After that conversation at day camp, I knew only one thing for sure: I didn’t want to feel that way ever again. So I spent the next 10 years distancing myself from what had instigated that interaction in the first place.
4 thoughts on “Coming to Terms with My Race, Part 2”
Read it and it’s awesome. Will definitely share my Hmong stories soon. =p
Thank you so much for such a thoughtful piece. As a white dad raising a mixed Asian daughter in a multicultural family, it is very helpful to hear you own particular experience with race and cultural identity. It is Certainly a very complex thing.
xxiong: thank you! i appreciate that. and i look forward to reading your stories!
l. kammerer: thank you! i appreciate that a lot. i love that you’re thinking about these issues and what they might mean for your daughter; that’ll go a long way when she inevitably runs into them. you’re right — racial and cultural identity is complex, and all the more so for multiracial people. my biracial children don’t exist yet, but i wonder all the time what this process will look like for them and how to help them understand it. i wish you and your family the best as you continue on that journey!
Read it and it’s awesome. Will definitely share my Hmong stories soon. =p
Thank you so much for such a thoughtful piece. As a white dad raising a mixed Asian daughter in a multicultural family, it is very helpful to hear you own particular experience with race and cultural identity. It is Certainly a very complex thing.
xxiong: thank you! i appreciate that. and i look forward to reading your stories!
l. kammerer: thank you! i appreciate that a lot. i love that you’re thinking about these issues and what they might mean for your daughter; that’ll go a long way when she inevitably runs into them. you’re right — racial and cultural identity is complex, and all the more so for multiracial people. my biracial children don’t exist yet, but i wonder all the time what this process will look like for them and how to help them understand it. i wish you and your family the best as you continue on that journey!