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Name<\/em>: Maeve Lucas Q:\u00a0How has being mixed affected your campus experience?<\/p>\n A: It definitely took me some time to find my place on campus freshman year. There were certain groups I didn\u2019t fit into as well because I was mixed and didn\u2019t fully identify as one ethnicity. Mixed@Michigan has really given me a community that has allowed me to grow into myself.<\/p>\n Q:\u00a0What do you wish more people knew about the mixed experience?<\/p>\n A: Almost every mixed person has gone through some type of scrutiny. While everyone\u2019s experience is unique, mixed people often face what most minorities experience. Though we can also be scrutinized by our own cultural group. It\u2019s a very \u201cin-between\u201d feeling.<\/p>\n Q: What kind of person do you aspire to be \/ who is the most influential person in your life?<\/p>\n A: My mom. Sometimes people feel like transnational adoptees feel like they were \u201csaved\u201d by their adoptive parents, and I think that terminology is flawed. While my mom is my best friend and biggest supporter, she is not my savior. My mom is my mom like your mom is your mom. I aspire to be a mom like her. If I could even be half as great as a mom she is, I would be happy with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Name: Maeve Lucas Mix: Transnational Adoptee Major & Year:\u00a0BCN; Junior Q:\u00a0How has being mixed affected your campus experience? A: It definitely took me some time to find my place on campus freshman year. There were certain groups I didn\u2019t fit into as well because I was mixed and didn\u2019t fully identify as one ethnicity. Mixed@Michigan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2263,"featured_media":22616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1334],"tags":[9,1856,1381,2014,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23067,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23043\/revisions\/23067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMix<\/em>: Transnational Adoptee
\nMajor & Year<\/em>:\u00a0BCN; Junior<\/p>\n