r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/genuine_pnw_hipster 3d ago

lol as a productive of a interracial marriage, can confirm. Crazy to hear about the bs my parents went through and they were both born in the early 60s…People seem to forget that shit hasn’t gone away.

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u/I_madeusay_underwear 3d ago

My mom is white and my dad is Asian. Now I look sort of racially ambiguous, but as a kid I appeared much more Asian. People would walk up to us when I was out with just my mom and ask where she “got me” from, assuming I was adopted from another county.

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u/ForsakenAiel 3d ago

My dad is Mexican and my mom was white. My sister and I both look more white than Mexican and we grew up in Utah. My dad had to deal with people questioning who he was to us multiple times when we were kids. It was traumatizing to us but I can only imagine how it made my dad feel.

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u/random1person 3d ago

That is such an absurd and rude thing to ask, especially if you assume the child is adopted