{"id":35944,"date":"2014-02-26T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T16:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35944"},"modified":"2014-02-26T16:47:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T16:47:39","slug":"malaysians-of-mixed-parentage-back-deleting-race-in-official-paperwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35944","title":{"rendered":"Malaysians of mixed parentage back deleting \u2018race\u2019 in official paperwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaymailonline.com\/malaysia\/article\/malaysians-of-mixed-parentage-back-deleting-race-in-official-paperwork\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Malaysians of mixed parentage back deleting \u2018race\u2019 in official paperwork<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaymailonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Malay Mail Online<\/a><br \/>\nPetaling Jaya, Malaysia<br \/>\n2014-02-24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ushar Daniele<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petaling_Jaya\" target=\"_blank\">PETALING JAYA<\/a>, Feb 24 \u2014 The proposal to remove the race column in all paperwork in the country has been received positively.<\/p>\n<p>he Malay Mail yesterday spoke to people on the street and with one voice, they agreed with the suggestion made by Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Kurup\" target=\"_blank\">Tan Sri Joseph Kurup<\/a> after the National Unity Consultative Council\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Engineer Shawn Sreedharan, 25, who is a mix of Malay, Chinese and Indian, said he had to ask his father whenever he had to fill in his race in a form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father tells me to choose whichever I want but what defines my race is that I am a product of my father, so I would like to follow my father\u2019s bloodline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocially, I can be seen as Malay or Chinese but both works for me as ticking a box on a piece of paper does not define who I am.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaymailonline.com\/malaysia\/article\/malaysians-of-mixed-parentage-back-deleting-race-in-official-paperwork\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysians of mixed parentage back deleting \u2018race\u2019 in official paperwork The Malay Mail Online Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 2014-02-24 Ushar Daniele PETALING JAYA, Feb 24 \u2014 The proposal to remove the race column in all paperwork in the country has been received positively. he Malay Mail yesterday spoke to people on the street and with one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,33,8,26],"tags":[17023,17027,3760,17028,17025,17024,17026,17029],"class_list":["post-35944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-arica-audra-de-souza","tag-malay-mail-online","tag-malaysia","tag-shawn-sreedharan","tag-tan-sri-joseph-kurup","tag-tan-sri-khoo-kay-kim","tag-the-malay-mail-online","tag-ushar-daniele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35944","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=35944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}