Types of Mixed People
It might be a bit weird to see us put in categories, but it could validating for some.
Please feel free to add more categories or celeb examples too!
Not uncommon ofc that someone is more than one of these. Let me know which ones you relate to the most.
Ambiguous- Difficult to place. Can look like a variety of other ethnicities rather than what they’re actually mixed with (Ex: Vanessa Hudgens, Blanket Jackson)
Intermediate- The poster image of a mixed person. Noticeable and distinctive features of both races (Ex: Halle Berry)
Leaning- Very difficult to discern features of another race (I Actually see features of both in the vast majority of mixed people, so to find examples of this is hard)
Overlap- Some races/ethnicities share features and it’s hard to discern which race these features come from (ie. Epicanthic folds in East Asians and Scandinavian or Irish people). You can’t tell if they’re x that looks kind of y, or y that looks kind of x. They don’t particularly stand out in either racial group. May be accused of phishing or larding these days. (I’m struggling to find any famous people with this atm)
Switch- Looks so much like one race in this photo/lighting, looks very much like another race in that photo/lighting (Example: Maybe Markiplier??)
Feature/Pigmentation difference- In which someone may have the skin, hair, and or eye color of one race, but the facial features of another. They face a lot of colorism or featurism (Example: Lucy Aylmer)
Differents race- Often assumed to be a race they are not. Example: A black/white person who is constantly assumed to be Hispanic (Maybe Olivia Rodrigo for an example? People seem to mistake her as Hispanic)