What does 'mixed race' mean to you? How would you describe a 'mixed race' person?

I am mixed race i.e English/Irish but generally mixed race is used to describe someone of colour.

My SIL is mixed race, he is brown and always happy to explain his heritage to people, however most people are too nervous of asking him for fear of coming across as racist!

I wouldn't describe a mixed race person, in case it offended someone.

It's a long time since I heard that phrase. I suppose generally it was about colour, or race but I don't think in those terms.

I would describe them as a person. Or a friend, or a colleague, or a neighbour - you get the idea.

English/Irish isn't mixed race surely. Not if they are both Caucasian.

My DD calls her DC mixed heritage. Mum is white English and dad is also English but Jamaican heritage.

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Some of my colleagues are mixed race. 1 South Korean American. 2 Anglo Indian. 2 Anglo Nigerian. 1 Ghanian British. 1 Australian Chinese and an Anglo Iranian. We're a mixed bag and get on very well together.

The question is often asked still on forms and census.
Thanks for all your comments- keep them coming.

Scottish /asian or Scottish/african ,never mixed race ,most of these people I know who have differing backgrounds are happy to be called Scottish by choice and that suits me .Its what they are .

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My daughter is half Brit and half African American. Her son is half Mongolian. He is amazingly beautiful. I'm always stopped when out with him by people admiring him. Very pretty little boy. Big bubbly curls. Huge eyes.

Who do you mean by 'researchers'? I've not heard anyone in general raising this just now, so I'm wondering.

What a strange question !!

Why 'strange' BlueBelle. It is relevant to vast numbers all over the world- and it affects their daily life, one way or another- in many cases.

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However, for us as a family, we have often discussed what it means to be mixed race- because most of my family, or rather OH's family, are. I have a mixed cultural background, French Huguenot, Swiss and English British- but not mixed race. As said about, would be classified as White/Caucasian.

Now you mention it BlueBelle it is a strange question, I hadn't thought of it before I responded to the OP.

jura which "researchers are asking the question"? Where did you see this? What research is being undertaken? And for what purpose? Or are you asking out of your own curiosity?

I have replied Chewbacca. It is a strange question I understand, for someone who does not come from a mixed background- and has not been made aware of the huge impact this can have on individuals- yes, even in this day and age- although, thank goodness, not to the same extent.

Then maybe it should have gone via Media Requests to GNHQ?

Why? It is a very interesting question on its own. I had no intention of linking to the research - but you asked, so I always reply as honestly as I can.

I am not asking for the programme- but as a question to any member- because it is a subject that interests me. If it does not- just do not take part in this discussion.

For me, Jura, it means the future. We're all going to be a light brown one day.

But in the uk now, it means discrimination unfortunately.

You could argue that there is only one human race to which we all belong and therefore that ‘mixed race’ is a meaningless term.

But anthropologists define different racial groups (in very complicated ways, which have changed over the years) so you could argue that a mixed-race person is someone whose biological parents come from two different anthropologically-defined racial groups.

What is the big deal? (I realise it’s a big deal if you’re on the receiving end of abuse because you’re mixed-race).

This is how the government deals with it

www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/ethnic-groups

By their name x

Without the context of the research, this is all a bit daft