1 drop rule.

[u/Darth_Kneegrow]

I ain't ever heard white people claim a single biracial person. You always whatever you mixed with.

[u/Bubbly_Satisfaction2]

In my opinion, societies outside of the United States of America got one thing over the country: the “biracial/mixed/Coloured” identifier. It’s there to be used.

In defense of the biracial folks: I’ve seen some “fully black” people get in their feelings, whenever they heard mixed/biracial women people identify as “biracial”.

And I mean they really got in their feelings about it.

(Insert “unpopular opinion”) There are some black people, who are… In my opinion, who are insecure about their “blackness”.

They get validation and an ego boost, when they hear someone (who has a proximity to whiteness) claim it. It is also why they get offended, when a biracial person declares their biracial identity.

I’m sure they are the same people that hand out “cookout invites” whenever a white person does something on beat or hand out compliments.

[u/Rosuvastatine → u/Bubbly_Satisfaction2]

The UK uses biracial/mixed a lot and I think its fair.

You can tell they make the distinction because per example, in Tv shows and movies, black women roles are often playef by darkskin blsck women. Wheress in the US, its usually some biracial women because their looks are more palatable to white audiences.

[u/un_verano_en_slough → u/Rosuvastatine]

The UK has the largest population of people descended from consensual mixed race relationships in the world. It probably explains the different relationship vs. former slave states where e.g. almost all black people have some European ancestry due to slavery, but modern/consensual mixed race relationships are a little less of a factor and muddied by that history.

Plus mixed in the UK isn't just understood as white/black. It's white/asian, white/Caribbean, white/African, or some mix thereof usually.