{"id":48796,"date":"2016-08-23T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48796"},"modified":"2016-08-23T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:17:26","slug":"the-changing-faces-of-singapore-mixed-race-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48796","title":{"rendered":"The changing faces of Singapore: Mixed race families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/population.sg\/articles\/the-changing-faces-of-singapore-mixed-race-families\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The changing faces of Singapore: Mixed race families<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/population.sg\" target=\"_blank\">Population.sg<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.population.sg\/about-us\/ctl\/Details\/mid\/521\/cntrbtr\/43\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Karen Tee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This little red dot may be tiny, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in diversity. As a society traditionally made up of people of different cultures and backgrounds, coexistence and intermixing is a common theme in our daily experience \u2013 be it in the food we eat, or even how we speak.<\/p>\n<p>And according to the numbers, this is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.population.sg\/articles\/how-has-the-composition-of-marriages-in-singapore-changed-over-time\" target=\"_blank\">growing trend<\/a> in our marriages and families. Around 20 per cent of marriages in Singapore in 2014 were inter-ethnic, in other words, between individuals of different races. This is up from 13 per cent a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say this trend is unsurprising, given <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Singapore\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore\u2019s<\/a> increasingly well-travelled population and changing social norms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world is a smaller place. And what would have been totally unusual two generations ago is far more acceptable in this day and age,\u201d Anita Fam, a Families for Life council member, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/singapore\/proportion-inter-ethnic-marriages-almost-doubles\" target=\"_blank\">told TODAY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meet three mixed race Singaporean families, and hear their stories of when different cultures and traditions meet, and how they celebrate their diverse backgrounds&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/population.sg\/articles\/the-changing-faces-of-singapore-mixed-race-families\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The changing faces of Singapore: Mixed race families Population.sg 2016-08-23 Karen Tee This little red dot may be tiny, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in diversity. As a society traditionally made up of people of different cultures and backgrounds, coexistence and intermixing is a common theme in our daily experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,33,8],"tags":[24837,24838,3519],"class_list":["post-48796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-asia","category-census","category-media-archive","tag-karen-tee","tag-population-sg","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48796","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=48796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48799,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48796\/revisions\/48799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}