{"id":42054,"date":"2015-07-28T20:18:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T20:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42054"},"modified":"2015-08-02T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T20:04:24","slug":"its-my-party-and-ill-be-biracial-if-i-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42054","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s My Party and I\u2019ll Be Biracial if I Want to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegemagazine.com\/party-ill-biracial-want\/\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s My Party and I\u2019ll Be Biracial if I Want to<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegemagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">College Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-23<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/griffin_emanuel\" target=\"_blank\">Emanuel Griffin<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The fact that I am half black and half Asian is the coolest thing about me. It\u2019s like being a one-man <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wu-Tang_Clan\" target=\"_blank\">Wu-Tang Clan<\/a>. It\u2019s like being the handsome result of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackie_Chan\" target=\"_blank\">Jackie Chan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Tucker\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Tucker<\/a> having a baby. It means having the freshest <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Jordan\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan\u2019s<\/a> but knowing to take them off when step in the house. Being mixed does have awkward drawbacks, I\u2019ll admit. I\u2019ve been asked what my ethnicity is at least 9001 more times than I\u2019ve been asked my name. Folks joke about what race I am \u201cdown there,\u201d and they always want to touch my hair.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I had placed the same amount of importance on my two cultures until my grandma came to visit me from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines\" target=\"_blank\">Philippines<\/a>. To prove how wrong I was, she went on one of her longwinded, heavily accented lectures. She pointed out that I didn\u2019t have a Filipino flag, couldn\u2019t cook basic Filipino food and couldn\u2019t speak <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tagalog\" target=\"_blank\">Tagalog<\/a>, the national language of the Philippines. I felt like an uncultured douche for neglecting my Asian half. Right in the middle of my downward spiral of contemplating life and drinking vanilla milkshakes, my fully Filipino friend Al invited me to the University of Florida\u2019s annual Go Fest. By the time he finished the question, my bags were already packed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegemagazine.com\/party-ill-biracial-want\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s My Party and I\u2019ll Be Biracial if I Want to College Magazine 2015-07-23 Emanuel Griffin University of Florida The fact that I am half black and half Asian is the coolest thing about me. It\u2019s like being a one-man Wu-Tang Clan. It\u2019s like being the handsome result of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,2895,8,20],"tags":[20561,20562],"class_list":["post-42054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-college-magazine","tag-emanuel-griffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42054","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=42054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42099,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42054\/revisions\/42099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}