{"id":29577,"date":"2013-03-15T19:46:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29577"},"modified":"2013-03-15T19:46:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:46:25","slug":"at-school-i-was-called-a-half-caste-today-im-proud-as-census-reveals-over-a-million-britons-were-born-to-inter-racial-relationships-one-womans-moving-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29577","title":{"rendered":"At school I was called a half-caste. Today I’m proud: As census reveals over a million Britons were born to inter-racial relationships, one woman’s moving story"},"content":{"rendered":"

At school I was called a half-caste. Today I’m proud: As census reveals over a million Britons were born to inter-racial relationships, one woman’s moving story<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Daily Mail<\/a>
\n2012-12-11<\/p>\n

Tanith Carey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever the moment comes when I have to choose the box on the Census that asks me to describe my national identity, my hand hovers over which one to tick.<\/p>\n

With my fair hair, pale skin and green eyes, I certainly look like I should be picking the category that says \u2018White\/British\u2019.<\/p>\n

But by putting my mark in that square, I would not be doing justice to all that I am.<\/p>\n

Like more than one million people in Britain, according to data from the 2011 Census released yesterday, I am a member of the fastest-growing population group in this country: those born to parents in inter-racial relationships.<\/p>\n

Jubilation over the successes this summer of Olympic athletes such as Jessica Ennis<\/a> \u2014\u00a0 the daughter of a Jamaican father and a white British mother \u2014 has shown how far we have come in embracing such a large mixed-raced population.<\/p>\n

When talking race, people are very quick to talk about the negatives \u2014 discrimination and the difficulties of integration, to name but two.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s not forget how tolerant Britain is as a nation, and how inclusive we have become in the space of just a few decades.<\/p>\n

As the granddaughter of an Indian entrepreneur who was at the forefront of this transformation, I can testify to just how far we have.<\/p>\n

When I was a child growing up in the Seventies, it was not uncommon to be called a \u2018half-caste<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the phrase was used to try to pigeon-hole me when I was asked about my slightly more exotic origins.\u00a0 At the time, the term \u2018half-caste\u2019 implied that because you were the sum of two halves, you amounted to nothing much.<\/p>\n

It was used as the worst of all insults…<\/p>\n

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

At school I was called a half-caste. Today I’m proud: As census reveals over a million Britons were born to inter-racial relationships, one woman’s moving story The Daily Mail 2012-12-11 Tanith Carey Whenever the moment comes when I have to choose the box on the Census that asks me to describe my national identity, my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,33,125,8,394,10],"tags":[9810,1351,14053,3050],"class_list":["post-29577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-daily-mail","tag-india","tag-tanith-carey","tag-the-daily-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29577","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=29577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}