a mixed race

[keannu]

I this correct English or broken English?
What about "I'm a mixed blood of a Korean and an American"?

* I am a mixed race from Korea and American.

 

[jutfrank]

No, they're both wrong.

I urge you not to think of 'American' as a race.

Say: I'm half Korean, half American.

If you really must make a point of saying that your parents belong to different races, then say: I'm mixed race.

 

[emsr2d2]

And note that if you say "I'm half Korean and half American", you're not talking about race, but nationality (or, at a push, heritage).

 

[Tarheel]

It's a bit tricky. After all, an American can be of any ethnicity--including Korean. So if you say you're half Korean and half American it could mean you're 100% Korean.

 

[GoesStation]

I worked with a 100% American guy whose features were decidedly Finnish (he had a round face and his eyes had epicanthic folds). His wife was Korean (i.e., born and raised in Korea and of Korean ethnicity). His daughters were American, but did not look at all European.

 

[CSHY]

I am Chinese and have epithantic folds too.

 

[lotus888]

Mixed race -- or half-Korean, half-white.

 

[emsr2d2]

Mixed race -- or half-Korean, half-white.

"Half-Korean, half-white" doesn't mean the same as "half-Korean, half-American" though.

 

[Rover_KE]

Aren't Koreans white?

 

[lotus888]

It is colloquial American English. You'll hear it a lot here.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/12/15/370416571/half-asian-half-white-no-hapa

 

[Rover_KE]

Thanks, but I'm not sure it's gained much international acceptance yet.

 

[jutfrank]

keannu—I assume (possibly wrongly) that you want to make a statement about culture/heritage rather than race.

It may be that the distinction between these two things is not clear.

 

[Tarheel]

Aren't Koreans white?

They're Asians.

 

[Tarheel]

It is colloquial American English. You'll hear it a lot here.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/12/15/370416571/half-asian-half-white-no-hapa

That's about half Asian/half white, which makes more sense.

 

[keannu]

keannu—I assume (possibly wrongly) that you want to make a statement about culture/heritage rather than race.

It may be that the distinction between these two things is not clear.

This isn't what I made, but a message of a foreigner who claimed to be American. I doubted this sentence, but I wasn't sure whether it was right or wrong. That's why I asked you teachers. In my life, I have heard "mixed blood" related to this. Later, the foreigner turned out to be a Chinese scammer.

I am a mixed race from Korea and American.

 

[Tarheel]

Better:

My mom was Korean, and my dad was American.

Or something like that.