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half-white

How to use half-white in a sentence. Live example sentences for half-white pulled from indexed public discussions.

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But why retain that same darker skin tone if the character is half-white?

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Quick take

But why retain that same darker skin tone if the character is half-white?

Example sentences

1

But why retain that same darker skin tone if the character is half-white?

2

That original half-black/half-white caster for very simple/cheap optical limits was something of a known off-the-shelf approach.

3

Sometimes negative works, but not when screens are half-white, half-black as is the trend lately.

4

To me, the best demonstration of continued racism, is that there's no way Obama - being half-black, half-white - would have been able to get away with self-identifying as white.

5

Or being a half-Japanese, half-white American.

6

Try referring to him even as mixed race, or half-white, and see the racists quickly come crawling out of the woodwork to make sure it is made clear how black he is.

7

So she has almost entirely grown up in Japan but technically had US citizenship because of US birthright citizenship laws until she deliberately gave it up; and of course is visibly half-white.

Quote examples

1

Star Trek openly took sides from the start, unless you think the episode with the people who are half-black-half-white and the people who are half-white-half-black counts as "subtle".

2

Originally it was "hapa haole" which meant, roughly half-white.

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But why retain that same darker skin tone if the character is half-white?