{"id":42272,"date":"2015-08-17T01:48:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42272"},"modified":"2018-03-17T19:44:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T19:44:58","slug":"half-white-half-asian-but-no-less-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42272","title":{"rendered":"Half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Irish Examiner<\/a>
\nDublin, Ireland
\n2015-08-15<\/p>\n

Dean Van Nguyen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Half white, half Asian Dubliner<\/a> Dean Van Nguyen speaks to other mixed-race Irish people in their twenties and thirties about growing up in a primarily white culture, being subjected to racist taunts, and coming to terms with their own sense of self.<\/em><\/p>\n

Who am I? It\u2019s a simple question, but one we as human beings frequently ask ourselves \u2013 it defines our sense of self identity, from childhood right throughout our lives, and can play a major role in shaping the people we become.<\/p>\n

When it comes to self-concept, there are some obvious factors that we know from an early age just by examining our circumstances.<\/p>\n

For generations of people born in Ireland<\/a>, many of the key questions seemed pre-answered: You were Irish. You were white. You were Christian.<\/p>\n

As African-American comedian Reginald D. Hunter<\/a> joked at a Vicar Street<\/a> gig in 2011, Ireland is \u201cwhere they make white people\u201d.<\/p>\n

While the country is becoming ever more pluralist as we get deeper into the 21st century, for those of mixed-race now in their twenties and thirties, the answers to these questions of self-identity have been less simple…<\/p>\n

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

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