{"id":25664,"date":"2012-09-30T01:17:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T01:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25664"},"modified":"2012-09-30T01:17:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T01:17:14","slug":"tiger-mom%e2%80%99s-hapa-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25664","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Mom\u2019s Hapa Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/2012\/05\/09\/tiger-moms-hapa-cubs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Mom\u2019s Hapa Cubs<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu<\/a><br \/>\n2012-05-09<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Are persons with one Asian parent and one non-Asian parent Asian or not Asian? Schools don\u2019t seem to know where to place them, leaving them on their own to determine their identities. In the article, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/story\/2011-12-03\/asian-students-college-applications\/51620236\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Some Asians\u2019 college strategy: Don\u2019t check \u2018Asian\u2019<\/a>,\u201d some young <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">Hapa<\/a> reveal the ambivalence and flexibility surrounding their identities. Parents wondering if they should regard their kids as Asian might take a lesson from Tiger Mom Amy Chua, who raised two Hapa children.<\/p>\n<p>Amy describes her two girls, Sophia and Lulu, as having \u201cbrown hair, brown eyes, and Asianesque features.\u201d They both speak Chinese and Sophia eats \u201call kind of organs and organisms, duck webs, pig ears, and sea slugs, critical aspects of Chinese identity.\u201d Yet, on their first trip to China, the girls are treated as spectacles, drawing curious crowds, even in cosmopolitan <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanghai\" target=\"_blank\">Shanghai<\/a>, when people stared, giggled, and pointed at the \u201ctwo little foreigners who speak Chinese.\u201d At the zoo, when the girls were taking pictures of the baby pandas, <strong>the crowd was taking pictures of the girls<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/2012\/05\/09\/tiger-moms-hapa-cubs\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Mom\u2019s Hapa Cubs Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-05-09 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University Are persons with one Asian parent and one non-Asian parent Asian or not Asian? Schools don\u2019t seem to know where to place them, leaving them on their own to determine their identities. In the article, \u201cSome Asians\u2019 college strategy: Don\u2019t check \u2018Asian\u2019,\u201d some young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,8],"tags":[512],"class_list":["post-25664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-stephen-murphy-shigematsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25664","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=25664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}