{"id":46476,"date":"2016-04-03T23:28:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T23:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46476"},"modified":"2016-04-03T23:28:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T23:28:25","slug":"for-me-growing-up-as-a-mixed-race-person-youre-forced-to-see-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46476","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFor me growing up as a mixed-race person, you\u2019re forced to see both sides&#8230;\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cFor me growing up as a mixed-race person, you\u2019re forced to see both sides,\u201d he explains. \u201cI grew up in a house where my mother was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xhosa_people\" target=\"_blank\">Xhosa<\/a>, my dad was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Switzerland\" target=\"_blank\">Swiss<\/a>, my stepdad was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsonga_people\" target=\"_blank\">Shangaan<\/a>, my friends were <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zulu_people\" target=\"_blank\">Zulu<\/a>. I lived in such a melting pot that I never grew up with a preconceived notion of \u2018people\u2019. Because of that it helped my comedy because I could play within the nuance of that world.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trevornoah.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Noah<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lanre_Bakare\" target=\"_blank\">Lanre Bakare<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46435\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Noah: \u2018It\u2019s easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man\u2019<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, April 2, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2016\/apr\/02\/trevor-noah-on-replacing-jon-stewart-and-changing-the-daily-show\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2016\/apr\/02\/trevor-noah-on-replacing-jon-stewart-and-changing-the-daily-show<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor me growing up as a mixed-race person, you\u2019re forced to see both sides,\u201d he explains. \u201cI grew up in a house where my mother was Xhosa, my dad was Swiss, my stepdad was Shangaan, my friends were Zulu. I lived in such a melting pot that I never grew up with a preconceived notion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13090,2103,15219],"class_list":["post-46476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-lanre-bakare","tag-the-guardian","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46476","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=46476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46477,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46476\/revisions\/46477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}