Reasons why I like being mixed race

Hey, so in this video I'd like to talk

about reasons why I like being mixed race.

So, as you may or may not know, I'm

actually half British and half Malaysian.

I'm not really half real Malaysian because

my mum's not a real Malaysian person,

she's a Chinese-Malaysian person, which

means that her ancestors or her parents'

parents' parents migrated from China to

Malaysia at some point in the past. So my

mum doesn't really look like a true Malay

person with dark skin. And she doesn't

really have like Malay features. She looks

more like a Chinese person. So I guess

technically I'm half British and half

Chinese, even though my mum's nationality

is Malaysian. I did a DNA test sometime in

the past and it actually came up with 40%

Han Chinese and 5% Southeast Asia and 5%

like Russian or something.

So I guess one of the good things about

being mixed race is I get to be exposed to

another culture, another country from a

young age. Even though I don't really have

any interest at all in Malaysia. If I was

interested in Malaysia, I have lots of

family over there, so I could go to

Malaysia and stay at one of their houses

for free if I wanted to go to Malaysia,

which I don't really. But sometimes I do

wish I had relatives in Japan, then I

could stay at their house and I wouldn't

have to pay rent. But I don't have any

relatives in Japan. I do have some

relatives in America because I I heard

that my granddad had a brother and they

fell out, and then that brother moved to

America and he had children, and his son

married a Japanese woman. So I should have

Japanese cousins in America somewhere,

which is kind of strange, but we don't

really stay in contact with them because

my granddad and that brother fell out over

money and they kind of stopped talking to

each other. Also, it'd be kind of

difficult for my granddad to keep in touch

with that brother because my granddad's

kind of dead. I'm not sure if that

brother's still alive though. So, um,

anyway, yeah, if I wanted to go to

Malaysia, I could go there and stay there

for a long period of time without having

to pay much money because I could just

stay at one of my relatives' house, or I

could move around visiting various aunties

and uncles and just stay at their place.

But since I have absolutely no interest in

going to Malaysia, that's not really

helpful or beneficial for me. I think

another good thing about being mixed race

is I usually look very different to the

people that are around me. For example,

Asian people always think I look kind of

Asian, but I look more Western. But then

Western people think I look completely

Asian. I guess it kind of depends on your

viewpoint on things. For me, it's a good

thing to look different to people because

I've never really been interested in

blending in or fitting in with everyone

else. I've always enjoyed the fact that I

usually look different to everyone else.

I don't want to look like everyone else.

I enjoy looking unique or having my own

look. If I come across someone who kind of

resembles me or looks like me, I don't

like it. I feel like they're stealing my

identity. They're stealing my look. Stop

stealing my identity. I think another good

thing about being mixed race is the food.

My mum's always cooking Chinese food or

Asian food, and ever since a young age,

I've been eating this mixture of Chinese

food and English food. And I think having

this varied diet is something that

non-mixed children that have traditional

English mums kind of miss out on. My

friends from school, they had to suffer

the traditional English diet, like roast

potatoes or roast chicken that tastes so

bland, like cardboard. And I was eating

things like fried rice and stir-fries. My

friends used to come over my house, my mum

would make them food, and at the time I

don't even think they knew what fried rice

was. When I went over to my friend's

house, their mums would just make me

really boring stuff like fish fingers and

peas, or chicken nuggets and chips.

There's just no way English food can

compete with Chinese food. It's just on a

completely different level. Sometimes

Japanese people ask me questions like,

what kind of food does England have? And I

have no idea how to answer this question.

Usually I just say fish and chips, but

apart from fish and chips, what else do we

have? Cornish pasties, Yorkshire puddings.

English people usually eat stuff like

pizza, pasta, spaghetti, lasagna,

curries. In other words, food from other

countries. I guess the most traditional

English food is a roast dinner, which I

hate. I can't stand roast dinners. It's

just so bland. It consists of roasted

potatoes, roasted meat, and boiled

vegetables with some kind of gravy, and

it's so boring. I think that one of the

reasons that the British Empire was so

successful was because the food here was

so shit, and they had to go to other

countries to find good tasting food and

pinch it and steal it and bring it back

here. But I have to admit, there's nothing

better than a full English breakfast,

which is basically just bacon and eggs and

sausages and baked beans and hash browns—

basically everything that's bad for you.

One plate. So yeah, food and Asian cooking

has been a big part of my life. Every time

I have to do some cooking, I usually make

stir-fries with fried rice, so it's been a

big influence on me. Yeah, I guess you

could just get a takeaway if you don't

have a Chinese mum, but it's not really

the same as the real thing. It's not the

same as home cooking. Another good reason

is that my mum speaks Cantonese. That's

her native language. So if I was

interested in speaking Cantonese and

learning Cantonese, then I could learn

from her and practice with her. It's just

that I have no interest in learning

Cantonese.

Yeah. When I was studying Japanese,

I used to really wish I had a Japanese mum

because then I could practice Japanese

with her. I think one of the reasons why

I'm attracted to older Japanese women is

because it kind of fulfills that fantasy

of having a Japanese mum, and I can

practice Japanese with her, plus I get to

have sex with her, which is something I

can't do with my real mum. Well, I guess I

could do it, but then that would be really

weird. Can't you make one video where you

don't talk about sex? What is wrong with

you? Oh, and another good thing about

being half Chinese is we celebrate Chinese

New Year, and that means I get a tiny

little red envelope that has money inside

of it. That's amazing. So those are my

reasons why I like being mixed race. I get

to learn Cantonese, which I'm not really

interested in, and I get to travel to

Malaysia and not have to pay for

accommodation, which I'm not interested

in. And I get to eat Chinese food on a

daily basis. Yay, mixed race!