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Maybe I don't have a real place in this discussion, since I'm 3/4 Scandinavian and the rest is Swiss and English/American.

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I think you do. It's not always skin colour that makes family life difficult . My father was English (posh) and my mother was Scottish (working class). He took her away from Scotland when she was 19 and rejected her family. He spent his life rubbishing her roots (mainly by never mentioning them) and kept her subjugated until he died age 72. My mother died shortly after. It was like he had married the housemaid or something.

We lived away from both families and as a result I had no extended family to relate to at all. Isolation was the name of the game. I think my father was an insecure individual and he was certainly cruel. I have a suspicion that he daren't marry a woman that he thought was on his own 'level' for fear that his nasty behaviour would be exposed.

So, although Scottish/English doesn't seem so biracial compared to more obvious cases, I think that the isolation and unhappiness of being in a fugitive nuclear family, always on the move, rootless, is painful whatever the reason is.