{"id":31219,"date":"2013-05-22T03:03:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31219"},"modified":"2013-05-22T03:03:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:03:30","slug":"laapff-2013-mix-cultural-asians-find-their-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31219","title":{"rendered":"LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.8asians.com\/2013\/05\/20\/mix-cultural-asians-find-their-roots-at-laapff-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.8asians.com\" target=\"_blank\">8Asians<\/a><br \/>\n2013-05-20<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.8asians.com\/author\/shakoliu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shako Liu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/48988439\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One common theme that has been echoing in some of the documentaries presented in <a href=\"http:\/\/asianfilmfestla.org\/2013\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival<\/a> is that mix-raced Asians either in the states or in an Asian country, or Asian immigrants are trying to find out who they are and what country they represent. The identity searching is a ever-green theme in the Asian American community which has 60 percent first-generation immigrants and the largest percentage of interracial marriage.<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary <em><a href=\"http:\/\/hafufilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hafu<\/a><\/em>, it explored the life of mix-raced Japanese in Japan. The film showed that about 2 million foreigners were living in Japan in 2010, constituting around 30,000 international marriages. Children from these marriages are called Hafu, a Japanese word evolved from the English word \u201chalf,\u201d indicating half Japanese and half foreigner.<\/p>\n<p>Japan strictly upholds the ideology of \u201cone nation, one culture, one race.\u201d It outcasts the mix-raced Japanese, who grew up there and speak the language perfectly. The film has profiled different mix-raced Japanese from all kinds of racial combination, background, age and both genders. It provides a deep and well-rounded view about the struggle they have and the questions they raise about their country and themselves. All of their stories are revolving around one question\u2013\u201cWho am I?\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8asians.com\/2013\/05\/20\/mix-cultural-asians-find-their-roots-at-laapff-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots 8Asians 2013-05-20 Shako Liu One common theme that has been echoing in some of the documentaries presented in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is that mix-raced Asians either in the states or in an Asian country, or Asian immigrants are trying to find out who they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5],"tags":[14749,221,1793,14348,14748],"class_list":["post-31219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","tag-8asians","tag-china","tag-japan","tag-los-angeles-asian-pacific-film-festival","tag-shako-liu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219","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=31219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}