Hello, I'm Norifakim, and this is the mixed beat on BBC World Service.

I see that you have your beer?

You got your martini?

Okay, great.

So if you introduce yourselves.

My name is Amanda. The setting is relaxed. The adults have pulled a drink and their sons are playing in the next room.

I am Zimbabwean born. I am a mother of two and I am a blogger and a model. I'm Byron Knight and I am Japanese

and Polish Jewish background but but I look very, very Mexican and get confused for that always.

Always.

I've come to chat to Amanda and Byron at their London home. It was your name?

Tyler.

They have two sons, two-year-old Namico and 11-year-old Tyler.

Nice to meet you, Tyler.

Nami.

That's all kid.

I want to explore what it's like for them being a mixed-race family in today's society.

Yes, my mom's from Japan, she met my father in LA. He's a Polish Jewish descent. So first generation immigrant.

My grandparents came from Poland. Growing up as a mixed person in the 80s I think was always interesting because my parents would try really hard to live in the most expensive neighborhoods or rent a house in the most expensive neighborhood we could because the nature of America you had to be in the district to get to the better schools and the better schools were rich neighborhoods.

So my mom and my stepdad would always try to rent houses in the good neighborhoods which had the good schools, which de facto were always very white and I would always good once when I was a little bit older than time, my son's 11.

So when I was 12, me and my friends are walking down the street and they didn't believe me that I got stopped by the cops all the time.

I said, look, half a block behind me, see what happens.

Within two blocks, the sheriff's pulled me over

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