{"id":48568,"date":"2026-04-30T10:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48568"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:51:49","slug":"what-the-rise-of-wasians-like-alysa-liu-and-hudson-williams-means-for-part-asian-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48568","title":{"rendered":"What the rise of \u2018Wasians\u2019 like Alysa Liu and Hudson Williams means for part-Asian identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/29\/40885f7b-e77e-44f2-9d27-004a68a3c399_21b5dfea.jpg?itok=SHQ6bgKq&amp;v=1777455638\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">What do athletes Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu, actors Lola Tung and Hudson Williams, and singer Megan Skiendiel of Katseye all have in common?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They have all been the focus of heavy media attention this year \u2013 and all are biracial.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beyond their talents, online discourse has frequently fixated on their racial identity. Specifically, they are all part-Asian and part-white \u2013 or \u201cWasian\u201d in Gen Z language, a contemporary term for \u201cEurasian\u201d that has been popularised by American internet culture.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This has in turn birthed \u201cThe Republic of Wasia\u201d, a humorous, self-identified \u201ccountry\u201d on social media platforms like TikTok and X.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When Liu took to Instagram to promote Icelandic-Chinese singer Laufey\u2019s music video for her new song \u201cMadwoman\u201d, in which Liu featured alongside a star-studded mixed-race cast, the skater specifically gave a shoutout to \u201cWasia\u201d in the caption.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But while the \u201cRepublic\u201d serves as a digital space to celebrate the cultural in-betweenness of biracial identity, detractors argue it risks stereotyping the very community it claims to represent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3351858\/what-rise-wasians-alysa-liu-and-hudson-williams-means-part-asian-identity?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do athletes Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu, actors Lola Tung and Hudson Williams, and singer Megan Skiendiel of Katseye all have in common? They&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[21678,12915,4027,8469,10,21679,1569,21677,7299],"class_list":["post-48568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-alysa","tag-hudson","tag-identity","tag-liu","tag-means","tag-partasian","tag-rise","tag-wasians","tag-williams","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}