Ethnicity option for yt passing POC?

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I’m curious to get other peoples thoughts/advice on this.

I’m 1/4 African and 3/4 white/caucasian, I’ve been described as “ethnically ambiguous” lol. I have brown eyes and lighter olive skin most of the year but a darker tan in summer. The most obvious part is my hair as I have dark brown curls/ringlets - mid back length hair (with 2C at the top and 3B towards the ends).

Recently I have put white/caucasian under ethnicity on my profile. I had African for a month or so but found people were almost fetishising it, and asked me a lot of questions about lineage/family (I don’t have answers as parent was adopted). I understand people are curious (I get this sometimes irl and it’s awkward as I don’t have answers) but it’s not something I really want to discuss.

I don’t know if I’m misleading people by using either ethnicity choice. Also I have 4 public photos mostly with straightened/wavy hair, and a couple of private photos with natural curly hair (for discretion as my hair is normally worn curly). Please let me know your thoughts in the comments 🤍

Posted Nov 2, 2023, 1:22 AM UTC

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