{"id":13009,"date":"2011-03-31T02:10:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T02:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13009"},"modified":"2016-06-06T00:09:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T00:09:49","slug":"understanding-what-it-means-to-be-mixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13009","title":{"rendered":"Understanding what it means to be mixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.excal.on.ca\/features\/understanding-what-it-means-to-be-mixed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding what it means to be mixed<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.excal.on.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Excalibur<\/a><br \/>\nYork University&#8217;s Community Newspaper<br \/>\n2011-03-30<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victoria Alarcon<\/strong>, Sports &amp; Health Editor<\/p>\n<p>People have always seen me as different. It doesn\u2019t matter where I went, when it happened or who it was; I\u2019ve too often come face-to-face with puzzled looks and people examining me, trying to dissect what I was. That curious look prefaced the inevitable question: \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis question of \u2018where do you come from?\u2019 has become normalized. For people that is a normal way of trying to figure something out about someone,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:akc@yorku.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Arun Chaudhuri<\/a>, an anthropology professor at York University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very profound expectation of how you\u2019re supposed to understand someone in terms of talking about where they came from and their origin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been called Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and a few other names that weren\u2019t even close. But what people don\u2019t know is that I\u2019m mixed race.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up I had a father whose ancestors came from China and a mother who was very much from a traditional Spanish family. They got married, and just like that, I was born into a mixed family.<strong> From my Asian eyes to my beige skin, I was neither Chinese nor Spanish, but both. The hardest part was constantly being surrounded by scrutinizing eyes and getting past their judgments to accept what I was&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.excal.on.ca\/features\/understanding-what-it-means-to-be-mixed\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding what it means to be mixed Excalibur York University&#8217;s Community Newspaper 2011-03-30 Victoria Alarcon, Sports &amp; Health Editor People have always seen me as different. It doesn\u2019t matter where I went, when it happened or who it was; I\u2019ve too often come face-to-face with puzzled looks and people examining me, trying to dissect what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,19,125,8],"tags":[5848,5849,5847,4323],"class_list":["post-13009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-arun-chaudhuri","tag-excalibur","tag-victoria-alarcon","tag-york-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47345,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13009\/revisions\/47345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}