Anyone who followed college basketball in the mid-90s is familiar with Rex Walters. Less well known is that he is half-Japanese. Some of the issues he presents are probably generalizable. Brown Americans (as in born-in-the-USA or raised-in-the-USA) have a high outmarriage rate. After a year of hearing from people that my daughter “doesn’t look Indian at all,” I’m a little more conscious of the inferences people make about you based on your physical appearance. I don’t think it’s a major issue, and will become less so as more and more mixed children grow up and habituate people to non-pigeonholeable diversity.
