dual heritage
Two cultural backgrounds
Dual heritage describes a person whose parents come from two different racial, ethnic, or cultural backgrounds.
The term emphasizes inheritance from both sides rather than positioning someone between categories: children of dual heritage, her dual heritage shaped her worldview.
It appears frequently in British educational and social work contexts as an alternative to mixed-race.
- biracialHaving two racial ancestries
- biculturalOf two cultural backgrounds
- third culture kidYouth raised abroad
- mixed-raceOf multiple ancestries
- binationalOf two countries together
double consciousness · hybrid identity · mestizo · Eurasian · code-switching · Afro-Asian · hyphenated identity · acculturation · colonial legacy · diaspora · blood quantum · belongingness · half-breed · lineage · old country · cultural adaptation · blended · bridge
- diasporaAfrican diaspora, exiles, Irish diaspora, emigrants, Jewish diaspora
- German DiasporaGerman immigrants, immigrant communities, German-American, immigration waves, German festivals
- immigrant literatureimmigrant stories, displacement, cultural memory, belonging, assimilation
- Thai diasporaethnic identity, cultural assimilation, Thai temples, migrant workers, intermarriage
- mixed marriagesintermarriage, mixed marriages, interracial couples, interfaith marriage
- Multicultural Familiesinterracial marriage, cultural identity, religious diversity, code switching, cultural clashes
heritage, dual, inheritance, inherited, inheritor, duality, dualism, dualistic, dualist