{"id":53894,"date":"2017-05-14T18:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53894"},"modified":"2017-05-14T18:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T18:30:59","slug":"opinion-youre-not-a-true-asian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53894","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: \u2018You\u2019re not a true Asian\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cuindependent.com\/2017\/05\/04\/opinion-not-true-asian-racial-multiracial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Opinion: \u2018You\u2019re not a true Asian\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cuindependent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CU Independent<\/a><br \/>\nBoulder, Colorado<br \/>\n2017-05-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:hayla.wong@colorado.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Hayla Wong<\/strong><\/a>, Head Opinion Editor<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cuindependent.com\/2017\/05\/04\/opinion-not-true-asian-racial-multiracial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cuindependent.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/13949601005_5f6c1f35d3_b-660x330.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olivia_Munn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olivia Munn<\/a>, who is half-Asian and half-white. (Courtesy: Flickr\/Gage Skidmore)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Opinions do not necessarily represent CUIndependent.com or any of its sponsors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you\u2019re not a true Asian,\u201d\u00a0people say when I try to assert an Asian identity.<\/p>\n<p>I never gave these comments too much significance because yeah, it\u2019s true. I\u2019m half and half, Taiwanese and white, hapa, mixed. I\u2019m not white. I\u2019m not Asian.<\/p>\n<p>But why do my friends feel it necessary to police my identity?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/cuindependent.com\/2017\/05\/04\/opinion-not-true-asian-racial-multiracial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut you\u2019re not a true Asian,\u201d\u00a0people say when I try to assert an Asian identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[2335,26974],"class_list":["post-53894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-cu-independent","tag-hayla-wong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53894","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=53894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53895,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53894\/revisions\/53895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}