{"id":8067,"date":"2000-06-14T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2000-06-14T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8067"},"modified":"2021-07-01T22:18:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T22:18:33","slug":"lte-my-dreams-are-diverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2000\/06\/14\/lte-my-dreams-are-diverse\/","title":{"rendered":"LTE: My Dreams Are Diverse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:20:08 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: Caroline Aiu<br>Subject: Letter to the Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stumbled upon your web site by accident and was amazed at the number of people who felt like I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am Korean on my mother\u2019s side and Hawaiian, Portuguese and Chinese on my Father\u2019s side. I have always resented it when people have told me or other people who are anything other than White that we should direct our lives in a certain way because we are a certain race or ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I once had a lady who wasn\u2019t even Hawaiian tell me that I had to apply for Hawaiian Homestead land (which would entail me having to basically farm and live in a very rural area of Hawaii which I would really not like to do. I told her my reason\u2019s for not wanting to do it (one of them being \u201cjust because I\u2019m part Hawaiian, it doesn\u2019t mean I have to live on Homestead land \u201d and another being that Hello! I\u2019m not just Hawaiian and you\u2019re totally ignoring that!\u201d But, she was insistent on me having to do this for the good of my future family (I do not ever plan on having children) and for the good of Hawaiians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the United States is to progress we have to get rid of these strange ideas that it\u2019s okay for White people to pursue whatever it is that their hearts desire in life but it\u2019s not okay for anyone else. Why do we feel that we must limit ourselves to a certain stereotypical way of living and acting? And worse yet, why do we try to force that view on others who don\u2019t feel that way? Ever since I was a rebellious teenager, I allowed myself to pursue whatever it is I wanted much to even if it meant the disapproval of others. But who cares? I\u2019m not here to live their life, I\u2019m here to live mine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013Caroline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:20:08 -0700 (PDT)From: Caroline AiuSubject: Letter to the Editor I stumbled upon your web site by accident and was amazed at the number of people who felt like I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-267","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}