{"id":45080,"date":"2016-01-13T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45080"},"modified":"2016-01-13T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:00:19","slug":"both-native-and-foreign-how-being-of-mixed-race-affects-japanese-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45080","title":{"rendered":"Both native and foreign: How being of mixed race affects Japanese students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavalierdaily.com\/article\/2014\/07\/both-native-and-foreign\" target=\"_blank\">Both native and foreign: How being of mixed race affects Japanese students<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavalierdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Cavalier Daily<\/a><br \/>\nCharlottesville, Virginia<br \/>\n2014-07-01<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Gorham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have now entered week five of my three month stay in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a> as an intern for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icc.ac.jp\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ibaraki Christian University\u2019s<\/a> English department. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what I\u2019ve termed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavalierdaily.com\/article\/2014\/06\/the-gaijin-stare\" target=\"_blank\">gaijin stare<\/a> \u2014 a phenomenon in which, as one of very few foreigners living in the Japanese countryside, I get stares from just about everyone, wherever I go.<\/p>\n<p>This concept got me thinking: what happens when the gaijin stare is misplaced? Japan used to think of itself as a homogenous nation. Some people still think of it this way \u2014 though times are certainly changing and interracial marriage is growing increasingly common.<\/p>\n<p>By one statistic, one in every 49 babies born in Japan today is considered \u201cmixed race\u201d \u2014 or \u201chaafu,\u201d which natives presumably take to mean half-Japanese and half-foreign. While this number may not sound staggering, it means Japan\u2019s mixed raced demographic cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>After experiencing the gaijin stare myself, I spoke to a few students at the university who are considered \u201chaafu\u201d for their take on racial perception in Japan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavalierdaily.com\/article\/2014\/07\/both-native-and-foreign\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both native and foreign: How being of mixed race affects Japanese students The Cavalier Daily Charlottesville, Virginia 2014-07-01 Emily Gorham I have now entered week five of my three month stay in Japan as an intern for the Ibaraki Christian University\u2019s English department. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what I\u2019ve termed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,2895,33,8],"tags":[22599,22597,1793,22598],"class_list":["post-45080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-campus-life","category-census","category-media-archive","tag-cavalier-daily","tag-emily-gorham","tag-japan","tag-the-cavalier-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45080","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=45080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45081,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45080\/revisions\/45081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}