Is this considered multi-racial?
If someone has a dad from Germany and a mother from Russia, is that person multiracial?
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If someone has a dad from Germany and a mother from Russia, is that person multiracial?
Purely sociologically speaking, that's multi-ethnic and not multi-racial.
Race is usually based on physical differences seen as distinct by society (hint, its not real. We're all humans. Since its based on perceptions, anybody of European origin is usually just seen as white). In terms of data collection, there are five races which would be African/Black, White, Native American (including central Americas and Alaskan Natives), Asian, and Pacific Islanders. Due to weird old laws and policies, Middle Eastern and North African people were lumped into either "white" or "African" but people are lobbying for them to get their own official category soon. Sources below.
An Ethnicity is the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. Germanic and Russian people may appear similarly, but they have different cultural traditions. Thus you would be multi-ethnic.
Sources:
https://www.livescience.com/33903-difference-race-ethnicity.html
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/30/white-house-wants-add-new-racial-category-middle-eastern-people/91322064/