{"id":22101,"date":"2012-04-01T22:42:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T22:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22101"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:16:21","slug":"for-asian-american-couples-a-tie-that-binds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22101","title":{"rendered":"For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/01\/fashion\/more-asian-americans-marrying-within-their-race.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2012-03-30<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachel L. Swarns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WHEN she was a philosophy student at Harvard College eight years ago, Liane Young never thought twice about all the interracial couples who flitted across campus, arm and arm, hand in hand. Most of her Asian friends had white boyfriends or girlfriends. In her social circles, it was simply the way of the world.<\/p>\n<p>But today, the majority of Ms. Young\u2019s Asian-American friends on Facebook have Asian-American husbands or wives. And Ms. Young, a Boston-born granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, is married to a Harvard medical student who loves skiing and the Pittsburgh Steelers and just happens to have been born in Fujian Province in China.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Young said she hadn\u2019t been searching for a boyfriend with an Asian background. They met by chance at a nightclub in Boston, and she is delighted by how completely right it feels. They have taken lessons together in Cantonese (which she speaks) and Mandarin (which he speaks), and they hope to pass along those languages when they have children someday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want Chinese culture to be a part of our lives and our kids\u2019 lives,\u201d said Ms. Young, 29, an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College who married Xin Gao, 27, last year. \u201cIt\u2019s another part of our marriage that we\u2019re excited to tackle together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interracial marriage rates are at an all-time high in the United States, with the percentage of couples exchanging vows across the color line more than doubling over the last 30 years. But Asian-Americans are bucking that trend, increasingly choosing their soul mates from among their own expanding community&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/01\/fashion\/more-asian-americans-marrying-within-their-race.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds The New York Times 2012-03-30 Rachel L. Swarns WHEN she was a philosophy student at Harvard College eight years ago, Liane Young never thought twice about all the interracial couples who flitted across campus, arm and arm, hand in hand. Most of her Asian friends had white boyfriends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,6,394,20],"tags":[353,2640,2880,9343,2327,3127,969],"class_list":["post-22101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-c-n-le","tag-new-york-times","tag-rachel-l-swarns","tag-rachel-swarns","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-wendy-wang","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22101","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=22101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46401,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22101\/revisions\/46401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}