The 5 Stages of Being Biracial 1. Denial At first, I think that I am just like everyone else. We all look the same in our little Seattle suburb. Maybe my hair is curlier than the rest of my friends, and my skin is a tone or two darker, but I have a mom and a dad just like the other kids. People always touch my hair, and when I’m with my dad, strangers often stare and ask if I belong...

I was raised in a very multicultural household: my father is African American and my mother is half Cherokee Indian and half Caucasian. Needless to say, my life has been full of learning about different cultures, perspectives, and ideas. Therefore, while searching for a college, I am not only looking for a place that will provide me with a top-notch education, but also an institution that values diversity as much as I do. Brown not only boasts an incredible number...

I believe that we are thrust into different communities and groups of people for a reason; whether it be family, or friends, or a cultural group. That each of these groups are meant to teach us something about ourselves and what we value. When I was about 13 years old, my mother was told that her father was not her father, and that her biological dad was a Native American man living in rural Idaho. Here we were, finally understanding why...

Up until I was fourteen years old, I had lived in Seattle, Washington my entire life. Although that included many different houses between my mother and father, (8, to be exact) we never left the city that I was born and raised in. That was of course, before I decided that I wanted to go off to boarding school. At age fourteen, I moved out of the house and to my new school in the extraordinary Pebble Beach, California, where I...

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