Totally relate to the above comments RE; parents projecting their own insecurities on to their children when they say stuff like "you hang around with too many white kids." Was called a "coconut" by my family as a kid, because I was white on the inside brown on the outside. In reality, I looked beyond people's skin colour, my family couldn't & still can't. Learnt the other day Lookism is a real thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookism
Oh & BTW anyone who says forget about your race etc, well you CAN'T because others constantly remind you. For example, I've written a couple of books (one of which is trad published). Well I put my foreign, sounding name on the front cover of the first edition. Didn't sell many copies.
Made one small change, replaced my foreign souinding name with a traditional name, which you might expect an author to sound like (Tom Gerald).
And you know what, that one change led to book sales up by more than 4x's.
Welcome to post brexit UK people. Or as I like to call it. Nazi Land.