{"id":30355,"date":"2013-04-13T01:51:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T01:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30355"},"modified":"2013-04-13T01:51:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T01:51:34","slug":"hapa-amerasian-euro-asian-or-%e2%80%98other%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30355","title":{"rendered":"Hapa, Amerasian, Euro-Asian, or \u2018Other\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianweek.com\/2005\/12\/16\/hapa-amerasian-euro-asian-or-%E2%80%98other%E2%80%99\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hapa, Amerasian, Euro-Asian, or \u2018Other\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianweek.com\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Week: The Voice of Asian America<\/a><br \/>\n2005-12-16<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nathalie Ishizuka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From day one, I was labeled, \u201cother.\u201d Singing my ABCs, looking Japanese and asking for a \u201cbonbon,\u201d it was hard not to notice me. My French mother and Japanese father told me that it was my terrible singing voice that drew attention, so being an \u201cother\u201d never went to my head.<\/p>\n<p>What did go directly to my head and heart, was the feeling that I was indeed different \u2014 as Katherine Knorr of the <em>International Herald Tribune<\/em> put it so well,<strong> \u201cSomeone at home in two places and a stranger in both as well.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After hearing from other hapas, Amerasians, Euro-Asians, Nisei and countless \u201cothers,\u201d I have often thought about what it means to never entirely fit into one category \u2014 nor to entirely want to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianweek.com\/2005\/12\/16\/hapa-amerasian-euro-asian-or-%E2%80%98other%E2%80%99\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hapa, Amerasian, Euro-Asian, or \u2018Other\u2019 Asian Week: The Voice of Asian America 2005-12-16 Nathalie Ishizuka From day one, I was labeled, \u201cother.\u201d Singing my ABCs, looking Japanese and asking for a \u201cbonbon,\u201d it was hard not to notice me. My French mother and Japanese father told me that it was my terrible singing voice that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,8,20],"tags":[14362,14361,14360],"class_list":["post-30355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-asian-week","tag-asian-week-the-voice-of-asian-america","tag-nathalie-ishizuka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30355","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=30355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}