{"id":2787,"date":"2010-09-28T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2010-09-28T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:40:41","slug":"black-white-and-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/black-white-and-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"Black, white and pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shockadelic\/4660022478\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4057\/4660022478_deedee28ee_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shockadelic\/4660022478\/\">multiracial<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/shockadelic\/\">Shockadelic<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anna recently told a wee girl of Pakistani descent that came into our garden to play: &#8220;Look, black girl, there&#8217;s my pink mummy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another day, we were watching Stark Trek (DS9), and she referred to Keiko holding her daughter as &#8220;that white mummy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So she seems to have split the human skin colours into three groups: <i>black<\/i> (Africans and South Asians), <i>pink<\/i> (Europeans) and <i>white<\/i> (East Asians).<\/p>\n<p>To some extent it&#8217;s closer to reality than the traditional black\/white\/yellow &ndash; I wonder why Europeans started seeing themselves as <i>white<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>multiracial Originally uploaded by Shockadelic Anna recently told a wee girl of Pakistani descent that came into our garden to play: &#8220;Look, black girl, there&#8217;s my pink mummy!&#8221; Another day, we were watching Stark Trek (DS9), and she referred to Keiko holding her daughter as &#8220;that white mummy&#8221;. So she seems to have split the human skin colours into three groups: black (Africans and South Asians), pink (Europeans) and white (East Asians). To some extent it&#8217;s closer to reality than the traditional black\/white\/yellow &ndash; I wonder why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}