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GENERAL


Generally considered inoffensive

  • Biracial

  • of mixed ancestry

  • Mixed race

  • Multiracial

  • Multiethnic

  • Polygeneric — Neologism from Greek, ''poly''-, (many) and ''genera'' (races)



Generally considered offensive



Non-English language



PART AFRICAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, OR BLACK



Neologisms

  • Blackinese — used in the United States for black and Japanese or Chinese

  • Blasian — used in the United States for black and Asian

  • Blatino — used in the United States for black and Latino

  • Blalifornian - used in the United States for black and Californian

  • Cablinasian — used in the United States for Causcasian/'''Bl'''ack/American '''In'''dian/'''Asian'''; this term was invented by American pro golfer Tiger Woods to describe his own particular racial and ethnic heritage

  • Halfrican — for half-African or half-African-American



Historical



PART ASIAN

  • Amerasian — used in the United States and Philippines for a child of an American military serviceman (usually Caucasian) and an Asian women

  • Anglo-Asian — used in the United Kingdom for English and Asian

  • Anglo-Burmese - used in Burma and wherever this community settled, for this Eurasian community of mixed Burmese and European descent.

  • Anglo-Indian — used in India and in the United Kingdom for English and Indian

  • Bui Doi — Vietnamese, literally "dust of the earth," for the children of American military servicemen (usually Caucasian) and Vietnamese women

  • Chindia n — used in Malaysia , Singapore , India and Hong Kong for Chinese and Indian

  • Dougla — used in the Caribbean , Trinidad And Tobago for any mixed race, but typically African and Indian (Asian Indian)

  • Eurasian — used in the United States, Europe, and Singapore for European descent and (usually) East or SE Asian

  • Haafu — used in Japan and the United States for "half", often meaning half-Japanese

  • HapaHawaiian for "half Hawaiian" or "half Asian, half Caucasian"

  • Indo — used in the Netherlands and Indonesia for European descent and Asian; synonymous with Eurasian

  • Indo-European — used in India , Europe , and Indonesia for European descent and Indian or Indonesian

  • Lai Mỹ — used in Vietnam for "American mix"

  • Luk Kreung — used in Thailand , litterally "half children," for Thai and white

  • Malaynese — used in Malaysia for Malay and Chinese or Japanese

  • Mestiso — used in the Philippines for Filipino and Spanish, Chinese, American, Japanese, or other

  • Peranakan — used for Indonesian Chinese

  • SeraniMalay for European descent and Asian; synonymous with Eurasian



Neologisms

  • Blackinese — used in the United States for black and Chinese

  • Blasian — used in the United States for black and Asian

  • Cablinasian — used in the United States for Causcasian/'''Bl'''ack/American '''In'''dian/'''Asian'''; this term was invented by American pro golfer Tiger Woods to describe his own particular racial and ethnic heritage



PART PACIFIC ISLANDER

  • AfatasiSamoan for half Samoan (or more generally, half Polynesian) and half other (usually white)

  • HapaHawaiian for "half Hawaiian" or "half Asian, half Caucasian"



PART NATIVE AMERICAN, AMERINDIAN, FIRST NATIONS, LATINO, HISPANIC, OR INDIGENOUS TO THE AMERICAS



Historical



PART CAUCASIAN, WHITE, OR EUROPEAN



Neologisms

  • Cablinasian — used in the United States for Caucasian/'''Bl'''ack/American '''In'''dian/'''Asian'''; this term was invented by American pro golfer Tiger Woods to describe his own particular racial and ethnic heritage



Historical



GENETIC ISOLATE

A genetic isolate is a group that has maintained, to some degree, a distinct ethnic identity, though is not necessarily isolated in a geographic or cultural sense.


UNSORTED



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