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.
Probably a diverse country with a lot of immigration, that’s your best bet. A homogenous society without much immigration would be like hell for someone that’s mixed-race.
dad is chinese-russian, lived in germany for a bit.
Does he have German citizenship? Can you obtain German citizenship. If so, you can then travel around EU via Schengen Area and live wherever you want within Schengen.
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.
Not a part of either community but I’d guess russian would be easier, assuming you’ve actually spent time to immerse yourself in russian culture/language/etc. Then again if you grew up with the general american upbringing and culture you may as well hang out with whoever you want, there’s no need to specifically search out a group of people if your life has been american culture up to now.
For what it’s worth back in my college days my old roommate was half black half korean. He really, really wanted to blend in with the koreans and other asians at the school but truth is most of the foreign students tended to avoid him. The asians that did hang around with him were the type that wanted to meet and hang out with americans and weren’t being picky about culture and whatnot.
