i am actually half-white, half-asian. i don’t know what community will accept me more, the russian communities online/in the us (since i probably won’t go there) or the east asian (chinese/japanese) ones.
i clearly will not look full white and it may have people say im not “real russian”.
dad is chinese-russian, lived in germany for a bit. (baden-württemberg i think). mom is russian.
Remember that just because you’re from a people does not mean that you have to associate with just those people. The world is wide and diversity is the spice of life. If you will be seeing these people IRL, visit both. See who has better food.
what community will accept me more
When seeking personal acceptance, you depend much more on individual persons than on a culture / country.
East Asian people tend to be more racist than Russians; the Rus themselves tend to feel superior to other Russians, but aside from that superiority, they’re likely to not care much about race.
Chinese and Japanese? Very insular.
Of course, if you’re living outside China/Japan/Russia, you’re going to have different interactions with people from there, many of whom will have left because they rejected the culture.
Whatever it is, definitely, 100%, without a doubt, not japan
I can say from experience being mixed white and Japanese I’ll always be a second class citizen there.
Can’t speak for Russia but I knew a woman who once said she envied her mother because she was “pure”, pale skin and blonde hair, while she had dark hair and more eastern (Mongolian heritage?) features. That was really painful to hear someone say about themselves and if it’s the prevalent attitude I wouldn’t assume I’m welcome just by a blood connection.
