Hi! I created a catalog of books about Mixed-Race Asian characters written by Mixed authors. The books are organized by which ethnicities/ identities are included, and I've got a solid start, but your help adding to this list is much appreciated! Please let me know if you have any to add.

I'm old, but I'd like to weigh in. I'm married and returned to Asia where I was better accepted and here, nobody cares about half Asians or thinks they are attractive, in fact it was a shock to be seen as 'average' because in the US I was always the 'hot Asian guy.'

Growing up, I knew a bunch of half Asians and this "unity" we have is very strange now to see meetups because none of the half Asians I ever met married one another or dated one another.

In real life I see a lot of Wasian men and most of them are single and don't seem to do well with women, my guess just because of looks or being unbearable or both. Wasian women are almost universally with white guys.

With girls, I personally never met one I found as pretty as a full Asian girl, so maybe this is why.

It just seems that this is just the fallout from a huge number of self hating Asians chasing white people and now half Asians on the whole are either insecure about not being full white, not being Asian. I think it's probably worse for the guys because we live in the most superficial time in human history and not being attractive makes it really really hard for these Wasian guys to date. Myself, my dad was one of the passport bro incel types who got with my mom who I think wanted a visa and two kids so she could secure that life, but I came out looking just like her (basically full Asian), while my brother looks like my dad and is 42 this year and still a virgin.

Why some wasians on the internet like to call themselves half japanese/korean etc and half white? I'm just curious why are some of you don't call yourself as a half american/irish/german etc?

I'm sorry if it may sound rude to you guys, but I'm european and cant fully comprehend this phenomenon

Hey everyone, I was wondering if any of you have had this experience. Slight rant sorry.

So basically, I am half Ilocano and 2nd generation. My grandparents met in O'ahu where my dad was born an raised until he moved to the mainland united states in his early 20's.

Simply put, he lies about a lot of Filipino related things.

For example, today my mom saw a picture of biko (rice dessert with brown sugar) on pinterest and showed it to my dad to ask what the name was. My dad straight up lied about knowing what it was and told her it was called "pinas" a word he likely pulled out of thin air or his limited filipino lexicon. Lying. straight. out. the. teeth.

Another example was when me and my brother were cooking lechon kawali. We asked what my mom thought of it and she said that she didn't like it that much because it was too dried out. My dad defended us with, " It's supposed to be that way. Trust me I am the one true Filipino in this house." Ok what the fuck. Thanks I guess.

In general, he just lies about knowing Ilocano, like all the time. We were once at a Filipino bakery in Hawaii and the ladies their were speaking Ilocano. My dad constructed this whole story about how he new every word they were saying and that apparently they were freaking out because someone robbed the cash register. I fully believe he just pulled that out of his ahh. There have been multiple times too when we were near people that were speaking Tagalog and he said he understood them, thinking I would not know the difference between Ilocano and Tagalog. Which I do, after spending some time learning Tagalog.

I think he thinks he can get away with all these lies because I am half white and not raised in Hawaii. But ever since middle school I have done lots of research into my ethnicity and now the façade is up.

Sorry for the rant. Please let me know if you have any similar stories of parents being like this.

I don’t really see the issue with wasians having our own meetup. We’re not gathering around “whiteness,” we’re gathering around the shared experience of being both Asian and white. Mixed people in general can relate to each other in a lot of ways, but different mixes also come with different cultural dynamics, family experiences, and identity issues.

People are saying it should have just been a general mixed Asian meetup instead, but by that logic, wouldn’t that also exclude mixed people who aren’t Asian? At some point, trying to make every space universally inclusive just erases the point of having more specific communities in the first place.

If blasians or another mixed group had their own meetup, I don’t think people would react the same way. A lot of the backlash toward wasians specifically seems tied to broader resentment toward white people.

I also think many wasians are expected to carry a kind of “white guilt” that doesn’t even match our lived experience. A lot of mixed people, including wasians, are perceived primarily as their non-white side anyway and don’t necessarily experience the social benefits people assume come with being half white.

Having a space for people with similar backgrounds to connect shouldn’t automatically be treated as something negative.

I only heard a few people say they like wasians, they don't seem to be as popular as fully white or fully Asian people. I want to feel sexy and as popular as white women and Asian women

My entire tiktok fyp page has been flooded with this topic for the past few days so I’m genuinely curious what the experience is like for other Asians because I personally don’t relate to or understand the, for lack of a better word, fixation on race or being mixed.

I’m American (born and raised) but yeah, second gen; my parents immigrated here in the early 1980s. So ethnically I am West Asian/Middle Eastern.

Here in the US, I have cousins, friends and even one of my sisters married outside our race/culture; therefore, all have mixed kids but the fact that these individuals are mixed doesn’t really cross our mind? I mean, we acknowledge it but being mixed is not necessarily an identity or label that we focus on very much. For example, we don’t have specific terminology such as "Wasian," "Blasian," etc., to define them. Of course the mixed ones pick up on cultural differences but there’s no struggle of not being accepted by either group, which is something I read a lot about in tiktok comments.

Somehow I found this sub, and this seems like a good place to ask, but I live in Virginia, is there anybody out there with my specific mix ? Sometimes I feel really alone, it’s hard to relate to anyone, I just wanna know there are girls like me out there. I’ve only met one other girl that was my specific mix of parents and I met her when I lived in Orange County, CA. For context I’m half Filipino/White. (28F) I just want to find some possible female friends.

For me personally, at first glance, I thought the wasian meetup was something funny, something quite silly, until I started to watch more videos of what happened during the event. There’s definitely other issues with this event, but I feel like no one’s really spoken about this issue I’ve kind of had with this?

I felt like in that event, people were very fixated on who’s the Asian parent, and who’s the white parent. With some of the wasians with Asian fathers acting like it’s some sort of achievement to not have an Asian mother.

I dunno. Maybe I’m being sensitive. Or that this is a reach. But as someone who’s half New Zealander half Filipina, I’d get stereotyped as my father being some lonely and desperate passport bro who ‘rescued’ my mum from the slums of the Philippines or some shit. When it’s all completely wrong.

Of course there’s nothing wrong with asking people who’s the Asian one in a casual conversation, but seeing some people in the meet up act like it’s a flex or an achievement to have an Asian father really rubs me the wrong way. Especially because I personally have memories of this girl who’d embarrass and humiliate me at school for having an Asian mum and white father whenever the topic of passport bros and Southeast Asia came up. She was wasian herself, but East Asian.

Edit: I just want to also clarify that in no way am I being hateful towards those who have Asian fathers. I could care less about who’s the Asian parent, I personally just have an issue when people think it’s some sort of ‘achievement’ to dodge that kind of stereotyping because your father is Asian.

so you might've heard about the wasian meetup recently, i think there was one in NYC and one in SF? i've seen lots of monoracials and other biracials mad about it, mostly because they feel they are being excluded (other half asians like blasians and hispasians, or non-asian biracials like mixed white-african american).

i've also seen people talk about the meetup excluding wasians who have half asian heritage from west or south asia, some even claim it's from a place of racism regarding their darker skin tones. i have yet to see proof of this actually happening, but at the same time i also have a theory on why this could be happening: when people talk about asia, most only think of east asia and maybe even southeast asia, like japan, korea, china, thailand, philippines, malaysia, indonesia... most people don't even recognize west and south asians as their definition of "asian" even if that's what they actually are, asian.

i can sympathize with feeling excluded, although i believe it was stated on the meetup that everyone was welcome even if the meetup was organized mainly for wasians (white+asians)? i also wonder why we weren't just able to ignore the meetup if we didn't like it, they weren't hurting anyone, and we could organize another meetup for all half-asians or all biracials instead.

i've also seen lots of dangerous assumptions going like "they're parading their whiteness" "that reminded me of a kkk meeting" "it's their white side that organized it" and that we're somehow "proud" of our whiteness and privilege.

to me it just isn't that deep, and the criticism feels overblown compared to what the actual "problem" is (the meetup and wasians). personally, when i first saw something online about the meetup i thought "oh cool, that would be fun to go to as a wasian myself". i'm half european, so maybe i don't understand the discourse because i don't live in america.

I am Wasian, and identity has always been a struggle to me. There are so many struggles Wasians experience, including with racism and identity. So suddenly, I see a surge of anti-Wasian content on social media, saying that the term centers around 'Whiteness' and acting like Wasians cause White supremacy. Which is really stupid and just mean to say because we experience racism and discrimination, and the feeling we will never belong anywhere. Like why is it that people are putting the blame on Wasians rather than racism itself? It's so unfair, and they all say we have White privilege which many of us clearly don't.

First, I am not White passing at all, and I have no issue with that tbh. I know who I am and that's all that really matters. Second, I'm not Jewish, but I am of Jewish descent, and I would know a little about having to hide that and be very scared about people finding out (and I have been told antisemitic things before). So when this idea of us having 'White privilege' is thrown onto us, it actually enrages me because clearly my position is one of hiding in order to feel safe and not of privilege at all. My ancestors did not come from a place of power at all, and that shit affects me. And I know my experience is unique, but to say that to Wasians who are of other European heritage is also wrong. What right do people have to judge our experiences? Why are our experiences diminished because we have European ancestry? I am absolutely against White supremacy and racism, but attacking Wasians helps no one.

I'm sorry, I'm just really upset because I got a bunch of hate comments on social media. I just feel like there's no place for Wasians now, and if we want to be heard then we'll be accused of being White supremacists who value being White over being Asian. Does anyone also feel this way? How can I stop feeling sad about this? What can we do so that our voices don't get dilluted by people claiming that our struggles are invalid?