bi-racial

Shanghaiist contributor Kenneth Tan points us to a post on author Zhang Lijia's (Socialism is Great) blog in which she discusses the travails of instilling a Chinese identity in her bi-racial kids.

In the post Zhang describes how, despite having been born here and spending "10 out of 14 years in China," her half-British, half-Chinese daughters not only seem to identify more with their father's culture and less with their Chinese roots, but also consistently act as though Western culture is inherently superior to Chinese culture.

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