Taking sides: Being biracial | Anna Kitagawa | TEDxConcordCarlisleHighSchool

Too often, biracial teens find themselves caught between the different aspects of their identity. Anna talks about her personal struggles, and evolution, synthesizing her Western and Japanese identities. Anna Kitagawa attends Concord Carlisle Regional High School. She enjoys running and playing the viola. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@TinglingSpidey]

This is a serious that isn't talked enough about , i experienced such mockery in real life due to my mixed ethnicity , years and years i've been confused about my own race due to my parents' binationalities , it's a little complicated but anyways (born to a new zealand-south african father and a latina-american mother of kuwait descent)

[@MsInvesting]

Amazing. I can so relate.

[@newaccount88]

THANK YOU 😩

[@felicitybirse7437]

This is such an amazing TedTalk! Does anyone know her email address? I'd really love to talk to her and thank her, I relate so much.

[@aprilolsen5796]

you are not alone🖤

[@Itsalexsproductions]

why was this video shadow banned

[@graceho7479]

Well I feel personally attacked. Thank you for making me feel less alone.

[@sydney1930]

I love you ❤️

[@certifiedforkliftdriver9987]

you look so much taller here than in real life

[@annakitagawa4293]

Meanie :((

[@ashtxnparris8224]

Anna Kitagawa woah? It’s the person on the screen

[@RobinKiles]

You are very beautiful as you are. You are unique. Try to identify with both cultures if you can, if not just stick to one. Stop worrying about small stuff.

[@ericlewis3004]

Her father’s lust, but it takes two to tango

[@ericlewis3004]

God created the races and he loved his creation

[@tyso1173]

Well mix is hybrid humans God have nothing to do with it , Satan is created that

[@travelingdude1621]

Exactly. He wanted the races to remain separate but to live among each other too.

[@derrickmc222]

Your parents dropped the ball

[@faithhopelove7777777]

She represents the majority of Americans. Most of us are multi racial. WHAT ABOUT US?

[@hannahphu3350]

There is a difference between being biracial and being multiracial. Biracial is half and half. Multiracial is an umbrella term for anyone of mixed race heritage. If someone is 75% percent of one race and 25% of another, they go with the 75% one. Is that person still multiracial? yes, does that person go through the same identity crisis that most biracial people go through? no.

[@azalex91]

I’m half Mexican half white. I grew up with two complete worlds that were polar opposites. They had different ways of doing things and traditions. It’s different that have just parents who are mixed Irish German French from long ago. When you grow up with two different cultures it’s really hard growing up because you trying fitting in with one side and playing a role for the other

[@MarenaPetersdorfHerrera]

@@hannahphu3350 Your right we don't get same identity crisis We get bashed by more than two sided coin/dice groups, we're still miscengeneous, having to answer the same ongoing questions of what are we are etc
Ambiguity seems to be the main thing for all the pure blooded monoracials that are still believing in the endogamy, and their teaching Biracials to side point and divide us by severing Biracial and multiracial as a whole
we are mixed there fore we are undivided, division and anti-Miscegenation get offended when we present ourselves
We are the children of love and unity, don't divide us, is what all Multiracial/Biracial, us should start saying.

[@Adrian_92]

Yeah for real. Multiracial is not the same at all as being half and half so speak for yourself thank you.

[@ericlewis3004]

The result of her fathers lust

[@LeZylox]

The result of her Mothers lust