{"id":47083,"date":"2016-05-22T22:12:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T22:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47083"},"modified":"2016-05-22T22:12:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T22:12:23","slug":"ethnicity-does-not-define-ones-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47083","title":{"rendered":"Ethnicity does not define one\u2019s character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalgazette.com\/article\/20150415\/COLUMN32\/150419838\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Ethnicity does not define one\u2019s character<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalgazette.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Gazette<\/a><br \/>\nHamilton, Bermuda<br \/>\n2016-04-15<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bm.linkedin.com\/in\/christopher-famous-41821668\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Famous<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There has been debate on social media recently about good hair vs bad hair, persons of mixed ethnicities, light skin vs dark skin.<\/p>\n<p>After a conversation with someone deeply concerned with these issues, I decided to dig up a column I wrote in June last year:<\/p>\n<p>We see a large proportion of Bermudians who are fair or light-skinned, with straight or semi-straight hair. Why is that, you ask? Let\u2019s look at history to understand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalgazette.com\/article\/20150415\/COLUMN32\/150419838\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnicity does not define one\u2019s character The Royal Gazette Hamilton, Bermuda 2016-04-15 Christopher Famous There has been debate on social media recently about good hair vs bad hair, persons of mixed ethnicities, light skin vs dark skin. After a conversation with someone deeply concerned with these issues, I decided to dig up a column I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8],"tags":[23833,23834,23832,23831],"class_list":["post-47083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-bermuda","tag-christopher-famous","tag-royal-gazette","tag-the-royal-gazette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083","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=47083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47084,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083\/revisions\/47084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}