Dreaming of a colour-blind S’porePosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Identity Development/Psychology, New Media, Social Science on 2010-08-15 02:40Z by Steven |
Dreaming of a colour-blind S’pore
The Straits Sunday Times
2010-08-08
page 30
Edwina Shaddick, 22
British-Chinese
Edwina Shaddick, final year politics and sociology major from SMU, has a father from Swindon, England and a mother who is Chinese Singaporean. She shares how her mixed heritage has shaped her identity.
The politics and sociology major from Singapore Management University (SMU) has a father from Swindon, England, who is a Singapore permanent resident. Her mother is a Chinese Singaporean.
The eldest of three children goes to England occasionally to visit relatives and friends.
Her primary and secondary school years weres pent at Methodist Girls’ School.
She is known as a Eurasian on her identity card. She had asked for Anglo-Chinese, but it was not allowed. Her two siblings are classified as Caucasians.
Q: How has your mixed hetitage shaped your Identity?
I think being mixed is but one facet of my identity. When I was younger I used to grapple with issues of race much more, like what it meant to not look like the majority of people in Singapore, what it meant to have an English father, which culture I liked more.
But when I got older, I found other things that defined me, like my interest in sports or my sense of humour, so I placed less emphasis on something as trivial as race to define myself…
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