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I am not personally mixed (just boring old white, ha), but DH is Ecuadorian so we'll have mixed children. We've discussed it a little bit, but since our future child(ren) will grow up in the US and be surrounded by US culture we want to do all that we can to make sure they identify with their Ecuadorian side as much as they can. Do do this we'll...

-Speak Spanish at home
-Make Ecuadorian food 2-3x/week for dinner
-Celebrate Ecuadorian holidays (Independence day, Day of the Dead, 3 Kings Day, etc) and make all the special foods that go along with them
-Make them play futbol (soccer)....hehehehe. And cheer on the Ecuadorian national team when they play!

As our family grows and evolves we will probably figure out more ways to do this, and know what will work best for our family!!

I'm 100% Filipino & DH is 1/2 Korean & 1/2 Filipino. So that makes our little guy 3/4 Filipino & 1/4 Korean,

Our goal is for baby t to identify equally with both cultures. The hubs was born in South Korea and has strong ties to his Korean culture (and the food is so good!). And I grew up in a rich Filipino environment and want our son to experience the same

good question! LO is 1/2 chinese and half caucasian. Most of our friends (and his baby friends) are korean-canadian or chinese-canadian, but of course he'll go to regular school with everyone else and meet lots of caucasian people, in addition to his cousins and dh's family who live here. we may move to china one day when he is still a child, so that could change things.

i think that he will be like me (chinese canadian) and identify as canadian, with an intrinsic understanding and appreciation for chinese culture and food! i'm guessing the language will be mostly lost to him, unless we actually move there

Our LO is black but we're both white so I think he'll identify more with us. We plan to do our best though to expose him to black people and I already have a friend/mentor who is black.

I am half Chinese (dad was born in Thailand but the family is Chinese), half white American. My dad never exposed my brother and I to the Thai/Chinese languages or cultures so I definitely identify as white.

Now, DH is French and we live in Austria and probably will stay here for a few years. I am curious as to how DS will identify when he is older. DH and I speak French at home, but I speak English to DS and he is currently in a German/English part time daycare.

My LO is half Korean, half Cantonese. She is leaning more towards her Korean side (my side) because I and my family is around her more than my husband's side. It drives my MIL insane.

I am half black, half white, and my sister and I definitely leaned more toward our Caucasian side. My grandmother didn't visit much, as it was an 18 hour drive, so we spent most family gatherings with my dad's side of the family. We look more Caucasian, but I have had people ask if I was Latina or Korean. One of my BFF's is Korean, and people often thought we were related.

LO will be 3/4 Caucasian.

@shopaholic: Hard to tell, but the kids eat mostly Korean food so they may identify with that side? I will teach them important Japanese concepts, like duty, obligation, loyalty and honor.

I blogged a bit about Charlie and Olive's potential self-identity options here!
http://www.hellobee.com/2012/04/02/where-are-you-from/

Our future LO will 1/2 Korean, 1/2 Jewish and we plan to raise him/her Korean. Chances are no matter what we do people will see them as more Jewish than Korean, but at home we'll be eating mostly Korean food, incorporating some Korean language, and taking LO to Korea once in a while. We also plan to give them a hyphenated last name so that we're not just reinforcing a white/Jewish identity.

Our future LO will be half vietnamese and 1/4 German and 1/4 Irish.