{"id":48932,"date":"2016-08-31T21:20:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48932"},"modified":"2016-08-31T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:20:51","slug":"blind-spots-and-other-problems-in-globally-blended-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48932","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blind Spots\u2019 and Other Problems in Globally Blended Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/expat\/2016\/08\/31\/blind-spots-and-other-problems-in-globally-blended-families\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018Blind Spots\u2019 and Other Problems in Globally Blended Families<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fourstories?lang=en-gb\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tracy Slater<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>When the parents are in the majority and the kids are in the minority<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps your child, like my two-year-old,\u00a0and many other children in globally blended families, belongs to the world\u2019s growing mixed-ethnicity population. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/fields\/2075.html\" target=\"_blank\">The World Factbook<\/a> finds a percentage of mixed-ethnicity people in almost a quarter of its 236 countries and territories. Among western nations, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/britain\/21595908-rapid-rise-mixed-race-britain-changing-neighbourhoodsand-perplexing\" target=\"_blank\">U.K.\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2015\/06\/11\/multiracial-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0mixed-race populations are increasing faster than any other minority group.<\/p>\n<p>Mixed-ethnicity children often face very different experiences to\u00a0their parents, a point stressed by many studies tracking this population\u2019s growth, but within multinational families, there is another dimension:\u00a0My daughter may be mixed, but she has two biological parents without much clue about what it feels like to be a minority as a kid. I\u2019m a Jewish-American, raised with all the cultural privileges afforded to whites in the U.S., her father is native Japanese, and we live in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>As a woman in a multicultural, multinational, and multiracial couple, I\u2019ve sensed how some people assume I must be uniquely open to cultural differences, and thus uniquely equipped to raise a mixed child. But this assumption betrays a flawed logic. Globe-trotting parents in mixed marriages who grew up in the majority may be aware of racism and may even have faced it themselves, but most still lack a deeper understanding of racism during a child\u2019s formative years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/expat\/2016\/08\/31\/blind-spots-and-other-problems-in-globally-blended-families\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Blind Spots\u2019 and Other Problems in Globally Blended Families The Wall Street Journal 2016-08-31 Tracy Slater When the parents are in the majority and the kids are in the minority Perhaps your child, like my two-year-old,\u00a0and many other children in globally blended families, belongs to the world\u2019s growing mixed-ethnicity population. The World Factbook finds a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,33,414,8,20],"tags":[12484,24911,24910,24912,14613,16773,512,5102,4578,9705],"class_list":["post-48932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-census","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-eliaichi-kimaro","tag-eliaichi-s-kimaro","tag-eliaichi-sadikiel-kimaro","tag-nilina-mason-campbell","tag-sharon-chang","tag-sharon-h-chang","tag-stephen-murphy-shigematsu","tag-the-wall-street-journal","tag-tracy-slater","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48932","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=48932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48933,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48932\/revisions\/48933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}