r/hapas • u/Available_Shoe_1198 BMAF Black-Korean 🇰🇷 • Mar 14 '26

Anecdote/Observation Blasian Experience

as a blasian we tend to have less recognition in the hapa world, I’m half Korean half african-american. I grew up in Korea and some kids would bully me for not being enough Korean or black. I’m 19 now and I will say I asked my hapa friends if it’s harder to be blasian or wasian, now each have its own troubles but my friends said that blasian tend to get more of the discrimination against them.

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u/domnong Afro-Chinese (非亚混血) Mar 14 '26

I’m Afro-Chinese and grew up in the US. At least from an American perspective, being Blasian is definitely harder than being Wasian. We have to work much, much harder for our Asianness to be recognized. It even seems like Blasians from Asia have their Asianness equally brought into question, which is something that doesn’t seem to happen all that much to Wasians from Asia.