I have a cousin who makes “happi” coats and is hapa. We used to make up tounge twisters using those phrases.

Because they are unattractive themselves or have unattractive children?

Ding! This 100% percent.

Not just non-white names, but non English normative names. A lot of Welsh and German actors change their names as well.

In the Japanese American community, we have an expression “Hapa children are always beautiful.”

This is a very important part of this conversation and with combating whitewashing in casting. I am not a fan of casting whites in Asian roles, but I’m very, very opposed to casting someone 100% Asian in the role of a hapa.

I have in-laws who are white women married to my Japanese- American siblings and cousins. The ones who changed their names get the Asian prejudices even though they are lily white.

Note to casting directors and the general public: this is what a hapa (i.e., mixed-race) Asian + white looks like. Not Emma Stone but also not like a 100% ethnic Asian.