{"id":56881,"date":"2018-10-08T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56881"},"modified":"2018-10-08T00:01:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:01:27","slug":"forwards-and-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56881","title":{"rendered":"Forwards and Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hapajapan.com\/article\/forwards-and-backwards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Forwards and Backwards<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hapajapan.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hapa Japan<\/a><br \/>\n2018-09-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovernikkei.org\/en\/journal\/author\/cloyd-fredrick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Fredrick Cloyd<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hapajapan.com\/article\/forwards-and-backwards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/hapajapan.com\/assets\/uploads\/641.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I think of living in the world as writer, as thinker, as cultural worker, as identities-in-motion and identities-in-between, I think of the projections we are placed into by others, and by ourselves to ourselves. How others put their own ideas onto us, their assumptions and judgements that follow, align with or compete with the same things we do to ourselves, according to the cultural and language frames we use for ourselves\u2014the labels and concepts of what we learn and think we know. And in addition, there is the reality of a fixed identity or thought that interferes with reality. If we are \u201ch\u0101fu\u201d then we cannot be \u201cpure\u201d or \u201cwhite\u201d or democrat, republican, woman, man, etc. And then the \u201chuman\u201d label also plays its role. \u201cI am human therefore you are wrong in labeling me such-and-such\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/hapajapan.com\/article\/forwards-and-backwards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are not only personal identities. We represent so much more. And in this way, each of us is quite powerful and agents of change, whether we feel responsible to this or not. And in this way, the ignorance we may carry, will also play its role in the forming of culture, little by little, in the spaces we move, and with the people we encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,8],"tags":[20875,17070,28454],"class_list":["post-56881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-fredrick-cloyd","tag-fredrick-d-kakinami-cloyd","tag-hapa-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56881","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=56881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56882,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56881\/revisions\/56882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}