{"id":50727,"date":"2016-12-17T19:59:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T19:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50727"},"modified":"2017-03-25T01:20:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T01:20:49","slug":"mixed-race-couples-still-face-racism-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50727","title":{"rendered":"Mixed race couples still face racism in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed race couples still face racism in Australia<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

news.com.au<\/a>
\nSydney, Australia
\n2016-12-17<\/p>\n

Ginger Gorman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nGinger<\/a>, her husband Don, and their daughter Elsa when she was younger.Source: Supplied<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

BETWEEN us, my husband and I have got Spanish, Filipino, Chinese, Slovakian, English, Scottish and Irish heritage. In appearance, he\u2019s Asian and I\u2019m caucasian.<\/p>\n

This is 2016 and so you wouldn\u2019t even think that was even worth mentioning. But the fact is, reasonably often this affects the way other people treat us.<\/p>\n

When we first got together, I just didn\u2019t notice. Or perhaps it\u2019s more accurate to say I refused to notice. (Backstory: I spent years at an international school where every second person had mixed-race parents. For me, this was just an everyday occurrence.)<\/p>\n

Then one day when our eldest daughter, Elsa, was about 18 months old we took her to the doctor. My husband, Don, was holding Elsa in his arms at the reception counter. In the familiar way of a couple, I was standing to his left and our arms were casually touching.<\/p>\n

A lady standing to the right of Don commented on how cute Elsa was and then asked him: \u201cWhere\u2019s your wife?\u201d<\/p>\n

Don pointed to me and the lady went bright red in the face and started stammering: \u201cOh, oh.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BETWEEN us, my husband and I have got Spanish, Filipino, Chinese, Slovakian, English, Scottish and Irish heritage. In appearance, he\u2019s Asian and I\u2019m caucasian.<\/p>\n

This is 2016 and so you wouldn\u2019t even think that was even worth mentioning. But the fact is, reasonably often this affects the way other people treat us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,414,8,4405],"tags":[986,25774,25773,25772],"class_list":["post-50727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-family","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-australia","tag-don-gorman","tag-ginger-gorman","tag-news-com-au"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50727","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=50727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52876,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50727\/revisions\/52876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}