Katie and I went to see Yellow Face tonight, which is a play about Asian-American racial identity, among other things.<\/p>\n
It was interesting. I don\u2019t spend all that much time thinking about the fact that I\u2019m an Asian-American, and I haven\u2019t really dwelt on the advantages and disadvantages that this label\/community confers, but I do feel like I\u2019ve always been aware of it my entire life.<\/p>\n
That, and a recent splashy Newsweek cover article labeled \u201cIs Your Baby Racist?\u201d got me thinking. How much of my Chinese heritage will I impart onto my child? How much can<\/em> I? How much should<\/em> I?<\/p>\n Ideally, I\u2019d like to give my baby the best parts of being an Asian-American and spare him or her the worst, but is it really up to me to decide which is which? Do I even know? And how good of a teacher will I be anyway?<\/p>\n As I\u2019ve grown, I\u2019ve felt less and less Chinese. I hardly speak the language anymore. I can\u2019t read it at all. I can\u2019t speak too intelligently on most Chinese culture and history. When I visit the country itself, I feel like a tourist, not like I\u2019m returning home.<\/p>\n But that doesn\u2019t change the fact that it\u2019s a part of me, that I was born there, that I lived there for the first four years of my life. I like that I\u2019ve Chinese, I\u2019m proud of it. I guess I\u2019m just not sure what it actually means to me or my unborn child just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Katie and I went to see Yellow Face tonight, which is a play about Asian-American racial identity, among other things. It was interesting. I don\u2019t spend all that much time thinking about the fact that I\u2019m an Asian-American, and I haven\u2019t really dwelt on the advantages and disadvantages that this label\/community confers, but I do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20,90,245],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-baby","tag-chinese","tag-race","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}