r/mixedrace • • 6h ago

Why is it hard for me to make white friends but easy for me to make poly friends?

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This is seems like a weird topic, did anyone else find that in university they made friends with mostly people from their poc side? I don’t think anyone’s racist, whenever I do try to make friends with white people for some reason it never sticks, which can be due to a multitude of factors. I am studying law, again that may be another factor, and I have been told by my white peers that they forget I’m white (despite me also having European features). But I’m curious if anyone else has experienced this.


r/mixedrace • • 12h ago

Rant I have a bone to pick

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As someone who’s mixed European x Polynesian, I find it so annoying how most people assume that all mixed people are African x European or European x Asian. I get they’re the most common combos on social media, but I hate how they’re treated as default categories and everyone else is “exotic” when in actual fact non-African non-Asian indigenous populations have been interracially mixing for a long time too due to eugenics and cultural insecurity but often times out of love