{"id":35933,"date":"2014-02-23T23:46:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35933"},"modified":"2014-02-23T23:46:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:46:57","slug":"being-mixed-in-todays-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35933","title":{"rendered":"Being Mixed in Today\u2019s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/article\/60649\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Being Mixed in Today\u2019s America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diverse: Issues in Higher Education<\/a><br \/>\n2014-02-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/article\/author\/jng\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jonathan Ng<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>California State University, San Bernardino<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For me, being mixed ethnicity has been a multiple-way street \u2015 like a giant intersection. I am Black, White and Chinese; however, based on my skin color, most people classify me as Black. I look racially ambiguous, so people like to ask me what I am. When I tell them that I am Black and White, they think, \u201cOh, that\u2019s kind of what I guessed.\u201d But then when I finish and say that I am Chinese, it absolutely blows their minds. They respond \u201cHow?\u201d or \u201cNo you are not!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is strange to think that people actually deny me of my own heritage like I am wrong, but when I tell them that my last name is Chinese (Ng), they accept it and say, \u201cOh so that\u2019s where your last name comes from. I thought it was different.\u201d Here\u2019s something I found to be interesting, though. When I tell people that I am Black, White and Chinese, they understand that I am mixed; however, the only thing they care about is the Black and Chinese part. I think they selectively hear Black and Chinese because it seems the most interesting to them. I often get asked questions like, \u201cWhat part of you is Chinese?\u201d I have to explain my family history to just about everybody I meet. When I tell them that my family has been mixed since my great-grandparents on one side and my grandparents on my other side, they are absolutely shocked. Yes, I have a family of rebels.<\/p>\n<p>This has become a daily routine for me \u2015 let\u2019s say weekly routine, because, yes, it has become that common for me to explain my heritage to people I meet. I don\u2019t really mind it as much because I try to put myself in their shoes and understand how hard it is to grasp that my family has been mixed for so many generations back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/article\/60649\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Mixed in Today\u2019s America Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2014-02-07 Jonathan Ng California State University, San Bernardino For me, being mixed ethnicity has been a multiple-way street \u2015 like a giant intersection. I am Black, White and Chinese; however, based on my skin color, most people classify me as Black. I look racially ambiguous, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[7172,17019],"class_list":["post-35933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-diverse-issues-in-higher-education","tag-jonathan-ng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35933","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=35933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}