{"id":54484,"date":"2017-07-13T00:18:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54484"},"modified":"2017-07-13T00:18:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:18:39","slug":"nothing-made-me-feel-worse-than-filling-in-the-other-bubble-during-tests-because-who-was-i-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54484","title":{"rendered":"Nothing made me feel worse than filling in the \u201cOther\u201d bubble during tests, because who was I, really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thetempest.co\/2017\/07\/06\/culture-taste\/half-asian-biracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Nothing made me feel worse than filling in the \u201cOther\u201d bubble during tests, because who was I, really?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thetempest.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tempest<\/a><br \/>\n2017-07-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/meghan-lannoo-8272b7b4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Meghan Lannoo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I don&#8217;t know why I felt a need to choose. I was only cutting myself in half.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My mom calls me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hapa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone else would just call me half; half Asian and half white. Aside from the comments I sometimes receive from fascinated simpletons on how exotic I am (that\u2019s an entirely separate issue), I get asked more often about what I am.<\/p>\n<p>For the longest time, I struggled to answer that question. Whenever I took a scantron test, the questionnaire only specified to mark one ethnicity. This meant I belonged in the Other category.<\/p>\n<p>Being the Other is more than an identity crisis, to me, it is my life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/thetempest.co\/2017\/07\/06\/culture-taste\/half-asian-biracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I felt a need to choose. I was only cutting myself in half.<\/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":[27271,23982],"class_list":["post-54484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-meghan-lannoo","tag-the-tempest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54484","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=54484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54485,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54484\/revisions\/54485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}