{"id":43120,"date":"2015-10-08T01:10:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T01:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43120"},"modified":"2015-10-08T01:12:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T01:12:13","slug":"how-the-hawaiian-word-hapa-came-to-be-used-by-people-of-mixed-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43120","title":{"rendered":"How the Hawaiian word &#8216;hapa&#8217; came to be used by people of mixed heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-09-15\/how-hawaiian-word-hapa-came-be-used-people-mixed-heritage\" target=\"_blank\">How the Hawaiian word &#8216;hapa&#8217; came to be used by people of mixed heritage<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\" target=\"_blank\">Public Radio International<\/a> (PRI)<br \/>\n2015-09-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/porzucki\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nina Porzucki<\/strong><\/a>, Producer<\/p>\n<p><em>Recently, an old friend of mine, Julie Jimenez had a language question she wanted me to investigate: Where does the word \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a>\u201d come from?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/node\/84201\/embedded\" width=\"550\" height=\"75\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Julie considers herself hapa. Her father is from Chile, her mom is Japanese American. And she calls herself \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a>,&#8221; that is, half Asian, half something else. Julie had never questioned this definition before until one day she was at the market and she met a women who she thought was hapa like herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe looked half Chinese and half white and I said, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re hapa!\u2019 and she said \u2018that\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaiian_language\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaiian word<\/a>, you\u2019re not supposed to use it.\u2019 And I had never heard anyone say that before. I was kind of shocked because I had never thought it was offensive,\u201d she said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the story (00:38:09)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/node\/84201\/popout\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/cdn.pri.org\/sites\/default\/files\/world-words\/segment-audio\/wiwpodcast373.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Hawaiian word &#8216;hapa&#8217; came to be used by people of mixed heritage Public Radio International (PRI) 2015-09-15 Nina Porzucki, Producer Recently, an old friend of mine, Julie Jimenez had a language question she wanted me to investigate: Where does the word \u201chapa\u201d come from? Julie considers herself hapa. Her father is from Chile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,2850,8,20],"tags":[911,10807,21333,21332,16382,7162],"class_list":{"0":"post-43120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-arts","7":"category-asia","8":"category-audio","9":"category-media-archive","10":"category-usa","11":"tag-hawaii","13":"tag-julie-jimenez","14":"tag-nina-porzucki","15":"tag-pri","16":"tag-public-radio-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43120","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=43120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43122,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43120\/revisions\/43122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}