{"id":42515,"date":"2015-09-02T01:08:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T01:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42515"},"modified":"2015-09-02T01:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T01:08:57","slug":"does-half-chinese-half-jewish-condemn-me-to-being-neither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42515","title":{"rendered":"Does ‘Half Chinese, Half Jewish’ Condemn Me To Being Neither?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does ‘Half Chinese, Half Jewish’ Condemn Me To Being Neither?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Forward<\/a>
\n2015-08-21<\/p>\n

Rachel E. Gross<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was four years old, my father introduced me to his colleague, Jing. \u201cAre you Chinese?\u201d I asked, eyeing her shrewdly. \u201cYes,\u201d she replied. \u201cSo am I,\u201d I said. \u201cAnd shoe-ish, too!\u201d<\/p>\n

My father likes to tell this story, I think, because it illustrates my self-assurance: Even at that young age, I knew exactly who I was.<\/p>\n

What I didn\u2019t anticipate was that others might have opinions, too. That hit home recently when I wrote a NPR column<\/a> on being \u201chalf-Chinese, half-Jewish.\u201d Suddenly, people on the Internet were dictating my identity to me. \u201cThe author is not half Jewish,\u201d one wrote in the comments, citing Orthodox halacha<\/a> that deems you Jewish only if your mother is. \u201cShe is not Jewish at all.\u201d How did he know which of my parents was Jewish? \u201cI Googled her,\u201d he wrote…<\/p>\n

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

Does ‘Half Chinese, Half Jewish’ Condemn Me To Being Neither? Forward 2015-08-21 Rachel E. Gross When I was four years old, my father introduced me to his colleague, Jing. \u201cAre you Chinese?\u201d I asked, eyeing her shrewdly. \u201cYes,\u201d she replied. \u201cSo am I,\u201d I said. \u201cAnd shoe-ish, too!\u201d My father likes to tell this story, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[20566,20892,19326],"class_list":["post-42515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-forward","tag-rachel-e-gross","tag-rachel-gross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42515","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=42515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42517,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42515\/revisions\/42517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}