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Do we have any Eurasians in here? I am curious to seek your experience as a Eurasian living in both Eastern and Western Culture. Do you ever felt a sense of belonging, where do you fit in most, and how tough was it for you to live in (Asia, Europe, North America) and most importantly, did you ever feel lost?[/quote]
OK, I will try to answer this one. First of all, I am not eurasian, however i have 4 kids who are.
My oldest daugter - interesting, I showed your pics to my wife, and she claims that you look like each other when it comes to eyes and nose, her hair is a very dark brown, though, and her eye color is hazel, IE like mine. If she dyed her hair, she would probably end up looking closer to you than Chinese, IE she could pass for a Dane in Denmark with no eyebrows lifted. OK enough about looks.
My oldest daughter prefers Denmark over Taiwan any day, and considers herself Danish. Looking different, yup, you will get a hard time at school, however she has coped well so far. She’s moving to Denmark to attend a boarding school next year, and she looks forward to that. She spent her first 3+ years in Denmark, and I guess that she got her cultural imprint back then. She will go through a cultural chock when she gets there, however I use Danish summer schools to soften it up a bit and get her Danish up to scratch. She’s 13.
Number 2 came here when 4 months old. Her hair is hazel, however she looks more Chinese than her sister. She identifies with Taiwan a lot, however she’s the one having the toughest at school. I think that odds are that once I send her to Denmark, she will return here once she has a chance to, IE after high school or college. She just turned 10.
My son is 3, and appears very Chinese in looks and behavior, and I figure that he will consider himself Chinese too. He is having an easy time in kindergarten, it’s a military one chiefly used by people working in a military research center, and females working there must have a thing with foreigners, as there’s a handful of eurasian kids there, IE teachers and the other kids are used to see kids looking differently.
My youngest daugher is blond and blue eyed, however she has mongolian folds (my wife suggests plastic surgery, once she’s old enough, however let’s see about that). Since she’s a mere 10 months old, hard to tell how things will be regarding national/ethnic identification.
One thing I have noticed is that the kids choose ethnicities, IE where they feel they belong. I think that the first 3-4 years are very important in that regard. Mine at least seem to identlfy with one culture over the other to some extent, IE they don’t end up where they are 100% into both. I am happy as long as they are comfortable in both cultures.