{"id":51274,"date":"2017-01-25T00:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51274"},"modified":"2017-01-25T00:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:33:35","slug":"defined-by-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51274","title":{"rendered":"Defined by mixed race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/facts-and-arguments\/being-biracial-has-shaped-my-life-but-i-feel-lucky-to-bedifferent\/article33702913\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Defined by mixed race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Globe &amp; Mail<\/a><br \/>\n2017-01-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MckenzieSmall\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mckenzie Small<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mississauga, Ontario, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Differences make you stand out, Mckenzie Small writes, and it\u2019s something to be proud of<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She just keeps staring at me \u2013 as if I\u2019m from another dimension \u2013 and then she asks the all-too-familiar question: \u201cSo what are you,\u00a0exactly?\u201d<br \/>\nI have to ask myself: Is she asking about my race or my\u00a0species?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m mixed with more than one race. It has defined me a lot more than you would think. This part of my life shaped the way I grew up and I never really noticed until I got\u00a0older.<\/p>\n<p>Ever heard of the guessing\u00a0game?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not. It\u2019s a game people play where they try to guess where you\u2019re from, because \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>\u201d is never\u00a0sufficient&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/facts-and-arguments\/being-biracial-has-shaped-my-life-but-i-feel-lucky-to-bedifferent\/article33702913\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defined by mixed race The Globe &amp; Mail 2017-01-23 Mckenzie Small Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Differences make you stand out, Mckenzie Small writes, and it\u2019s something to be proud of She just keeps staring at me \u2013 as if I\u2019m from another dimension \u2013 and then she asks the all-too-familiar question: \u201cSo what are you,\u00a0exactly?\u201d 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":[12,395,19,8],"tags":[26034,26035,26033],"class_list":["post-51274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-globe-mail","tag-mckenzie-small","tag-the-globe-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51274","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=51274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51275,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51274\/revisions\/51275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}