These People Get Real About Multiracial Identity in This Powerful Video Elyse Wanshel - The Huffington Post
go to original January 21, 2016

The Struggle of Being Mixed Race (BuzzFeedYellow)

"I'm what Hollywood calls ethnically ambiguous.”

This is how one man in the Buzzfeed video above described what it’s like to be more than one race in a world and society that insists on putting people into neat racial categories.

Often times, people who identify as biracial or multiracial have physical characteristics that defy any sort of racial categorization and aren’t able to simply check off a box on an application, form or census that will neatly describe their race.

“I’ve gotten Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, half black, half white,” one woman said in regards to how people perceive her ethnic background by just looking at her.

According to a Pew Research Center survey published in June, a quarter of multiracial adults said people are often or sometimes confused by their racial background. And 19 percent said that they have felt like they were a "go-between" or “bridge” between different racial groups.

Yet for some people their multiracial background isn’t immediately apparent to others, which can evoke a wide-range of emotions because an important part of their identity isn't instantly recognized by most people.

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