If you have 3 white grandparents and one non white grandparent do you consider yourself a person of colour/mixed race?

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I’m curious what other people consider themselves because I have always Just considered myself white, but I have one friend who calls herself mixed. 
We each have 3 white grandparents then one of her grandparents was black and one of mine middle eastern.
We both grew up in very Ukrainian Canadian families.
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Where do you think the line is for being “mixed”? How far down the chain of DNA does it have to go till you’re not? 🤔

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It is kinda up to you and what cultures you feel most at home with. This set up means that you may be up to 25% non white, kinda like Meghan Markle’s son with Prince Harry. It’s definitely still part of your heritage and you can embrace it as much as you are comfortable with

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You can if you want to just know it will be considered much less than that of someone who’s parents are of that particular racial markup.
My grandmothers are both Native American as half and one is half white the other half black.
My parents are both black. For the sake of keeping it simple and based on the cultures I was raised in I’m just black. That’s it.

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I guess it depends how much you know and appreciate the culture of the non-white grandparent. My bf has an Irish grandad and he considers himself irish as he knows a lot about the history of the Irish Troubles and the discrimination his grandad faced moving to England, and my bf lived in Ireland for a short period of time himself and his grandad practically raised him. He also attends Irish nights with his grandad where they sing old Irish songs and celebrate their culture.

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I have 3 white(ish) grandparents (2 were deceased by the time I was born) and one Japanese grandmother. We were raised with barely any contact with the white side. My father is half Japanese but raised in a fully Japanese culture. Out home was mostly a Japanese culture cause my father was quite overbearing. Now that I’m 25, I would consider him white washed but I do still consider myself mixed because of the culture my childhood home reflected. I always list myself as two or more races because culturally I don’t identify or feel like I belong to one culture. Out of my siblings I am the only one who looks ‘not all the way white’ so it may be easier for me. People always ask what I am so it always made me question it growing up when my siblings didn’t have to...

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I think people judge off phenotype and your appearance.  But biologically more white than anything else. But people usually judge off the way you look for the most part

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My boyfriend has 3 black grandparents and 1 white one and I’ve never him or his family refer to themselves as mixed lol and I wouldn’t really consider him mixed either even tho he technically is

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I would say half and half of something is mixed that’s just me.

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They’ll mixed but by a very small percentage so I wouldn’t go around claiming that, it’s nice to tell your kids about though.

If you have 3 white grandparents and one non white grandparent do you consider yourself a person of colour/mixed race?

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