{"id":43293,"date":"2015-10-16T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43293"},"modified":"2015-10-16T20:43:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:43:37","slug":"how-i-found-my-way-to-hapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43293","title":{"rendered":"How I Found My Way to Hapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashupamericans.com\/issues\/how-i-found-my-way-to-hapa\/\" target=\"_blank\">How I Found My Way to Hapa<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashupamericans.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Mash-Up Americans<\/a><br \/>\n2010-10-06<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nerdette\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Tarr<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Being mixed race can make people look at you like you\u2019re a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashupamericans.com\/issues\/mash-up-books-the-mash-up-americans-presents-heidi\/\" target=\"_blank\">unicorn<\/a>. We\u2019re the <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/10\/changing-faces\/funderburg-text\" target=\"_blank\">changing face of America<\/a>! We have a racial passport to anywhere! We can also grow up confused, and challenged on our identity on every front. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashupamericans.com\/issues\/mash-up-issues-when-half-leaves-you-hungry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is half ever enough?<\/a> What <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashupamericans.com\/issues\/mash-up-issues-when-standards-collide\/\" target=\"_blank\">standards<\/a> do we have to meet in order to fit in? Our Korean-Brazilian-American Mash-Up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nerdette\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Tarr<\/a> shares with us her struggle for belonging, and her choice. We\u2019re in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The identity of a racially mixed person is a squishy place to live.<\/p>\n<p>I never identified as a person of color until I was in my mid twenties. My mom is first-generation Korean-American, and my dad has Brazilian, Finnish, and Scottish ancestry. Though I grew up in a Korean Baptist Bible church outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, I never felt that I truly belonged in a Korean community.<\/p>\n<p>To put it bluntly, Koreans are super group-oriented and can sometimes be unflinchingly xenophobic. An outsider is and often will remain an outsider. Among the church kids I grew up with, I was too tall. Too loud. Too fat, by Korean standards. I was nerdy but not nerdy enough to inhabit the rarified air of magnet school kids and Korean-level competition. I wasn\u2019t captain of the mathlete team and my piano skills were not concert-ready&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashupamericans.com\/issues\/how-i-found-my-way-to-hapa\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I Found My Way to Hapa The Mash-Up Americans 2010-10-06 Tanya Tarr Being mixed race can make people look at you like you\u2019re a unicorn. We\u2019re the changing face of America! We have a racial passport to anywhere! We can also grow up confused, and challenged on our identity on every front. Is half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[21438,21437],"class_list":["post-43293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-tanya-tarr","tag-the-mash-up-americans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43293","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=43293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43294,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43293\/revisions\/43294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}