I'm mixed race, white and Asian. My mom is white and lives with me, she and my dad are divorced. And she says discriminatory things about Asians in front of me and tells me not to get offended because I'm "basically white." How do I tell her that I see myself as Asian and that she offends me?

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I'm mixed race, white and Asian. My mom is white and lives with me, she and my dad are divorced. And she says discriminatory things about Asians in front of me and tells me not to get offended because I'm "basically white." How do I tell her that I see myself as Asian and that she offends me?

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Dr. Md Rushad Rahman · Answer 1 · May 20, 2016 08:12:42

Tell her you're just as much "basically Asian" as you are "basically white." They are both part of your identity, and if you weren't for that Asian man she was once with, you wouldn't exist. Tell her it offends you to hear those remarks and you don't want to hear them.

I'm mixed race, white and Asian. My mom is white and lives with me, she and my dad are divorced. And she says discriminatory things about Asians in front of me and tells me not to get offended because I'm "basically white." How do I tell her that I see myself as Asian and that she offends me?

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