{"id":56501,"date":"2018-05-28T23:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T23:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56501"},"modified":"2018-05-28T23:07:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T23:07:50","slug":"56501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56501","title":{"rendered":"How I Finally Learned To Accept Both My Chinese And Jewish Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"

How I Finally Learned To Accept Both My Chinese And Jewish Identities<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Huffington Post<\/a>
\n2018-05-22<\/p>\n

Gen Slosberg<\/strong>
\nGuest Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"To<\/a>
\nGen Slosberg<\/em>
\nTo be mixed and a woman meant my appearance was of the foremost importance to everyone around me. <\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Growing up in China<\/a>, I never quite understood why I didn\u2019t fit in.<\/p>\n

I ate Chinese food, went to Chinese school, had Chinese friends and did Chinese things. I memorized poems and Confucius<\/a> passages at school and learned how to play the zither<\/a>. At night, my grandma would sit next to my bed, fan away mosquitoes with her bamboo fan and sing nursery rhymes about the summer rain in Cantonese<\/a>. On weekends, I would wake up early to watch my neighbor roll dumpling dough and my mom cut green onions into small pieces for the filling.<\/p>\n

What little exposure I had to American culture was when my Jewish-American father would come home after monthslong business trips and read me Dr. Seuss<\/a>. Until I was 15, my understanding of America<\/a> consisted of vague memories of The Boy and The Apple Tree, summer trips to my dad\u2019s hometown Portland, Maine<\/a>, where his white relatives would look at me in wonder and express concern for my broken English.<\/p>\n

I was, as far as I understood, Chinese. But as far as everyone else in China was concerned, I was only white, Jewish and American because of my father. For reasons incomprehensible to me at the time, I was \u201cdifferent\u201d in the eyes of those in a society so emphatic about its homogeneity…<\/p>\n

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

Growing up in China, I never quite understood why I didn\u2019t fit in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,395,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[221,28705,10108,2425],"class_list":["post-56501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-china","tag-gen-slosberg","tag-huffington-post","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56501","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=56501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56503,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56501\/revisions\/56503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}