{"id":49062,"date":"2016-09-11T23:49:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T23:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49062"},"modified":"2016-09-11T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T23:49:16","slug":"you-look-like-the-help-the-disturbing-link-between-asian-skin-color-and-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49062","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You look like the help\u2019: the disturbing link between Asian skin color and status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/339757\/filipino-women-asian-beauty-hierarchy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018You look like the help\u2019: the disturbing link between Asian skin color and status<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\" target=\"_blank\">Fusion<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarimantos\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mari Santos<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Toronto, Ontario, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Outside a hotel lobby in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toronto\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a> earlier this year, an elderly Asian woman stopped my mother and me to ask what time a tour bus would be arriving. Then, the woman asked in broken English: \u201cAre you Philippine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d my mom replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAhh, you look Korean!\u201d the woman exclaimed. My mother graciously thanked her.<\/p>\n<p>I darted my eyes, offended and confused at the implication that looking Korean over Filipino should somehow be taken as a compliment. Later I asked my mother: \u201cWhy did you thank her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d she admitted sheepishly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/339757\/filipino-women-asian-beauty-hierarchy\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018You look like the help\u2019: the disturbing link between Asian skin color and status Fusion 2016-08-25 Mari Santos Toronto, Ontario, Canada Outside a hotel lobby in Toronto earlier this year, an elderly Asian woman stopped my mother and me to ask what time a tour bus would be arriving. Then, the woman asked in broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,19,8],"tags":[240,24959],"class_list":["post-49062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-colorism","tag-mari-santos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49062","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=49062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49063,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49062\/revisions\/49063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}