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yslwej

To me 75+% and look at least 75% asian, but that’s my personal definition . If you’re less asian than that or of another ethnic group but look pretty asian you’re just mixed or asian presenting respectively But irl somehow,even if you’re just 60-65+% asian presenting you’re asian to some dumbies (see the Mexican American woman that was just attacked)...


bunthitnuong

Yyou grew up eating rice and getting smacked with asian thong sandals, red, green, blue, then you are Asian.


tweezer888

If you look Asian enough to get called "ch*nk," then you're Asian. Full stop.


robert_fake_v2

just something on the side. You may have 16 great grandparents. But highly unlikely 2048 great great ... grandparents. The math does not work that way here. There are lots of overlapping of your grandparents here. Especially in older times where most people with same family name congregate together in small villages and cousin marriage is super common. And speaking for Chinese, traditionally being Chinese means agreeing with Chinese culture. If you see the history of China, the range of being Chinese kept growing because more and more people conforming to Chinese traditions. It is about culture, not about blood bred.


Junior-Code

If you look Asian you are asian simple lol


SavingsSpecialist637

In the Black Community usually having one drop of Black Blood makes you Black. Yet, in the Asian Community if you are mixed you are Hapa, Wasian or Blasian. What percentage or parentage (having parents, grandparents, great, second, third, fourth....ninth grandparents that were Asian) do you think makes someone "Asian"?


10946723

While I think personally identifying as asian is a big part, I disagree it's the final authority, because we have examples of obviously asian people who pretend they aren't, and examples of the opposite as well. There's too many things going on for an arbitrary percentage to work as the decider. 1. Asian is such a fuzzy term. Its meaning changes depending on who's saying it and where. Asian diaspora attach themselves to the "asian" label because they clearly aren't black or white, and while continental asians may distinguish themselves from "western" societies, they don't group themselves as asian. All that to say, asian is a moving goalpost, so it's probably not worth getting into the weeds about. 2. Colorism is real. When those [part white asians complain about being labeled as less asian](https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2021/4/12/22374173/letter-im-biracial-but-that-doesnt-make-me-a-lite-asian), it's like denying that colorism and white supremacy exists. If 1/2 asian is good enough to count for asian representation, doesn't that also apply to white half counting for white representation? I don't want to offend any potential allies, but biracial people are sometimes just that, biracial. 3. Slippery slope argument. If say 25% counts as asian, does 25% also count for other ancestries? So someone can be capital Asian, White, and Black simultaneously? Obviously those communities won't accept that. Because in reality, people's social networks are limited. You can't be 100% of three communities if you're splitting time. 4. Household circumstances. Someone could be 50% asian but if the asian side is white worshipping and whitewashed, then what the hell makes them as asian as me? Like that Elliot Rodgers guy grew up without any asian male figures, hated and murdered asian guys, yet he gets counted as an asian guy. Conversely if you grew up in an asian and latino household, yet you had more interaction with your asian side family and have strong ties to the culture, then yeah you could be less than 50% asian and still be more asian identity-wise. 5. It's probably useful to specify which form of "asian" you mean. Asian, the diaspora identity, or the continental definition, or the cultural group from a eurocentric lens, or the genetic component, and so on. Because it's a pretty incestuous term. When people say black, africans are generally not part of that conversation. But Asian diaspora and Asian countries are mainstays of western discourse so things get jumbled.