{"id":40060,"date":"2015-02-20T18:58:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40060"},"modified":"2015-02-23T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T07:37:50","slug":"is-it-still-interracial-dating-when-youre-mixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40060","title":{"rendered":"Is it still Interracial dating when you\u2019re mixed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it still Interracial dating when you\u2019re mixed?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Fusion<\/a>
\n2015-02-19<\/p>\n

Simone Jacobson<\/a><\/strong>
\nWashington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

No matter where I live or whom I date, I will always be out of context.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it all began: My mother and my maternal grandparents were born in Burma<\/a>. My grandpa\u2019s father was Chinese and my grandma\u2019s father was British; both of their mothers were Burmese. Unlike many first generation Asian Americans, my mom\u2019s first language was English. My paternal grandparents are first and second generation Americans of Eastern European ancestry with firmly established Jewish identities.<\/p>\n

Because I was raised in the racially intolerant Southwest<\/a>, the fact that I developed my own strong Asian American identity is somewhat of a miracle. After all, Phoenix, Arizona<\/a> is home to the nation\u2019s strictest anti-immigration policies<\/a> and state university fraternities that host \u201cdress like black people<\/a>\u201d- themed MLK<\/a> celebrations. And unlike \u201cmajority-black<\/a>\u201d Washington, D.C.<\/a>, my current home of 14 years, nearly 70 percent of the Phoenician<\/a> population self-identified as white as of the 2010 Census.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for me, I was immersed in a loving community of Asian Americans as early as kindergarten. Outside of my immediate family, the most influential people in my young life were my Thai American best friend (26 years together now, and counting) and my Korean American dance teacher, a strong, handsome man who never raised his voice, showered me with love as if I were his own daughter, and taught me I should always reach across to open the car door for a man whenever he opens mine.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to the recent present: I turned 30 last year and was single and freshly broken-hearted for the first time in ten years after investing half a decade in a relationship that did not end up in what I had hoped would be a lifelong commitment. After a decade of back-to-back monogamous relationships throughout my 20s\u2014first with a white Frenchman (three years), then with a black Jamaican Belizean American (five years)\u2014I went on an online dating binge to get over a bad breakup with the latter.<\/p>\n

After many continuous, failed attempts at love in the digital space, I was left disappointed and slightly lonelier than when I began. But my yearlong experience of dating strangers (of all races) revealed something more unsettling than the process itself: I\u2019ve never culturally aligned with anyone I\u2019ve dated.<\/p>\n

During the online dating binge, I met an exceptionally diverse cast of characters vying for my attention. But one gentleman in particular, a sartorial East Asian dandy<\/a>, shattered my post-breakup confidence when he said abruptly one day: \u201cI\u2019m a romantic guy, despite what you think. I just don\u2019t see myself falling in love with you<\/em>.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it still Interracial dating when you\u2019re mixed? Fusion 2015-02-19 Simone Jacobson Washington, D.C. No matter where I live or whom I date, I will always be out of context. Here\u2019s how it all began: My mother and my maternal grandparents were born in Burma. My grandpa\u2019s father was Chinese and my grandma\u2019s father was […]<\/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":[19052,19375],"class_list":["post-40060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-fusion","tag-simone-jacobson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40060","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=40060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}