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Q: What's the big deal with mixed-blood people?
People Ooh and Ahh knowingly when I tell them my father's American and my mother Canadian. I try to tell them it's really no big thing at all, but immediately they say I'm mixed blood, which accounts for XYZ particular trait they distinguish as odd.
Is it considered a positive thing to be mixed blood, or is it simply unusual to people because they're all Han Chinese? Would they consider it mixed blood to have a child with a Hakka, or with someone from Xinjiang or a minority group in Yunnan?
A friend of mine who is Uyghur and told me his parents would never accept him marrying a Chinese Han woman including Hui woman as he said his parents considered them to have dirty blood.
GuilinRaf:
I seriously dated a Hui girl some time ago, and my Han friends would tell me to "be careful".
I too had some friends who were Uygher and it was the same thing.
philbravery:
Great
Now you tell me
That info would have been good about 6 years ago.
on the serous side my wife is great and I wish I had met her a long time ago
chinese are racist they can't get beyond their own ignorance.
And they don't realize that American and Canadian are pretty well mixed blood from the same places to begin with?
If they think you are mixed blood because you are half Canadian and half American they are really really dim.
What is a full blood Canadian? Is this about nationality or race?
Most Chinese people have no clue about anything outside of China.
Don't think anything of it. They probably know nothing about Canada, and not very much about America. Appearance is very important to them, so maybe that is why they make such comments. Like you said, they probably just think it is unusual.
Sadly, not just China.
Back home in the States, when people find out that I am Puertorrican, they often are astounded because I "look white".
Jnusb416:
My best friend has that problem. She lives in Philadelphia, and her family is from Puerto Rico. In fact, her grandparents still live there. People with skin darker than her confuse her for white, but white people don't think that. I guess they think her skin is pale? She can speak Spanish, but even that doesn't convince them.
GuilinRaf:
Yes. many do not realize that Puerto Ricans, like people for the Mainland US come in all the sizes and colors: White, Black, Indian, Asian, mixed, etc.
My sister,however, has much darker skin than I do so they usually pick her as Hispanic/Latina right off the bat. When I was studying in Minnesota, the Hispanic/Latinos did not consider me Latino "enough". And in Puerto Rico, I am not considered "Boricua enough". Here in China, I am just "Lao Wai", so i guess that is why it does not bother me so much.
Next time you should do the same thing back and eww and ahh at them...lol!~
When I first got to china one of my colleges said, “you are very brown for your country did your mother stay in the sun to long”
Oh China. You continue to amaze me. Should we tell them about Darwin; also that we were all black tens of thousands of years ago? And that's after the whole monkey period too. Never mind the dolphin period. Sorry, no panda period in human evolution.
I'd have to agree with Nevermind, I'm mixed blood, so they say, but if you are Canadian American with origins from Europe, is it really mix blooded? Besides that, usually I begin a conversation with, I'm Canadian, they begin to tell me the problems in Canada, so then I say Canadian American, then the war is on. Chinese are by far more arrogant and racist than Americans, and to be honest, that is really hard to believe
American and Canadian mixed bloods!, am sure they where all rounded up in the 60s. Wow the injustice and racist Vilification this group as gone though is terrible! 
most common chat up line i have heard:
"don't you think mixed blood babies are very beautiful?"
This is a subject that gets an incredible amount of attention. The thing about mixed babies being cute etc is one thing. From a personal perspective I think it is far more interesting that mixing the gene pool a bit is a way of helping evolution, as opposed to in-breading.
I find the term "mixed blood" offensive. I used to work with a couple of people who would look down upon mixed blood people.
Hell, I have mixed blood in my baggage. 450 years ago my ancestors moved from one country to another.
