{"id":44933,"date":"2016-01-02T20:50:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T20:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44933"},"modified":"2016-01-02T20:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T20:50:59","slug":"once-sidelined-taiwans-mixed-race-children-find-new-embrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44933","title":{"rendered":"Once sidelined, Taiwan&#8217;s mixed-race children find new embrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Asia-Pacific\/2015\/0701\/Once-sidelined-Taiwan-s-mixed-race-children-find-new-embrace\" target=\"_blank\">Once sidelined, Taiwan&#8217;s mixed-race children find new embrace<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-01<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/About\/People\/Ralph-Jennings\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Jennings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As more Taiwanese men marry Southeast Asian women, the island nation is beginning to think of itself as multi-ethnic, in a distinct departure from the mainland. The change is supported by younger generations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taipei\" target=\"_blank\">Taipei<\/a> \u2014 Huang Hui-mei used to dread being asked about her racial heritage. The daughter of a Vietnamese mother and Taiwanese father, she knew that having Southeast Asian heritage was seen as a marker of low status in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>But now, Hui-mei, a high school sophomore whose mother was driven by poverty to come to Taiwan, is finding that people are more curious \u2013 in a good way \u2013 about her background.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese are increasingly thinking of themselves as a multi-ethnic society \u2013 a concept that is reshaping Taiwan&#8217;s story of its basic identity. That has larger significance now as a generation of younger Taiwanese move to more clearly distinguish their island and its culture from that of political rival, China&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Asia-Pacific\/2015\/0701\/Once-sidelined-Taiwan-s-mixed-race-children-find-new-embrace\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once sidelined, Taiwan&#8217;s mixed-race children find new embrace Christian Science Monitor 2015-07-01 Ralph Jennings As more Taiwanese men marry Southeast Asian women, the island nation is beginning to think of itself as multi-ethnic, in a distinct departure from the mainland. The change is supported by younger generations. Taipei \u2014 Huang Hui-mei used to dread being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,33,8,394],"tags":[13974,22514,1795,5666],"class_list":["post-44933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-christian-science-monitor","tag-ralph-jennings","tag-taiwan","tag-the-christian-science-monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933","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=44933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44934,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933\/revisions\/44934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}