excluded and judged a few times during school because of their background. I know they talked about being told things like "go back to where you came from" a few times. I'm not sure if they encountered slurs or anything like that, I don't believe they did. I remember them mentioning their parents had a hard time getting jobs but this could also be because they were immigrants and not just because they were part Roma.