{"id":37710,"date":"2014-10-14T00:19:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T00:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37710"},"modified":"2014-10-14T00:26:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T00:26:37","slug":"what-its-like-to-be-half-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37710","title":{"rendered":"What It\u2019s Like To Be Half-Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/michelle-reimann\/2014\/10\/what-its-like-to-be-half-japanese\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>What It\u2019s Like To Be Half-Japanese<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\" target=\"_blank\">Thought Catalog<\/a><br \/>\n2014-10-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/michelle-reimann\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Reimann<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eurasian, half-Japanese, bi-racial, mixed race, hafu, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a>, double, hybrid, dual culture, TCK (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Third_culture_kid\" target=\"_blank\">third culture kid<\/a>,) the axis of evil (yeah, yeah: I am German and Japanese, get over it.) However you choose to describe me my lineage is often one of the most frequently asked questions when I meet new people. I have been asked if I am Brazilian, Italian, Middle Eastern, Indonesian, Malaysian, Turkish, and basically every nationality under the sun. I can\u2019t keep up with the flavor of the day in terms of political correctness anymore so for the purpose of this article I am going to refer to people like myself as <em>halflings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I mean this as a term of endearment, and also as a tribute to one of my favorite TV series coming to an end this week. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/True_Blood\" target=\"_blank\"><em>True Blood<\/em><\/a> had me going for seven strong seasons and I am already mourning the loss. The series explored the halfling protagonist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sookie_Stackhouse\" target=\"_blank\">Sookie Stackhouse\u2019s<\/a> (played by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anna_Paquin\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Paquin<\/a>) struggles with being half fairy, half human. Now, I admit what I am is not nearly as exciting as being half fairy but I can relate to many of Sookie\u2019s trials and tribulations of being being caught between two worlds.<\/p>\n<p>I am not speaking out on behalf of all halflings everywhere, but simply want to share with you my experiences of being what I am in Japan. I have never experienced racism but rather the <em>us versus them<\/em> concept \u2014 not discrimination but differentiation. I don\u2019t have any painful memories. If anything, we halflings get special treatment in Japan. We are often viewed with a mixture of curiosity, awe, envy, admiration, adoration, sometimes suspicion or confusion and a barrage of other emotions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/michelle-reimann\/2014\/10\/what-its-like-to-be-half-japanese\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What It\u2019s Like To Be Half-Japanese Thought Catalog 2014-10-08 Michelle Reimann Eurasian, half-Japanese, bi-racial, mixed race, hafu, hapa, double, hybrid, dual culture, TCK (third culture kid,) the axis of evil (yeah, yeah: I am German and Japanese, get over it.) However you choose to describe me my lineage is often one of the most frequently [&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],"tags":[18131,18132],"class_list":["post-37710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","tag-michelle-reimann","tag-thought-catalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37710","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=37710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}