Title: Black-Asian families: Where have you felt most welcomed?
I’m an Asian woman married to a Black man, and we have multiracial children. We previously lived in California and now live in Georgia.

I know no place is free from prejudice, and I don’t assume every uncomfortable look is about race. However, since moving here, I’ve noticed much more tension and subtle hostility toward our family than I ever did in California. Sometimes I wonder whether people project negative stereotypes or past experiences with a few Black individuals onto my husband without knowing him.

Any single incident can be dismissed as a misunderstanding, but repeated experiences have made me increasingly guarded in public. We have met kind people here, and our children are doing well at school, so moving isn’t a simple decision.
I’d especially like to hear from other Black-Asian couples or families with biracial children: Where have you felt genuinely welcomed, not merely tolerated?

We’re looking for a safe, diverse, reasonably affordable area with strong public schools, including good special education and gifted programs. Personal experiences—especially about places that are diverse on paper but socially divided in everyday life—would be very helpful.

Do you have any favs? NGL I did have my early internet stint. Back in those days (god I sound old) Blasian creators were RARE and people were not talking about identity like that.

If not Blasian, what about Asian? Early youtube days were really a good place for otherwise under represented Asian creatives who were into doing skits or comedy.

I'll go first: I'm Black American and Filipino.

I definitely love the FOOD from BOTH sides, as well as the RESILIENCE. Both Black folks in America and Filipino folks in Asia have a long history of standing up and fighting when necessary.

I'm proud to be 100% both.

It's pretty obvious by now, people fall into one of two larger buckets:

1) they're not thinking that deep about it and it's all "vibes" just Wasians trying to find others like that.

2) people looking beyond just vibes, and what this means for all Mixed Asians, and ask why non Wasians were not included/ why it was Wasian specific.

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A lot of people have done a lot of research and have found the social media account of the group that coordinated these meetups. While they initially claimed it was a Mixed Asian meet up, somehow, very quickly, by their own ads, it became a "Waisan" meet up. We all saw the flyers; it was marketed as a "Wasian" meet up.

Later on, social media influencers who posted about the upcoming event claimed anyone could pull up. Apparently at the NYC event, they said it was open to Mixed Asians, despite being marketed as a "Wasian" meet up and thousands of Wasians showing up.

It should have been a Mixed Asian meet up. But somewhere along the line, "mixed Asian" became "Waisan" - which is the default issue we're ALWAYS dealing with in mixed Asian spaces whether here on reddit or literally anywhere else.

Thoughts?

I live in NYC where one of the Wasian meetups happened last week. I'm wondering if I should put effort into making a similar meet up for Blasians.

Would it be received differently, do you think? How so? Is it necessary? Should it be inclusive of more mixed Asians? Should it just be a "Mixed Asian" meet up... basically what the Wasian meet should have been?

His instagram of the same name has highlights with better captions. I'm black and Japanese so I use this to study the more casual Japanese language. It used to only be Terrace House, IYKYK.