{"id":63294,"date":"2022-02-26T17:18:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T17:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63294"},"modified":"2022-02-26T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T18:22:20","slug":"half-asian-half-arab-reconciling-with-my-palestinianness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63294","title":{"rendered":"Half \u2018Asian\u2019\/Half \u2018Arab\u2019: Reconciling with my Palestinianness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sarah-barzak.medium.com\/half-asian-half-arab-reconciling-with-my-palestinianess-8e5d7649609d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Half \u2018Asian\u2019\/Half \u2018Arab\u2019: Reconciling with my Palestinianness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sarah-barzak.medium.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medium<\/a><br \/>\n2021-05-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/sarah.barzak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sarah Barzak<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sarah-barzak.medium.com\/half-asian-half-arab-reconciling-with-my-palestinianess-8e5d7649609d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 67%; display: block; margin-left: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1400\/1*6VaoqgXXJg9xZtAaRYOPWQ@2x.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, your dad\u2019s Palestinian? I have so much respect for you now!\u201d said the Arab girl who sat in front of me in Arabic school.<\/p>\n<p>Disgusted. Small. was how I felt.<\/p>\n<p>She sat in front of me every Saturday and only acknowledged my existence on the last day of Arabic school.<\/p>\n<p>We were 17. Which, frankly, was too old to behave this way under my <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiger_parenting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tiger mom\u2019s<\/a> standards.<br \/>\n<em>Kurang ajar<\/em>, I thought. Who raised you?<\/p>\n<p>These interactions didn\u2019t stop in my teens. While working at Baba\u2019s convenience store, an Amtu came in and made small talk as we completed the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, you know, the man who works here is Palestinian,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I know. He\u2019s my dad,\u201d I responded calmly, \u201cMy mother is Malay\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/sarah-barzak.medium.com\/half-asian-half-arab-reconciling-with-my-palestinianess-8e5d7649609d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half \u2018Asian\u2019\/Half \u2018Arab\u2019: Reconciling with my Palestinianness Medium 2021-05-20 Sarah Barzak \u201cOh, your dad\u2019s Palestinian? I have so much respect for you now!\u201d said the Arab girl who sat in front of me in Arabic school. Disgusted. Small. was how I felt. She sat in front of me every Saturday and only acknowledged my existence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,19,8],"tags":[18537,33179],"class_list":["post-63294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-medium","tag-sarah-barzak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63294","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=63294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63298,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63294\/revisions\/63298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}