Hong Kong Chinese | Sri Lankan / Saudi Arabian

I identify myself as British and Danish despite my mixed background, I guess it stems from my upbringing. My mum is from Hong Kong and my dad was born in Bangkok, Thailand but was Sri Lankan and Saudi Arabian. I grew up in Bangkok, Thailand up until the age of 6. After that we moved to Copenhagen, Denmark and I spent most of my childhood years there. I think I was probably around 4 years old when I slowly began to understand that there were different races as that was the first time I left Thailand. I didn’t quite grasp the concept that I am mixed of different cultures till I was about 6 years old even though my parents looked very different from each other.
I definitely still think there are bias attitudes or stereotypes towards mixed-race people even though you would not expect that in 2018. A common theme that I have come across when being mixed-race is the lack of acceptance from the people that you share cultural roots with.  Despite having lived or even assimilated into the root culture, you are still viewed as a foreigner by fellow countrymen. This was not the case when I moved to the UK, British people had dubbed me as ‘honorary British’ since I integrated quite well in both Bath and London. It gave me hope that one day I may find a country that I can call home despite being mixed. I hope in the future mixed-race people would face less biased attitudes from non-mixed-race people, so they would not have to doubt or question their cultural identity.
In the future, I see that there will be a growing population of mixed-race people and hopefully that’ll allow people to be less biased towards people from different races as well as people with different racial backgrounds. I hope over time, people will see being mixed as something beautiful and that these people can lead the way to create bridges between cultures. It is difficult to imagine a biased world when we are so connected to each other through globalisation, the world should be more accepting and tolerant as there will be more mixed-race people in the next generations.

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