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‘White-Asians’ make up 4% of US biracial population, 6 of 10 feel discriminated against

June 16, 2015
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Actor Daniel Henney is a popular figure at camps for multiracial children. (Yonhap file)

6.9 percent of adults in the U.S. have two or more races in their ethnic background and approximately four percent of that group have both white and Asian backgrounds according to a new study.

The statistics gathered by Pew Research confirms that “White-Asians” make up the smallest percentage of the biracial population.

“White-American Indians” were found to have the most representation at 50 percent of the group followed by “Black-Indian Americans” (12%) then “White-Blacks,” (11%) “Multiracial Hispanics,” (11%) “White-Black American Indian” (6%) and “White-Asians” (4%). Other combinations made up the remaining five percent.

The biracial population has grown tenfold when analyzing children born in 2001 compared to 2013 and interracial marriages are naturally growing along with it.

But six out of 10 individuals in this particular group of “White-Asians” still experience racial discrimination.

Pew Research’s definition of discrimination includes racial slurs or jokes, poor service in public businesses and being unfairly stopped by the police.

Compared to the other groups in the survey, “White-Asians” experienced the least amount of discrimination compared to “Black-American Indians,” “White-Blacks” and “White-American Indians.”

Despite the issues arising for the country’s biracial population, 60 percent said “they felt proud to have a biracial background” and that their background allowed them to be “more open to other cultures.”

19 percent of those surveyed also said that being biracial had been an advantage for them while only four percent said that it was a disadvantage. The remaining 76 percent said that it didn’t make a difference.

“White-Asians” topped the group with 58 percent saying that their ethnic background had been an advantage to them.

Additionally, “White-Asians” tended to identify more with their white relatives while also spending more time with them.

One Comment

  1. Chiu Yick-men

    June 17, 2015 at 1:52 AM

    The American society has always been inherently and openly racist and
    will always be so!

    Just see those white politicians attacking and vilifying President Obama at every opportunity in recent years? But has any one of them
    ever had the nerve to even shown their disapproval over their former
    rogue president George W. Bush even though this member of the Bush
    Dynasty could not even speak correct English?

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