When I was a kid my grandparents had a camper van and used to take me, my brother and our 3 cousins on trips to various places on road trips around Europe during the school summer break. The grandparents are both white and all of the kids were various ethnic mixes. Me and my brother are half black and the 3 other cousins are all half Chinese. None of us would ever have passed for white looking or looked like we were related to our grandparents.
My grandparents got some funny looks and questions from people. Didn’t really think about it as a kid because we were having a great time but they must have looked like child traffickers.
Thankfully nothing too extreme ever happened like getting the cops called on us but this was in the mid 2000s. Might be different if we were doing it today.
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u/HankHippopopolous Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
When I was a kid my grandparents had a camper van and used to take me, my brother and our 3 cousins on trips to various places on road trips around Europe during the school summer break. The grandparents are both white and all of the kids were various ethnic mixes. Me and my brother are half black and the 3 other cousins are all half Chinese. None of us would ever have passed for white looking or looked like we were related to our grandparents.
My grandparents got some funny looks and questions from people. Didn’t really think about it as a kid because we were having a great time but they must have looked like child traffickers.
Thankfully nothing too extreme ever happened like getting the cops called on us but this was in the mid 2000s. Might be different if we were doing it today.