{"id":58225,"date":"2019-06-01T21:58:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T21:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58225"},"modified":"2019-10-10T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T23:42:29","slug":"culture-identity-and-erasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58225","title":{"rendered":"Culture, Identity, And Erasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theodysseyonline.com\/culture-identity-erasure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Culture, Identity, And Erasure<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theodysseyonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Odyssey Online<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lina-chaoui-959b8a133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lina Chaoui<\/strong><\/a>, Contributing Writer<br \/>\n<em>\u00cele-de-France, France<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theodysseyonline.com\/culture-identity-erasure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rbl.ms\/image?u=%2Ffiles%2F2015%2F11%2F11%2F635828595926819378-1157088011_IMG_1509.JPG&amp;ho=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn1.theodysseyonline.com&amp;s=834&amp;h=fc4a1f558029b7d3e4d9b8ad4e8140a2d5f4c50b9ca9cd0891622f20ceb08ccd&amp;size=980x&amp;c=3216549058\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Do not put me in a box you are more comfortable with.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An open letter to anyone who has ever tried to define me by appearances. To those who are of a mixed background and have had their identities ruled by others. If you break it down, I am 1\/4 swiss, 1\/4 Irish, 1\/4 Moroccan, 1\/8 Italian and 1\/8 Lithuanian. I don\u2019t really claim my Italian or Lithuanian side because it is relatively minuscule and the culture was never prevalent in my life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theodysseyonline.com\/culture-identity-erasure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not put me in a box you are more comfortable with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,28,125,8],"tags":[29846,29845],"class_list":["post-58225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-europe","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-odyssey-online","tag-the-odyssey-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58225","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=58225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59009,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58225\/revisions\/59009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}