{"id":868,"date":"2008-06-10T18:59:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=868"},"modified":"2008-06-10T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T18:59:43","slug":"defining-\"american\"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Defining \"American\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhen we say &quot;American&quot; among the Chinese communities regardless of nationality, we usually mean the &quot;caucasian american&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, technically, it refers to those who permanently reside in America, legally, to be more precise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI didn't realize this double standard can be confusing to some, especially the Chinese. But unfortunately, there are those who are too simple minded than I had hoped them not to be. These only listen but their minds process not the information, they never ask questions, they vainly follow the flow of cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we say &quot;American&quot; among the Chinese communities regardless of nationality, we usually mean the &quot;caucasian american&quot;. Of course, technically, it refers to those who permanently reside in America, legally, to be more precise. I didn't realize this double standard &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=868\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}