Being Mixed Race (Hapa) (2020 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 16 March 2024
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August 28, 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Hey deserving listeners, today I'm going to answer patron emails. I've been getting a lot of emails from patrons asking me to talk about the multiracial status or being mixed race or mixed ethnicity, and particularly about HAPA or HAPA. |
| 0:15.0 | So I, if you don't know, am half Japanese American and half European American. |
| 0:20.0 | My European ancestors generally came over during the 16, 17, and 1800s and eventually found |
| 0:27.8 | their way to Kansas and then Spokane, Washington, and my Japanese ancestors came over about 120 years ago to Washington State, and I come from a long line of farmers on both sides of my family. |
| 0:42.0 | And so I am happy. on both sides of my family. |
| 0:42.8 | And so I am half Japanese American and half European American with a good percentage of |
| 0:49.4 | Welsh and Swedish people in my ancestry. Quakers on the Welsh side. |
| 0:55.0 | Anyway, so I am called HAPPA or HAPA. |
| 0:59.5 | So some people say HAPA and some people say Hapa. |
| 1:03.4 | Where does that word come from? |
| 1:04.8 | It comes from a Hawaiian word. |
| 1:07.3 | Basically, from my understanding, it was adopted |
| 1:11.9 | by Hawaiians from the word half and they you know sort of altered the word |
| 1:18.0 | to Hapa and instead of it meaning half it means part and so they in Hawaii they might say you know |
| 1:25.4 | hape howly which is half or part white or something like that so the Hawaiian |
| 1:31.0 | word has been adopted by a lot of mixed race Asian people throughout the United States and beyond. |
| 1:40.0 | And when I was a kid, it was used very infrequently and hardly anyone understood what that meant. |
| 1:46.5 | But as there are increasingly more and more Americans who are HAPPA, or HAPPA, there are more people identifying with it. |
| 1:55.0 | So Patron Emma wrote in from San Jose writing, |
| 1:59.0 | I am half Asian and half white. |
| 2:01.0 | It's a complicated experience. I feel like most discussion around race either ignores |
| 2:06.3 | multiracial people altogether, lumps them in with one side, or assumes that you can get |
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