{"id":57698,"date":"2019-02-25T20:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57698"},"modified":"2019-02-25T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:36:39","slug":"mixed-race-of-asian-and-western-asias-new-standard-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57698","title":{"rendered":"Mixed race of Asian and Western: Asia\u2019s new standard of beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theindependent.sg\/mixed-race-of-asian-and-western-asias-new-standard-of-beauty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mixed race of Asian and Western: Asia\u2019s new standard of beauty<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theindependent.sg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Independent Singapore<\/a><br \/>\n2019-02-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theindependent.sg\/mixed-race-of-asian-and-western-asias-new-standard-of-beauty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb\" title=\"Collage_Fotor\" src=\"http:\/\/media.theindependent.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Collage_Fotor-696x696.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/media.theindependent.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Collage_Fotor-696x696.jpg 696w, http:\/\/media.theindependent.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Collage_Fotor-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/media.theindependent.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Collage_Fotor-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/media.theindependent.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Collage_Fotor-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/media.theindependent.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Collage_Fotor-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/media.theindependent.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Collage_Fotor-1068x1068.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/media.theindependent.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Collage_Fotor-420x420.jpg 420w\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Asian celebrities with mixed race. (Photo: Screengrab from YouTube)<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>It seems the old adage, \u201cBeauty is relative\u201d is not true anymore, as what is beautiful for the Asians nowadays are those who have a mixed race\u2014Asian and Western.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, the new standard of beauty has changed over the years. Large, double-lidded eyes, small sharp nose, narrow face, tall figure, and white skin\u2014these Western qualities make Asians sigh and admire.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s generation, those with Western features have come to represent the beauty ideal in many parts of Asia. There is a long list of mixed race celebrities, actors, models, and beauty titlists in many parts of Asia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The notion of \u201cmixed races\u201d in Asia was invented during the era of European imperialism from the early 1800s. The mix of Eastern and Western is referred to as Eurasian or Pan-Asian. As a matter of fact, these terms are relatively new, with no agreed-upon definition of either.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/history.mit.edu\/people\/emma-teng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emma Teng<\/a>, the T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian civilizations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, intermarriage and intermixing among ethnic groups date back to antiquity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the Portuguese and other European traders arrived in China, mixed families emerged across different sites where Europeans and Chinese commonly interacted,\u201d she said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Regarding mixed race as the more beautiful can result in an issue of racism. As this heightened to changing one\u2019s perspective about beauty, there is a need to examine the notions of racialised beauty standards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/theindependent.sg\/mixed-race-of-asian-and-western-asias-new-standard-of-beauty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the old adage, \u201cBeauty is relative\u201d is not true anymore, as what is beautiful for the Asians nowadays are those who have a mixed race\u2014Asian and Western.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8413,8,394],"tags":[29559,29558,4777,29555,6219,29557,29560,29554,29556],"class_list":["post-57698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-cedar-bough-saeji","tag-cho-kyo","tag-emma-teng","tag-independent-singapore","tag-michael-keevak","tag-nathalie-africa-verceles","tag-teo-ser-lee","tag-the-independent-singapore","tag-tisg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698","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=57698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57699,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698\/revisions\/57699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}