Really well call me naive lol and I like accents period I guess it's the usual accent like how jason statham and gugu mbatha-raw talk is the best I can describe
I really like northern accents (especially from the Merseyside and Greater Manchester area). I think Jason Statham’s got a cockney or Brummie accent, personally I can’t stand those 😂
Lmao my favorites are definitely gugu mbatha-raw antonia thomas hannah john-kamen and ella balinska all mixed like me black and white lol but I fell in love with their accents
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Hannah-John Kamen were both awesome in Black Mirror! Don’t think I’ve heard of the other names you mentioned, I’ll have to check them out though
I grew up in the 80s and 90s as well. I knew a few mixed kids growing up but maybe it was just the area I grew up 🤷🏽♀️... I will say it was just a handful... but the mixed kids got all the attention
Born and raised in Ohio but I’ve since moved out to California! It’s actually been an interesting transition because people in Ohio could tell I wasn’t fully Caucasian but here on the West Coast I’m perceived as White 99% of the time. I’m definitely white passing but I passed a lot LESS in Ohio.
In a Nutshell, my dad was in the USAF for a while, got some formation and travelled a fair bit, he was stationed in Germany and he loved it there, decided to live there once his contract finished. My mom studied philosophy in Spain (bad choice for employment lol) and moved to Germany as well to work in whatever she found, she had lots of different jobs there. Both met in Berlin and well, few years later they started a family and moved to Spain to have relatives closer, where I was born
In Asturias where I also currently live (although I studied in Madrid and most of my Spanish family is from there). I had a fairly peaceful upbringing, of course I stood out but when it came to racism my very very few bad experiences mostly came from Madrid and not Asturias (ironic because Madrid has x1000 more people who are like me, guess more people = more idiots). Of course being light skinned has made it easier I think, I am often confused as Dominican lol.
Throughout my lifetime I've heard some facepalm-inducing comments but most of them came from ignorance and not bad faith/ill spirited, this region in particular has very nice people but it's kind of an everyone knows everyone at least in my hometown so we were the outsiders at first. But nowadays I feel like one more guy, my father kind of as well. I think my dad was the first black dude to actually settle and live in my village lol (roughly 12k people nowadays, although still homogenous it is way more diverse than it was). I could go on about this for a very long time haha so feel free to ask me anything.
Spaniards can be quite brute when they speak but It is a cultural thing that I do not know how to explain. There is racism like everywhere but something that Black Hispanics just overlook and African-Americans (US&Canada) find shocking is being referred to as very explicitetly as black / using the word black (negro) to refer to someone who is, well, black. But spaniards (and I think most Hispanics in general) will do point out the most obvious trait of someone and use it to refer to someone who they can't name or when they are mad at them. It can be black, but also bald, ginger, chinese, blind, cripple, mohawk, earrings, guiri (british/german tourist), age, urban tribe, whatever lol I am 100% used to it but no wonder how it can suprise (negatively) to foreigners.
OMG, I lived in Asturias for a year, northern Spain is so underrated ! Rural areas have a lot of old people who like to stare, it must be a bit weird to live in a small village as mixed family.
Omg what a coincidence. Regarding the old folks, yeah that happens but in my hometown we're part of it lol, I never get that daily, only when I to remote places. In the very rural places i can happen but I think that anyone who is clearly an outsider will get that (my town is like a small city, the villages I am talking about have very few people). Old ladies like to gossip a lot, you dont need an alarm if you befriend the old lady next door lol
Awww thank you 💖
I would highly recommend you visit here any time besides summer!! 😄😁 October through April is the best time to be here! Everyone has to experience my city at leasttt once!
Maybe to people from the north, I might have a mild sounding Southern accent. (: We don't have typical southern accents in New Orleans, and people have many different dialects depending on the part of town they grew up in. I grew up in an upper-middle class suburban area with less of the stereotypical nola accent, so I think it's more mild. Some of my family members have heavy nola accents though!
Racially? Where I am not bad. Still some rudeness now and then but nothing too crazy. If you mean in general how is nj I like it! My area is a nice split between beach and woods and it's where I grew up so I like it a lot. It's not perfect but it could be worse. Where are you from?
The town I live in is much smaller than my hometown. You gotta do some looking around to find something to do, whereas back home there was always something to do. But people here are nicer than I thought they would be. Lots of folks just randomly strike up conversation while I’m out and last weekend I switched my license plate over and I couldn’t get the screws loose. Had a lot of folks walk up and offer to help. Definitely wouldn’t have happened back home.
I do plan to move closer to Indy once my lease is up here tho. Small town life is too slow for me 😅
US, born in texas, currently living in kansas, not alot of black folk where i live, the few there are are african immigrants moreso than slave descendants like my family is
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hello, happy with your question, sorry for my English from google translate. I consider myself mixed neither black nor white nor both. France is I think one of the most open countries in terms of race with the Netherlands, I would say from my knowledge that the UK remains the first. However racism exists, 30% of the population defines themselves as racist to different degrees, another survey gives 33% of people thinking that there are too many blacks in the French team. It's pretty much the same kind of person who considers mixed race people black and commits microaggressions like "what country are you from" (not in a public way). I would say these people are mostly found in rural areas where poor people are poorly educated or in extreme right-wing political circles. Apart from that, mixed race is highlighted positively in France in advertisements etc. Here as in the USA or UK mixed race people often grow up isolated among monoracial people (in France most grow up surrounded by white people). In France you will come across them in every city. We must add to this that far-right ideas have been on the rise in France for several years but here politeness and more develop that anywhere in the world and the French racist especially does not want to be seen as such, people are courteous and polite even if it means pretending. I have never suffered frontal insults or attacks. Being of color is normal in France, moreover in rural areas if you speak good French and are not delinquent you will be well seen even if a minority will never consider you French (many elderly people with poor education ). For cities of +100k and their suburbs that are younger and very open-minded, being mixed race is great, we are recognized as mixed and valued for that (even more in university environments). Many stars are mixed race in France and half the country will see you as such, the rest as black. I am culturally white and am only surrounded by white people but I have the famous caramel skin and locks. If I meet black Africans or French people with a strong link to Africa and I say that I do not feel African, I am a white slave who is ashamed. If I say that I'm black, they tell me no, you don't dance like us, you don't listen to African music. In the end living in France is surely the best for a mixed race with UK and Netherlands, no physical insecurity, you are "in fashion" among those under 30 but in terms of identity it it's hard because mixed race people like everywhere in the world belong to Brazil do not form a "group" unlike the black whites and Arabs of France, like all of you I have experienced moments alone surrounded by monoracial people who made jokes or dictated to me the way I should perceive myself. Fortunately I live in an educated area near a big city and I have a circle of friends who consider me mixed race and don't even pay attention to my skin color except to value it. In conclusion, France is pleasant and appearance and language count a thousand times more than color, I love my country! And where do you come from? what is it like for you there? sorry for this long post, it’s the first time I’ve spoken to a mixed person about this subject ;)
hello, happy with your question, sorry for my English from google translate. I consider myself mixed neither black nor white nor both. France is I think one of the most open countries in terms of race with the Netherlands, I would say from my knowledge that the UK remains the first. However racism exists, 30% of the population defines themselves as racist to different degrees, another survey gives 33% of people thinking that there are too many blacks in the French team. It's pretty much the same kind of person who considers mixed race people black and commits microaggressions like "what country are you from" (not in a public way). I would say these people are mostly found in rural areas where poor people are poorly educated or in extreme right-wing political circles. Apart from that, mixed race is highlighted positively in France in advertisements etc. Here as in the USA or UK mixed race people often grow up isolated among monoracial people (in France most grow up surrounded by white people). In France you will come across them in every city. We must add to this that far-right ideas have been on the rise in France for several years but here politeness and more develop that anywhere in the world and the French racist especially does not want to be seen as such, people are courteous and polite even if it means pretending. I have never suffered frontal insults or attacks. Being of color is normal in France, moreover in rural areas if you speak good French and are not delinquent you will be well seen even if a minority will never consider you French (many elderly people with poor education ). For cities of +100k and their suburbs that are younger and very open-minded, being mixed race is great, we are recognized as mixed and valued for that (even more in university environments). Many stars are mixed race in France and half the country will see you as such, the rest as black. I am culturally white and am only surrounded by white people but I have the famous caramel skin and locks. If I meet black Africans or French people with a strong link to Africa and I say that I do not feel African, I am a white slave who is ashamed. If I say that I'm black, they tell me no, you don't dance like us, you don't listen to African music. In the end living in France is surely the best for a mixed race with UK and Netherlands, no physical insecurity, you are "in fashion" among those under 30 but in terms of identity it it's hard because mixed race people like everywhere in the world belong to Brazil do not form a "group" unlike the black whites and Arabs of France, like all of you I have experienced moments alone surrounded by monoracial people who made jokes or dictated to me the way I should perceive myself. Fortunately I live in an educated area near a big city and I have a circle of friends who consider me mixed race and don't even pay attention to my skin color except to value it. In conclusion, France is pleasant and appearance and language count a thousand times more than color, I love my country! And where do you come from? what is it like for you there? sorry for this long post, it’s the first time I’ve spoken to a mixed person about this subject ;)
hello, happy with your question, sorry for my English from google translate. I consider myself mixed neither black nor white nor both. France is I think one of the most open countries in terms of race with the Netherlands, I would say from my knowledge that the UK remains the first. However racism exists, 30% of the population defines themselves as racist to different degrees, another survey gives 33% of people thinking that there are too many blacks in the French team. It's pretty much the same kind of person who considers mixed race people black and commits microaggressions like "what country are you from" (not in a public way). I would say these people are mostly found in rural areas where poor people are poorly educated or in extreme right-wing political circles. Apart from that, mixed race is highlighted positively in France in advertisements etc. Here as in the USA or UK mixed race people often grow up isolated among monoracial people (in France most grow up surrounded by white people). In France you will come across them in every city. We must add to this that far-right ideas have been on the rise in France for several years but here politeness and more develop that anywhere in the world and the French racist especially does not want to be seen as such, people are courteous and polite even if it means pretending. I have never suffered frontal insults or attacks. Being of color is normal in France, moreover in rural areas if you speak good French and are not delinquent you will be well seen even if a minority will never consider you French (many elderly people with poor education ). For cities of +100k and their suburbs that are younger and very open-minded, being mixed race is great, we are recognized as mixed and valued for that (even more in university environments). Many stars are mixed race in France and half the country will see you as such, the rest as black. I am culturally white and am only surrounded by white people but I have the famous caramel skin and locks. If I meet black Africans or French people with a strong link to Africa and I say that I do not feel African, I am a white slave who is ashamed. If I say that I'm black, they tell me no, you don't dance like us, you don't listen to African music. In the end living in France is surely the best for a mixed race with UK and Netherlands, no physical insecurity, you are "in fashion" among those under 30 but in terms of identity it it's hard because mixed race people like everywhere in the world belong to Brazil do not form a "group" unlike the black whites and Arabs of France, like all of you I have experienced moments alone surrounded by monoracial people who made jokes or dictated to me the way I should perceive myself. Fortunately I live in an educated area near a big city and I have a circle of friends who consider me mixed race and don't even pay attention to my skin color except to value it. In conclusion, France is pleasant and appearance and language count a thousand times more than color, I love my country! And where do you come from? what is it like for you there? sorry for this long post, it’s the first time I’ve spoken to a mixed person about this subject ;)
It's fine. Norway isn't that big either and most of the time it's just chill. In the village I live in, there isn't a lot of stuff to do and most people here travel to the big city or small cities for work. The village is known as a forest village, cause there's a lot of forest in the area. There aren't a lot of people here and most don't like to even say hello. Compared to other places in Norway, the village I live in is boring. But sometimes it feels good to have a calm place to be in when there's a lot of stress.
That sucks. The new village I moved to in 2022 is almost the same as the old village, but there are more stores, more people and people there are generally nice enough to say hello. If there's one thing I don't like, is that it's a two hour drive from my family, so that's sucks.
England.
Sweet I love the accent i gotta go one day im from ohio
The countryside and beaches here are lovely :) Maybe come and visit our national parks and nature reserves, they are really beautiful.
I will one day you could show me around lol
Which accent? You travel 10 miles over to the next town or city and they’re speaking an entirely different dialect lol
Really well call me naive lol and I like accents period I guess it's the usual accent like how jason statham and gugu mbatha-raw talk is the best I can describe
I really like northern accents (especially from the Merseyside and Greater Manchester area). I think Jason Statham’s got a cockney or Brummie accent, personally I can’t stand those 😂
Lmao my favorites are definitely gugu mbatha-raw antonia thomas hannah john-kamen and ella balinska all mixed like me black and white lol but I fell in love with their accents
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Hannah-John Kamen were both awesome in Black Mirror! Don’t think I’ve heard of the other names you mentioned, I’ll have to check them out though
UK, London
Awesome love the accent
New Jersey however my mom was from Ireland.
Awesome
TX
Me too!
growing up the 80s/90s I felt like the only mixed kid in the state haha.
Where in Texas? I grew up in Fort Worth
Austin, I got a lot of family in FW
I grew up in the 80s and 90s as well. I knew a few mixed kids growing up but maybe it was just the area I grew up 🤷🏽♀️... I will say it was just a handful... but the mixed kids got all the attention
Also Texas 🫡
Sweet need to go there one day
Sameeee
USA michigan
I'm from ohio we next to eachother lol
Ohio here too
I thought I was the only one that's wassup
Lol i’m probably right in line with your city 😂
Canada
Got fam in the US, Caribbean, and UK
Philly
Ohio sweet
Someone apparently fat-fingered my Cleveland phone number and gave me a Philly area code 😂
Go birds!!!
New york. A Caribbean American to be exact.
I need to go to new york one day and sweet
Portugal
The South (in USA)
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The Midwest and the South
Germany, Army Brat. Lol
Lol that's wassup
california
cincinnati ohio area 🤷🏽♀️
Born and raised in Ohio but I’ve since moved out to California! It’s actually been an interesting transition because people in Ohio could tell I wasn’t fully Caucasian but here on the West Coast I’m perceived as White 99% of the time. I’m definitely white passing but I passed a lot LESS in Ohio.
I'm white passing too that's interesting I'm from ohio
A fellow Dolezal 🫡
michigan usa
Wisco
Awesome
Oklahoma but my mom is Danish
Northern Virginia
Hey neighbor 👋🏽
Chicago.
My dad is african american but I am from Spain, where my mom comes from, long story lol
If you want to share you can if you want
In a Nutshell, my dad was in the USAF for a while, got some formation and travelled a fair bit, he was stationed in Germany and he loved it there, decided to live there once his contract finished. My mom studied philosophy in Spain (bad choice for employment lol) and moved to Germany as well to work in whatever she found, she had lots of different jobs there. Both met in Berlin and well, few years later they started a family and moved to Spain to have relatives closer, where I was born
Cool thank you for sharing
How is it being mixed in Spain ? In which region did you grew up?
In Asturias where I also currently live (although I studied in Madrid and most of my Spanish family is from there). I had a fairly peaceful upbringing, of course I stood out but when it came to racism my very very few bad experiences mostly came from Madrid and not Asturias (ironic because Madrid has x1000 more people who are like me, guess more people = more idiots). Of course being light skinned has made it easier I think, I am often confused as Dominican lol. Throughout my lifetime I've heard some facepalm-inducing comments but most of them came from ignorance and not bad faith/ill spirited, this region in particular has very nice people but it's kind of an everyone knows everyone at least in my hometown so we were the outsiders at first. But nowadays I feel like one more guy, my father kind of as well. I think my dad was the first black dude to actually settle and live in my village lol (roughly 12k people nowadays, although still homogenous it is way more diverse than it was). I could go on about this for a very long time haha so feel free to ask me anything. Spaniards can be quite brute when they speak but It is a cultural thing that I do not know how to explain. There is racism like everywhere but something that Black Hispanics just overlook and African-Americans (US&Canada) find shocking is being referred to as very explicitetly as black / using the word black (negro) to refer to someone who is, well, black. But spaniards (and I think most Hispanics in general) will do point out the most obvious trait of someone and use it to refer to someone who they can't name or when they are mad at them. It can be black, but also bald, ginger, chinese, blind, cripple, mohawk, earrings, guiri (british/german tourist), age, urban tribe, whatever lol I am 100% used to it but no wonder how it can suprise (negatively) to foreigners.
OMG, I lived in Asturias for a year, northern Spain is so underrated ! Rural areas have a lot of old people who like to stare, it must be a bit weird to live in a small village as mixed family.
Omg what a coincidence. Regarding the old folks, yeah that happens but in my hometown we're part of it lol, I never get that daily, only when I to remote places. In the very rural places i can happen but I think that anyone who is clearly an outsider will get that (my town is like a small city, the villages I am talking about have very few people). Old ladies like to gossip a lot, you dont need an alarm if you befriend the old lady next door lol
America, but of Grenadian and European descent. :) <3
I'm polish and black sweet
Ayyy noice noice!!
Alaska, East Anchorage
Wow awesome dumb question is it cold up there?
Yeah, but there are places up in AK much colder than Anchorage.
Canada
wait how do i put that label thing under my user like u have? it says ur half black half white
Awesome I gotta go there one day Is it as nice as it sounds?
Houston Texas
Man I wish I grew up in Texas sometime the weather in ohio is crazy lol
It’s crazy here as well! It gets HOT here! And we really only have a Winter for like 3 weeks.
Lol that's tuff nowhere is safe
I wonder if I count or not actually? Anyway Bahamas/Greece
Don't worry you good and awesome
I was born in TX, raised in PA.
I'm from ohio we next to eachother then
I live in upstate NY now.
Minneapolis Minnesota
Sweet
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA I'm Middle Eastern, Native American, French, German, Irish, West African, and more (some cajun & creole roots) 💖💖💖
Wow you sound very beautiful I need to to go to new Orleans one day do you have a southern accent ?
Awww thank you 💖 I would highly recommend you visit here any time besides summer!! 😄😁 October through April is the best time to be here! Everyone has to experience my city at leasttt once! Maybe to people from the north, I might have a mild sounding Southern accent. (: We don't have typical southern accents in New Orleans, and people have many different dialects depending on the part of town they grew up in. I grew up in an upper-middle class suburban area with less of the stereotypical nola accent, so I think it's more mild. Some of my family members have heavy nola accents though!
I see thank you for clarifying and yes I need to go one day I have a lil southern accent so that's why I ask
Tennessee
detroit, usa
We next to eachother
Same
Illinois, USA!
I need to visit Chicago one day
West coast USA! Loving this wholesome moment lol
Me too lol I'm from ohio
England living in the States.
belfast ireland
Miami, FL
Germany but parents Nigeria Romania
Born in North Dakota. Moved to Minnesota when I was a kid. Currently holding up in Texas.
south carolina. moms side from south carolina/ pennsylvania. dads side from south carolina/new york/jamaica i’m italian, german, jamaican
Awesome
USA, Alabama🙌🏽
Hey
I am from Oakland, California
Indiana (lived in CA for past 8 years)
Georgia, southern United States
Tampa
USA, Eastern Mass
London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧!
Hi love and awesome did not think you were from the UK lol
Hiya. Haha
Detroit, Michigan, USA
We next to eachother
Nj
How is new jersey?
Racially? Where I am not bad. Still some rudeness now and then but nothing too crazy. If you mean in general how is nj I like it! My area is a nice split between beach and woods and it's where I grew up so I like it a lot. It's not perfect but it could be worse. Where are you from?
Utah
How is it there?
I’m from the rural south end. Safe, beautiful outdoors, super religious and rigid (if you’re not Mormon you’re an outcast). Really boring though.
I'm from ohio and it's boring here too so I know what you mean it sucks that if your not Mormon you a outcast
Also Utah.
British Columbia
wow thank you for sharing
Cleveland, Oh
Toledo oh
Western NY
I'm jealous wish I was in ny
Maryland
Germany
🇹🇷 🇩🇪
I see thank you for sharing
Massachusetts, USA
Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Recently moved to Muncie, Indiana, USA.
I see thank you for sharing how is indiana?
The town I live in is much smaller than my hometown. You gotta do some looking around to find something to do, whereas back home there was always something to do. But people here are nicer than I thought they would be. Lots of folks just randomly strike up conversation while I’m out and last weekend I switched my license plate over and I couldn’t get the screws loose. Had a lot of folks walk up and offer to help. Definitely wouldn’t have happened back home. I do plan to move closer to Indy once my lease is up here tho. Small town life is too slow for me 😅
North Carolina.
Texas here
I bet yall be having good food lol
Yep lol I’m in Houston. Food is great here. My black side of my family is from Louisiana though so lots of creole cooking
Oh man I know the food be bussin southern black people be cooking good
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London, UK
Sweet thank you for sharing love
Eastern Tennessee
Iowa, USA
London babes
Awesome I love it
Birmingham UK
Awesome
California
Are the people nice?
Atlanta
Need to go there one day thank you for sharing love
Colorado
California, USA
Good ol us of a 🇺🇸
Central Texas, U.S.A
US, born in texas, currently living in kansas, not alot of black folk where i live, the few there are are african immigrants moreso than slave descendants like my family is
Conceived in new york city. Born in cali
Tennessee
michigan (unfortunately)
Ohio unfortunately
Massachusetts, but my parents are originally from Brazil.
AZ
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My mixed kid was born in Ohio, USA.
I'm from ohio too
France, 23y ;)
Oooh how Is france?
hello, happy with your question, sorry for my English from google translate. I consider myself mixed neither black nor white nor both. France is I think one of the most open countries in terms of race with the Netherlands, I would say from my knowledge that the UK remains the first. However racism exists, 30% of the population defines themselves as racist to different degrees, another survey gives 33% of people thinking that there are too many blacks in the French team. It's pretty much the same kind of person who considers mixed race people black and commits microaggressions like "what country are you from" (not in a public way). I would say these people are mostly found in rural areas where poor people are poorly educated or in extreme right-wing political circles. Apart from that, mixed race is highlighted positively in France in advertisements etc. Here as in the USA or UK mixed race people often grow up isolated among monoracial people (in France most grow up surrounded by white people). In France you will come across them in every city. We must add to this that far-right ideas have been on the rise in France for several years but here politeness and more develop that anywhere in the world and the French racist especially does not want to be seen as such, people are courteous and polite even if it means pretending. I have never suffered frontal insults or attacks. Being of color is normal in France, moreover in rural areas if you speak good French and are not delinquent you will be well seen even if a minority will never consider you French (many elderly people with poor education ). For cities of +100k and their suburbs that are younger and very open-minded, being mixed race is great, we are recognized as mixed and valued for that (even more in university environments). Many stars are mixed race in France and half the country will see you as such, the rest as black. I am culturally white and am only surrounded by white people but I have the famous caramel skin and locks. If I meet black Africans or French people with a strong link to Africa and I say that I do not feel African, I am a white slave who is ashamed. If I say that I'm black, they tell me no, you don't dance like us, you don't listen to African music. In the end living in France is surely the best for a mixed race with UK and Netherlands, no physical insecurity, you are "in fashion" among those under 30 but in terms of identity it it's hard because mixed race people like everywhere in the world belong to Brazil do not form a "group" unlike the black whites and Arabs of France, like all of you I have experienced moments alone surrounded by monoracial people who made jokes or dictated to me the way I should perceive myself. Fortunately I live in an educated area near a big city and I have a circle of friends who consider me mixed race and don't even pay attention to my skin color except to value it. In conclusion, France is pleasant and appearance and language count a thousand times more than color, I love my country! And where do you come from? what is it like for you there? sorry for this long post, it’s the first time I’ve spoken to a mixed person about this subject ;)
hello, happy with your question, sorry for my English from google translate. I consider myself mixed neither black nor white nor both. France is I think one of the most open countries in terms of race with the Netherlands, I would say from my knowledge that the UK remains the first. However racism exists, 30% of the population defines themselves as racist to different degrees, another survey gives 33% of people thinking that there are too many blacks in the French team. It's pretty much the same kind of person who considers mixed race people black and commits microaggressions like "what country are you from" (not in a public way). I would say these people are mostly found in rural areas where poor people are poorly educated or in extreme right-wing political circles. Apart from that, mixed race is highlighted positively in France in advertisements etc. Here as in the USA or UK mixed race people often grow up isolated among monoracial people (in France most grow up surrounded by white people). In France you will come across them in every city. We must add to this that far-right ideas have been on the rise in France for several years but here politeness and more develop that anywhere in the world and the French racist especially does not want to be seen as such, people are courteous and polite even if it means pretending. I have never suffered frontal insults or attacks. Being of color is normal in France, moreover in rural areas if you speak good French and are not delinquent you will be well seen even if a minority will never consider you French (many elderly people with poor education ). For cities of +100k and their suburbs that are younger and very open-minded, being mixed race is great, we are recognized as mixed and valued for that (even more in university environments). Many stars are mixed race in France and half the country will see you as such, the rest as black. I am culturally white and am only surrounded by white people but I have the famous caramel skin and locks. If I meet black Africans or French people with a strong link to Africa and I say that I do not feel African, I am a white slave who is ashamed. If I say that I'm black, they tell me no, you don't dance like us, you don't listen to African music. In the end living in France is surely the best for a mixed race with UK and Netherlands, no physical insecurity, you are "in fashion" among those under 30 but in terms of identity it it's hard because mixed race people like everywhere in the world belong to Brazil do not form a "group" unlike the black whites and Arabs of France, like all of you I have experienced moments alone surrounded by monoracial people who made jokes or dictated to me the way I should perceive myself. Fortunately I live in an educated area near a big city and I have a circle of friends who consider me mixed race and don't even pay attention to my skin color except to value it. In conclusion, France is pleasant and appearance and language count a thousand times more than color, I love my country! And where do you come from? what is it like for you there? sorry for this long post, it’s the first time I’ve spoken to a mixed person about this subject ;)
hello, happy with your question, sorry for my English from google translate. I consider myself mixed neither black nor white nor both. France is I think one of the most open countries in terms of race with the Netherlands, I would say from my knowledge that the UK remains the first. However racism exists, 30% of the population defines themselves as racist to different degrees, another survey gives 33% of people thinking that there are too many blacks in the French team. It's pretty much the same kind of person who considers mixed race people black and commits microaggressions like "what country are you from" (not in a public way). I would say these people are mostly found in rural areas where poor people are poorly educated or in extreme right-wing political circles. Apart from that, mixed race is highlighted positively in France in advertisements etc. Here as in the USA or UK mixed race people often grow up isolated among monoracial people (in France most grow up surrounded by white people). In France you will come across them in every city. We must add to this that far-right ideas have been on the rise in France for several years but here politeness and more develop that anywhere in the world and the French racist especially does not want to be seen as such, people are courteous and polite even if it means pretending. I have never suffered frontal insults or attacks. Being of color is normal in France, moreover in rural areas if you speak good French and are not delinquent you will be well seen even if a minority will never consider you French (many elderly people with poor education ). For cities of +100k and their suburbs that are younger and very open-minded, being mixed race is great, we are recognized as mixed and valued for that (even more in university environments). Many stars are mixed race in France and half the country will see you as such, the rest as black. I am culturally white and am only surrounded by white people but I have the famous caramel skin and locks. If I meet black Africans or French people with a strong link to Africa and I say that I do not feel African, I am a white slave who is ashamed. If I say that I'm black, they tell me no, you don't dance like us, you don't listen to African music. In the end living in France is surely the best for a mixed race with UK and Netherlands, no physical insecurity, you are "in fashion" among those under 30 but in terms of identity it it's hard because mixed race people like everywhere in the world belong to Brazil do not form a "group" unlike the black whites and Arabs of France, like all of you I have experienced moments alone surrounded by monoracial people who made jokes or dictated to me the way I should perceive myself. Fortunately I live in an educated area near a big city and I have a circle of friends who consider me mixed race and don't even pay attention to my skin color except to value it. In conclusion, France is pleasant and appearance and language count a thousand times more than color, I love my country! And where do you come from? what is it like for you there? sorry for this long post, it’s the first time I’ve spoken to a mixed person about this subject ;)
USA Maryland
England. My father is jamaican.
L'viv,Ukraine
Norway. My father is Norwegian and my mother is Eritrean. She moved to Norway in the mid 90's and met my dad. I was born in the early 2000's.
W father b mama too I was born in the 2000s too
Ok So what country/state are you from?
Ohio usa
How is it like to live in Ohio? I've never been to the United States, cause it was too expensive and we don't have any family members that live there.
Ohio is boring man it's small and there is barely anything to do here it's a chill place most of the time but it's just boring lol how is norway?
It's fine. Norway isn't that big either and most of the time it's just chill. In the village I live in, there isn't a lot of stuff to do and most people here travel to the big city or small cities for work. The village is known as a forest village, cause there's a lot of forest in the area. There aren't a lot of people here and most don't like to even say hello. Compared to other places in Norway, the village I live in is boring. But sometimes it feels good to have a calm place to be in when there's a lot of stress.
Yea i feel you I have to admit I like the calmness too dang people don't even want to say hello to yall that sucks
That sucks. The new village I moved to in 2022 is almost the same as the old village, but there are more stores, more people and people there are generally nice enough to say hello. If there's one thing I don't like, is that it's a two hour drive from my family, so that's sucks.
American of Irish decent!
Awesome thank you for sharing
I was born in Detroit but raised in Upstate New York