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Chinese, Spanish and Belgian.

Half Japanese half Australian

Ig: halfasushiroll

Half Scotch/Irish and Half Okinawan

Project - FAMILY OF STRANGERS -

Insta; @familyofstrangersproject

Facebook; Family of Strangers; https://www.facebook.com/groups/311532095989281/

JOIN MY PROJECT ON BEING MIXED - FAMILY OF STRANGERS -

Reading through many of the posts, it is evident that almost everyone is figuring out a way to deal with their cross cultural identity. Some are confident about their ambiguity while most others still deal with confusions. Being half Dutch half Malaysian/Chinese, I never really felt at "home" in any one country. I also thought I wouldn't fit in anywhere except in places where diversity and other-ness was the norm. I then realised that this state of being in-between, being liminal (check out the TED talk!) was actually an enormously valuable mindset and a skill that anyone could learn.

As a result of these feelings of confusions and the questions I had about my own identity but also the question of where we as mixed individuals fit in current society. I decided to base my graduation at the University of arts in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on the topic of cultural mediation that we as mixed individuals naturally have learned to develop. The project is called - Family of Strangers - and I'm looking for new members!! You can find me on Facebook where you can request to join the group and follow my progress and on instagram where i post pictures of people I've met.

The whole point of the project is that I find people who physically resemble me. Strangers I don't know and mostly meet on the street or in cafe's while going about my daily life. I then ask them to join me in my living room for a round table conversation on being mixed, the notion of home and their own experience within their families. We then proceed to make a family portrait together.

I am open to collaborations and/or any new information you are willing to share with me about your -being mixed- experiences! You can contact me on [email protected]

Curious? Follow me on Instagram; @familyofstrangersproject and on facebook; family of strangers.

Half Chinese // Half White ( mostly Russian descent) - Tbh I feel more Asian than anything (physically, culturally, etc) but most people wouldn’t think of me as a “real” Asian. And white people don’t see me as one of them either. It’s nice to be different and special but it’s kinda lonely (?) when you don’t know anyone that’s like you. Glad I found this blog ❤️

Hungarian, Scottish, Mongolian

Olivia Bewsher.

Proud Eurasian ❤ Switzerland + Chinese + Kadazan (Borneo, East Malaysia)

Chinese-Portugese-Filipino mix

Chinese, Swiss, and Irish

My father is German, my mother is from the Philippines. I'm 19 years old. I grew up in Germany only learning German and later English at school. People usually notice my Asian heritage and think that I'm an Asian tourist or exchange student. When people ask me what I am, I tell them that I'm German. Why? Because I personally only identify as German. I grew up here and only lived with German culture, Filipino culture only being visible in my mother's cooking, though she also cooks a lot of German dishes. I only visited the Philippines once in my whole lifetime and am not capable of speaking Tagalog or any other language on the Philippines. When people get to know me, they notice that I'm just like any other person from Germany. My personally biggest pet peeve is when people tell me that I can never be fully German due to my racial heritage. I grew up in this country and feel pride about its culture like any other German. I hardly associate with the Philippines so telling me I can't be German has the same meaning to me as saying "I can't be anything." To sum it up: I'm German.

Half Ukrainain/Half Korean

Indonesian/Mexican/Dutch/American being mixed is a wild ride!!

Malaysian/Australian

half korean & half white (mostly scandinavian and jewish)

French / Chinese (HongKong) My mom is Chinese, my dad is French. I was raised in France, by my mom. They never married but I don't know the feeling of having a father, so I don't feel like I miss something here. When I speak cantonese people are surprised. When I told people my Chinese heritage, they are surprised as well. As I grew up I physically changed a lot, my face changed, my hair became curlier... So it made me confused, and people didn't recognize me. HongKong is a British colony, and my Mom traveled a lot. I had the luck of going to a lot of countries by my young age. My name is English, my second name is French. I speak Cantonese and French to my mom. She speaks to me in Cantonese, French, Mandarin, and english. I call my mom "mama" in Chinese, I call my french grand "mamie" in French. She really loves languages and culture. Sometimes, it pissed me off to have that many languages, but now I see the advantage of having that good language exposition. I never knew my HongKong family, i'm closer with my french family. This summer I'm going to HongKong alone 2 months to know them, my mom's culture in which I was raised, and to find my origins. I was't really aware of my multicultural eurasian situation, until the last years (University). I once had troubles identifying myself between the French, Chinese, HongKong (and yes even the HongKongers have doubt about their Chinese identity, it's like an inception of identity crisis for me). My goals in life changed during my realizations of what makes me and who I am. I'm subject of changing my state of mind of course, but right now what I feel is that I am is a human being. I realize how much we are all essentially the same, now I am more tolerant about differences. So what I want right now is to know the most languages, cultures... etc and to explore the world

European (Switzerland) - Asian (Malaysian-Borneo)

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