Exactly. I am Caucasian and my d is 1/2 Filipino.
She has not been raised with hardly any Asian customs.
My family has been one that emphasized the importance of education. My grandmother was the only female in the advanced chemistry classes at OSU during the depression. Other grandma was a teacher. Grandparents were PHD scientists/ professors and dentists. My father spent his life regretting he did not go to college.
so… College is important to our family. Both of my grandmothers advised me to not date until I finished college. Getting an education was emphasized as being all-important in the way I was raised. Horror stories about the depression were shared during my childhood. The importance of education in our family has little to do with d being 1/2 Asian.
My Asian spouse has not been that involved in her upbringing. He is second generation and never learned their native language. We relocated far from his relatives before she was born and she has had little contact with them.
The fact that people look at her and categorize her as “Asian” and place all sorts of expectations on her and judgements because of the color of her skin- I just don’t understand it.
She is as American as the rest of my family… why do people only see the color of her skin?
This is just one example of being stereotyped. I am sure that there are many others with different circumstances…