{"id":46718,"date":"2016-04-25T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46718"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:29:44","slug":"why-ethnic-minority-forms-suck-for-mixed-race-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46718","title":{"rendered":"Why Ethnic Minority Forms Suck for Mixed-Race People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/deborah-chatterjee\/ethnic-minority-forms-for-mixed-race-people_b_9749302.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why Ethnic Minority Forms Suck for Mixed-Race People<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post United Kingdom<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-22<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sharedcityUK\" target=\"_blank\">Deborah Chatterjee<\/a><\/strong>, Co-founder<br \/>\n<em>SharedCity, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There has been a bit of an uproar in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brighton_and_Hove\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton &amp; Hove<\/a> because children as young as four, are being given the option to leave the gender section on their Primary School application blank if they don&#8217;t identify with being strictly male or female.<\/p>\n<p>This has reminded me of how I have often wanted to leave Ethnic Minority Forms blank because I don&#8217;t identify with any of the options laid out. Ticking &#8216;Other&#8217; like I&#8217;m something indescribable is the only box that works for me.<\/p>\n<p>My heritage is Indian\/Italian so why not tick the &#8216;White\/Asian&#8217; box? Well, it doesn&#8217;t feel correct, as the term &#8216;White&#8217; is so vague in terms of describing my Italian side. And Asian could be Japanese or Korean which are both completely different from being Indian.<\/p>\n<p>It gets even more confusing with my daughters. In order of percentage they are: English, Indian, Italian, Swedish and Irish. Again, &#8216;White\/Asian&#8217; isn&#8217;t appropriate and choosing &#8216;Other&#8217; just seems like an insult. However, unlike young children in Brighton &amp; Hove, my children along with millions of other Mixed-Race kids don&#8217;t get the option of leaving the form blank&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/deborah-chatterjee\/ethnic-minority-forms-for-mixed-race-people_b_9749302.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Ethnic Minority Forms Suck for Mixed-Race People The Huffington Post United Kingdom 2016-04-22 Deborah Chatterjee, Co-founder SharedCity, London, United Kingdom There has been a bit of an uproar in Brighton &amp; Hove because children as young as four, are being given the option to leave the gender section on their Primary School application blank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,10],"tags":[23659,10108,20701,2425,20700],"class_list":["post-46718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-deborah-chatterjee","tag-huffington-post","tag-huffington-post-united-kingdom","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-the-huffington-post-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46718","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=46718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46719,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46718\/revisions\/46719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}