{"id":36805,"date":"2014-07-06T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36805"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:52:47","slug":"colour-blind-love-is-the-mark-of-a-healthy-and-dynamic-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36805","title":{"rendered":"Colour-blind love is the mark of a healthy and dynamic society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/jul\/06\/mixed-marriage-interracial-partnerships-multiculturalism-society-class\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Colour-blind love is the mark of a healthy and dynamic society<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian\/The Observer<\/a><br \/>\n2014-07-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/anushkaasthana\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Anushka Asthana<\/strong><\/a>, Political Correspondent<br \/>\n<em>Sky News<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In Britain, there are ever more &#8216;mixed&#8217; marriages such as mine. And society is enriched by this trend<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A friend tells me her mother is &#8220;fully Chinese&#8221;, while her father is slightly Spanish, a little Iraqi and &#8220;a lot&#8221; Jewish. &#8220;I tick &#8216;mixed other&#8217;,&#8221; she adds, laughing. Throw &#8220;white British&#8221; into the mix and you have her daughter, whom she and her husband lovingly describe as &#8220;the mongrel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As ethnicity winds its way down the generations, it creates a complicated yet wonderfully interesting web. Data from the Office for National Statistics suggests we can expect many more of these melting-pot families. Almost one in 10 Britons now lives with a spouse or partner from a different ethnic group&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/jul\/06\/mixed-marriage-interracial-partnerships-multiculturalism-society-class\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colour-blind love is the mark of a healthy and dynamic society The Guardian\/The Observer 2014-07-05 Anushka Asthana, Political Correspondent Sky News In Britain, there are ever more &#8216;mixed&#8217; marriages such as mine. And society is enriched by this trend A friend tells me her mother is &#8220;fully Chinese&#8221;, while her father is slightly Spanish, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,394,10],"tags":[2834,2103,2835],"class_list":["post-36805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-anushka-asthana","tag-the-guardian","tag-the-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36805","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=36805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51700,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36805\/revisions\/51700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}