{"id":12521,"date":"2011-03-07T18:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12521"},"modified":"2021-11-23T02:29:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T02:29:07","slug":"the-truth-about-dublin-an-unfair-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12521","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Dublin\u2014An Unfair City"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Truth About Dublin\u2014An Unfair City<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Evening Herald<\/a>
\nDublin, Ireland
\n2010-10-02<\/p>\n

Z\u00e9lie Asava<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The tradition of a big Irish welcome isn’t always evident to a mixed-race Irish woman in Dublin<\/a>, writes Z\u00e9lie Asava<\/em><\/p>\n

“So where are you from?”<\/p>\n

“Dublin .”<\/p>\n

“No, like originally”<\/p>\n

This is a conversation I have with people on average once every two days. I am a mixed-race Irish woman. But when I tell people that I’m Irish they ask: “Where are you really from?” Instead of red hair and freckles, I have brown hair and skin. Sometimes I tell people I’m from London. After that they don’t ask again because London\u2014unlike Dublin\u2014is regarded as a racial melting pot.<\/p>\n

The alternative involves explaining why and how I am from Dublin\u2014where I was born, where my mother is from, where I went to school, where my father is from, and of course, how he met my mother. This sparks other questions like: “How would a Kenyan ever meet an Irish woman?” And: “Are you from Africa?” Understandably, when you’re having the same conversation over and over again, this gets tiresome…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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