 Welcome back to the YouTube channel. It's your favorite annoying YouTuber, WadaMaya, right here with three amazing, beautiful YouTubers. Are you all YouTubers? Yes, sir. Filmmaker. I like to go by filmmaker. Storyteller. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's your name and where you from? I'm Vanessa Canby. I was born and raised in Scotland and my dad's from Ghana, so I'm Scottish again. Mm-hmm. Beautiful. My name is Meryntia. I'm also a YouTuber, storyteller, whichever way you want to take it. Okay. My name is Anna Chambu. I've just started this journey. Okay. But I'll consider myself a YouTuber now. Yes, yes, I do. And where are you from? Okay, so my name is WadaMaya. I'm half-Akra, half-Takradi. All right, so thank you so much for honoring my invitation, because I have something on my mind today. I got so many messages from interracial, I mean, kids, you guys are no longer kids here, but interracial kids telling me that they really want to come back to Africa, but I don't know whether people are really going to accept them. Okay. Vanessa, I'm going to start from you. Vanessa, my question is, do you call yourself I said black woman or that's what? Black woman or what? I call myself mixed race. Although now it's like controversial and people are saying you shouldn't say you're mixed because nothing mixes. But because my mum is from Scotland and she is white, my dad is from Ghana. He's black. If I said I was black, then obviously I'm disregarding the fact that you know my mum is white in my opinion. Although some people seem say I'm black because I'm dark. I mean, in Scotland people are more likely to say I'm black than anything else. They're more likely to say I'm black than I'm mixed race, for example. But I just say I'm mixed race because I know that also a lot of black people are offended if you say you're black and you've got white in you. So I just stick to what it is really. What about you? It's difficult because I can't pick one, like she said. Because you can't just say you're one race when you clearly have a parent from a whole another place. But I will definitely say you can relate to one half more depending on how much time you spend depending, you know. I've spent more time in Ghana. I've grown up in Ghana. So even though I'm both and I like both depending on which part of my life I'm in, I relate to one more. But I will definitely say growing up here, I relate more to being Ghanaian than Japanese. What about you? Well for me, I identify as black because I was raised in the Netherlands and they will always make me know that I'm not white. So I identify as a black woman but coming to Ghana, I feel very white. That's difficult. That's different, yeah. How white do you feel in Ghana? Well they always call me pretty. And then because maybe my auntie, like when I came here, she said I needed to come to her house and greet her and all that but I was busy so I did that a little later. And then she said well that's not custom but okay you're white so I will leave you to that. So yeah it's difficult, it's difficult. Interesting. You know I just want to know yeah the struggles being a mis-race. Okay I just want to know because I've interviewed a young kid who never felt like okay why are my own Chinese people treating me this way because this late this small girl grew up in China you know and she felt like she's not wanted in China. So I met this girl and she even wanted to go home with me because she felt like oh I've seen one of my own. I just want to know do all of you feel that way when we're growing up or something like that? Yes because they will always make you know that you are not one of them. Like growing up in the Netherlands I was in a very white school and there were even incidents when one kid pushed my head to the ground to see like the difference of the skin color and he will always say oh you can't play with us because you're black or you can't play with us because your hair is curly or we have this very racial racist festival or festivity where it's like Santa Claus and they call it Santa Claus where Santa Claus has black helpers who are very jolly, bubbly and very stupid to be honest and then they will always say that oh now it's time to celebrate you don't have to color your face because it's a black person they color their face or they say oh you have curly hair already you don't need a hat and so yeah I was always know being known that you are black each and every day they would somebody would tell me that yes you are black. I feel like I don't I mean I definitely have racist experiences but they weren't as direct as yours you know people weren't literally telling me every day I mean when I was maybe seven somebody said I look like poo but it was like a kid like you know they were maybe five yeah it was a child it was a child I mean I was a child so like from then I knew but before that obviously everyone was white everyone apart from my dad who I saw every day but I feel like you don't see like the color of your parents and and then my sister obviously is same as me but apart from that every all my friends at school were white so like I never looked in the mirror when I was a kid so I just presumed I was just like them and then I remember we were doing a coloring like exercise and I was looked at my skin and I was like I'm not that peach that they're calling skin color you know and then I tried to mix white and black and it made gray and I was like well that's not me either but I feel like as a mixed race person it's a completely different experience from being black in my opinion because when you're black um I don't know it's hard to explain but obviously I don't know if everyone feels like this if you guys feel like this but I feel like you're not torn but it's difficult sometimes to know exactly where you stand I think it's very difficult yeah 100% I always said like when I was younger because I have quite a number of biracial friends both Japanese and Ghanian so when we're like kids I used to say we should just get an island of fillets with Japanese Ghanian people because we're very angry but we're annoyed because when you go to Japan you're black so then you're a foreigner there you come back to Ghana then you're like Chinese I'm not even Chinese but you're Chinese automatically if you're Asian okay so like when you're a kid it affects you more like now when I get called Ubruni is like ah you know it's normal it comes and goes especially once you talk to them they see you have a Ghanian accent you can communicate with them then they're like oh she's one of us but then when you're a kid and someone calls you Ubruni and they're not calling the other kids Ubruni then it affects you more but yeah I mean I've never had the experience as intense as yours I would say like even living in Japan you know um personally yeah I'm just gonna say this if I meet you in town I would never know that you are not one of us I think we should do this experiment I wish we can get some people around here yo can you can you can you come come come you can come come together it's okay feel free you all should come look at this woman yeah and tell me where you think she's from she's definitely a misrace definitely a misrace yes oh wow oh what about her yeah I would say oh one minute just one minute what about her yeah I saw someone from ip air from Ethiopia sister brabra bra bra bra bra bra bra bra la okay hi my name is miah yeah Dora look at this beautiful lady and tell me where you think she's from No, feel free. Just say anything you want to say. He talks here. What about her? What about her? You know her. What about her? From America. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. This is what I'm talking about. We have African women that are light-skinned. When I see a light-skinned lady and seeing you, I don't think there is any difference. If I don't know you, I will definitely know that my ex-girlfriend is light-skinned. For me, I believe that it's time maybe you guys can claim being an African woman or you don't think so. I mean, I definitely, personally, if someone asks me, I will say yes. But I guess it's a matter of other people. For them, they can think what they want, in my opinion. Let's talk about it because I'm doing this video based on the messages that I've been getting from misraised people who are trying to move to Africa. They are asking me, are they going to be welcome? Are people going to accept them? Are we going to feel like you people are one of our own? So I want to know, do you guys feel at home in here? Yes, 100%. I feel more at home here than I do in Scotland. I've never lived here. I've just come for a visit but it might also just be the people who are so warm, welcoming and just different from the UK. People talk to you on the street, they speak their mind. I just really like that and also, I don't know, I just feel like I guess in the UK, I'm obviously darker, so nobody's going to think I'm white. So here, I just feel more at home. Yeah, I agree. So for me, I want to say thank you so much for talking to me but you guys are not going anywhere. One more question. I got Africans in the diaspora who have some kind of hate. I don't know if you guys have received this kind of hate from people in the diaspora. I mean Africans, you can talk about African-Americans. I mean Africans that were born out of Africa that had so much hate for interracial kids and even interracial couples. Do you guys have you've got that hate before? I feel like don't call yourself an African. They're saying that why did I marry Kevin? Why didn't I marry a black person? I could rather have black kids or I get those messages. You also get those messages? Every day people will like go back to where you came from. What? Hang on a second, right? My dad, yeah, I was born in school and my dad's Ghanaian so why can I not be here? But that's not Ghanaian saying that. It's definitely not people from Ghana it's people from the diaspora and they also just a lot of them don't believe in it. Don't you think that our parents never knew all these things because when I was growing up, what I know is that when you travel out there to marry a white woman or maybe an Asian woman to the house they praise you for coming home with the guy has made it alive he came with a white woman that's our culture. I don't think people should blame our parents for that. But I think it's I think they're a little bit lost those Africans born or raised outside when they come home and they learn about the culture I think all that will happen in slavery or whatever maybe it's still in them and that's why they hang on to their blackness so much and they only want to date black or think that everything black is only the best but we're all people we all bleed the same blood it doesn't matter if you mix your heritage with another heritage I think it's only beautiful. And I don't know if you experienced this but when you live in the US Africans don't really interact with African people and it's really the weirdest thing to me because you're already a minority as they say being a black person but within that black community how can you not get along when you're both exactly same but then in the school and in every African-Americans and Africans they're quite separate they don't get along that well and they want to let me know whatever what she's saying is true I have never been there but I've had that experience way back in China where I had an African-American classmate and I called him an African and he nearly beat me that day that was my first time he nearly beat me for calling him an African he's like never call me an African and that was my first video that I did what Africans think of African-American and vice versa it's because of that experience so thanks for telling me so leave a comment if something like that is really happening your final messages before we leave time for the day for being Maya for president what's the series Maya for women president you drink to that but on a serious note I think that whatever your skin color is if you have any blackness in you just come and try stay in Ghana even if it's for two days it doesn't have to be Ghana but just come to Africa and experience Africa I think that's the best thing for anyone black I would say that I have friends that have Japanese-Afghanian that never grew up in Ghana so they don't know anything about Ghana and I will say from people that have lived here not lived here growing up here they have had an entire different experience of feeling at home you will never get that even being half Japanese living in Japan there's just something about comradery and Ghana that you just wouldn't get anywhere else I feel like even if you come to visit I came ever since I was 2 years old my parents took us every second year then when I was 16 I would come for like a month every year on my own so I think even if you didn't grow up here and you're older you know and come and experience it and try it I really wanted to school in Ghana I begged my dad so many times but he said hell no that's not going to happen all this money to put you in school and then as you come it's feeling in Ghana because they have a different mindset they think the outside is better and now you're here do you think the outside is better or the home is better I think Ghana is better my kids are schooling here so maybe if you're of that age try and come and stay in Ghana and don't forget that all of them have a YouTube channel I'm going to leave their link in the description please subscribe to all of them with the exception of Vanessa thank you so much for watching I'll see you next time