{"id":93992,"date":"2019-05-22T03:27:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T01:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/22\/token-ethnic-friends-how-pop-culture-taught-me-i-was-support-not-the-lead-zoya-patel\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T03:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T01:27:16","slug":"token-ethnic-friends-how-pop-culture-taught-me-i-was-support-not-the-lead-zoya-patel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=93992","title":{"rendered":"Token ethnic friends: how pop culture taught me I was support, not the lead | Zoya Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The films and TV shows Zoya Patel loved growing up were a consistent reminder that \u2018real life only happens to white people\u2019Remember that seminal scene from 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You, when Cameron first sees Bianca?She\u2019s walking through the school quadrangle, ruminating on whether one \u201ccan ever just be whelmed\u201d. According to the camera angle, she\u2019s the focus of our attention. But look to the right of Bianca. Who do you see? That\u2019s right, her best friend Chastity. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2019\/may\/22\/token-ethnic-friends-how-pop-culture-taught-me-i-was-support-not-the-lead\" target=\"_blank\">Token ethnic friends: how pop culture taught me I was support, not the lead | Zoya Patel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The films and TV shows Zoya Patel loved growing up were a consistent reminder that \u2018real life only happens to white people\u2019Remember that seminal scene from 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You, when Cameron first sees Bianca?She\u2019s walking through the school quadrangle, ruminating on whether one \u201ccan ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}