Hapa, Amerasian, Euro-Asian, or ‘Other’Posted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, United States on 2013-04-13 01:51Z by Steven |
Hapa, Amerasian, Euro-Asian, or ‘Other’
Asian Week: The Voice of Asian America
2005-12-16
Nathalie Ishizuka
From day one, I was labeled, “other.” Singing my ABCs, looking Japanese and asking for a “bonbon,” it was hard not to notice me. My French mother and Japanese father told me that it was my terrible singing voice that drew attention, so being an “other” never went to my head.
What did go directly to my head and heart, was the feeling that I was indeed different — as Katherine Knorr of the International Herald Tribune put it so well, “Someone at home in two places and a stranger in both as well.”
After hearing from other hapas, Amerasians, Euro-Asians, Nisei and countless “others,” I have often thought about what it means to never entirely fit into one category — nor to entirely want to…
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