masala (are you biracial?)
so, i am not bi-racial or anything, unless you count my grandma’s grandma who was a little english lady called ms smith (kid you not). but i am cross cultural, as in my parents are some 2 different countries. my dad being from botswana and my mom from south africa (zulu). but i never felt that mad me stand out in any particualr way, in bots, in fact in africa a LOT of folks are cck because back in the day there would be like one university in a 4 country area hence kids went form different countries there and hey presto! peeps from e’rywhere was gettin’ hitched to other peeps from e’rywhere. but brice made me post this because…well, i don’t know why-because, because i talk a lot and he thought it would make me happy to have something to post about. sadly, he was right.
anyway, where was i?
right! seems a lot of folks in this group are also bi-racial, tri-racial, crazy weird mix ala brice the aisropean (did i get it right?) with his french/vietnamese dad and ethiopian mom.
so, point is, what’s your mix?
p.s. feel free to add how that mix even happened, like where did mr. france/vietnam meet ms ethiopia, anywho?
uhm, let's see...born in botswana, lived in ethiopia til i was 8, repatriatede to botswana, hated it. moved to swaziland for high school (uwc! woohoo!) finished in 1995 (yes, i did IB), went back to botswana ofr about 8 months, then to the states (virginia) for the next 4 years of college, earned my BA in theatre arts, went on tour with the oldest classical touring company in the usa for 9 months, played in over 25 states, the lived in DC for about 6 months. went back to botswan (AGAIN!) was there for 5 years. half the time i was either in south africa or traveling. been to, i don't know, i lot of countries. so i am an actor/writer/director/all around thespian who just discovered she's also tck. awesome!
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6 Comments to “masala (are you biracial?)”
December 1st, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Warona.. Wow, I can’t believe your grandma’s grandma is a little English lady? How did that happen!
Yeah, I’m a weird and crazy mixture of cultures. (Masala lol)
My dad is a French/Vietnamese peace-keeper, and he met my mom in Ethiopia.
It was hate at first sight.
He was clingy, and she wasn’t interested. But he eventually won her over, they fell in love, and after his contract was over, they moved to France… and that’s where little Brice was born.
I was chatting with Angelic, who is part Swedish and part Thai, and was wondering how many biracial/multiracial TCKs there are here.
Do you guys know anyone else?
(p.s: Warona, it’s because you’re “one of us”. lol)
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December 1st, 2007 at 4:41 pm
brice, everytime you say that i think of that simpson’s episode “one of us, one of us” i have to go find that on youtube now, hang on….
ugh, couldn’t find it.
anyway, uhm, my grannie’s granny was a colonialist, that’s all. not very interesting. though, how she hooked up with some zulu man is beyond me. hm, maybe i should ask my gran.
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December 1st, 2007 at 4:45 pm
LOL “some zulu man”
Maybe the same way my colonialist ancestors did - OOOO exotic!
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December 1st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
I am, kinda lol.
In my dad’s side, his grandpa is spanish (hence the hispanic last name).
In my mom’s side, her grandpa is chinese (hence my appearance, physically).
I was born in the Philippines (my birth certificate says so).
I don’t know where I ‘grew up’ though.
Aaaand… yeah there you go. LOL.
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December 2nd, 2007 at 10:44 am
I am biracial too. Quarter English, Quarter Welsh, Half Filipino. My mom was born and grew up in Philippines and after she finished college she toured Asia with a Filipino band as their singer and eventually met my English/Welsh TCK dad while performing in Malaysia, where my dad was currently working. They were married in Malaysia and moved to Saudi Arabia. They had me a year later in England and then moved straight back to Saudi lol where we lived for a while.
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April 28th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Hmm, me im part arab, anglo, kurdish and jewish. Thus a very insane mix that not only makes people think your intresting, but also wanna beat the crap outa ya!
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