interesting article, d i. i'm biracial myself. i'll comment on a couple of points.
Quote:But Mah and others say these common experiences are what make them feel most comfortable in the midst of other mixed people. "You meet someone mixed and you bond instantly," Mah explains. "It's like, `Oh my gosh, my long-lost brother!' You automatically feel comfort, like, `I understand this.'"
that's generally not been my experience. even with people who are half Japanese and half white like me, the fact i grew up in Japan & absorbed Japanese language & culture made me different from those who were raised American.
Quote:The high intermarriage rate, says the 62-year-old Kojima, whose own children are biracial, is a direct result of the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II, when they were seen as enemies to Canada.
i didn't know Canada had internment, like the US did. just this week, i stopped for a while at Manzanar, the facility where 10,000 Japanese-Americans were interned. even though there are no buildings standing, just a guard tower & some guardhouses, as soon as i saw the barbed wire, i thought, Guantanamo.
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