Hapas with Quapa Kids (that's half hapa)
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Quapa Kids

As a hapa parent are you afraid that your quapa child is too far removed from their Asian heritage (or other non-white heritage)?  What will you do as a proud hapa parent to maintain the complex racial identity of your quapa child?

25 months ago
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  • Joe

    The post assumes that the person had a kid with a white person. That bothers me.

    I'm not a parent, but I have a niece who is 7 months old that is biologically more white than Asian, and this is a concern of mine. I plan on schooling her on Asian culture whenever I can when she's a little older, because her father's sure as hell not going to, and her mother doesn't know squat. I'm not much more of an authority, but I have resources I can refer to (my best friend is Asian). The mother claims she wants to send her to Chinese school (for all the wrong reasons: money, job opportunities...how Western) and if she actually keeps her word and sends her, I will attempt to have a say in where she goes to learn Chinese. It's very important to me she doesn't go through the same things I did, or at least is better prepared than I was.

    I am related to the father.

    25 months ago

  • Joe

    I'm sorry, I read your post wrong. My mistake. The tag seems to imply it though.

    25 months ago

  • Kaori 香織

    I understand how you feel. I am Half Japanese and Half Venezuelan.  And I have two children with my husband who is 100% Mexican.  For me Japanese was my first language, I spent half my life there growing up between Japan and the US and I am the only mix on my entire Japanese side of the family.  So when I decided to have children it was very important for me for my children not to only be familiar with Jappanese culture, but speak it fluently as I do in order to be able to communicate with their family.  It is difficult, but I decided to put my kids in a Japanese Preschool in Los Angeles, CA where I live and plan to put them in Japanese saturday school when they're school-aged.  They've also been to Japan once and I plan to take them annually.  This is probly the most I can do, but I think there are so many ways you can keep them connected without them even going to extra Japanese schools or even speaking the language, altough I think its an advantage to know more languages.  Anyways, My sons who are only preschoolers , although they did delay slightly in speech, now they speak English, Japanese and Spanish fluently without mixing languages in sentences  and are very connected to there Japanese, Venezuelan and Mexican roots.

    25 months ago

  • Lee

    I'm not Asian, I married a man who is half Korean.  He was born in Seoul and adopted to white American parents.  So he lost most of his connection with his culture.  We love Korean food.  Thats about it.  So since that is all we have we will obviously pass this on to our baby girl.  We already gave her the nickname Kimchi.  So I guess you do what you can.  If the child has the interest in exploring the culture further they will.  As for what she looks like, some times she looks like dad, and sometimes there is a lot of mom.  Its hard to say how much asian will express.  After watching Jon and Kate Plus * I was fully prepared for a strong asian resemblance, but it looks like Kimchi is a little more European looking even if my husband is more asian looking that Jon.  Genetics are weird.

    23 months ago

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